Programme 2024

 

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Free
Evil Duck – BOOKED OUT Graphic novel workshop with Chris Judge
Saturday 09th November @ 1:30 pm
The Printworks, Dublin Castle
  • Family & Children's Programme
Join author-illustrator Chris Judge for an exciting comic book event based on his new graphic novel, Evil Duck and the Feather of Fortune (Gill Books). When twins Flo and Eddie accidentally release super-villain Evil Duck (found frozen in a special chamber in Grandad’s attic) chaos ensues! Chris will read from his new book and then […]

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Free
The Culture File Debate: Seeing Natures Jane Carkill, Melissa Culhane, Killian Mullarney and Yanny Petters in conversation with Paddy Woodworth
Saturday 09th November @ 2:00 pm
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
  • Art
  • Main Programme
  • Nature
How do artists capture nature’s limitless beauty for the printed (or electronic) page? What creative tensions arise between accuracy and aesthetics? In this live recording of RTE lyric fm’s Culture File Debate, our panel of nature illustrators and artists reveal the art and science of bringing the natural world to page, screen, and gallery wall.  […]

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Dublin City Libraries Readers’ Day Colin Barrett and Estelle Birdy in conversation with Kevin Power. Catherine Dunne in conversation with Neil Hegarty. Tana French and Lucy Foley in conversation with Declan Burke
Saturday 09th November @ 2:30 pm
The Printworks, Dublin Castle
  • Featured
  • Festival Hub
  • Fiction
  • Main Programme
Join us for a lively and engaging afternoon of book chat with some of Ireland’s most exciting contemporary authors. Kevin Power will be in conversation with Colin Barrett about his darkly funny and thrilling debut novel Wild Houses (Jonathan Cape), and with Estelle Birdy about her explosively original debut novel Ravelling (The Lilliput Press). Neil […]

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A Literary Walking Tour Pat Liddy's Walking Tours
Saturday 09th November @ 2:30 pm
The Printworks, Dublin Castle
  • Main Programme
  • Walking Tour
Starting off in the historic surrounds of Dublin Castle, join Pat Liddy or one of his expert guides, on a tour of the old city to learn about some of the most famous writers associated with Dublin, from at least the 18th century to modern times. During this 2-hour tour you will pass by iconic […]

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Haunted Ireland – BOOKED OUT Kieran Fanning and Mark Hill
Saturday 09th November @ 2:45 pm
The Printworks, Dublin Castle
  • Family & Children's Programme
From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale, to lesser-known sightings like The Black Pig of Kiltrustan and Father Hegarty’s Phantom Horse, there’s a story and a site to discover wherever you are in Ireland! Haunted Ireland (Gill Books) by master storyteller Kieran Fanning and illustrated by Mark […]

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The Irish Art of Calligraphy – BOOKED OUT Workshop with Tim O’Neill
Saturday 09th November @ 3:00 pm
The Printworks, Dublin Castle
  • Art
  • Festival Hub
  • Main Programme
  • Workshop
The Irish Art of Calligraphy (Royal Irish Academy), by historian and calligrapher Tim O’Neill, is a beautiful workbook that provides an introduction to modern calligraphy and creative ways to develop your own unique style of lettering. Join Tim for this unique workshop in the Chester Beatty and try your hand at some of the exercises […]

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Tomorrow with Bayonets Derek Molyneux in conversation with John Gibney
Saturday 09th November @ 3:00 pm
RDS Library & Archives, Ballsbridge
  • Featured
  • History
  • Main Programme
Tomorrow with Bayonets: Dublin: July 1921 – July 1922 (Mercier) by Derek Molyneux and Darren Kelly, brings the raw intensity of the Irish Civil War to life in this gripping, fast-paced journey through a year of change and conflict; offering a visceral portrayal of a nation grappling with its identity and sovereignty, seen through the […]

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Ash Keys – BOOKED OUT Michael Longley in conversation with Olivia O’Leary
Saturday 09th November @ 3:00 pm
  • Main Programme
  • Poetry
Michael Longley’s Ash Keys: New Selected Poems (Jonathan Cape) looks back on his extraordinary career, showing how his themes, genres and forms have evolved and interlaced since the 1960s. Love, violence, the natural world, art, psychodrama, family, the Great War, the Homeric past and Northern Ireland’s troubled present cohabit in these pages – as do […]

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