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Age 9+ years Students will step back in time to 1849 with author Nicola Pierce as she discusses her latest book In Between Worlds: The Journey of the Famine Girls (The O’Brien Press). When Maggie and Sarah’s homes and lives are devastated by the horrors of the famine, they are given the chance of a […]

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Age 7+ years Students will join author Shelley Corcoran for an exciting reading event, with The Most Irish Person (Currach Books), a children’s book exploring multicultural Ireland. We join Anna and Lucy as they journey across Ireland. We learn how everyone has a talent that makes them the most Irish person in Ireland but who […]

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Age 9+ years Unleash your inner creativity at this interactive Illustrating History Workshop! Students will join illustrator and author Alan Dunne on this exciting journey through history and illustration, exploring the latest book he has illustrated, The Forgettables (Gill Books), learning about historical characters, and how illustrations can bring them to life. Create your own […]

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The Arts world has had to adapt considerably in the last number of years to changes in the media landscape and audience engagement. This facilitated discussion, also exploring residencies and arts marketing, is for professionals creating literature events at festivals, venues, libraries, or any organisations, to share experiences, gather information and try to explore how […]

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The Waters and the Wild (Merrion Press) vividly documents artist, photographer and author Gwen Wilkinson’s journey in a self-built canoe along Ireland’s inland waterways, exploring the interwoven histories of the people and wildlife encountered along the way. Gwen will lead a lunchtime walking and sketching tour around Ringsend Basin and along the Grand Canal towpath, […]

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In From Ten till Dusk, A Portrait of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in Twelve Stories (RHA Publication) writer and art critic Cristín Leach weaves stylistic agility with keen commentary to evoke the different epochs in the oscillating fortunes of the Academy’s journey since its founding in 1823, bringing to life a selection of […]

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Join this spooky walk through the historic Marsh’s Library, listening to ghostly readings along the way. Amy Clarkin’s What Walks These Halls (The O’Brien Press) is a story that centres around the haunted Hyacinth House. Oein DeBhairduin’s Twiggy Woman (Skein Press) is a collection of ghost stories rooted in the oral tradition of the Irish […]

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Author Jan Carson will be in conversation with some of Ireland’s most exciting emerging authors. The Red Bird Sings (Virago) by Aoife Fitzpatrick is a searing feminist historical Gothic fiction that confronts urgent issues of the present day. Catfish Rolling (Head of Zeus) by Clara Kumagai is a story that blends magic-realism with Japanese myth […]

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