Programme 2026

In this engaging and interactive workshop based on Aga Grandowicz’s Animals of Irish Name and Origin (Natural World Publishing), children will explore how Ireland’s habitats, such as bogs, meadows, limestone landscapes, and coastlines, have shaped the animals that live there – and even influenced their names. Through storytelling, visuals, and a drawing activity, participants will […]

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With photographs, quizzes and lots of interaction, this is the perfect event for any young book or history fans! Travel back to 1950s Ireland as Sarah Webb, author of The Bookshop Sisters (O’Brien Press), describes a time when things were very different, especially for girls and women. Discover some of the amazing writers who lived […]

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Join author and historian Pat Liddy, or one of his expert guides, for a walking tour of the neighbourhood around the Festival Hub, taking in many key landmarks associated with a wide range of our famous historic writers and the early development of writing in Ireland. Starting outside the gates of the National Gallery on […]

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Join us on DCU’s St Patrick’s Campus for a day-long series of events examining the fate of the written word and storytelling in the content flood of the modern digital world. As technology allows storytellers to tell their tales in previously inconceivable new ways, will there still be space for the human voice, speaking its […]

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Feel frustrated with your story? It’s not because you don’t know what you want: it’s because your characters don’t. This workshop, with author and poet Tim MacGabhann, features exercises for getting to know your characters’ desires, and setting them in motion, therefore animating your short story or novel-in-progress. The way that this macro level of […]

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Is breá le Katie a bheith ag déanamh obair bhleachtaireachta. Mar sin, nuair a ghoidtear pacáiste óna Daideo, tugann Katie faoin bhfiosrúchán láithreach. Ach an mbeidh sí in ann breith ar an ngadaí? Sa cheardlann seo, léifidh Éadaoin Ní Dhomhnaill caibidil óna leabhar Katie agus an Pacáiste Runda (LeabhairCOMHAR) agus ansin beidh deis ag na […]

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Léifidh an t-údar Máire Zepf óna húrscéal véarsaíochta d’aosaigh óga Dearg (Futa Fata). Pléifear téamaí agus véarsaíocht an leabhair roimh sheisiún cruthaitheach ina scríobhfaidh na déagóirí a gcuid filíochta féin i nGaeilge. Beidh na dánta dírithe ar ghlór agus ár gcaidreamh leis – inár gcaidrimh phearsanta trí úsáid na Gaeilge, go polaitiúil, agus go hinmheánach. […]

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Join the Fighting Words team for a fantastically fun and interactive two hour creative writing workshop, facilitated by our team of trained and vetted writing mentors. In the first half we will create characters and start a story together. In the second half, you can use your imagination to finish the story yourself! At the […]

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