Programme 2025

Curated in partnership with DCU Cultural Arts Officer Marcella Bannon and Arts Council Writer in Residence Sarah Gilmartin.  A day-long event that highlights writers who illuminate often underrepresented lives—working-class communities, fractured families, and outsiders navigating complex social and emotional landscapes. Their work is united by profound empathy, exploring class, economic precarity, mental health, and the […]

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Wanda’s mother Esmeralda is a witch, but Wanda wishes she wasn’t! Following yet another of Esmerelda’s failed spells, Wanda, her mother and her granny have to move away. When Esmeralda’s witching career is put in question, it’s a chance for Wanda to finally have what she always wanted… an ordinary life! Join author Ciara Geraghty […]

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Áine Ní Ghlinn and Rita Ann Higgins speak truth, in Irish and English, through bold, unsentimental poems. From silence, survival and loss, to class, wit, and cultural memory, they challenge and provoke. Insíonn Áine Ní Ghlinn agus Rita Ann Higgins an fhírinne, i nGaeilge agus i mBéarla. Trí dhánta loma, láidre, tugann siad dúshlán, cruthaíonn […]

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Join multi-award-winning spoken word poet (and All-Ireland Slam Champion) Cormac Mac Gearailt for a workshop on how to write and perform spoken word poetry. Suited to those at a beginner and intermediate level (as well as anyone at any level who wants to get more comfortable reading and performing their work), this workshop will be […]

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Calling all children’s writers and illustrators! If you would like to talk about your own work for young audiences with fellow children’s writers and illustrators, swap experiences and ideas, or simply have a social coffee with other Irish based creatives, please do come along. All welcome. The aim of Discover Irish Children’s Books is to […]

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Exploring themes from hope and love to resilience and ambition, join us for an evening around four captivating debut novels from some of the freshest voices in Irish fiction. Gethan Dick’s Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night (Tramp Press) is a unique take on what we do when the world ends. Aisling Rawle’s […]

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Join us for the launch of This Is Not a Cookbook (Skein Press), a unique blend of memoir with food writing alongside evocative lithographic artwork. The vignettes in the book chronicle Roxana Manouchehri’s childhood growing up in Tehran in the 80s following the Iranian Revolution, the profound influence of the women who surrounded her, and […]

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Join us for an eye-opening discussion tracing the treatment of women in Ireland across three centuries, uncovering stories of struggle and resilience from the 1700s to today. Leanne Calvert’s Pious and Promiscuous (Royal Irish Academy) offers an intimate glimpse of life in 18th century Presbyterian Ulster. Susan Marie Martin’s Dublin’s women street traders, 1882 – […]

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