Programme 2026

Magic is everywhere, if you just look hard enough for it! Join us for an immersive event with two authors whose books transport readers to places of magic, mystery, and secrets. In Alex Dunne’s Small Magics (O’Brien Press) Molly must work with her new family, who are anything but ordinary, to defend magical creatures and […]

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Programmed by Children’s Books Ireland with the support of Foras na Gaeilge, this Literary Producer Event will feature a panel of six professional children’s book authors and illustrators in conversation with former Laureate na nÓg, Patricia Forde. Panelists Richie Conroy, Sadhbh Devlin, Neil Sharpson, Tristan Rosenstock, Andrew Whitson and Máire Zepf are artists who represent […]

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Join bestselling illustrator Karen Harte for a reading and comic drawing around her new book, Effie is Offline (Gill Books). Fifteen-year-old Effie has spent her life in the spotlight as part of a famous Irish influencer family. When a family scandal causes them to relocate, Effie finally has a chance to escape her past! But […]

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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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Sally loves musical theatre and dreams of a career on Broadway, so writing her own musical seems like the perfect first step to a life of fame and making her dreams come true. But will her performance prove that she’s left her problems behind her? Join Méabh Collins, author of From the Top, Sally Fynn […]

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In Nadia Islam, On the Record (Hodder Children’s Books), aspiring journalist Nadia hates that she’s missing spending Ramadan with her best friend to go to Bangladesh. But the trip unexpectedly puts her reporting skills to the test. Her journalist aunt is there too, to write a story on the increasing climate change problem in Bangladesh […]

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Join poet Nell Regan for this engaging workshop – bring a picture of a place you love (a landscape or cityscape), a pen and a willingness to play. We’ll look at a myriad ways to approach the same thing/view, aiming for a freshness of language and perspective. Suitable for all.  Tickets for this poetry workshop […]

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Referred to as the faithful housekeeper of Robert Emmet, Anne was much more than that. Her pivotal role in the insurrection of 1803 led to her spending three years in Kilmainham Gaol. On this, the one-hundred-and-seventy-five-year anniversary of her death in the Liberties area of Dublin, hear all about this remarkable Irish patriot in this […]

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