Programme 2025

 

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Poetry and the Duty of Care – BOOKED OUT Róisín Leggett Bohan, Jennifer Horgan and Lianne O'Hara in conversation with Martin Dyar
Friday 07th November @ 6:00 pm
The New Theatre »
  • DBF After Dark
  • Main Programme
  • Poetry
In this event we explore the power of poetry to care for the vulnerable, to extol the living and honour the memory of all that is lost. What is a poet’s relationship to the experience of pain, their responsibility to bear witness, the commitment to do no harm? Poets Róisín Leggett Bohan, Jennifer Horgan and […]

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Short Stories in Focus – LAST TICKETS REMAINING Claire-Lise Kieffer, Shane Tivenan and Dave Tynan in conversation with Kate Barry
Friday 07th November @ 6:00 pm
Bartley’s Lounge at The Grafton Hotel »
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Fiction
  • Main Programme
Join us as we delve into three powerful debut short-story collections. The stories in Claire-Lise Kieffer’s Tenterhooks (Banshee Press) are humorous, off-kilter, savage and surreal; illuminating an Ireland both strange and familiar. Shane Tivenan’s To Avenge a Dead Glacier (The Lilliput Press) contains stories that explore the lives of rural Irish outsiders, with style, verve, […]

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Free
Book Launch: morsels Susanna Galbraith
Friday 07th November @ 6:30 pm
The Gutter Bookshop »
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
  • Poetry
Susanna Galbraith’s debut collection, morsels (Macha Press) is a formally ambitious multi-sequence debut collection. The title series ‘morsels’ explores the ways language and its absences shape our relationships with one another, with natural environments, and with human and animal bodies. Across three interconnected sequences, Galbraith makes sensitive yet tough-minded forays into unstable, ever-evolving territories: love, […]

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Shadows of Our Past – BOOKED OUT Patrick Holloway, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin and Kuba Shand-Baptiste in conversation with Tara McEvoy
Friday 07th November @ 6:30 pm
Museum of Literature Ireland
  • DBF After Dark
  • Fiction
  • Main Programme
Exploring themes including family, grief, memory, migration and belonging, join us for an evening around three captivating debut novels. Patrick Holloway’s The Language of Remembering (Époque Press) asks how we connect to the people we love, moving on from the past to find meaning in the present. In Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin’s Ordinary Saints (Bonnier Books) […]

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Free
Sunday Miscellany: A Selection 2023-2025 – BOOKED OUT
Friday 07th November @ 7:00 pm
dlr LexIcon Library & Cultural Centre »
  • DBF After Dark
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
 New Island Books invites you to celebrate the official launch of the Sunday Miscellany: A Selection, 2023–2025, a brand-new selection of recently broadcast essays, poems and stories first heard on the legendary RTÉ Radio 1 programme. Featuring a spectrum of writing talent, from household names to striking new voices, this book offers solace, joy and […]

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Poetry Ireland Introductions | Céadlínte – BOOKED OUT
Friday 07th November @ 7:30 pm
The New Theatre »
  • DBF After Dark
  • Irish Language
  • Main Programme
  • Poetry
Introductions | Céadlínte is a Poetry Ireland showcase of 14 of the most exciting new poets writing in English and Irish on the island of Ireland today. The poets were selected by Jessica Traynor and Aifric MacAodha. We’ll have a musical guest along on the night.  Introductions | Is sárthaispeántas d’Eigse Eireann é “Céadlínte” de […]

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Writing the Unspeakable – BOOKED OUT Gaea Schoeters and Audrey Magee in conversation with Neil Hegarty
Friday 07th November @ 8:00 pm
Museum of Literature Ireland
  • DBF After Dark
  • Main Programme
Can fiction allow writers and their readers to grapple with the worst of human behaviours? Through their writing, Gaea Schoeters and Audrey Magee have both explored historical and imagined instances of extreme cruelty and its devastating moral consequences. In today’s world, has the normalisation of violence and the assignation of colonization to the past inured […]

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DBF After Dark Festival Club: Echoes on the Page Anna Carey, Brendan Mac Evilly and Maggie Armstrong in conversation with Tony Clayton-Lea
Friday 07th November @ 8:00 pm
Bartley’s Lounge at The Grafton Hotel »
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Fiction
  • Main Programme
Immerse yourself in an evening of artforms at our DBF After Dark Festival Club, where we’ll be exploring books inspired by music, art and film. Anna Carey’s Our Song (Hachette) is a story of second chances, and following dreams. Brendan Mac Evilly’s novel Deep Burn (Marrowbone Books) explores the seductive and devastating power of art, […]

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