Programme 2026

 

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Contentious Spaces Rosaleen McDonagh in conversation with Katherine O’Donnell
Friday 06th November @ 5:00 pm
Poetry Ireland 11 Parnell Sq
  • Featured
  • Fiction
  • Main Programme
Contentious Spaces (Skein Press) is the debut novel from acclaimed author and playwright Rosaleen McDonagh, exploring the inner lives of Traveller families on a site in Dublin over the course of one crucial week. Threatened with eviction, it’s not only their homes at stake but also their history and the stories that have shaped them. […]

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PANDEMONIUM: Live Comics Readings Phil Barrett, Alan Dunne and Katherine Foyle in conversation with Eoin Rogers
Friday 06th November @ 6:00 pm
Royal Irish Academy of Music »
  • Art
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Main Programme
Publishing some of Ireland’s most exciting and innovative comics, PANDEMONIUM is a new literary journal dedicated to publishing short-form fiction and non-fiction comics. This event features three of Ireland’s leading comics creators and contributors to the first issue of PANDEMONIUM, Phil Barrett, Alan Dunne and Katherine Foyle, who will read from their work and join […]

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Emerging Writers Jessamine O'Connor and Djamel White in conversation with Aingeala Flannery
Friday 06th November @ 6:00 pm
Bartley’s Lounge at The Grafton Hotel »
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Fiction
  • Main Programme
Join us as we delve into two captivating debut novels from some of the freshest voices in Irish fiction. Jessamine O’Connor’s Somewhere (Lilliput Press) is a raw and intimate portrait of a woman balancing on the edge of survival, seeking meaning and love amid isolation and addiction. Djamel White’s All Them Dogs (John Murray) is […]

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Sound and Silence: The Poetics of Lesser-Known Languages Robin Munby and Morgan Leathem Ventura in conversation with Alanna Offield
Friday 06th November @ 6:00 pm
Instituto Cervantes
  • DBF After Dark
  • Main Programme
  • Poetry
Join us for a special conversation on the art of translating from Indigenous and minoritised languages. In celebration of the United Nations Indigenous Languages Decade, this event will feature readings and discussions with the translators of two award-winning poetry collections: Robin Munby, translator of Asturian poet Raquel F. Menéndez’s The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad (Skein […]

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Free
Book Launch: Sounding Ireland: Radio and the Making of Us Clíodhna Ní Anluain
Friday 06th November @ 6:00 pm
dlr LexIcon Library & Cultural Centre »
  • History
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
  • Non-fiction
Join us for the launch of Sounding Ireland: Radio and the Making of Us (New Island) by Clíodhna Ní Anluain. Marking 100 years of public broadcasting in Ireland, this richly detailed book is both a celebration and a reflection of RTÉ Radio and a century of stories told, voices heard and memories made. It’s the […]

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Free
If This Be Magic Daniel Hahn in conversation with Sináad Mac Aodha
Friday 06th November @ 6:30 pm
MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland
  • DBF After Dark
  • Main Programme
  • Non-fiction
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation (Canongate), the latest book from acclaimed translator and writer Daniel Hahn, is a fascinating deep dive into the world of Shakespeare-in-translation. With humour and clarity, Hahn examines how the great playwright’s works are translated into languages ranging from Chinese to Italian, Turkish to Dutch, […]

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Free
Book Launch: Charlotte McManus’s The Professor in Erin
Friday 06th November @ 6:30 pm
The Gutter Bookshop »
  • DBF After Dark
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
Join us to celebrate the launch of The Professor in Erin by Charlotte McManus. A German scholar exploring ruins hits his head in a fall. He wakes to find himself in a parallel universe: an Ireland that never was, free of English rule since winning the Battle of Kinsale. In this powerful, independent nation, Irish […]

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Poetry Ireland Introductions | Céadlínte
Friday 06th November @ 7:00 pm
Poetry Ireland 11 Parnell Sq
  • DBF After Dark
  • Irish Language
  • Main Programme
  • Poetry
  • Professional Development
Introductions | Céadlínte is a Poetry Ireland showcase of 15 of the most exciting new poets writing in English and Irish on the island of Ireland today. The poets were selected by Victoria Kennefick 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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