Programme 2025

It’s time to get creative with all the family. Bring along your imaginations and get drawing, writing, and doing some arts and crafts at our DBF Creative station! Age: All the family Free. Drop in! This event takes place in The Cellars in the North Range of IMMA Venues.

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Looking to refresh your bookshelves at home? We’re inviting families to bring their old children’s books to swap them for one from our DBF book swap stand. This event takes place in The Cellars in the North Range of IMMA Venues.

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Joining our panel are poet and essayist Gustav Parker Hibbett whose debut collection High Jump as Icarus Story won the 2025 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, Sam Furlong whose just-published debut book is Crowd Work, and podcaster and columnist Sophie White, whose 8 books include The Snag List, Where I End and most recently, […]

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What does it mean to be Black in Ireland and Britain today? Join Phil Mullen, author and academic, and Afua Hirsch, journalist, broadcaster and bestselling author of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging as they challenge and unravel the harmful legacy of erasure of the Black community in the history and culture of both countries. […]

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As short stories continue to captivate, join us to delve into two striking collections by award-winning novelists. Mary Morrissy’s Twenty-Twenty Vision (The Lilliput Press) is a collection of stories exploring hindsight, honesty and late middle-age regret, with empathy and wry humour. Mary O’Donnell’s Walking Ghosts (Mercier Press) takes us from urban encounters to sun-drenched beaches […]

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Every small step makes a difference! Drop by our ‘Plant Your Own’ space, roll the sleeves up and plant your own bulb or sapling to take away with you! Then find out more about all the things you can be growing at home, contributing to regenerating and replenishing our world, one plant at a time. […]

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All aboard the Dublin Story Bus! Join master traditional Irish storyteller Niall de Búrca on a unique bus journey through the streets of Dublin City. Find yourself transported to other times as Niall enchants you with myths and stories from the places you pass along the way. Departing from O’Connell Street, this immersive storytelling experience […]

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Fond of films? Have a major grá for motion pictures? Join Alan Nolan as he talks about the inspirations behind his new children’s book The Grand Central Cinema Club (The O’Brien Press), set in the cinemas of 1930s Dublin. Learn how to draw fictional movie idol Tripp Hazzard, the Lonesome Yodelling Cowboy™, and devise your […]

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