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When Britain Breaks Up Bookers Talk: New Cold War: An Era of Despots? New Silk Roads: Peter Frankopan Global names; local vibe. 11am, Secret Garden €15 Marlon James & Richard Flanagan 11.30am, Seafront Marquee €15 3.30pm, Seafront Marquee €15 elcome to our special 10th explores his descent into mental illness followed Is the British project, kicked off 400 odd years 6pm, Saint Patrick’s Church €20 The US is now in a trade war with China. India Peter Frankopan’s first bookThe Silk Roads anniversary. Over one long by recovery. Fanning believes the link between ago by Henry 8th, over? It spanned the globe The Personal is Political. Two Man Booker Prize and Pakistan are squaring off in Kashmir. In is a masterpiece combining history, politics, weekend, one hundred speakers mental illness and creativity is a strong one: at its height but is now a deeply divided entity, winners, who also happen to be captivating Syria and Yemen, a proxy war is being fought economics and the finest storytelling, to create from around the world (Italy, they interact catastrophically and that mental undermined – perhaps fatally – by English talkers, reveal how deep personal experience between Iran, backed by Russia and China, and a magic evocation of the ancient silk roads from Russia, Germany, Lebanon, India, health is essential for creativity to flourish. nationalism. In the next decade, as a result and their world view informs their writing. From Saudi Arabia, backed by America. Meanwhile Istanbul to Shanghai. Now with the unveiling of WFrance, UK, US, Korea, Trinidad, Jamaica, Turkey, Sinéad Gleeson explores the connections of Brexit, it is highly likely that Britain will climate change to slavery, from homophobia in Africa, China is out-spending the USA to gain China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing aims to Singapore, China, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, and between our bodies and our minds while Ian break up. Will it go the way of Yugoslavia in to corruption, from colonialisation to war and future influence. In Venezuela, the old cold war recreate the Silk Roads with the world’s biggest Canada) will gather in Dalkey to mark ten years Hughes offers a compelling and timely account violence or the way of Czechoslovakia in a brutality, you can expect a light to be shone on enemies are lining up against each other. Thirty infrastructure plan to link China with Europe, of the festival. Global superstars like Stephen of the dangers posed by narcissistic leaders in velvet divorce? Will London, like Madrid with the human condition. years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, lines are India and Russia via rail and road networks. Fry and Jony Ive, the man who by designing Disordered Minds: how dangerous personalities the Catalans, arrest Scottish separatists? And Marlon James and Richard Flanagan drawn again, East v West once more. What is This plan will tilt the world’s economic axis the three most iconic products of our age the are destroying our democracies. of course, what happens with Northern Ireland, with Emma Dabiri. the next move, and what happens if the new back to the ancient Silk Roads with profound iPod, iPad, and iPhone, has changed your world The Arts and the Sciences are often seen 100 years old next year? We open the festival cold war heats up? Could it all boil over? ramifications for all of us. Peter Frankopan is probably more than any other single living as different activities often held in mutual with this critical issue because, ultimately, the With Ece Temelkuran, Pinchas Landau, Thomas one of the most sought-after thinkers in the human being, will join some of the world’s disregard but if we look more closely, both future of Britain is the future of Ireland. Friedman, Robert Shrimsley & Conor O’Clery. world and we are delighted that he has chosen leading intellectuals such as three times Pulitzer are at the same game, trying to understand With Bill Emmott, Pinchas Landau, to come to Dalkey to share his insights. prize winner, Thomas Friedman, and giants why we are who we are. Biochemist and “the David McWilliams and Jennifer O’Connell. With David McWilliams. of literature Marlon James, Deborah Levy and best immunologist in the world” Luke O’Neill Notes to Self: Emilie Pine Richard Flanagan. We will also be hearing hotly- will explore the very question that unites the Understanding Russia 7.30pm, Secret Garden €15 How to Lose A Country: a few short anticipated new work from Joseph O’Connor and arts and the sciences: what does it mean to steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Kevin Barry. Alongside these established names be human? Nathan Filer, former psychiatric 12.30pm, Secret Garden €20 Notes to Self has quite simply reinvented not 1pm, Seafront Marquee €15 we are delighted to include debut writers such nurse, will offer fresh insight into psychiatry’s This year is the twentieth anniversary of Putin just Irish, but all autobiographical work. A series Who’s Afraid of a United Ireland? as Emma Dabiri, Sinéad Gleeson, Emilie Pine, heartland: the diagnosis and treatment of coming to power in Russia. While America and of six deeply personal interlocking essays, you At first it happens slowly, and then very quickly. Lynn Ruane and Wendy Erskine. schizophrenia and Kevin Mitchell, geneticist and its President have become a laughing stock, won’t want to put it down. Achingly honest, How do stable countries become unstable? Ece 3.30pm, Saint Patrick’s Church €20 Dalkey has always been much more neuroscientist, will change the way you think by Putin has reinvented Russia. He inherited a this book is shockingly raw and yet is the Temelkuran witnessed how democracy in her This may be the most important session in the than a book festival, we prefer to think of it exploring how variations in our brains strongly collapsing country, and in 20 years he has made most exquisitely precise prose we have read home country Turkey has become progressively festival because there is so much at stake and as an ideas festival; with 67 events squeezed influence our behaviour and psychology. it into a superpower again. Geo-politically – from in many years. It has blown the critics away, weaker. Her book How To Lose A Country has yet so little specific discussion on this existential into four inspirational days, we cover a truly We re-explore what’s next for #MeToo Syria to Venezuela – all roads lead to Moscow. sold shedloads and established Pine as a truly become an international phenomenon. Join her topic. So, who’s afraid of it? The most significant broad canvas. Join us with Donald Trump’s and lift the lid on why the younger generation But what about Russia itself? How much do unique Irish talent. and the FT’s political editor Robert Shrimsley long-term ramification of Brexit will be a United nemesis, former head of the CIA John Brennan is lurching to the left. We talk about China we know about it, do we understand it and Emilie talks to Keelin Shanley. and the brilliant American writer of the award- Ireland. Demographics point to a Catholic/ or hang with the new voice of liberal Britain, 30 years to the day after Tiananmen Square ultimately what does Russia want? As Putin winning German series Deutschland 83 and 86, Nationalist majority in the next decades, while broadcaster and best-seller James O’Brien, as and Russia 20 years after Putin took control. bestrides the globe, as possibly the only true Making A Murderer Anna Winger on this global tour of how good the majority in the North want to stay in Europe. we dissect Brexit and Trump. Listen to Turkish Could there be four more years of Trump? statesman left, don’t miss this deep dive into countries go bad. Middle ground Unionism, seeing the writing on firebrand Ece Temelkuran as she warns that And Artificial Intelligence, Democracy Hacked, one of the world’s least understood countries. 7.30pm, Heritage Centre €15 the wall, may now vouch to remain in Europe, good countries do go bad and we have no room The Geography of Thought and Surveillance With Zhanna O’Clery, Gary Shteyngart, Pinchas Making a Murderer captured the attention of via a New Ireland. The vast majority of citizens for complacency. As we celebrate our first Capitalism will all be addressed. No doubt we Landau, Gerry McCarthy and Bill Emmott. millions of viewers globally. The extraordinary of the Republic want it to happen, but at what decade, some old friends of the festival, like will still be talking about Brexit with the likes of story of convicted murderer Steven Avery and cost? Would Loyalism fight, can we afford it and Fintan O’Toole and Robert Fisk, will be back this Chris Patten and LBC’s James O’Brien, so expect his nephew Brendan Dassey has now taken Dystopia in Paradise: who wants to risk peace and prosperity in the year to share their latest thoughts with you. more chat about crash-outs, backstops, the a new turn with Avery winning his appeal to The Dark Side of the Caribbean Republic for the fourth green field? This year our festival theme is Inside the border and the advance of a United Ireland. present new evidence that may overturn the with Marlon James & Claire Adam With Diarmaid Ferriter, Eoin MacNamee, Mind: Creativity and the Brain. We are delighted Let’s have a laugh with the novelist original verdict. Apart from being the specific Martina Devlin and Andrea Catherwood. Disordered Minds: how dangerous 2pm, Secret Garden €15 to showcase ten-time Academy Award winning from New York, Gary Shteyngart, who has personalities are destroying story of a murderer, an accomplice and a victim, director – and educationalist – David Puttnam won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction democracies Making a Murderer shone a dramatic light on White sands, turquoise beaches, piña coladas, Movies and Books who, alongside Lenora Chu (author of Little and comedians Joanne McNally, PJ Gallagher, America, its mass incarceration, its justice herb, reggae and chill, this is the image of the Soldiers) will explore creativity and education. Tara Flynn, Colm O’Regan,Paul Howard, David 2pm, Secret Garden €15 system and the people we rarely see, the poor, Caribbean that marketers have perfected, but the 5pm, Seafront Marquee €20 Closer to home, you will hear from Arnold O’Doherty: You Have to Laugh. Ian Hughes’ remarkable new book offers a the forgotten and powerless – the people who reality of the Caribbean is far from that ideal. The This is a must for film buffs, TV aficionados, and Thomas Fanning, whose book Mind on Fire, compelling and timely account of the dangers end up in prison. Dean Strang, Avery’s lawyer, legacy of slavery, grinding poverty and colonial book lovers. Join a ten-time Academy Award posed by narcissistic leaders, and provides a opens up with Patrick Freyne of The Irish Times. oppression have framed the Caribbean. Today winner, a Man Booker Prize winner, the brilliant stark warning that the conditions in which this those same beautiful islands are home to violent creator of recent TV sensation Deutschland 83 psychopathy flourishes – extremes of social gangs, rampant misogyny, mental health issues and 86 and a double-Oscar winning producer as inequality and a culture of hyper-individualism and widespread homophobia. Claire Adam’s they explore books, movies and the future of TV. – are the hallmarks of our present age. From Trinidad and Marlon James’ Jamaica reveal the With David Puttnam, Anna Winger, Trump to Boris Johnson, Hughes outlines how Thomas Friedman true story of the Caribbean, the dark side, the Marlon James and Ed Guiney with Lana Citron. disordered minds are impacting on your life. uncut side, yet the side that produces great art, 100 67 4 1 9pm, Saint Patrick’s Church €25 Ian Hughes in conversation with Gary Jermyn. great writing and great music. Out of pain great SPEAKERS EVENTS DAYS TOWN Thomas Friedman is a three times Pulitzer beauty can come, and in this session, we will Inside the mind of Chinese Millennials: Prize winner whose op-ed columns in The explore both the pain and the beauty. Karoline Kan New York Times about economics, foreign With Rick O’Shea. Why History Matters (Peter Frankopan, affairs, globalisation, technology and the curator box office special thanks to: Diarmaid Ferriter & Theo Dorgan) 4pm, Secret Garden €15 environment make him arguably one of the Sian Smyth Ciara Kennedy Our lead Partner, Zurich, China Unwrapped The most important group in the world will, very world’s most important columnists and political 5pm, Secret Garden €15 Margie Lynch without whom, all this wouldn’t design soon, be the 300 million Chinese millennials. commentators. Friedman is also winner of the 2pm, Saint Patrick’s Church €20 This year it was announced that history would be Niall Meehan, Verso Luis Faria be possible; Rev. Bruce Hayes; Charlie Quirke Brian Meyer; Diane Davison; How do they think? How do they view the West prestigious American National Book Award Thirty years on from Tiananmen Square, China removed from our school Junior Cert curriculum website design Sarah Morley; Margaret Dunne; and what future do they imagine for China, and his various books on subjects ranging is the world’s coming power, economically, as a compulsory subject. For many this is a Aoife O’Brien venue managers Katie Ridge Dan O’Brien; Selwyn Davies; imminently the world’s biggest economy? from the Israel/Palestinian conflict, to China, politically and possibly militarily. Democracy has travesty, for others it is the march of progress producer + pr Sarah O’Doherty Marta Starosta; The Gutter Karoline Kan’s new book Under Red Skies traces globalisation and the impact of technology been superseded by wealth and influence and and part of an essential shift towards science, Clare Ridge Milly McLaughlin Bookshop; Michael Kingston her extraordinary life from a dirt-poor village in on our lives, have all been New York Times Chinese power seems unstoppable. Let’s unwrap maths and technology. But what about the production Chantal Hourihan and DLR Parks. rural China in 1989 to writing for the New York bestsellers. This is your chance to listen to China, tease out what it stands for and speculate expression “those who don’t know their history manager Karla Zambra Times today. If you want to hear what the future one of the most influential voices in global what will happen when China overtakes America. are condemned to repeat it”? Two of the finest Our partners and patrons EmmaJane Dunne looks like, don’t miss this one-off event. journalism here in Dublin Will it be peaceful, what can you expect and historians of their generation, Diarmaid Ferriter cover image (see back page) and the volunteer manager Conor McCabe wonderful team of gracious Karoline Kan talks to David McWilliams. what will the world look like when China rules and Peter Frankopan jump to the defence of Katie Cogan directors volunteers who make this the place? history and explain why history matters. Sian Smyth all possible. With Lenora Chu, Karoline Kan, Francesco Grillo, David McWilliams Pinchas Landau & Michael Vatikiotis.

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The Surprising Power of Ideas that Ninety years of Faber & Faber Artificial Intelligence John Brennan in conversation Beyond #MeToo The Book Reviewers

Don’t Make Sense: Rory Sutherland with Toby Faber 8pm, Saint Patrick’s Church €20 10.30am, Seafront Marquee €20 12pm, Seafront Marquee €20 12pm, Heritage Centre €10 6pm, Saint Patrick’s Church €20 7pm, The Vico €15 What happens when our computers get smarter John Brennan, retired head of the CIA, is the Is this the most significant protest movement Madeleine Keane, Literary Editor of the Why is Red Bull so popular — even with the As the grandson of Faber’s founder, Toby Faber than we are? We are in the process of building man Donald Trump loves to hate – so he must be in the history of humanity? Or is there a danger Sunday Independent and Fred Studemann, taste? Why do we prefer stripy toothpaste? grew up steeped in the company’s books and its superhuman machines, terrifyingly intelligent doing something right! This is a unique chance the pendulum has swung too far in the tricky, Literary Editor of the Financial Times talk to How did a fast food outlet double its sales by stories, including its most infamous rejection robots. If we just keep going, we will continue to understand how America works from deep thorny and impossible to regulate area of sex, Patrick Freyne about the value, purpose and putting up prices? Discover the answers with and acquisition and the lasting impact of to improve these intelligent machines, and we inside the system. How does the CIA operate? power and gender? Will there be a backlash? effectiveness of the book review. What makes a the legendary advertising guru Rory Sutherland literary superstars from Sylvia Plath to William will eventually build general intelligence into What does it know? From the hunt for Osama Bin Could we be descending into a culture of good review? Is book reviewing a public service who returns to Dalkey with his first book Golding. Full of personal insight, this talk also our machines. We will build machines that Laden to the highly public showdown with Trump, victimhood and the infantilising of women? or an art? Why in Ireland will publishers tell Alchemy:the surprising power of ideas that traces Faber’s history through its illustrations, are much, much smarter than us. How do we Brennan has been at the epicentre of American From talk to action, what are we hoping for in you that non-fiction books tend to get it in the don’t make sense. This TED talk superstar (over covers and designs, featuring artists from control them? Or maybe more crucially at this politics and intrigue for years. This conversation the years ahead? What next for the #MeToo neck while fiction works tend to be more gently 6.5million views) had the audience in stitches Rex Whistler and Barnett Freedman to Peter stage, does anybody have any idea what the will shed light on how America really works and movement? handled? Can envy blind the reviewer? In a when he was here five years ago. Sutherland Blake and Damien Hirst and design concepts relationship between humans and robots is offer an insider’s view on the true machinations With Emma Dabiri, Aoife McLysaght, Lenora Chu, small country, is there a danger that a group blends cutting edge behavioural science with from the typographical excellence pioneered going to be in the very near future? not just from the centre of the Empire but also a Tishani Doshi & Jennifer O’Connell. of “luvvies” will inflate a friend’s work and stand up performance to explain how humans by Berthold Wolpe to the various ‘grids’ used With Luke O’Neill, Pilita Clark, Carlo Pizzati and first-hand account of the Trump White House. denigrate someone who’s not “in the gang”. And are innately illogical and how we can tap into by the agency Pentagram. Join us for a tour of Robert Shrimsley The Secret Life of a Hedge Fund God in a world of Amazon, Goodreads and Twitter our irrational selves to drive brands, products Faber’s rich cultural heritage – from the origins So, You Want To Open A Coffee Shop? and more tales! where readers can give their own opinions, is and businesses to global success. Tickets were of the company and the arrival of T. S. Eliot to the self-appointed reviewer a dying species? like hen’s teeth last time Sutherland came the discovery of Lord of the Flies and on to the 10.30am, Secret Garden €15 12pm, Secret Garden €15 Can a review make or break a book? And how to the festival. Pick up yours early to avoid present day. My Magnetic North: Gary Coyle Colin Harmon built 3fe – Ireland’s hippest Gary Shteyngart’s latest novel Lake Success has much power do the reviewers really have? disappointment! coffee brand – from a one-man coffee cart in a been nominated “best book of the year” by The 9pm, The Vico €15 Countess Markievicz: Flamboyant nightclub lobby to the internationally renowned New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post Northern Noir: Jan Carson, aristocrat or committed revolutionary? Gary Coyle is an Irish artist whose work business it is today. The lessons, stories and and The Guardian, building on the outrageous Wendy Erskine and Eoin MacNamee embraces various media including drawing, guidelines in his richly illustrated book offer success of Absurdistan. Gary, born in Leningrad, Brexit and Us 7.30pm, Heritage Centre €10 photography and spoken word performance. a unique and honest insight into the day-to- is also winner of the Wodehouse Prize for 6pm, Heritage Centre €15 This most complicated and unusual “My Magnetic North”, is the final part of a day realities of what many people see as their comic literature. We are delighted to have 1.30pm, Seafront Marquee €20 F**k Brexit! There is something far more revolutionary has captured the imagination of spoken word trilogy with images which explores dream job. If great coffee and a bit of personal such a talent here with us at Dalkey. His latest We can’t think of a better panel to discuss the compelling going on up the road. The success Irish historians for decades. But who actually his hometown of Dún Laoghaire. liberation is your thang, join us for coffee. book Lake Success is a real gem: a brilliant and critical issue of “Brexit and Us” and by “us”, we of Anna Burns’ Milkman has again, and not was she? How did the girl presented to Queen With Orna Mulcahy. hilarious insight into the slightly warped minds mean, Ireland and Britain. Already, Brexit has before time, focussed attention of the burgeoning Victoria as a debutante, become one of the Edible Pleasures: Lana Citron of the Masters of the Universe, who control poisoned relations between Britain and Ireland, brilliance of new Northern Irish literature. What’s leading players in the 1916 rising? She was the Matchstick Men Wall Street’s hedge funds (and Ireland’s vulture inflamed old divisions in Northern Ireland, made going on up around Belfast, where is all the talent first Irish female minister, Minister for Labour 10.30pm, The Vico €15 funds). If you want a funny but also deadly the border between the two sides of the country coming from and what else will be achieved by in the first Sinn Féin government in 1919. As Calling all “discerning gourmands”, 10.30am, Heritage Centre €10 serious take on what is going on inside the a flash point again, and has underlined how Northern writers in the years ahead? we look back at the War of Independence let’s “connoisseurs of seduction” and “gastronomes of Julia Kelly is the author of With My Lazy Eye, heads of those who run the world, from New little English people know about Ireland. But is take time to explore this extraordinary woman, love”, author Lana Citron will be talking desire, which was nominated for Book of the Decade York to Moscow, this is the gig for you. There’ll it all bad? Are there any upsides and what will Young, Woke & Socialist? Are Young Countess Markievicz. passion and the pursuit of oral gratification to by the Irish Book Awards, and The Playground. be a lot more too from one of America’s most it do, long term, to the relationship between People Lurching to the Left? With Martina Devlin and Andrea Catherwood . celebrate her latest publication Edible Pleasures, She lives in Dalkey. Her latest book, Matchstick celebrated writing talents. Ireland and Britain? Join our brilliant panel for a textbook of aphrodisiacs. Man, is an unbearably honest, unsentimental With David McWilliams. this crucial discussion. 7pm, Secret Garden €15 Paul Howard: Never Mind the Bullochs! Lana looks at the culture and history of and heartbreaking personal account of a brilliant With James O’Brien, Chris Patten, Fintan O’Toole, 100 years after Lenin predicted the World aphrodisiacs in a talk which will be informative, man’s mental disintegration and its effects on Pippa Malmgren and PJ Gallagher. 8pm, Seafront Marquee €20 How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Revolution at the 1919 inaugural meeting of the entertaining, stomach-churning (the more gross his family. It is an unforgettable telling of a story Who We Are Communist International, could his prophesy Paul Howard is best known as the creator of examples) and, hopefully, palate-whetting. that will be familiar to many thousands of people become true, albeit a century late? All over the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, a fictional rugby jock whose who live with someone who has Alzheimer’s. 12pm, Town Hall €15 world, the young are swinging to the Left. In exploits have been the subject of seventeen Joanne McNally: Gleebag With neuroscientist Ian Robertson. Variations in the way our brains develop before Class Matters : Lynn Ruane the US, the home of tooth and claw capitalism, novels, which have sold more than one million birth strongly influence our psychology and 9.30pm, Secret Garden €15 talks to Emmet Kirwan Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is leading the charge, copies in Ireland alone. He has been described It Must Be My Hormones behaviour throughout our lives, shaping our and dragging the Democratic Party towards a by The Irish Times as Ireland’s “pre-eminent Fresh from a sold out Vicar Street gig, we are personality, intelligence, sexuality, and even 1.30pm, Town Hall €10 more traditionally socialist agenda. In Berlin, satirist” and by the Irish Independent as “one delighted to have local hero (well, Killiney 10.30am, Masonic €15 the way we perceive the world. We all share Lynn Ruane’s People Like Me just won Irish non- German youth are protesting on the streets of the world’s funniest writers”. At the festival actually) and Ireland’s (self-titled) comedy When Pamela Druckerman, an American a genetic program for making a human brain, fiction book of the year. Publishing a memoir at over higher rents while over in the UK, in the last year following publication of Game of sweetheart, Joanne McNally In Dalkey. Joanne is in Paris, turns 40, waiters start calling her and the program for making a brain like yours 34 years old seems a bit early in life, especially last election, had only the under 25s vote Throw-Ins, he is back in Dalkey with the feeling powerful and she hopes Vogue Williams “Madame,” and she detects a disturbing new is specifically encoded in your DNA. But the Irish life. But then if you are a woman before been considered, no Conservative candidate seventeenth novel in the “Ross O’Carroll-Kelly” & Amy Huberman are sh*tting themselves message in men’s gazes: I would sleep with way that program plays out is affected by your time, an alcoholic and drug addict by 13 would have won a seat. Are we on the cusp of series, Schmidt Happens. because she’s coming for their emerald crowns her, but only if doing so required no effort random processes of development that manifest and a mother by 15, there’s loads to tell. A force something huge? and if she can’t take them fairly, she will joust whatsoever. Yet forty isn’t even technically uniquely in each person, even identical twins. of nature from the day she was born, Lynn With Emma Dabiri, Molly Parsons, them right off their immaculately groomed middle-aged anymore. And after a lifetime of The combination of these developmental and Ruane grew up in a loving home in Tallaght, Emmet Kirwan & Carlo Pizzati heads. being clueless, Druckerman can finally grasp the genetic variations creates innate differences West Dublin. But in her early teens things began subtext of conversations, maintain (somewhat) in how our brains are wired, differences that to unravel, and she fell into a life of petty crime healthy relationships and spot narcissists before impact all aspects of our psychology. Innate will and chaotic drug use. Lynn will be talking to they ruin her life. What are the modern forties, change the way you think about why and how Emmet Kirwan, writer of the remarkable Dublin and what do we know once we reach them? we are who we are. Oldschool. Let’s be open, let’s be honest and get What makes someone a “grown-up” anyway? Kevin Mitchell in conversation with Ian Robertson. to the heart of why class matters. With Jennifer O’Connell. Thursday 13 Friday 14 Saturday 15 SECRET HERITAGE ST PATRICK’S SEAFRONT SECRET HERITAGE ST PATRICK’S MAGPIE/ SEAFRONT SECRET GARDEN CENTRE CHURCH MARQUEE GARDEN CENTRE CHURCH THE VICO MARQUEE GARDEN 10:30 am 10:30 am 10:30 am John Brennan So You Want to Open a 10:45 am 10:45 am 10:45 am in conversation Coffee Shop? with David McWilliams (Colin Harmon & Orna 11:00 am When Britain Breaks Up 11:00 am 11:00 am Mulcahy) (Bill Emmott, 11:15 am 11:15 am 11:15 am Pinchas Landau, 11:30 am David McWilliams & 11:30 am New Cold War? An Era of 11:30 am Despots? (Ece Temelkuran, 11:45 am Jennifer O’Connell) 11:45 am 11:45 am Pinchas Landau, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm Thomas Friedman, Robert 12:00 pm Beyond #MeToo The Secret Life of a Hedge (Emma Dabiri, Fund God: Gary Shteyngart 12:15 pm 12:15 pm Shrimsley, Conor O’Clery) 12:15 pm Aoife McLysaght, in conversation 12:30 pm Understanding Russia 12:30 pm 12:30 pm Lenora Chu, Tishani Doshi (with David McWilliams) (Zhanna O’Clery, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm 12:45 pm & Jennifer O’Connell) Gerry McCarthy, Gary 1:00 pm Shyteyngart, & Pinchas 1:00 pm How to Lose a Country: 1:00 pm a few short steps from 1:15 pm Landau with Bill Emmott) 1:15 pm 1:15 pm Democracy to Dicatorship 1:30 pm 1:30 pm (E Temelkuran, R Shrimsley, 1:30 pm Brexit and Us ( James O’Brien, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm A Winger, D McWilliams ) 1:45 pm Chris Patten, Fintan 2:00 pm Disordered Minds: 2:00 pm Dystopia in Paradise: China Unwrapped 2:00 pm O’Toole, Pippa Malmgren how dangerous person- The Dark Side of (Lenora Chu, Franceso 2:15 pm 2:15 pm 2:15 pm & PJ Gallagher ) alities are destroying the Caribbean Grillo, Pinchas Landau, 2:30 pm democracies (Ian Hughes 2:30 pm (Marlon James & Claire Karoline Kan & Michael 2:30 pm 2:45 pm & Gary Jermyn) 2:45 pm Adam with Rick O’Shea) Vatikiotis to chair) 2:45 pm 3:00 pm 3:00 pm 3:00 pm Trump’s America: 4 More Shaw’s Arias Years? John Brennan, (Fintan O’Toole with 3:15 pm 3:15 pm 3:15 pm Anna Winger, Pippa soprano Siobhra Quinlan 3:30 pm 3:30 pm New Silk Roads: Who’s Afraid of a 3:30 pm Malmgren, Pamela and AnnaLisa Monticelli Peter Frankopan United Ireland? (Diarmaid 3:45 pm 3:45 pm 3:45 pm Druckerman & PJ Gallagher on keyboards) (with David McWilliams) Ferriter, Eoin MacNamee, 4:00 pm Inside the Mind of 4:00 pm Martina Devlin & Andrea 4:00 pm Chinese Millennials 4:15 pm 4:15 pm Catherwood) 4:15 pm (Karoline Kan talks to 4:30 pm David McWilliams) 4:30 pm 4:30 pm From Good to Great: how Humanology to make a 21st century edu- (Luke O’Neill with 4:45 pm 4:45 pm 4:45 pm cation system (Lenora Chu, Aoife McLysaght) 5:00 pm 5:00 pm Movies and Books: Why History Matters 5:00 pm David Puttnam, Francesco David Puttnam, Anna (Peter Frankopan & 5:15 pm 5:15 pm 5:15 pm Grillo & Alec Russell) Winger, Marlon James, Diarmaid Ferriter 5:30 pm 5:30 pm Ed Guiney & Lana Citron with Theo Dorgan 5:30 pm 5:45 pm 5:45 pm 5:45 pm 6:00 pm Bookers Talk: 6:00 pm Northern Noir The Surprising Power of 6:00 pm Stephen Fry & Jony Ive: Marlon James, ( Jan Carson & Ideas that don’t make The Object of Language 6:15 pm 6:15 pm 6:15 pm Richard Flanagan Wendy Erskine sense: Rory Sutherland and the Language 6:30 pm (with Emma Dabiri) 6:30 pm with Eoin MacNamee) 6:30 pm of Objects 6:45 pm 6:45 pm 6:45 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm Young, Woke & Socialist? Ninety Years of 7:00 pm Are young people lurching Faber & Faber 7:15 pm 7:15 pm 7:15 pm to the Left? (Emmet Kirwan, with Toby Faber 7:30 pm Notes to Self: Making a Murderer: 7:30 pm Emma Dabiri, Molly Countess Markievicz: 7:30 pm How to Be Right: Emilie Pine & Dean Strang talks to Flamboyant aristocrat or James O’Brien 7:45 pm 7:45 pm Parsons, with Carlo Pizzati 7:45 pm Keelin Shanley Patrick Freyne committed revolutionary? (with David McWilliams ) 8:00 pm 8:00 pm Paul Howard: (Andrea Catherwood and Artificial Intelligence 8:00 pm Never Mind The Bullochs! (Luke O’Neil, Carlo Pizzati, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm Martina Devlin) 8:15 pm Pilita Clark and chaired by 8:30 pm 8:30 pm Robert Shrimsley) 8:30 pm 8:45 pm 8:45 pm 8:45 pm 9:00 pm Thomas Friedman 9:00 pm My Magnetic North; 9:00 pm (in conversation with Gary Coyle 9:15 pm 9:15 pm 9:15 pm David McWilliams) 9:30 pm 9:30 pm Joanne McNally: 9:30 pm Gleebag 9:45 pm 9:45 pm 9:45 pm 10:00 pm 10:00 pm 10:00 pm 10:15 pm 10:15 pm 10:15 pm 10:30 pm 10:30 pm Edible Pleasures: 10:30 pm Lana Citron 10:45 pm 10:45 pm 10:45 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:15 pm 11:15 pm 11:15 pm 11:30 pm 11:30 pm 11:30 pm

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The Art of Storytelling Shaw’s Arias Creepy Victorians India, Upside Down: The Object of Language and the How to Be Right: James O’Brien 1.30pm, Saint Patrick’s Church €20 3pm, Secret Garden €20 3pm, Masonic €15 The Billionaire Raj and the Mappillai Language of Objects 7.30 pm, Seafront Marquee €20 We all love a great story, not just for the Long before he won the Nobel Prize for You think they are prudish, straight-laced and 4.30pm, Town Hall €15 6pm, Seafront Marquee €30 Fast becoming the leading spokesperson for joy it brings, but for the memories it leaves Literature and an Academy Award for the dull, but they were anything but. Come to this Money, sex, avarice and Bollywood, today’s India is Actor, comedian, raconteur and author, Stephen liberal Britain, LBC radio presenter James O’Brien behind and the emotions it triggers in all of us. screenplay for Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw wonderful, quirky event exploring the violence, a far cry from the country of Mahatma Gandhi. It Fry shares his wit and wisdom with Jony Ive, has been a beacon of rationality in a world gone But what makes a story great? What makes worked as a music critic in London. Soprano depravity and deviancy of the era which is is an economic and political powerhouse, nuclear the man who, by designing three of the most mad. Every day on radio, O’Brien hears people someone a good storyteller? Storytelling is Síobhra Quinlan and pianist Annalisa Monticelli widely misunderstood. Sex, drugs and no self- armed and ready to take on the world. It will soon iconic products of our age – the iPod, iPad, and blaming the ills of the world on immigrants, something we all do naturally, starting at a draw on the music criticisms of George Bernard control, come and listen to the untold story of be the most populous country on earth, overtaking iPhone – has changed your world probably welfare scroungers, Brussels and feminists. And young age, but there’s a difference between Shaw, performing works contextualised by your ancestors. China and at the very top of the food chain is more than any other single living human being. every day, he dismantles their arguments with good storytelling and great storytelling. What his writings on music. The whole show will With Paraic O’Donnell, Nuala O’Connor a billionaire class – the Bollygarchs – whose Truly a one-off event featuring treasured humour, insight and vast knowledge. This gig is is it? Stories can emphasise our common be chaired by the redoubtable Fintan O’Toole and Dean Ruxton. ambitions and decadence are truly extraordinary. polymath, Stephen Fry, and Apple design guru, for you, if you want to puncture fake news, half- humanity, cherishing nuance, pluralism and whose brilliant book Judging Shaw was Although rarely mentioned, Ireland’s richest man Jony Ive. Two global superstars mark the tenth baked notions and makey-uppey opinions – and co-existence. But storytelling is not reserved described as “a handsome tribute from one is Indian, one of an Indian oligarch class whose anniversary of the festival by sharing one stage crucially, have a laugh doing so. for novelists; what about how stories are used of Ireland’s leading intellectuals to one of his influence and power extends throughout the globe. at Dalkey! by non-writers? Extremists, for example, are mightiest forebears” by Terry Eagleton, London From good to great: How to make a This session will lift the lid on the little understood using the power of storytelling and exploiting Review of Books. This is a lovely show, revealing brilliant 21st century education system Indian Billionaire class. Joining James Crabtree, it to spread intolerance. Are writers obliged one of the great Shaw’s less celebrated sides. author of The Billionaire Raj is Carlo Pizzati whose 4.30pm, Seafront Marquee €20 to be political and use their craft to engender recent book Mappillai, meaning ‘son-in-law’ in Macron: the most important man Kevin Barry: Night Boat To Tangiers empathy? In a world where information is limitless, where Tamil, is Carlo’s story, a European journalist living Kashmir: The Most Dangerous in Europe? 7.30pm, St. Patrick’s Church €15 With Deborah Levy, Richard Flanagan, Place in The World? memory is being made redundant by Google, with his in-laws in urban Chennai and with his Tishani Doshi & Rick O’Shea. where the jobs of the future are not even wife in rural Tamil Nadu. Carlo’s story is also one 6pm, Saint Patrick’s Church €20 Kevin Barry is one of Ireland’s true literary 3pm, Town Hall €20 invented yet, education and the ability to analyse, of extremes, of fascination and suspicion and his From the gilets jaunes to their dapper geniuses. His work defies category, but is the Voices in My Head: Think of the country, divided by two religions, discern and make a relevant contribution is more awkward attempts at cruising through a maze President’s stance on Europe, from wine and product of a most extraordinary imagination and Exploring Schizophrenia partitioned in the first half of the 20th century important than ever. But how do we create an of bribery, bureaucracy and traffic. But, beyond couture, to art, literature and cinema, not to for festival goers there’s the huge advantage by an arbitrary border drawn by departing education system that gets the best out of every this, Mappillai is the story of India. offering an mention football, France is a world leader. This that Kevin is, without doubt, the most 1.30pm, Masonic €15 Englishmen after centuries of colonialisation. person, giving everyone a chance? Technology intimate capsule of contemporary Indian history, extraordinary country is stylish, self-confident, compelling performer and reader of his own In The Heartland, the follow up to his Costa The larger part was agricultural, the smaller part is changing work, knowledge and every aspect of the associated Hinduisation and Westernisation dogged and unbowed, and critically France work. Many writers try to replicate the words, novel of the year The Shock of the Fall, more urban. The border has been a constant of our lives, yet the education system has barely of India, intertwined with the Indianisation of a presents a different way of living, thinking when reading their own work. It is extremely Nathan Filer, a former mental health nurse, source of conflict and due to an election in one changed in two generations. Oscar-winner and European! If you are interested in understanding and creating. It is a counterbalance on almost difficult to do, but when Kevin takes to the invites us to spend time in the company of country, in recent months it has again become educationalist, Lord David Puttnam and Lenora the world’s largest democracy and soon-to-be every level in language, philosophy, food and of stage, you are transfixed. It’s mesmerising. some extraordinary people whose lives have an international flashpoint. No we are not Chu, Chinese/American journalist and author of most populous nation, don’t miss this gig with course, sex. Sophie Pedder of The Economist, is We are delighted to have Kevin back at Dalkey been affected by this most strange of human talking about Ireland but India and Pakistan. Little Soldiers (a best-selling book comparing the two brilliant journalists. the author of Revolution Francaise, the seminal for our 10th anniversary as he was here in conditions, and to discover their complex, Both are ruled by religious adherents – one Chinese and American schooling system), tease account of Emmanuel Macron’s rise from our inaugural year, so having him back here surprising, painful, funny and ultimately Hindu, one Muslim – both countries are nuclear- out the major issues and paint a 21st century Constellations: Sinéad Gleeson, independent outsider to President. Just how is special for us. His third novel, Night Boat to relatable stories. Interlacing these first-person armed and Kashmir could again flare up, leaving portrait of what the best education system could Deborah Levy & Lisa Hannigan ambitious is Macron? And will he really change Tangiers is just out. We can’t wait. encounters with a series of meditative essays, the region vulnerable to yet another conflict look like. They will be joined by Franceso Grillo, France? In a Europe without Britain, France 4.30pm, St. Patrick’s Church €20 he debunks myths, challenges orthodoxy and except this time, the whole world allied to either an Italian writer and journalist to broaden further will only become stronger, more influential and The World in 2025 offers fresh insight into what is traditionally could be dragged in. the international comparisons “I have come to think of all the metal in my body ultimately the “French way” will have a much considered to be psychiatry’s heartland: the With Nelofer Pazira, James Crabtree, Chaired by editor of the FT Weekend, as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, greater influence on Irish life. 9pm, Saint Patrick’s Church €20 diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia. Just Carlo Pizzati and Michael Vatikiotis. Alec Russell. a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a Sophie Pedder with Simon Kuper & Hugh Linehan 2025 is not that far off. Six years in fact. Now as The Shock of the Fall did, The Heartland will tracing of connections and a guide to looking at think about the changes that have happened in illuminate our perception and transform lives. Marlon James: Black Leopard, Red Wolf things from different angles.” In these powerful It’s Ann Devine Time! the past six years? Back then Donald Trump was Nathan Filer will be in conversation with Kevin – An African Game of Thrones and daring essays Sinéad Gleeson delves into a Colm O’Regan with Tara Flynn an estate agent and reality TV star, frequently Mitchell, Associate Professor of Genetics and range of subjects: art, illness, ghosts, grief and our bankrupt, with a weakness for wives. Brexit was 3pm Saint Patrick’s Church €20 Humanology – What it means to be 6pm, Masonic €15 Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. human very ways of seeing. Deborah Levy is one of the a glint in the eye of radical English nationalists. We are delighted to have Booker Prize winner most celebrated novelists in the English language, Everybody knows an Ann Devine, a riddle, ISIS had never been mentioned, Crimea was 4.30pm, Secret Garden €15 Trump’s America: Four more years? Marlon James back in Dalkey to unveil his who was twice shortlisted for the Man Booker wrapped up in a fleece, inside a Skoda Octavia. part of Ukraine and both Uber and Air BnB were latest work Black Leopard, Red Wolf. The critics Luke O’Neill’s wonderful best-seller Humanology Prize. Deborah Levy’s exceptional memoir The In his laugh-out-loud funny first novel,Ann fringe apps, hoping to survive. A border poll was 3pm, Seafront Marquee €20 are raving about it. The Washington Post said explains almost every aspect of what makes Cost of Living on art, love, life and separation was Devine, Ready For Her Close-Up, Colm O’Regan, never even spoken about. Imagine the changes For the media he is the gift that keeps giving, that “James has spun an African fantasy as us human: how, when, where, and who, with Sinéad Gleeson’s book of the year last year when stand up and author, affectionately satirises that are likely to be coming down the tracks in for others he is an American hero and for many vibrant, complex and haunting as any western some speculation as to why. For all his easy she interviewed Deborah at Dalkey Book Festival. rural Ireland. Prepare for belly laughs with the next six years. The world is changing at such more he is a terrifying narcissist in the most mythology and nobody who survives reading wit and clever pop-culture references, Luke This year the tables are turned and Deborah the author of the Irish Mammies series. A ray a pace, it’s hard to pin point the areas of your life powerful position in the world. Later this year this book will ever forget it”; the notoriously is fundamentally a serious scientist with an will interview Sinéad. Sinéad and Deborah will of sunshine and an antidote perhaps to the that will be convulsed. But fear not: our panel he will be on the campaign trail. Can he win and sniffy Michiko Kakutani ofThe New York Times amazing knack of making science accessible be joined by the supremely talented singer gloominess that abounds. will try to plot a future course and trace out the if he does what will become of America? Even declared that “with Tracker and the Leopard, and this discussion with fellow scientist Aoife songwriter who, after three award-winning solo potential changes ahead, to give us all a sense if he loses, what will Trump’s legacy be in the James has created two compelling and iconic McLysaght will move from pre-creation to our albums, has just released a live album, recorded of what the world will look like, geo-politically, world’s standout superpower? We have brought characters, characters who will take their place eventual extinction, along the way taking in with a contemporary-classical orchestra called economically and socially in the year 2025. you an American panel to Dalkey. in the pantheon of memorable and fantastical the laughter, gender assignments, love, God, stargaze. The unique voice of Lisa Hannigan has With Thomas Friedman, Simon Kuper, Ece With John Brennan, Pippa Malmgren, superheroes”. But why take their word for it? diet, disease, 10cc, population control and lots often been described as hypnotic, mesmerising, Temelkuran, Pilita Clark & Robert Shrimsley. Anna Winger and Pamela Druckerman. Come and hear the man himself talking to Emma in between. If you are curious about us, this and ethereal. In this session Lisa will sing a few of Chaired by PJ Gallagher. Dabiri. bizarre animal called the human being, this is a her songs in response to Sinéad’s words. show for you. Sinéad Gleeson with Deborah Levy & Lisa Hannigan. Saturday 15 Sunday 16 TOWN HERITAGE ST PATRICK’S MASONIC SEAFRONT SECRET TOWN HERITAGE MASONIC ST PATRICK’S FINNEGAN’S HALL CENTRE CHURCH MARQUEE GARDEN HALL CENTRE CHURCH 10:30 am Matchstick Men It Must be My Hormones 10:30 am 10:45 am ( Julia Kelly talks to (Pamela Druckerman 10:45 am Ian Robertson) talks to 11:00 am Jennifer O’Connell) 11:00 am 11:15 am 11:15 am 11:30 am 11:30 am Fake news: How to write a tv block- The Shoemaker and his Love, Sex, Death and the Democracy Hacked buster – like Deutschland Daughter: Conor O’Clery Search for Truth In Iran 11:45 am 11:45 am (Mark Little, Suki Kim, 83 (Anna Winger & Zhanna O’Clery (Ramita Navai with 12:00 pm How the Wiring of our The Book Reviewers: 12:00 pm Sophie Pedder, James & Joerg Winger (with Gerry McCarthy) Joanne McNally) Brains Shapes Who Fred Studemann, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm O’Brien, Alec Russell) with David McWilliams) We Are Martin Doyle, & 12:30 pm (Kevin Mitchell Madeleine Keane with 12:30 pm 12:45 pm & Ian Robertson) Patrick Freyne 12:45 pm 1:00 pm 1:00 pm Creativity – where does Bloomsday Special: it come from? The Jewish Novel 1:15 pm 1:15 pm (Richard Flanagan, Lenora (G Shteyngart, L Citron, 1:30 pm Class Matters: The Art of Storytelling Voices in My Head: 1:30 pm Chu, David Puttnam and P Druckerman, D Levy & Lynn Ruane talks to (Deborah Levy, exploring schizophrenia 1:45 pm 1:45 pm James Ryan) Z Rodgers) Emmet Kirwan Richard Flanagan, (Nathan Filer talks to 2:00 pm Tishani Doshi and Kevin Mitchell) 2:00 pm 2:15 pm Rick O’Shea) 2:15 pm 2:30 pm 2:30 pm The Geography of Thought Joseph O’Connor: Mind on Fire: (Ece Turmelkuran, Shadowplay Arnold Thomas Fanning 2:45 pm 2:45 pm Richard Flanagan, (with Róisín Ingle) (with Jennifer O’Connell) 3:00 pm Kashmir: the most Marlon James: Creepy Victorians 3:00 pm Suki Kim, Marlon James dangerous place in the Black Leopard, (Paraic O’Donnell & 3:15 pm 3:15 pm & Lana Citron ) world? (Nelofer Pazira, Red Wolf; an African Nuala O’Connor talk to 3:30 pm Carlo Pizzati, James Game of Thrones Dean Ruxton) 3:30 pm 3:45 pm Crabtree, Michael Vatikiotis) (with Emma Dabiri) 3:45 pm 4:00 pm 4:00 pm Robert Fisk Surveillance Capitalism Don’t Touch My Hair: in conversation Is Big Tech Big Brother? Emma Dabiri 4:15 pm 4:15 pm with Bill Emmott (Lenora Chu, Suki Kim, (with Sorcha Pollak) 4:30 pm India Upside Down: Constellations: 4:30 pm Simon Kuper James Crabtree, Sinéad Gleeson, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm with Mark Little) Carlo Pizzati & Deborah Levy 5:00 pm David McWilliams & Lisa Hannigan 5:00 pm 5:15 pm 5:15 pm 5:30 pm 5:30 pm Elif Shafak: 10 minutes, 38 seconds 5:45 pm 5:45 pm (with Róisín Ingle) 6:00 pm Macron: the most It’s Ann Devine Time! 6:00 pm important man in Colm O’Regan 6:15 pm 6:15 pm Europe? with Tara Flynn 6:30 pm (Sophie Pedder, Simon 6:30 pm 6:45 pm Kuper and Hugh Linehan) 6:45 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm David O’Doherty: You Have to Laugh 7:15 pm 7:15 pm 7:30 pm Kevin Barry 7:30 pm Night Boat to Tangiers 7:45 pm 7:45 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:15 pm 8:15 pm 8:30 pm 8:30 pm 8:45 pm 8:45 pm 9:00 pm The World in 2025 9:00 pm (Thomas Friedman, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm Simon Kuper, Ece 9:30 pm Temelkuran, Pilita Clark 9:30 pm 9:45 pm & Robert Shrimsley) 9:45 pm 10:00 pm 10:00 pm 10:15 pm 10:15 pm 10:30 pm 10:30 pm 10:45 pm 10:45 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:15 pm 11:15 pm 11:30 pm 11:30 pm

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Mind on Fire Don’t Touch My Hair: Emma Dabiri 2.30pm, Masonic €10 4pm, St. Patrick’s Church €15 ZeynelAbidin Acclaimed playwright, Arnold Thomas Fanning, in Straightened. Stigmatised. ‘Tamed’. Celebrated. photo an intense and beautifully written book, conveys Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever the consciousness of a person living with mania, misunderstood. Black hair is never ‘just hair’. psychosis and severe depression with a startling The scope of black hairstyling ranges from pop Graeme Robertson / Ramita Navai Graeme Robertson

Jonathan Goldberg/Rex/Shutterstock Jonathan precision and intimacy. Mind on Fire is the culture to cosmology, from prehistoric times to

photo gripping, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately the (afro)futuristic. Uncovering sophisticated photo uplifting testament of a person who has visited indigenous mathematical systems in black hellish regions of the mind. But the book is more hairstyles, alongside styles that served as secret than that: it is also the story of being a writer, intelligence networks leading enslaved Africans and a narrative weaving its way through the book to freedom, Don’t Touch My Hair proves that far is the story of how he as a writer negotiated a from being only hair, black hairstyling culture creative career while suffering from a serious can be understood as an allegory for black mental illness. What does it mean to be creative oppression and, ultimately, liberation. Emma Lenora Chu Ramita Navai Emma Dabiri Elif Shafak and to live with a diagnosis of a serious mental Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic, writer and illness? How, if at all, do these two elements broadcaster. She is a teaching fellow in the interact? And can being diligent in maintaining Africa department at School of Oriental and mental health allow creativity to flourish? African Studies in London. Her first bookDon’t Fake news: Democracy Hacked? The Shoemaker and His Daughter: Creativity – where does it come from? The Geography of Thought With Jennifer O’Connell. Touch My Hair is published by Penguin. Her hair has been disappointing people since birth. 11.30am, Seafront Marquee €15 Conor O’Clery & Zhanna O’Clery 1pm, Seafront Marquee €20 2.30pm, Secret Garden €15 Robert Fisk in conversation With Sorcha Pollak of The Irish Times. What is the role of trust in the modern 11.30am, Heritage Centre €10 If creativity is the mental capacity to generate Globalisation suggests that we humans are all 4pm, Seafront Marquee €20 media landscape? Should politicians be more When countries collapse, people suffer. 30 new and interesting ideas, where does it come internationalists, who think similarly and are Elif Shafak: 10 minutes, 38 seconds accountable for fake news? Is the world years ago, the Soviet Union began to fall from. For the artists, is it a eureka moment of only cosmetically affected by geography. But Robert Fisk has lived in the Arab world for more becoming a better place or is fear replacing asunder and although much of the coverage inspiration or the culmination of years of work, is this true? How does geography influence than 40 years, covering Lebanon, five Israeli 5.30pm, Secret Garden €15 fact? Why do we no longer trust facts and was about the big geopolitical event, the impact honing the craft until ultimately something thought and ideas? Do people from different invasions, the Iran-Iraq war, the Soviet invasion The Irish Times has called best-selling novelist experts? How has feeling/emotions reshaped on real people’s lives was both devastating unique emerges. Is it age related? Do we go cultures think differently? How much of “home” of Afghanistan, the Algerian civil war, Saddam Elif Shafak ‘the most exciting Turkish novelist to our world? Join this international panel to tease and inspirational. Come and listen to this through a purple patch like some musicians is there in great art and great creativity? Is Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, the Bosnian reach western readers in years.’ We are delighted out some of these issues. extraordinary, harrowing but life-affirming or do we keep producing creative work into there a distinct European, Asian, American, and Kosovo wars, the American invasion to welcome back this mesmerising speaker who With Mark Little, Sophie Pedder, Suki Kim, account of what happened to ordinary people old age, like Picasso? Join an Oscar winner, a African, or Antipodean world view? And, and occupation of Iraq and the 2011 Arab received a standing ovation when last at Dalkey James O’Brien, chaired by Alec Russell. when everything they believed in collapsed Booker Prize Winner, a Goldsmiths Prize award on a more profound level, do the children of revolutions. Occasionally describing himself as Book Festival, enchanting those lucky enough around their ears. winner and a New York Times bestseller as we Aristotle think differently to the descendants of an ‘Ottoman correspondent’ because of the huge to get a ticket to see her. Best known for The Zhanna and Conor O’Clery in conversation explore this intriguing question, where does Confucius? area he covers, Fisk has written best-selling Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul, with Gerry McCarthy. creativity come from? With Ece Temelkuran, Suki Kim, books on the Middle East, including Pity the Shafak’s writing blends East and West, feminism How to Write a TV Blockbuster - and not With Richard Flanagan, Lenora Chu, Richard Flanagan, and Lana Citron. Nation and The Great War for Civilisation. and tradition, the local and the global, Sufism and divorce! (Deutschland 83, 86 and 89) Love, Sex, Death and the search for David Puttnam and James Ryan. In conversation with former editor of rationalism, creating one of today’s most unique The Economist, Bill Emmott. voices in literature. Her latest novel, 10 minutes 11.30am, Secret Garden €15 truth in Iran Joseph O’Connor: Shadowplay Bloomsday Special: The Jewish Novel 38 seconds in this strange world, follows Leila, a Anna Winger is the creator of the 11.30am, Finnegan’s €15 2.30pm, Town Hall €15 sex worker in Istanbul during those 10 minutes 1pm, Saint Patrick’s Church €20 Surveillance Capitalism: internationally successful German blockbuster You think Iran is all about burkas, mullahs and Local hero, bestselling author, creator of The Is Big Tech Big Brother? after she is murdered and her body dumped in Deutschland 83 and its follow up 86 (and soon virgins? Well think again. Tehran is a bustling James Joyce, the ultimate modernist, made Star of the Sea and one of Ireland’s greatest a bin, exploring her thoughts as her brain shuts to be aired 89). Produced by her husband Joerg city of nose-jobs, boob-jobs and various other Ireland’s most famous literary character, Leopold storytellers, has a new novel out this June. 4pm, Secret Garden €20 down. Each memory recalls the friends she made Winger, the Cold War TV drama has received jobs! Come to hear about the real Iran. Ramita Bloom, Jewish, thus making Ireland’s most Shadowplay explores Bram Stoker’s intense Surveillance capitalism is all about trawling at each key moment in her life - friends who are rave reviews, with bloggers praising its fashion Navai’s City of Lies won the debut political famous novel, if not a Jewish novel, one with at relationships with the actors Henry Irving everything you do online, every time your phone now desperately trying to find her, not knowing and soundtrack. It is the highest-rating subtitled book of the year and and was awarded the the very least a distinctly Dublin Jewish flavour. and Ellen Terry, while working together at the beeps, every time you update your calendar, it’s already too late. drama in television history. 30 years after the Royal Society of Literature’s Jerwood Prize for Is there such a thing as the Jewish novel? The Lyceum Theatre, relationships that inspired every time you search, you are being watched. Elif Shafak in conversation with fall of the Berlin Wall, the Germany portrayed non-fiction. Simon Sebag Montefiore described Jewish diaspora has carved out a unique identity the creation of Dracula. This magnificent novel Then your data is re-packaged into predictions Róisín Ingle of The Irish Times. in Deutschland 83, set in the very unfashionable it as “gripping, a dark delicious unveiling of the for itself over the centuries, which has allowed examines the complexities of the type of about what you are about to do next and sold to East Berlin of 1983, is a completely compelling secret decadent life of Islamic Tehran, deeply for the creation of some truly unique voices, love which stands dangerously outside social people who want to sell you something! This is David O’Doherty: You Have to Laugh if terrifying place. The regime is mendacious researched yet exciting as a novel”. A rare narratives, humour and chutzpah. Join our convention, the restlessness of creativity, and the next form of capitalism posing the question, and without pity while the West was run by chance to hear award-winning Iranian journalist, wonderful panel on this special day Bloomsday, the experiences that led to Dracula, the most who owns you? Who owns your experiences 7pm, Seafront Marquee €20 trigger-happy American generals, whose main Ramita Navai, who won an Emmy for her PBS celebrating Ireland’s most famous Jew, Mr Bloom, iconic supernatural tale of all time. and who is watching you right now and what Unhook your mindbras. David O’Doherty is back aim was to eliminate the Soviet threat. It’s the documentary Syria Undercover, the Robert F. for an illuminating and engaging discussion on Joseph O’Connor will be talking to are the implications for your privacy, your life at the Dalkey Book Festival with a brand-new biggest German cultural export since Kraftwerk Kennedy Journalism Award for Iraq Uncovered, what constitutes the Jewish Novel. Róisín Ingle of The Irish Times. and our democracy? show made up of talking and songs played on a and the question is how did Anna create a script was nominated for two Emmys for Dispatches, With Deborah Levy, Gary Shteyngart, Lana Citron, With Lenora Chu, Suki Kim, Simon Kuper crappy keyboard from 1986. As seen on BBC2’s and make a German TV series so successful while ISIS and the Battle for Iraq won the Pamela Druckerman, and Zuleika Rodgers. and Mark Little. Live At The Apollo and Channel 4’s 8 Out Of 10 abroad? And how do you do this working with British Journalism Award for Foreign Affairs and Cats Does Countdown. David O’Doherty will your spouse and not divorce? the Frontline Club Broadcast Journalism Award. have just landed back from a tour of this show Anna and Joerg Winger in conversation with With Joanne McNally. in Australia; let’s hope the keyboard survived. David McWilliams.

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St Patrick’s Church Continue on Coliemore Rd Please come by Dart or bus (or taxi) The DART service stops in Dalkey at PLEASE NOTE is 400m along for approx. 1km, where possible. There is limited the train station on Railway Road. The Church car park closes at 7pm Bullock Harbour Y Harbour Rd on left. the Marquee is on parking in Dalkey. Car parks are on Saturday evening and does not marked on the map. You can also take the number reopen until Sunday. 1 5 the left. No parking. 2 59 bus from Dún Laoghaire. 9 On Saturday and Sunday there Aircoach provides a service to and 3 is a free festival shuttle bus from from Dublin airport to Dalkey. the Festival Hub 6 4 C to The Seafront Marquee. 9 A S T L E S T ROAD ST PATRICK’S CONVENT ROAD R D E alk E ey T Isla nd 1 THE MASONIC LODGE & C 5 Getting to Seafront Marquee,

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@dalkeybookfestival Partners Patrons Hilary & Anton Joiner

Faye Dinsmore & Paddy Cosgrave

Sam & Leslie McCauley

Faye Drouillard

Olive Heffernan

Gareth Wood Interprint

Susie Lopez printed by

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