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Thursday 13 June Friday 14 June Photo Kelly Dawson Kelly Ruth Connolly Photo Photo Sheila Burnett Thurs 13 Fri 14 Mehmet Turgut Sat 15 Sun 16 photo photo Claire Newman Williams Newman Claire Mike McGregor/Observer photo photo Marlon James Ece Temelkuran Stephen Fry Deborah Levy St Patrick’s Church, 6.00pm Seafront Marquee, 1.00pm Seafront Marquee, 6.00pm St Patrick’s Church, 1.00pm Bookers Talk: How to Lose a Country: Truly a one-off event featuring Bloomsday Special: The Jewish novel with fellow Man Booker Prize winner a few short stops from democracy treasured polymath, Stephen Fry, Celebrating Leopold Bloom; is there such Richard Flanagan and Emma Dabiri to dictatorship and Apple design guru, Jony Ive a thing as the Jewish novel? Dalkey Book Festival presented by @dalkeybookfest @dalkeybookfestival @dalkeybookfestival Conor McCabe Thursday 13 June Friday 14 June photo Kelly Dawson Kelly Ruth Connolly photo photo “Dalkey is the loveliest little seaside Gary Shteyngart Emilie Pine Karoline Kan Peter Frankopan town on earth,” BBC 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 book The 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.
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