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Thurs 14 Fri 15 Burnett Sheila Sat 16 Sun 17 photo photo Daniel Mordzinski Daniel photo photo Willy Vlautin Deborah Levy Lionel Shriver Michael Ondaatje The Secret Garden, 9.15pm The Secret Garden, 8.15pm Seafront Marquee, 6.30pm Seafront Marquee, 6.00pm A one-off opportunity to see the writer In the second part of her memoir, Never afraid to take on a difficult Internationally renowned who is taking the US by storm. The Cost of Living, Levy looks at the subject, Lionel is that rarest of things, bestselling author and a true reason she writes. a truly brave thinker and writer. global literary superstar.

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1 The Meaning of Life 3 Robert Fisk on Syria 5 Four Megatrends that with Michael Harding Will Change the World 6pm, Seafront Marquee €20 4pm, Secret Garden €15 Robert Fisk is the multi-award winning 8pm, Secret Garden €15 Michael Harding is quite simply a national Middle East correspondent of The 10 years ago, Facebook barely existed, the treasure. He asks the big questions, the ones Independent, based in Beirut. He is just back iphone had just been launched, Russia was we all think about, the only ones that really from Syria. Bob has lived in the Arab world for in the G8, Donald Trump was a failing reality need to be answered. Profound, thoughtful, more than 40 years, covering Lebanon, five TV host and Anglo/Irish bank was voted the funny and humane, Michael reads from his Israeli invasions, the Iran-Iraq war, the Soviet best bank in Europe. How things change! latest memoir, ruminating on psychotherapy, invasion of Afghanistan, the Algerian civil war, We identify the mega trends that will change religion, and pilgrimages in his ongoing search Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, the our world from economics to populism, for the meaning of life. American invasion, occupation of Iraq and the technology, migration and privacy. With Prof. Ian Robertson. 2011 Arab revolutions. With Sebastian Junger, Pinchas Landau, With Pat Kenny. Mehreen Khan, Nathalie Handal (above) and Ruadhán MacCormaic. “Dalkey is the loveliest little seaside town on earth,” BBC

2 Book Launch: David McWilliams 4 Eden – a play, written & 6 Willy Vlautin: launches Prishela Row’s performed by Barbara Hammond an American Legend Global names; local vibe. Kindness of the Irish People 6.45pm, Heritage Centre €15 9.15pm, Secret Garden €15 4.30pm, Grapevine FREE In Eden, an Irish ex pat returns home from This is a one-off opportunity to see the “In this book, I love Prishela’s contention her rebellious life in Paris to face a choice writer who is taking the US by storm, Willy Curating the festival is a joy and it’s a thrill to see favourite writers that we Irish are the kindest people she that will haunt her for the rest of her life. Vlautin, up close. The Irish Times calls him knows. After living in Ireland for 22 years, This is the first time Barbara Hammond’s the “literary version of a Neil Young or a Tom milling about Dalkey and bumping into their fans. Dreamt up round Prishela has been with us long enough to remarkable new play from The Eva Trilogy Petty, bearing a ragged standard for empathy, make this judgement. The emphasis on the will be performed in Ireland since its debut compassion and decency, a throwback to a the kitchen table in 2010, we now welcome 15,000 people over these importance of kindness chimes well with to rave reviews at the Magic Theatre, Sam generation of novelists who still championed what I have believed for years,” Miriam Shepard’s artistic home, in San Francisco the underclass”. 4 midsummer days. And while Dalkey is at the heart of the festival, in O’Callaghan. last autumn. With Nadine O’Regan. keeping with our cosmopolitan outlook, we attract some of the finest minds from all over the world.

his year’s festival brings some of Deborah Levy, John Banville, Lionel Shriver, experts on Iran, Syria, China, Korea, Russia, Friday 15 the greatest authors, innovators, Willy Vlautin, Roddy Doyle, Paul Muldoon, and the Middle East to really examine and thinkers and agitators from across Anne Enright and Michael Ondaatje are make sense of the world around us. We the globe to Dalkey. just some of the literary stars. I am will of course be discussing — in depth — T Kashi Ed especially excited to bring you some Brexit, Trump, fake news, social media and We have creative people of all sorts — outstanding, perhaps less well-known #MeToo. Harvard professor and world- Heleen Welvaart Heleen photo novelists, poets, musicians, scientists, writers, who I have enjoyed discovering renowned psychologist Steven Pinker will

economists, historians, comedians, this year, including Caoilinn Hughes, Chris be arguing the case for science, humanism photo and activists — from the US, Korea, Power, and Tishani Doshi. and progress while Harry Barry will teach Canada, Singapore, India, Germany, Italy, us about emotional resilience in an age Afghanistan, Palestine, Australia and the UK. We are very much a festival of ideas and like of anxiety. Oh and did I mention history, to shed light — not heat — on the issues poetry, music, and comedy? Hopefully, there Combine the speakers, the visitors, the of the day. For example, we are flying in is something for everyone! 7 Unleashing the Power of the 9 When China Rules the World 11 The Retreat of the West: unique and beautiful venues on a summer direct from the US/North Korea Summit Short Story: a writing workshop 12.45pm, Town Hall €15 is democracy defeating itself? day by the sea and you have something in Singapore, Suki Kim, New York Times I sincerely hope you enjoy the festival and with Jan Carson (3 hours) very special. bestseller and the only person to have lived have a wonderful time at Dalkey. It is only a matter of time, but very soon 4pm, Secret Garden €15 undercover in North Korea (and survived) 10.30am–1.30pm, The Magpie €35 China will rule the world, if it wants to. What Democracy is on the rocks. Populism is on With four Booker, two Pulitzer and two because we believe in bringing the very best Sian Smyth This interactive workshop will offer practical will that world look like? Will America cede the march. Democracy is eating itself from American National Book Award winners, people on the most up to date topics back Festival Director advice on writing concise, punchy and top dog position peacefully? As the world’s within, throwing up all sorts of extremists I think we have the best literary line up yet. home to Dalkey. We are also bringing leading innovative short stories. The session will axis shifts ever eastwards, what does this and populists. It is also losing credibility include opportunities to focus on character, mean for us? and failing to provide stability. In France, dialogue, setting, pacing, plot development With Michael Vatikiotis, Victor Mallet Germany and Italy, populist parties are and editing with a special emphasis upon and David McWilliams. attracting millions of votes. Britain looks identifying and building upon the core of ungovernable and America is ruled by tweets. your story. Jan will lead participants through What is driving this? Where is it going to a series of bespoke writing exercises which end and how long can Ireland avoid these will help you to unleash the potential in your 10 Undercover in North Korea: alarming developments? Speakers Events Days Tow n short stories. Suitable for beginners and Suki Kim talks to Matt Cooper With Edward Luce, Bill Emmott, 125 72 4 1 those with some experience. (3 hours) Katherine Boo (above), Sunil Khilnani 2.30pm, Seafront Marquee €15 and David McWilliams. 8 Poison, Politics and Putin; Suki Kim (above), New York Times best – curator production venue managers special thanks to: Russia and the new Cold War seller, is the only person ever to have lived Sian Smyth manager Katie Ridge Our lead sponsor, Zurich, without whom, undercover in North Korea – and survived. 11.15am, Secret Garden €15 Emma Jane Dunne Sarah O’Doherty all this wouldn’t be possible; Rev. Bruce She worked intensely, deep within the 12 Two Minute Beach Clean design Milly McLaughlin Hayes; Brian Meyer; Sarah Morley; Russia is back and it means business. 30 years North Korean regime. Few people on earth with Flossie Donnelly and Niall Meehan, Verso volunteer + Jen Breen Margaret Dunne; Dan O’Brien; Selwyn after the fall of the Wall, the Kremlin is the understand North Korea like Suki. “It was a The Riptide Movement office manager Maya Derrington Davies; Marta Starosta; The Gutter only power in the Middle East, Putin is the world where they invented their own truth”. website + Sara Macken Bookshop; Dalkey Library; Michael world’s only serious leader, Russia’s gas keeps We are delighted to have her in Dalkey, 4.15pm, Bullock Harbour FREE social media cover image Kingston and DLR Parks. Europe warm in winter and Dublin handles especially at such a pivotal time for North Roll up your sleeves beach lovers! Help Aoife O’Brien box office Conor McCabe billions of euros of Russian money. What does Korea and the world. rid the beach of marine litter and plastic Margie Lynch Our partners and patrons (see back page) Russia really want, at what cost and what side pollution, two minutes at a time. producer + pr Finn McLaughlin directors and the wonderful team of gracious are we on? With flossieandthebeachcleaners.com and Clare Ridge Sian Smyth volunteers who make this all possible. With Jana Bakunina (above), Pinchas Landau, The Riptide Movement #cleancoasts David McWilliams Carlo Pizzati and Shona Murray.

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13 Page to Screen: 16 Has #MeToo gone too far 18 Steven Pinker: 21 Once Upon a Time: Twisted Fairy 24 Iran, America and Upheaval in 27 Republic of Rhetoric: Movie Makers Talk Books or not far enough? Enlightenment Now – Tales Writing Workshop the Muslim World The State of The Nation

5.30pm, Seafront Marquee €20 7pm, Seafront Marquee €15 why Global Pessimists are Wrong with Sarah Webb (age 8+) 11.15am, St Patrick’s Church €15 12pm, Seafront Marquee €15 Settle in! Never before has there been such Is this the most significant protest movement 9.30pm, St Patrick’s Church €25 10am, Library €10 What is going to happen now that the US As we recover from a divisive Referendum, a demand for top quality content and never in the history of humanity? Are women If you think the world is falling apart, Steven What if Cinderella’s best friend was a has in effect declared war on Iran? How marking possibly the end of a half-century before has the viewer been more discerning. finally speaking up? Or is there a danger the Pinker is here to tell you it isn’t. Amid the dragon? What if Little Red Riding Hood was will the Muslim world react, not just to this culture war in Ireland, where are the new This will be a treat for movie, television and pendulum has swung too far in the tricky, relentless negativity, his case for optimism secretly a witch? What if Sleeping Beauty but also to the moving of the American battlegrounds? Join some of the finest thinkers, book lovers. Join four giants of the stage, thorny and impossible to regulate area of is compelling. Take a walk on the bright was really Sleeping Handsome? Write your Embassy to Jerusalem? With hopes of an writers and analysts in the country as we talk screen and page, who have translated for the sex, power and gender? As each day brings side with one of the most provocative own version of a classic fairy tale in this Arab Spring destroyed, what comes next? about ourselves. We are about to commemorate big screen – and increasingly now your small fresh allegations against well-known (and and original thinkers of the 21st century. fun, interactive writing workshop. Suitable With central Europe turning virulently anti- the War of Independence, but what does screen. Two outstanding directors, Lenny sometimes well-loved) male celebrities, will Harvard professor, Steven Pinker, the for bold girls AND boys! Sarah Webb is an Islamic, can we live together or will there be Ireland stand for right now and where are we Abrahamson and Neil Jordan, with author there be a backlash? Does this social media renowned psychologist, has won numerous award-winning children’s writer. Her latest a clash of civilisations? Join former Tehran heading? Join this discussion as we examine of the international bestseller The Perfect protest work for real women in less glamorous prizes for his research, teaching, and nine book is A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea. correspondent of The Economist Christopher the State of the Nation, warts and all. Storm, Sebastian Junger, and our finest living jobs? And is it all really about power? books, including The Blank Slate, and is With Steve McCarthy. de Bellaigue, Afghan/Canadian filmmaker With Fintan O’Toole, Blindboy, Dearbhail playwright Conor McPherson talk books and With Lionel Shriver, Jennifer O’Connell, one of Foreign Policy’s “World’s Top 100 Inspired by CBI’s #Bold Girls campaign. Nelofer Pazira and the FT’s Mehreen Khan, McDonald, Theo Dorgan and Hugh Linehan. movies with Nadine O’Regan. Suki Kim and Dearbhail McDonald. Public Intellectuals” and Time’s “100 Most as they discuss the region, the role of Iran and Influential People in the World Today”. 22 New York Behind Closed Doors – who’s next for this cauldron now that America 14 How to Talk Funny - Polly Devlin has adopted Israeli foreign policy as its own. With Ruadhán MacCormaic. Public Speaking Cracked 11am, Town Hall €15 28 How to Write for Bold Girls with David Nihill (and Boys)! 17 Deborah Levy: The Art of Life Curious to peek inside some of New York’s 6pm, Secret Garden €15 most beautiful homes? Polly Devlin will show 12pm, Heritage Centre €10 8.15pm, Secret Garden €15 19 Shazia Mirza: In one year, from being deathly afraid With Love from St Tropez photographs from her new book New York: 25 How the rest of the world lives: Have you always wanted to write for of public speaking David began hosting Deborah Levy is a cultural phenomenon, an Places to Write Home About. She gained rare Katherine Boo children? Don’t know where to start? Three business conferences and winning storytelling outstanding writer and an uncompromising 10pm, Secret Garden €20 behind-the-scenes access to some of New renowned children’s authors talk about competitions in front of packed houses. He thinker. In the second part of her memoir, Shazia Mirza is back! This time breaking York’s most extraordinary interiors. This is 11.30am, Secret Garden €15 research, plotting and creating strong girl did it by learning from some of the best public The Cost of Living, Levy looks at the new ground in comedy with her show, With a chance to peer through the windows of Katherine Boo, one of the most acclaimed and boy characters that jump off the page. speakers in the world: stand – up comedians. He reason she writes. In this beautiful work, Love from Saint Tropez. Having (just about) New York’s most exclusive residences. Polly American investigative journalists and They will also discuss agents, publishing and also told a lot of funny stories along the way she explores marriage, motherhood, love, survived Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls, the Devlin tells about the intimate, minimalistic authors, documents the lives of forgotten submitting your work. which David will share along with some of death and friendship. Fiercely intelligent woman who gave us The Kardashians Made and lavish interiors of New York’s dreamiest people living in poverty. She has won the With Sarah Webb, Anna Carey and Sarah the techniques used by the world's best TED and generously humane, the twice-Booker Me Do It brings us her new stand up, the homes designed by people who refuse to live Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the Moore Fitzgerald. Inspired by CBI’s #BoldGirls speakers. Join us for an evening of laughter shortlisted writer will be in conversation riotous odyssey With Love from St Tropez. in a strictly functional world, who believe MacArthur “genius” award. There are books campaign. with bestselling author David Nihill. with Sinéad Gleeson. “Dry as they come, sharp socio-political sass “creativity and inventiveness are essential in that change the way you feel and see the on Brexit, burkinis & butt plugs”. our lives”. world. The Beautiful Forevers is one such 29 The Book Clinic 15 Plastic Oceans and The Big Gig! 17B Dermot Bannon: The Guardian bbbb With Jane McDonnell of The Gloss. book winning the National Book Award for (for young readers) The Riptide Movement & friends Room to Improve non-fiction. David McWilliams was beguiled by it as was The Times: “Astonishing… 12-4pm, Festival Hub FREE 6-8pm, St Patrick’s Church €20 8:30pm, Seafront Marquee €15 20 Transformer /Master: 23 Masterclass in Public Speaking Gavin Friday talks Bowie with David Nihill one’s first reaction is disbelief followed Are you a young reader? Looking for a new Nothing is more precious or fragile than Room to Improve is quite simply a national with Eoin Devereux by stunned silence. Boo is unsentimental, series to delve into? Feeling uninspired by our environment and right now our seas phenomenon. Combining Ireland’s most 11am-1pm, Masonic €30 unjudgmental, uncondescending, yet brimful your bookshelves at home? Do you need are under severe threat from plastic. conspicuous characteristics – an obsession 10-11.30pm, The Vico €15 You’re scheduled to give a business of compassion”. Join David as he sits down an exciting new read? Then pop along to Sophie Darlington (David Attenborough’s with property and an outrageous nosiness, In reflecting on the formation of his band presentation, pitch to investors, or deliver a with the extraordinary Katherine Boo. the Book Clinic at the Festival Hub! Young cinematographer), Cara Augustenborg Dermot Bannon is the conductor who brings The Virgin Prunes in 1979, Gavin Friday wedding toast. And you’re petrified. You’re readers of all ages are invited to drop in and (environmental scientist), Victor Mallet (FT it all together. Dermot Bannon is the nation’s has stated: “Blame it on Sister Nora, my simply not cut out for public speaking, never meet the Book Doctor – no appointment journalist and author of Ganges, River of Life, favourite architect. He has hosted the ‘Room career guidance officer at St. Kevin’s C.B.S./ mind being entertaining. Have no fear! David needed, and no nasty jabs or tablets, we River of Death) will be joined by Mal Tuohy, to Improve’ TV series since 2007 and has Blame it on Oscar Wilde and David Bowie…” Nihill has walked and talked in your shoes 26 Cartoon Workshop promise. Come away with a prescription for the lead singer of The Riptide Movement, helped transform the homes and lives of Join us for a lively conversation tracing and we have convinced him to come talk to with Mark Flood (age 8+) your next book, which you can take to your to highlight the desecration of the Irish hundreds of clients. Viewers are head-over- Friday’s lifelong interest in Bowie. Friday you using beer and mild manipulation. David local bookshop or library! coastline. Join us to learn how you can make heels about this show. Dermot joins us for and Devereux will discuss Bowie's interest went from being deathly afraid of standing in 11.30am, Library €10 With Children’s Books Ireland and the CBI a difference. Then kick back and enjoy the the first time at the Dalkey Book Festival to in Expressionism, German Cabaret, and front of an audience to performing stand-up Join one of Ireland’s finest animators, #BoldGirls campaign which aims to break gig as The Riptide Movement perform their share his expertise and advice on designing Modern Literature. Expect some stunning routines, winning story telling competitions in Mark Flood, and learn how to draw your down societal barriers and to instil confidence inimitable full live show. (2 hours) our homes to make them better places to live. visual imagery and some classic Bowie front of packed houses and becoming one of favourite cartoon characters – or invent in girls and young women by showing them With Orna Mulcahy. sounds played on vinyl. (90mins) the world’s leading experts on public speaking. your own! Mark Flood, together with David female characters in children’s books with David will share the techniques of the world ’s McWilliams, has created award-winning agency, power and opinions, addressing at best TED speakers in a humorous class. You animations commissioned by the Financial a young age some of the issues that stand in will learn how to craft a story your audience Times. Mark is also working with Disney at the way of women achieving their ambitions, will want to listen to, deal with stage fright, the moment and in this special event you can whether that be in leadership, government or and avoid ever going blank on stage. (2 hours) learn to draw from one of the greats! the arts. Thursday 14 Friday 15 Saturday 16 SEAFRONT SECRET HERITAGE GRAPEVINE SEAFRONT SECRET TOWN ST PATRICK’S MAGPIE/ SEAFRONT SECRET MARQUEE GARDEN CENTRE MARQUEE GARDEN HALL CHURCH THE VICO MARQUEE GARDEN 10:00 am 10:00 am 10:00 am 10:15 am 10:15 am 10:15 am 10:30 am 10:30 am 7 Unleashing the 10:30 am 10:45 am 10:45 am Power of the Short 10:45 am Story, a writing 11:00 am 11:00 am workshop with 11:00 am 11:15 am 11:15 am 8 Poison, Politics & Jan Carson 11:15 am 11:30 am 11:30 am Putin: Russia & The 10.30am-1.30pm 11:30 am 25 How the rest of the New Cold War Venue: The Magpie 11:45 am 11:45 am 11:45 am world lives: Katherine Boo with David McWilliams 12:00 pm 12:00 pm 12:00 pm 27 Republic of Rhetoric: 12:15 pm 12:15 pm 12:15 pm State of the Nation 12:30 pm 12:30 pm 12:30 pm 12:45 pm 12:45 pm 9 When China Rules 12:45 pm 1:00 pm 1:00 pm the World (Michael 1:00 pm Vatikiotis, Victor Mallet 1:15 pm 1:15 pm & David McWilliams) 1:15 pm 1:30 pm 1:30 pm 1:30 pm 1:45 pm 1:45 pm 1:45 pm 33 Trump’s America: 2:00 pm 2:00 pm 2:00 pm Sebastian Junger, Willy Vlautin, Katherine Boo, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm 2:15 pm Caitríona Perry 2:30 pm 2:30 pm 10 Undercover in 2:30 pm 2:45 pm 2:45 pm North Korea: Suki Kim 2:45 pm talks to Matt Cooper 3:00 pm 3:00 pm 3:00 pm 35 Why Philosophy Matters: Rebecca 3:15 pm 3:15 pm 3:15 pm Newberger Goldstein 3:30 pm 3:30 pm 3:30 pm (with Ian Robertson) 3:45 pm 3:45 pm 3:45 pm 4:00 pm 1 The Meaning of Life: 4:00 pm 11 The Retreat of the 4:00 pm 4:15 pm Michael Harding (with 4:15 pm West: is Democracy de- 12 Two Minute Beach 4:15 pm Ian Robertson) feating itself? Ed Luce, 4:30 pm 2 Book Launch: 4:30 pm Clean with Flossie 4:30 pm 41 Brexit: England’s 42 The Irish writer and Bill Emmott, Katherine Donnelly & The Riptide 4:45 pm David McWilliams 4:45 pm Boo, Sunil Khilnani 4:45 pm Nervous Breakdown the World: launches Prishela’s Movement Declan Kiberd 5:00 pm Row’s Kindness of the 5:00 pm Venue: Bullock Harbour 5:00 pm & Eithne Shortall 5:15 pm Irish People FREE 5:15 pm 5:15 pm 5:30 pm 5:30 pm 13 Page to Screen: 5:30 pm 5:45 pm 5:45 pm Movie Makers Talk 5:45 pm Books 6:00 pm 3 Robert Fisk 6:00 pm 14 How To Talk Funny: 15 Plastic Oceans 6:00 pm 45 The Psychology of in conversation with 6:15 pm 6:15 pm Public Speaking & The Big Gig - The 6:15 pm Anger Why is Everyone Pat Kenny Cracked Riptide Movement & so Angry? 6:30 pm 6:30 pm with David Nihill Friends (6pm-8pm) 6:30 pm 48 Lionel Shriver Prof. Ian Robertson 6:45 pm 4 Eden: a play, 6:45 pm Mal Tuohy, Cara 6:45 pm in the House (with Rick O’Shea) 7:00 pm written and performed 7:00 pm 16 Has #MeToo gone too Augustenborg, Sophie 7:00 pm by Barbara Hammond Darlington, Victor 7:15 pm 7:15 pm far or not far enough? 7:15 pm Lionel Shriver, Jennifer Mallet, Gerry Foley 7:30 pm 7:30 pm O’Connell, Suki Kim, and The Riptide 7:30 pm 7:45 pm 7:45 pm Dearbhail McDonald Movement 7:45 pm 8:00 pm 5 Four Megatrends 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:15 pm that will change the 8:15 pm 17 Deborah Levy: 8:15 pm 50 Paul Howard: world by 2025 8:30 pm 8:30 pm 17B Dermot Bannon: The Art of Life 8:30 pm Dancing with the Tsars (with Sinéad Gleeson) 8:45 pm 8:45 pm Room to Improve 8:45 pm (with Orna Mulcahy) 9:00 pm 9:00 pm 9:00 pm 9:15 pm 6 Willy Vlautin: 9:15 pm 9:15 pm 9:30 pm An American Legend 9:30 pm 18 Steven Pinker: 9:30 pm (with Nadine O’Regan) 9:45 pm 9:45 pm Enlightenment Now - 9:45 pm Why Global Pessimists 10:00 pm 10:00 pm 19 Shazia Mirza: are Wrong 20 Transformer/ 10:00 pm 53 Oliver Callan Live 10:15 pm 10:15 pm With Love from Master: Gavin Friday 10:15 pm St Tropez talks Bowie with 10:30 pm 10:30 pm Prof Eoin Devereux 10:30 pm 10:45 pm 10:45 pm Venue: The Vico 10:45 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 pm

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30 The Bookshop is Dead, 34 The Power of the 38 Social Media or Social Menace? 42 The Irish writer and the World: 46 Sex Trafficking in Ireland: 50 Paul Howard: Long Live the Bookshop Short Story: Chris Power Facebook, freedom and your future Declan Kiberd & Eithne Shortall Lisa Harding Dancing with the Tsars

12.30pm, Magpie FREE 2pm, Magpie €15 3.15pm, St Patrick’ s Church €15 4.30pm, Secret Garden €15 6pm, Heritage Centre €15 8.15pm, Seafront Marquee €20 Closure of a local bookshop has become Since 2007, Chris Power has been writing In 1984 Orwell created the terrifying Big Declan Kiberd is the finest literary critic and These girls are all over the country in every Paul Howard is best known as the creator a symbol of all that is wrong with society “A brief survey of the short story” in The Brother who spied on enemies; today our cultural commentator in Ireland. Listening to town. We think sex trafficking is something of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, a fictional rugby – but is this justified? Is the death of the Guardian. After a decade examining in dystopia is that we are spying on each other. him is always a joy and an education. Declan’s that goes on in Thailand and Vietnam, but it’s jock whose exploits have been the subject of bookshop wildly exaggerated, and do we forensic detail the strengths and weaknesses We are all spies and we are all working writing is fused with wit and wisdom. Insights here on our doorstep. Harding’s devastating seventeen novels, which have sold more than really need local bookshops anymore? Join of so many practitioners of the short form, for Facebook. Is Facebook the enemy? Is zip off the page. Eithne Shortall is Chief Arts novel, Harvesting, explores the world of one million copies in Ireland alone. He has been these bookshop owners (and ex-owners) what happens when you turn your hand to it secretive online profiling and selling data to writer at the Sunday Times whose debut novel trafficked women in Ireland. She talks to described by the Irish Times as “Ireland’s pre- to discuss the challenges faced by our high yourself? He has – justly – been compared influence elections just the tip of the iceberg? Love in Row 27 has just been optioned for TV. Jennifer O’Connell. eminent satirist” and by the Irish Independent street bookshops and their predictions for to Alice Munro and his stories have been Where is this headed? Join Ryan Tubridy, This is a jewel of an event for literature lovers. as “one of the world ’s funniest writers”. the future. garlanded with praise from Jon McGregor. Paddy Cosgrave, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, With Bob Johnston, Liz Meldon and His stories are profound, tender, precise and Jana Bakunina and Carlo Pizzati. 43 # MeToo – a vision from the 51 Out of the West, American Style Mary Burnham. artfully crafted. Eastern World: Tishani Doshi 47 Crudo: Olivia Laing in - Words & Music with Willy Vlautin With Jennifer O‘Connell. 39 George Bernard Shaw: 5pm, Town Hall €15 conversation 8.15-9.45pm, St Patrick’s Church €20 31 Stefanie Preissner: The Most Famous Irish Man Ever 6pm, Masonic €15 Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope 35 Why Philosophy Matters: This is a special #MeToo event you will never Join Willy Vlautin for a session on 3.15pm, Masonic €15 forget. Exploring Asian women’s experience in The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of being Saturday night. Willy will be playing songs 1.30pm, Town Hall €15 Rebecca Newberger Goldstein with Ian Robertson 100 years ago, Dalkey ’s greatest, George a spellbinding performance – half dance, half Alone was published to remarkable critical from Richmond Fontaine, The Delines Stefanie Preissner burst on the scene with Bernard Shaw, was perhaps the most famous reading – by one of India’s most acclaimed acclaim, cementing Laing’s reputation as one plus instrumentals featured on the new her acclaimed book and TV series Can’t 3pm, Secret Garden €15 man on the planet. He was a global brand and talented young poets, Tishani Doshi, of the most original writers of contemporary soundtrack from his new book Don’t Skip Cope, Won’t Cope which hilariously captures You rarely get the chance to listen to one of before global brands existed, a socialist Girls are Coming out of the Woods is a dance non-fiction. Her first move into fiction charts Out on Me. The songs will be interspersed the angst, hopes and dreams of Ireland’s America ’s leading public intellectuals. Author thinker, agitator, vegetarian, novelist, and poetry performance of extraordinary in real time what it was like to live and love throughout with banter between Willy and millennials. Her live show Solpadeine is my of 11 books, in 2015, President Barak Obama columnist, world intellect and fiercely proud beauty. Tishani, a renowned dancer as well as in the horrifying summer of 2017. From a Dave Fanning on Willy’s new book. There’ll Boyfriend marked her out as one of Ireland’s presented Rebecca Newberger Goldstein with Irishman. The only man ever to win both a celebrated poet, takes us through a breath- Brexit-paralysed UK, to Trump tweeting the be a Q&A discussing his books, music, leading new writing talents. The second the highly prestigious National Humanities Nobel Prize and an Oscar until Bob Dylan taking panorama of danger, memory, beauty world into nuclear war, the political, social and America, and the new movie of his novel series of Can’t Cope is on our screens right Award for her outstanding contribution to joined him in 2017. Fintan O’Toole, author and haunting discoveries exploring our oldest natural landscapes are in peril. Fascism is on Lean on Pete. Accompanied on pedal steel by now. She talks to Miriam O’Callaghan about American debate. In an increasingly distracted of Judging Shaw, talks to David McWilliams themes of love, grief, suffering and anger. the rise, truth is dead and the planet is hotting David Murphy. With Dave Fanning. life, work and everything in between. world, Rebecca will explain why philosophy about Torca Road’s finest, GBS! Introduced by the wonderful Theo Dorgan. up. Is it worth learning to love when the end of and your own personal philosophy matters the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let 52 Wildlife Up Close 32 South East Asia: the most more than ever. 40 Susannah With Strings Attached 44 Writing Dublin: alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it with Sophie Darlington all? With Sinéad Gleeson. dangerous place in the world? 4.15-5.30pm Northover Hall €15 Roddy Doyle and John Banville 8.30pm, The Vico €15 1.30pm, Masonic €15 36 Something to Write Home 5pm, St Patrick’s Church €20 About: A Tribute to Seamus Heaney The best of the American Songbook, along 48 Lionel Shriver in the House Sophie is a BAFTA and multi award- South East Asia is a tinderbox. Fought over by with contemporary, comedic and cabaret Roddy Doyle has moved readers for more than winning natural history filmmaker and China, India and a retreating US, it could well 3pm, Town Hall FREE gems. Featuring the Delmaine String Quartet, three decades. Although this will probably 6.30pm, Seafront Marquee €20 cinematographer who has been making be the Balkans of the 21 st century. Awarding Seamus Heaney lit up St Patrick ’s Church this is a fusion of jazz, classical and cabaret annoy him, Doyle is a national treasure. John Never afraid to take on a difficult subject, wildlife feature films and television for more winning journalist and author of Blood and in 2012. This was a special day for us at the that is a music lover’s ‘must see’ show! Banville, fellow Booker winner, has published or indeed take on conventional wisdom, than 25 years. Sophie has worked on feature Silk, Power and Conflict in Modern South East festival and for many it remains the most 18 novels and a series of crime novels as Lionel is that rarest of things, a truly brave films for BBC Earth and landmark TV series Asia, Michael Vatikiotis – who speaks five memorable event we have hosted. Seamus 41 Brexit: England’s Nervous Benjamin Black and a memoir of Dublin, Time thinker and writer. In an increasingly PC and for the BBC and National Geographic such Asian languages and has been reporting on didn’t need to do it, supporting us when we Breakdown Pieces: a Dublin Memoir. With Ryan Tubridy. sanitised world, the most laudable writers as The Hunt, Planet Earth II, and Life Story, the region for years – warns us to be vigilant. had just started, but he threw himself into it, dare to think differently. Winner of the Orange narrated by Sir David Attenborough. listening to fans and being incredibly warm 4.30pm, Seafront Marquee €15 Prize, Shriver is one of the most important With Simon Carmody. and generous with his time. No one knew Do we really understand the English? What female voices in the English language today. there was so little of it left. This session happened to the England we thought we We need to talk about Kevin was a massive 53 Oliver Callan Live 33 Trump’s America honours his memory, exploring his home knew? Are they losing it? Are the normally 45 The Psychology of Anger: bestseller, while her novel The Mandibles was ground, the boundaries, divisions and ‘the implacable, stiff-upper-lip English having astonishingly prophetic in this age of Trump. 10pm, Seafront Marquee €20 1.45pm, Seafront Marquee €20 Why is Everyone So Angry? possibility of true understanding’. a collective nervous breakdown? Let’s talk Prof Ian Robertson With Rick O’Shea. Best known for the hugely successful Callan’s What is happening in the America we With Glenn Patterson and Cathy Brown. about England. It’s not just their rugby team Kicks on RTÉ Radio One, the impressionist 6pm, Secret Garden €15 thought we knew? What do Americans really that looks out of sorts! Don’t forget that 49 The Gospel according to Blindboy skewers political and entertainment figures think? Three outstanding American thinkers, 37 Book Launch: Don Conroy when England sneezes, we tend to get a cold. Everywhere you look people are angry, with true bite, aiming to inform audiences as authors and journalists gather in Dalkey to With Robert Shrimsley, Dearbhail McDonald, States are angry, electorates are angry. Why 6.45pm, Town Hall €15 well as entertain. His new show is a mixture tell us their own personal experience of what 3pm, Library FREE Michael Vatikiotis, Mehreen Khan and now, why here, what’s driving this? Mark From the brilliant, contorted imagination of of comedy and commentary, peppered with it’s like to live in Trump’s America. Don Conroy launches Richie Conroy’s YA Victor Mallet. Twain said that anger is an acid that burns the Rubberbandits, comes an explosive gospel characters and stories. Ireland has changed With Sebastian Junger, Willy Vlautin, novel The Diary of Emily Porter - An Jailtacht! the person holding it. Ian tests the truth of of short stories that will blow your mind. This since Enda Kenny departed as Taoiseach and Katherine Boo and Caitríona Perry. (Leabhair COMHAR) Twain’s aphorism in an interactive session is the Ireland we refuse to acknowledge, dark, Callan’s Kicks is more focused now on our on the psychology and neuroscience of anger. degenerate, and hilariously so. Prepare to be social media “Teesh” Leo and his sidekick Be prepared to flex your anger muscles. dazzled. With Professor Declan Kiberd. Eoghan Murphs (ledgebag). Saturday 16 Sunday 17 TOWN HERITAGE ST PATRICK’S MASONIC LIBRARY OTHER SEAFRONT SECRET TOWN HERITAGE MASONIC OTHER HALL CENTRE CHURCH VENUES MARQUEE GARDEN HALL CENTRE VENUES 10:00 am 21 Once Upon a Time: 10:00 am 10:15 am Twisted Fairytales 10:15 am Writing Workshop 10:30 am (age 8+) with 10:30 am 10:45 am Sarah Webb 10:45 am 11:00 am 22 New York Behind 23 Masterclass in 11:00 am 54 Surviving in the Age 54B NAMALAND: 11:15 am Closed Doors: 24 Iran, America Public Speaking: 11:15 am of Anxiety: Frank Connolly Polly Devlin and Upheaval in the David Nihill Dr Harry Barry (with David McWilliams) 11:30 am with Jane McDonnell 26 Cartoon Workshop 11:30 am (with Fiona O’Doherty) 55 Why Tribes Matter Muslim world (Sebastian Junger 11:45 am with Mark Flood 11:45 am (age 8+ ) and Nick Laird 12:00 pm 28 How to Write for 29 12-4pm Book Clinic 12:00 pm 56 The Power and 57 Unreasonable with Barry Devlin) at Festival Hub FREE 12:15 pm Bold Girls (and Boys)! 12:15 pm the Story: Fake News, Women: the equality Venue: Finnegan’s With Sarah Webb, Journalism and the war goes on 12:30 pm Sarah Moore Fitzgerald 30 The Bookshop is 12:30 pm Loss of Trust 58 Poetry Now: 59 Why The First World 12:45 pm & Anna Carey Dead, Long Live the 12:45 pm Marie Heaney War Never Ended: Bookshop! Bob with Olivia O’Leary Robert Gerwarth 1:00 pm Johnston, Liz Meldon 1:00 pm (with Myles Dungan) 1:15 pm Venue: Magpie FREE 1:15 pm 1:30 pm 31 Stefanie Preissner: 32 South East Asia: 1:30 pm 1:45 pm Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope the most dangerous 1:45 pm (with Miriam place in the world? 2:00 pm O’Callaghan) (with Michael Vatikiotis 34 The Power of the 2:00 pm 60 Blitzed! Drugs in 61 Our first laureate: 62 Bright Young Things: 2:15 pm & Victor Mallet) Short Story: Chris Power 2:15 pm Nazi Germany: Anne Enright DBF Picks. Caoilinn & Jennifer O’Connell Norman Ohler (with Hilary Fannin) Hughes, Danny Denton, 2:30 pm Venue: Magpie 2:30 pm (with Patrick Freyne) Andrew Meehan 2:45 pm 2:45 pm & Rick O’Shea 3:00 pm 36 Something to Write 37 Don Conroy 3:00 pm 63 Magic in My Eyes: The Home About: A Tribute 3:15 pm 38 Social Media or 39 George Bernard launches Richie 3:15 pm 64 Kit de Waal: Love Poems of Thomas to Seamus Heaney Conroy’s YA novel ‘The Hardy, (Michael J Forde 3:30 pm Serial Menace? Shaw, The Most 3:30 pm Where are the working 65 That Sh*t Will Never (Cathy Brown & Facebook, freedom Famous Irish Man Ever? Diary of Emily Porter - class voices? & Delmaine String Qrt) 3:45 pm Glenn Patterson) FREE An Jailtacht!’ FREE 3:45 pm Sell: The Real Story Venue: Northover Hall and your future (Fintan O’Toole and (with Paula Shields) behind Bailey’s Irish 4:00 pm David McWilliams) 4:00 pm 66 Insurgents: Cream (David Gluckman 67 The Politics of 4:15 pm 40 Susannah With 4:15 pm Reporting from the talks to Patrick Freyne) Poetry (Olivia O’Leary in Frontline conversation with Nick 4:30 pm Strings Attached: 4:30 pm performing the great Laird, Nathalie Handal 4:45 pm American songbook 4:45 pm & Tishani Doshi) 5:00 pm 43 # MeToo – a vision 44 Writing Dublin: Venue: Northover Hall 5:00 pm 68 Brexit: What Does 5:15 pm from the Eastern Roddy Doyle & John 5:15 pm Germany Really Want? World: Tishani Doshi Banville with Robert Gerwarth, 5:30 pm (introduced by Ryan Tubridy 5:30 pm Norman Ohler, Pinchas 5:45 pm Theo Dorgan) 5:45 pm Landau, Jana Bakunina 6:00 pm 46 Sex Trafficking 47 Crudo: Olivia Laing 6:00 pm 69 Michael Ondaatje: 6:15 pm in Ireland : Lisa Harding in conversation with 6:15 pm Dissolving the Line (with Jennifer Sinéad Gleeson Between Poetry 6:30 pm O’Connell) 6:30 pm and Prose 6:45 pm 49 The Gospel 6:45 pm (with Tishani Doshi) 7:00 pm according to Blindboy 7:00 pm 70 The Grand Finale with Professor 7:15 pm 7:15 pm Lament for Art O’Leary Declan Kiberd with Paul Muldoon, The 7:30 pm 7:30 pm Horslips’ Barry Devlin, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm Jim Lockhart, Johnny 8:00 pm 8:00 pm Fean and Paul McAteer, Lisa Dwan and Ruth 8:15 pm 51 Out of the West, 8:15 pm Smith followed by 8:30 pm American Style: Words 52 Wild Life Up Close: 8:30 pm The Last Word with and Music with Willy 8:45 pm Sophie Darlington 8:45 pm Paul Muldoon Vlautin (Dave Fanning (with Simon Carmody) 9:00 pm & David Murphy) Venue: The Vico 9:00 pm 9:15 pm 9:15 pm 9:30 pm 9:30 pm 9:45 pm 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

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54 Surviving in the Age of Anxiety: 56 The Power and the Story: 59 Why the First World War Never 62 Bright Young Things: 65 That Sh*t Will Never Sell: The 68 Brexit: What does Germany Harry Barry Fake News, Journalism and the Ended: Robert Gerwarth Dalkey Book Festival Picks Real Story Behind Bailey’s Irish Cream really want? 11am, Secret Garden €15 Loss of Trust 12.30pm, Heritage Centre €15 the very best new writing 3.30pm, Heritage Centre €15 5pm, Town Hall €15 We are living in the middle of an anxiety 12pm, Seafront Marquee €15 The Great War began a cycle of violence that 2pm, Masonic €15 How does advertising get inside your head? Brexit has obscured the real issue in Europe, epidemic. Depression is the one of the most Join our brilliant panel of journalists to continued to play out until after the second How many people were actually at U2 ’s You think you know your own mind, but do which is what does Germany really want? significant mental health issues of our time, examine the state of journalism in the World War and in some parts of the world iconic gig in the Dandelion Market? There you? David Gluckman spent over 40 years in After the second World War, Germany did not self-harm appears endemic amongst school modern post-truth age. Who owns the – notably the Middle East and Ukraine – it is a thrill in seeing talent when it is first a dream job, creating drinks, mostly alcoholic have the permission to say publicly what it children and technology and social media news? Who can we believe? Is the “citizen continues to be worked through even today. emerging which is why we at Dalkey are ones. Everyone knows Bailey’s Irish Cream. wanted. But that is changing. Where Germany are insidiously and pervasively invading our journalist” the biggest threat to truth? What At a time when Vladimir Putin seems intent delighted to showcase some of the bright Hear about how it began, where the idea goes, Europe will go – and Ireland, shorn of lives, leading to toxic stress. How can you about the role of Facebook and Twitter in on regaining Tsarist Russia’s frontiers, young things of Irish literature. Emerging came from, and the rocky road it took to one of its major allies in Europe, the UK, will deal with this? In his latest book, bestselling social movements such as #Me Too, the Arab and the map of the Middle East drawn by Irish talent has rarely been stronger. Come becoming the world ’s best-selling liqueur. have to figure out Germany. Join our brilliant author and GP Harry Barry reveals how you Springs, the election of Trump? Is fake news the victorious powers becomes ever more listen to three of the best. You heard it here There are successes: Baileys, Sheridan’s, panel to tease out what Germany really wants. can unlock your inner emotional resilience new? Who owns the truth? blurred, we ask whether the First World first! Caoilinn Hughes, Danny Denton and Le Piat d’Or and Tanqueray Ten. Some With Robert Gerwarth, Norman Ohler, reserves, deal with the challenges of life, and With Mark Little, Robert Shrimsley, War has ended yet? Join Robert Gerwarth, Andrew Meehan will be talking to Rick interesting failures too. Jana Bakunina, Pinchas Landau and protect your mental health. Pinchas Landau, Jennifer O’Connell Professor of Modern History at UCD, in O’Shea. With Patrick Freyne. David McWilliams. With Fiona O’Doherty. and Caitríona Perry. conversation with Myles Dungan. 63 Magic in My Eyes: The Love 60 Blitzed! Drugs in Nazi Germany: Poems of Thomas Hardy, words 54B NAMALAND: Frank Connolly Norman Ohler (with Patrick Freyne) and music 66 Insurgents: Reporting from 69 Michael Ondaatje 11am, Heritage Centre €15 57 Unreasonable Women: 2pm, Seafront Marquee €15 3pm, Northover Hall €15 the Frontline 6pm, Seafront Marquee €15 The Equality War Goes On NAMALAND is the shocking story of how Was Hitler a “super-junkie”? In his This new collaboration with the Delmaine 4pm, Seafront Marquee €15 Internationally renowned bestselling author political recklessness conspired to disinherit 12pm, Masonic €15 bestselling book, Norman Ohler argues String Quartet and Michael James Ford They represent journalism at its most and a true global literary superstar, Michael the Irish people and empower a new global Next year marks the 100-year anniversary of that Hitler's vegetarianism and image as a explores one of the great romances in literary exciting, influential, and dangerous. Five Ondaatje is one of the world’s foremost writers. elite. Here, and for the first time, bestselling women getting the vote in Ireland. Much has teetotaller were part of propaganda to create history – Thomas Hardy’s courtship of remarkable journalists – who have reported He has influenced an entire generation of investigative journalist Frank Connolly been achieved in terms of gender equality, an impression of a saintly person concerned Emma Gifford. When Emma died in 1912, from the frontline in Syria, Myanmar, the writers and readers. Author of books of poetry, unravels the scandal at the heart of NAMA’s but women are still fighting on many of the only about his country. In fact, Hitler was a after many years of estrangement, Hardy was Philippines, Afghanistan, Latin America, and a memoir, and a non-fiction book on film mission. same issues and women are still a minority in drug fiend, addicted to methamphetamine, inspired to write some of the greatest love Northern Ireland – explore how “frontline” editing, his novels include The English Patient, Beneath NAMA’s veneer of impartiality lies government today. How important was and which became central to military life in poetry in the English language and to revisit reporting is changing, how the tech In the Skin of a Lion, Anil’s Ghost, Divisadero a world built on political patronage and is female activism in effecting change and, Germany. Addiction level rose to a point that the landscape of his first great passion. The revolution allows everyone to tell their story and The Cat’s Table. He has received the Man nepotism, rife with conflicts of interest and 100 years after suffrage, where are we now people were taking it as they take coffee or Delmaine Quartet have selected music that without intermediaries and what effect this is Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, the Governor vulnerable to shocking instances of corruption, with regards to equality? And what would tea. Ohler’s brilliant and controversial book reflects this complex emotional landscape, having on getting the real story. Five foreign General’s Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger where political influence and mismanagement Markiewicz make of it all? paints a vivid picture of Hitler in a distressed drawn primarily from the lyrical, multi- correspondents lift the lid on one of the most for his fiction. His new novel isWarlight . has handed the initiative to a small coterie of With Senator Lynn Ruane, Margaret Ward, condition during his last days in a bunker layered chamber works of Frank Bridge. glamorous and perilous jobs in journalism. With Tishani Doshi. international venture capitalists and created Nell Regan, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and as Allied bombing of Berlin destroyed the With Michael Vatikiotis, Carlo Pizzati, Nelofer a vibrant trade in state secrets. Martina Devlin. pharmaceutical firm where the drug was 64 Kit de Waal: Where are the Pazira, Sebastian Junger and Mark Little. 70 The Grand Finale with Paul being produced. Working-Class Voices? Muldoon, Lisa Dwan, The Horslips’ 58 Poetry Now: Marie Heaney 3.15pm, Town Hall €15 67 The Politics of Poetry Barry Devlin, Jim Lockhart, Johnny 55 Why Tribes Matter: Sebastian with Olivia O’Leary Fean, Paul McAteer and Ruth Smith Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and 4pm, Masonic €15 Junger & Nick Laird 12.30pm, Secret Garden €15 7-9pm, Secret Garden €25 61 Anne Enright: our first laureate Caribbean father, was brought up among Is poetry political? Why do you think Northern 11.30am, Finnegan’s €15 All Through the Night is Marie Heaney’s the Irish community of Birmingham in the Ireland has produced so many remarkable A new performance of the classic poem, In this globalised world, do you sometimes collection of moving and evocative night 2pm, Secret Garden €15 60s and 70s. Her debut novel My Name poets from Heaney to Muldoon, Longley to translated by Paul Muldoon and set to feel a bit lost, without a sense of place? You poems for all stages of life. Lullabies and other Anne Enright is Ireland’s first Fiction Is Leon was a critical and commercial hit. Laird? At a time of political conflict perhaps original music composed and performed by are not alone. In Tribe, Sebastian Junger poems relating to children and parenting Laureate, Man Booker Prize winner, author Her second novel, already longlisted for poets have a permission to say what others Horslips’ Barry Devlin and Jim Lockhart and explores why for many soldiers and civilians, form the opening section, while later poems of six novels, three short story collections, the Women’s prize for fiction, also draws can’t say. Poetry is about identity, where the wonderful Lisa Dwan reading the part of war feels better than peace, adversity can celebrate or give voice to our various night- and a book of essays. During her three-year on her Irish heritage. Kit de Waal is more you are from, the forces that make you and Eileen O’Leary, The Lament for Art O’Leary is turn out to be a blessing and disasters are time pleasures and preoccupations. The stint as laureate, she wrote three essays, than just a successful novelist with an the politics around you. Indeed the poet often a powerful new presentation of a great 18th- sometimes remembered more fondly than elegiac poems towards the end of the book each one about the female voice, heard and internationally bestselling and Costa First has licence to address issues that the novelist, century poem. Perhaps the greatest love poem weddings or holidays. Junger explores why turn to face the prospect of that last long unheard. To talk about this and being an Novel Award shortlisted novel under her journalist and cultural commentator tend in the Irish language, it was composed at the we are stronger when we come together. In sleep that awaits us all. Marie Heaney’s wide- Irish female writer today, join us in the Secret belt. She famously used the advance she to avoid. In this intriguing session, Ireland’s time of his wake by O’Leary’s widow, Eibhlín his latest novel, Modern Gods, Nick Laird, ranging selection includes WH Auden, William Garden for a very special event. received for her debut to set up a creative finest political thinker, Olivia O’Leary, Dubh Ní Chonaill, and tells the story of the explores how religious faith is inseparable Blake, Eavan Boland, Emily Dickinson, With Hilary Fannin. writing scholarship for aspiring writers from talks the poetic, personal and political with young hussar’s persecution and murder. from violence in a book about families, tribes Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, John Keats, disadvantaged backgrounds, for whom she’s Tishani Doshi, Nathalie Handal and Nick Laird, We are thrilled to give the last word of the and peoples. Derek Mahon, Paula Meehan, Paul Muldoon, also since become a powerful voice. three outstanding poets from deeply divided Dalkey Book Festival 2018 to Paul Muldoon, With Barry Devlin. Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, and WB Yeats. With Paula Shields. societies: Palestine, India and Northern Ireland. the greatest living poet in the English language. With Olivia O’Leary.

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