Dalkey Book Festival 2014 Programme

Dalkey Book Festival 19-22 June 2014

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Welcome

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

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elcome to the 5th year of the Dalkey Book Festival. We think this is the best yet and we hope you agree with us.

Thanks for all your support over the years in helping us put the festival on the map.

From the start, our aim has been to bring global names to our lovely local setting and this year, we’re delighted to bring you a varied programme of writers and thinkers from all over the world.

We have a new venue in the wonderful Festival Marquee in the Secret Garden on Sorrento Road. We’ve also extended the weekend beyond writing and literature to being a festival of ideas. Dalkey is the place to be if you want to hear global names like Salman Rushdie discuss the freedom of speech with Olivia O’Leary or Israel’s finest novelist Amos Oz on the global novel or what about the ten next big global trends that will affect your life?

We are honoured to have John Banville and Sebastian Barry for the first time at Dalkey and one of the hottest directors in European cinema at the moment, Lenny Abrahamson.

If politics is your thing, come listen to Robert Fisk. Or what about Miriam O’Callaghan talking to the BBC’s Kirsty Wark on her first novel, Newsnight, everyday sexism and the future of journalism? Or, smack in the middle of the World Cup, come to the hilarious Apres Match in the Festival Marquee.

These are just some of the highlights of this year’s festival.

And just one last thing: books, bookshops and the local community.

During our first ever winter festival in December, we invited our festival bookseller, the award-winning independent Gutter Bookshop, to set up a pop up Christmas shop at 20 Railway Road. The good news is that they stayed and we are thrilled to have played a small part in bringing a dedicated bookshop back to Dalkey.

They have something a little bit different from what you’ll find in the big chain bookshops. Visit them in the shop over the festival weekend! If you want a bookshop in the town, please do support them.

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Thursday 19th June 18.30

Liz Nugent: Unravelling Oliver

The Corner Note

€5

19.00

Dún Laoghaire: Slow Death or Rapid Recovery

The IrishTimes@Dalkey Thursday Debate

The Festival Marquee

€10

21.00

Robert Fisk: Echoes of 1914

The Festival Marquee

€15

Friday 20th June 14.30

Family story time: The Secrets of Grindlewood

with Jackie Burke (age 8-12)

Dalkey Library

Free

18.30

Ghostwriting: Sue Leonard & June Considine

The Magpie Inn

€5

19.00

The Beautiful Mind: Professor Ian Robertson

The Festival Marquee

€10

19.30

Peter Pearson: Of Sea and Stone; a painter’s view

The Heritage Centre

€8

20.00

Ten Global Trends that will change your life

The IrishTimes@Dalkey Friday Debate

The Town Hall

€15

20.30

Donal Ryan and Colm O’Regan Double Bill

The Festival Marquee

€12.50

The Gutter Bookshop

Free

11.00-16.00 St Patrick’s N.S. Annual Art Exhibition

AIB Bank, Dalkey

Free

11.00

Bernie Kenny and The Shed Poets

The Club

Free

12.00

Joseph O’Connor

The Festival Marquee

€12

12.30

Declan Hughes and Declan Burke

The Masonic Hall

€12

13.00

Alison Jameson in conversation with Donal Ryan

The Heritage Centre

€10

13.15

Kirsty Wark

St Patrick’s Church

€15

14.00

The Literature of War

Dalkey Town Hall

€12

14.30

Family story time with Gordon Snell and Carmel Kelly Dalkey Library

Free

15.00

Paul Lynch

The Masonic Hall

€10

16.30

Freedom of Speech (with Salman Rushdie,

Fintan O’Toole, Rory Sutherland and Olivia O’Leary)

The IrishTimes@Dalkey Saturday Debate

The Town Hall

€15

Saturday 21st June 11.00

Family story time

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Sean O’Connor

(introduced by Joseph O’Connor)

18.00

The Break Up of Britain –

The Masonic Hall

€10

Mark Blyth, Ian Robertson and Bert Wright

The Masonic Hall

€12

18.30

Rory Sutherland: Confessions of an Ad Man

The Festival Marquee

€15

18.30

Fiona Doyle in conversation with Dave Kenny

The Corner Note

€5

19.00

Kevin Barrington (introduced by Ivan Mulcahy)

The Magpie Inn

€10

19.30

Salman Rushdie: The Interview

St Patrick’s Church

€20

21.00

David O’Doherty

The Festival Marquee

€12.50

AIB Bank, Dalkey

Free

Sunday 22nd June 11.00-16.00 St Patrick’s N.S. Annual Art Exhibition 12.00

Family story time: Sally go round the Stars

with Sarah Webb

(Nursery rhymes and colouring for age 2-4)

The Gutter Bookshop

Free

12.00

John Banville

The Heritage Centre

€12.50

12.30

Lenny Abrahamson

The Festival Marquee

€10

13.00

Extra Virgin Tart with Susan Jane White

On the Grapevine

€10

13.30

The Global Novel

(Salman Rushdie, Amos Oz & Declan Kiberd)

The Heritage Centre

€15

15.00

Sebastian Barry

The Festival Marquee

€12.50

16.30

Amos Oz

The Heritage Centre

€12.50

17.00

Elske Rahill in conversation with Madeleine Keane

Idlewilde Café

€8

17.00

John Waters: What happened to the great father?

McDonaghs

€10

18.00

Kevin Myers: Remembering 1914

The Masonic Hall

€10

18.30

John O’Donnell

The Heritage Centre

€10

19.00

The economy 2014:

sustainable recovery or another housing bubble?

The IrishTimes@Dalkey Sunday Debate

The Town Hall

€15

21.00

Apres Match

The Festival Marquee

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Thursday 19th

Liz Nugent I thursday 19th june 2014, 18.30 H the corner note

Dún Laoghaire Slow Death or Rapid Recovery I thursday 19th june, 2014, 19.00 H the festival marquee

in the secret garden

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House prices in Dún Laoghaire are rocketing again, yet the town is boarded up. The Council spends millions on a library, but businesses are closing down.

Is Dún Laoghaire beyond hope? A place of broken windows, empty shops and fewer and fewer people shopping in what used to be a bustling, dynamic town. Can this decline be reversed? Who should do it? And how?

Chief of Staff of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Bruce Katz is the author of “The Metropolitan Revolution: how cities are fixing our broken politics and fractured economy”.

Currently visiting professor at the LSE, he comes to Dalkey Ireland to discuss urban regeneration with the locals.

Our chair, Ann Marie Hourihane of The Irish Times, will be joined by local actor Eamon Morrissey, local historian Peter Pearson and owner of Harry’s Café, Derek Bennett. in association with

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Liz Nugent’s debut novel is already a bestseller. She talks to Rachel O’Flanagan about Unravelling Oliver, an extraordinarily gripping story of psychological suspense which Frank McGuinness has described as “a magnificent debut, compulsively readable…[it] delivers all it dares to deliver – a stunning, shocking and superb novel.”

Robert Fisk: Echoes of 1914 I thursday 19th june, 2014, 21.00 H the festival marquee

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On the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War One, award-winning journalist, Robert Fisk, offers a personal insight into the Great War, its impact and the lessons we have and have not learned from a human catastrophe on a monumental scale.

With Colm O’Mongain.

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Friday 20th

Ghostwriting with Sue Leonard and June Considine

The Beautiful Mind: Professor Ian Robertson

Peter Pearson: Of Sea and Stone; a painter’s view

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Sue Leonard recently co-wrote the number one bestseller, An Act of Love with Marie Fleming, about Marie’s extraordinary life, and her fight for the right to die with dignity. She has worked on three other books as a ghost writer, and is a freelance journalist.

June Considine has published 16 novels for adults and children and writes as a freelance journalist. She worked on the recent bestseller Donal’s Mountain – How one son Inspired a Nation with Fionnbar Walsh, father of the late Donal Walsh.

They will talk about the challenges and rewards of ghostwriting.

All proceeds will go to the Dyslexia Association.

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Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology at Trinity College and author of The Winner Effect, will talk about “How Society trumps Biology”. Ian will be joined by Famelab finalist Ruari Robertson, who will consider “The Mystery of the Second Brain”.

Did you know that scientists have discovered that you have a second brain, one that also controls how you feel, think and do? Where could it be? In “Two Kinds of Food for the Brain”, Ruairi Robertson will unravel this mystery and explore how we might gain control over this second brain to improve our health, both physical and psychological.

This informal and interactive event will be introduced by Shane Bergin, Professor of Physics at Trinity.

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Peter Pearson grew up in Dún Laoghaire where his interest in the sea and architecture began. He is the author of the besteseller Between the Mountains and the Sea, which details the architectural heritage of the county, and The Heart of Dublin, published in 2000, which charts the origins and planning of Dublin’s streetscapes from early times to the present day.

Decorative Dublin is a beautifully illustrated account of the many decorative elements to be found on Dublin’s streets and in its buildings.

Peter will give an illustrated talk of his latest book, which is printed in full colour, and spans his paintings since 1970 growing up around Dún Laoghaire Harbour.

All proceeds will go to the Dyslexia Association.

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Friday 20th

Ten Global Trends that will change your life

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Facebook is only 10 years old. Twitter is younger. As you get older what global trends and inventions are going to change your life?

Your life – its certainties and routine – has been turned on its head. What are the latest top ten trends that will affect you in the next few years? Think about it. Facebook is only ten years old; 665 million people use it every day. Twitter is less than ten years old and the fastest growing demographic using twitter are people over 50 years old. 6 billion hours of video are watched on YouTube every month. This year more babies will be born in Nigeria than in the entire European continent. What does this mean for your future? Globally, the top 8 Dalkey Book Festival 2014

1% has never been richer. China is now a bigger economy than the US and Russia looks set to invade Ukraine. As the population grows, the threat of resource wars loom. What can we predict?

David McWilliams chairs this fascinating exploration with the brilliant Rory Sutherland (the ad man who gets inside people’s heads), the mercurial Mark Blythe (the historian and political thinker), polymath Aifric Campbell (trader turned novelist) and the city planner Bruce Katz (whose job it is to predict how and where we will live tomorrow).

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in the secret garden

€12.50

Comedian , Colm O’Regan, the author of the side-splitting Irish Mammies books, shares the stage with Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart ( winner of The Guardian First Book Award and currently shortlisted for the Impac ) and The Thing About December.

Both writers have a knack for picking up the day-to-day details that make up ordinary people’s lives and reveal so much about the Ireland we live in today.

Saturday 21st

Joseph O’Connor I saturday 21st june 2014, 12.00 H the festival marquee

in the secret garden

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Bestselling author Joseph O’Connor will discuss The Thrill of It All, his new novel (published on 15th May), with writer and friend, Martina Devlin.

Joseph O’Connor has been a leading Irish literary figure for two decades now, both as an award-winning writer and a mentor to other writers; we are delighted to have him back at Dalkey.

Declan Hughes and Declan Burke Emerald Noir

Alison Jameson in conversation with Donal Ryan

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There has never been so much interest in Irish crime writing and we are thrilled to have two of the best for you this year.

In an event called Emerald Noir, two of Ireland’s best crime writers, Declan Hughes and Declan Burke, take you through their favourite writers and discuss their own books in the context of current Irish crime fiction developments.

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“Starkly beautiful and haunting work, a precise and unsentimental tale of a ‘fallen’ woman in an island community”, is how Donal Ryan described Alison Jameson’s latest novel Little Beauty.

In this event we turn the tables and have Donal Ryan, Ireland’s most talked about writer (in what is a brilliant crop of Irish writing talent), talk to Alison about her novel. If you are looking for the next big thing, this is the one to head for.

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Saturday 21st

Kirsty Wark I saturday 21st june, 2014, 13.15 H st patrick’s church

The Literature of War Paul Lynch €15

Kirsty Wark, one of the UK’s most respected and well-known journalists and broadcasters has recently published her debut novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle, a multi-generational story of love and belonging set on the Scottish island of Arran. In a wide-ranging interview with Miriam O’Callaghan, she will talk about her novel, as well as her career in broadcasting, what it’s been like working on Newsnight, and other live topics from everyday sexism to Scottish independence.

I saturday 21st june, 2014, 14.00 H dalkey town hall

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This month 100 years ago, the First World War erupted on a largely peaceful Europe. Millions of people, who actually had no real quarrel with each other, ended up dying in the killing fields of Flanders, the Dardanelles and the Eastern front. Empires collapsed and the world’s maps were re-drawn, but what actually happened to the ordinary people themselves?

War writing tends to be very masculine, but what about a woman’s view? To answer this, we bring together Afghani writer, war correspondent and filmmaker Nelofer Pazira with two wonderful novelists Jennifer Johnston and Lia Mills both of whom have written haunting novels set in the First World War. With Anna Carey, author and journalist.

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I saturday 21st june, 2014, 15.00 H the masonic hall

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Come to the atmospheric Masonic Hall to hear Colm Toibin’s favourite new writer, the brilliantly talented Paul Lynch talk to Sinead Gleeson about his latest novel The Black Snow. Described by the Sunday Business Post as “one of the most exciting new talents in Irish literature”, catch Paul while you can on Saturday afternoon in Dalkey.

Saturday 21st Sean O’Connor I saturday 21 june, 2014, 16.30 H the masonic hall

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Father and son: Sean and Joseph O’Connor appear together in Dalkey’s wonderfully evocative Masonic Hall. Sean O’Connor’s bestselling memoir Growing Up So High tells the vivid and moving story of growing up in the Liberties of Dublin. Sean will be introduced by his son, Joseph O’Connor, and will then read from his memoir and take questions. This promises to be a very special event.

The Break Up of Britain I saturday 21st june, 2014, 18.00 H the masonic hall

Freedom of Speech I saturday 21st june, 2014, 16.30 H the town hall

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Who moulds public opinion and why are so many powerful people afraid of it? From Edward Snowden to our own whistleblowers, all over the world, dissent is suppressed and freedom of speech is still threatened in various subtle and blunt ways.

This is one not to be missed. Joining Fintan O’Toole, are Salman Rushdie – the Booker Prize winner who lived under a Fatwa for more than a decade – and Rory Sutherland, chairman of the world’s most influential advertising agency.

They will discuss freedom of speech in a fascinating session, chaired by Olivia O’ Leary.

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Will the Scots break up Britain? If so, what happens to Northern Ireland? A United Kingdom of Wales, Northern Ireland and England hardly makes sense.

And what about the English voting to leave the EU in 2017? Where does that leave relations between Ireland, the UK and Europe?

As we get closer to the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence, our panel of experts considers the break up of Britain and what it means for you.

Fellow Scots and Professors, Mark Blyth (International political economy at Brown) and Ian Robertson (Psychology at Trinity) tease out the issues. Chaired by Scottish blow-in, Bert Wright!

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Saturday 21st Fiona Doyle with Dave Kenny I saturday 21st june, 2014, 18.30 H the corner note

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In her memoir Too Many Tears, Fiona Doyle writes about the catastrophic effects of years of abuse she suffered as a child and teenager. This is an inspiring tale of survival against the odds.

Fiona Doyle will be in conversation with journalist Dave Kenny.

Rory Sutherland: Confessions of an Ad Man I saturday 21st june, 2014, 18.30 H the festival marquee

in the secret garden

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Two years ago, some of the festival team were lucky enough to listen to Rory Sutherland in London and were blown away. It’s not surprising, after all, one of his numerous TED talks has been watched over two million times.

He is simply the sharpest mind in global advertising right now; and advertising influences almost everything we do. If you want to know how the influencers influence, this is for you.

This is the brain behind the real Mad Men and we have a rare opportunity to hear the guru of global advertising here in Dalkey. Don’t miss him!

Kevin Barrington I saturday 21st june, 2014, 19.00 H the magpie inn

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He’s back after a sell-out show last year! Kevin Barrington, described by Lenny Abrahamson as “an original to the seat of his pants”, will read from his published collection, and new work. He will be performing pieces from I Love the Internet as well as his forthcoming book Genocide is my Man United.

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Saturday 21st

Salman Rushdie

David O’Doherty I saturday 21st june, 2014, 21.00 H the festival marquee

I saturday 21st june, 2014, 19.30 H st patrick’s church

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Rushdie is the author of eleven novels including The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 and, in 1993, was judged to be the “Booker of Bookers,” the best novel to have won that prize in its first twenty-five years).

On 14 February 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he

had been ‘sentenced to death’ by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Despite or maybe because of this, Salman has remained an unforgiving supporter of the freedom of expression. He remains a much sought after guest for literary festivals worldwide and we are honored to be able to give you the chance to hear him in person here, at Dalkey.

Salman Rushdie will be in conversation with Sean Rocks of RTÉ Radio’s Arena.

in the secret garden

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We are thrilled to have Perrier award winner, David O’Doherty, comedian, actor, writer and musician performing at Dalkey. Just back from a sell out tour of Australia, don’t miss him in the Festival Marquee in this hilarious new comedy show with talking and songs!

All proceeds will go to the Dyslexia Association.

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Sunday 22nd

John Banville

Lenny Abrahamson

I sunday 22nd june, 2014, 12.00 H the heritage centre

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Few writers could possibly imagine being described as “the heir to Proust, via Nabokov” and mentioned in the same breath as Joyce, Beckett and James but John Banville is such a talent. This Booker and Kafka prize winning novelist and screen writer will explore with you his most recent novel, Ancient Light, his film adaptation of The Sea as well as Quirke .You will also have the chance to ask about his latest work penned by Benjamin Black, The Black-Eyed Blonde, a Philip Marlowe novel.

Since his dazzling 1989 novel The Book of Evidence, Banville has remained among Ireland’s finest writers and we are delighted to welcome him to Dalkey.

In conversation with Sophie Gorman.

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in the secret garden

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Described by the Financial Times as “the best thing that ever happened to Irish cinema”, one of the hottest names in filmmaking right now comes to Dalkey.

Lenny Abrahamson, Director of Adam and Paul, Garage, What Richard Did, and Frank, talks to Nadine O’Regan about how he got into film, the films he has made and about writing adaptations of books for the screen, including the recently released Frank (written

by Jon Ronson and starring Michael Fassbender) as well as the forthcoming film of Emma O’Donoghue’s bestseller, Room. This is one for movie lovers.

Extra Virgin Tart with Susan Jane White I sunday 22nd june, 2014, 13.00 H on the grapevine

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Self-confessed health geek, Susan Jane White – whose bestseller, The Extra Virgin Kitchen, is packed with allergybeating recipes – whips up a tart while dispensing invaluable tips for making healthy recipes. Free slice of tart included! As she says herself, “free food is always alluring”.

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Sunday 22nd

The Global Novel

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The celebrated Colombian, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, writing in Spanish, introduced us to the wonders of his Latin America. When he received the Nobel Prize for Literature, he remarked that the judges “have taken into account the literature of the sub-continent and have awarded me as a way of awarding all of this literature”.

Two months after his death, we ask whether we are in danger of getting swamped by the juggernaut of English language writing. If so, are we missing the wonders of other cultures, other story telling, other experiences?

In Ireland, only 2% of books sold are translations. Sure, we have great writers, but so too do other countries and other languages. Are we missing out? Could Garcia Marquez make the same impact today?

We are delighted to bring to Dalkey two titans of global literature to discuss the future of the global novel. Amos Oz is Israel’s finest writer. Writing in Hebrew, his work has been translated into 41 languages including Arabic. This week, he will receive an honorary doctorate from Trinity. Salman Rushdie is well, Salman Rushdie.

in the secret garden

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In a recent article on “the top ten writers to see live”, The Guardian placed Sebastian Barry at the very top of that impressive list!

Sebastian Barry performs and then talks to Andrea Catherwood about his latest novel A Temporary Gentleman.

Beg, borrow or steal to get a ticket to this one!

Don’t miss this fascinating duo, talking to Professor Declan Kiberd.

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Sunday 22nd

Amos Oz with Gary Jermyn I sunday 22nd june, 2014, 16.30 H the heritage centre

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We are thrilled to have one of the giants of international literature for you here at Dalkey, Amos Oz, Israel’s most famous novelist. A prolific writer and intellectual whose books have been translated into 41 diferent languages talks to Gary Jermyn.

Known for his prominent support for a two-state solution to Israel and Palestine, Oz also has noted that the Arabs and the Jews share, in Europe, the same oppressor.

We are fortunate to welcome him to Ireland, where he will be receiving an honorary doctorate from Trinity College.

Elske Rahill in conversation with Madeleine Keane I sunday 22nd june, 2014, 17.00 H idlewilde cafe

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Elske Rahill’s debut novel, Between Dog And Wolf is described by The Independent as the most authentic depiction of Ireland’s post-boom, YouTube-raised young adults that we have had yet. Calling her “bravely original”, The Independent notes she has “singled herself out as an intriguing and definitive voice of a new generation of Irish writers”. Sue Leonard describes it as “an exceptional debut…the best to come out of Ireland in recent years”.

Her forthcoming novel, Fruit, deals with motherhood, death, and the blood-ties that drive love and hatred through generations.

Alongside Donal Ryan, Pat McCabe, John Boyne, Paul Murray and Belinda McKeon, she has responded to Joyce’s Dubliners with a new short story. ‘A Mother’ is part of a short story collection – Dubliners 100 – coming out this June to mark the Joyce Centenary.

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Sunday 22nd

John Waters: What happened to the great father?

Kevin Myers: Remembering 1914

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We are delighted to welcome John, a great supporter of Dalkey Book Festival, back this year. Based on the experience of his previous appearances at Dalkey, this is likely to be a sell-out event.

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Author, columnist and Dalkey resident, John Waters, will discuss the role and impact of the father and the crisis of fatherhood in modern culture.

John O’Donnell

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, Kevin Myers will discuss how 250,000 Irish troops fought and about 40,000 died, yet they were airbrushed out of history. While it may now be fashionable to talk about this airbrushing, this is recent and one journalist above anyone else – Kevin Myers – has constantly reminded us of the great wrong done to these men. To his eternal credit, Kevin Myers ploughed this furrow when it was neither popular nor profitable. Come to hear him in the wonderfully atmospheric Masonic Lodge.

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John O’Donnell has been published in Ireland, England, America, Australia and New Zealand. His work has also been broadcast on RTÉ and BBC. Awards include the Hennessy Award for Poetry, the Ireland Funds Prize and the Seacat National Poetry Prize.

He has published two previous collections Some Other Country (Bradshaw Books, 2002) and Icarus Sees His Father Fly (Dedalus Press, 2004); his latest collection On Water was published

by Dedalus Press in May 2014.

As a fiction writer his work has appeared in various publications, and in 2013 he was awarded the Hennessy Award for Fiction. A senior counsel, he lives and works in Dublin.

“O’Donnell makes striking and memorable connections ... an Irish poet who takes you places, he also explores close to home the steady and steadying presence of love as well as the bigger pictures of injustice, turmoil, ‘the unfathomable’ and what he calls ‘a deep darker than ink’.”

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Sunday 22nd

The economy 2014: sustainable recovery or another housing bubble?

Apres Match

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The hilarious trio of Barry Murphy, Risteard Cooper and Gary Cooke hit Dalkey on Sunday night. This is going to be a hoot.

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Is South Dublin in the grip of another housing bubble? Prices are up 20% in the last year and still rising rapidly.

What’s going on? Are you sitting on another goldmine or waiting for another monumental crash? What can buyers hope for? Should you cash in and sell now? And why are we letting this happen again? Have we learnt anything?

Come to the great housing debate and get the answers to the questions everyone is asking in the pub! Join David McWilliams and others for this state of the nation debate, introduced by the wonderful Eleanor Tiernan, fresh from the success of Irish Pictorial Weekly.

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It’s the World Cup – that must mean two things, England losing on penalties and Apres Match.

(Diehard football fans may wish to record the two matches that evening: South Korea v Algeria, which is on at 8pm and USA v Portugal which is on at 11pm.)

Free Events

Saturday 21st June at 11am and Sunday 22nd June at Noon

Saturday 21, 11am-4pm Sunday 22 June ,11am-4pm

FAMILY STORYTIME In The Gutter Bookshop

St Patrick’s Annual Art Exhibition AIB Bank, Dalkey

Everyone loves a good story! Even the youngest book fans can join in with this year’s Dalkey Book Festival at special storytimes in The Gutter Bookshop at 20 Railway Road with readings from a great selection of books for young children. We’ll have guest storytellers on the day and all children should be accompanied by an adult. On Sunday 22nd at noon, join writer Sarah Webb as she shares rhymes from her popular collection, Sally Go Round the Stars with young children and their parents.

Inetractive fun ,including some nursery rhyme colouring. (Age 2 to 5) FREE AND NO NEED TO BOOK, JUST COME ALONG!

An exhibition of mixed-media paintings on canvas by over 100 pupils from St. Patrick’s National School, Dalkey.

Inspired by the Book Festival, this year’s theme is ‘My Favourite Book’ and promises to be a vibrant and engaging exhibition for all ages.

This unique event has been generously facilitated by Brendan McNestry, Branch Manager, AIB Bank, Dalkey.

Saturday 21 June, 11am

Friday at 2.30pm and Saturday at 2.30pm

FAMILY STORYTIME In Dalkey Library Special storytime with Jackie Burke on Friday (age 8-12) and Gordon Snell & Carmel Kelly on Saturday (age 4-7).

FREE AND NO NEED TO BOOK! SEE YOU THERE!

Bernie Kenny and The Shed Poets Society The Club The Shed Poets Society is a group of six women who meet each week in a terraced garden that overlooks Killiney Bay, Co Dublin. The poets have published a number of poetry books both individually and as a group, including Rising Tide, High Tide, Tidings and Strands of Sea.

Dalkey Masonic Lodge is proud to be associated with the Dalkey Book Festival.

The Lodge Room

will be open for public viewing on Saturday and Sunday 21st & 22nd June from 11 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. excepting those ≠ours reserved for the Book Fe◊ival Events.

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Living History at Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre Live Theatre Performance daily!

Medieval & Tudor characters in season.

Great family fun day out!

Open 6 days per week (Closed Tuesday only) Adults: €8.50 Child: €6.50

OPENING TIMES Visit our website www.dalkeycastle.com

Concession: €7.50 Family: (2 adults and 2 children under 12) €25

Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin. Tel: 01 285 8366 www.dalkeycastle.com e: info@dalkeycastle.com

Group Bookings: Call us on 01 285 8366

Home Bakery and Coffee Shop 35 Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin ď ž(01) 285 2009 www.countrybake.ie

Greeting cards from original work by

30 Irish Artists Available at discerning booksellers including The Gutter Bookshop in Dalkey and branches of Dubray Books.

~ Be a little bit of a patron ~

artcardsireland.com marion@artcardsireland.com t +353 1 235 3118

The Great Crab & Lobster Feast â‚Ź24.95 Available Sunday to Friday from 4pm to close & Saturday from 4pm to 7pm www.ouzos.ie for menu details Open 7 days, lunch served from 12pm. 22 Castle Street, Dalkey. Tel: 01-2851890

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www.kayaking.ie Guided Kayak Tours at Dalkey 9.30am and 2pm Daily Individuals and Groups Welcome

Wonderful Scenery and Wildlife Online Booking Corporate Packages Available

Mark Redmond Piano Tuning & Repairs Serving Dublin for 3 generations Tel: 0866002485 or 2857925 http://www.redmondpianotuing.com

Sharavogue

Junior & Montessori School

A great school to be a child for the one childhood he or she will have

N OW E N ROLLING FOR S E P TEMBE R 2014 Junior School: - Junior Infants upwards • Small Classes – Mixed Age groups • Boys & Girls welcome • Individual attention guaranteed • Unique Transition Class (pre-Junior Infants) • Dedicated Resource Teacher • Weekly swimming & Multisports • Large Outdoor Play area • Excellent Results Academic Programme and Full Afterschool programme available

Montessori mornings Programme (ECCE approved) From 2.5 years-4 years Please contact us for a booking form

Upper Glenageary Road, Glenageary, Co. Dublin Tel. 01 285 8546 • info@sharavogue.ie • www.sharavogue.ie (Principal: Betty Allen)

“Your local motor Dealer” • Sales of New and Used Cars • UK Vehicle Sourcing Available • Cars Bought for Cash • Valeting and Servicing / Repair Available • Professional and Personal Service www.dalkeymotorcompany.com Call Shane Hickey on 087 8200222 or 01 2856001 Email shane@dalkeymotorcompany.com. Member of ilovedalkey.com

‘Treat yourself to one of our signature skincare therapies or choose from our wide range of beauty treatments.’

1st Floor, The Courtyard, 19 Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin.

Telephone: 01 2840090 www.celestebeauty.ie

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19TH - 22ND JUNE 2014 KBC IS DELIGHTED TO SUPPORT THE 2014 DALKEY BOOK FESTIVAL, NOW IN ITS 5TH YEAR. wE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE SUPERB LITERARY TALENT THE FESTIVAL BRINGS TO YOU.

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