Zurich Dalkey Book Festival 2015

11-14 June 2015

Zurich Dalkey Book Festival

patrons of the zurich dalkey book festival Alan Kerr and Family Paul and Nihele Longmore Anonymous (in memory of John Tyndall)

Welcome “The best little festival in the world” Salman Rushdie

director Sian Smyth design Niall Meehan, Verso website Aoife O’Brien producer Clare Ridge pr and marketing Clare Ridge and David McWilliams box office Margie Lynch administration Deirdre Williamson social media Aoife O’Brien and Jack Devlin v olunteer manager Deirdre Williamson yeats day curator Jack Devlin stylist Patricia Masetti-Nolan v enue managers Judy Forde and Maya Derrington author liaison Katie Ridge and Christine McNally assistants Finn McLaughlin, Emma Jane Dunne, Deirdre Robertson, Brian Barry, Fiona O’Doherty

special thanks to: Our lead sponsor, Zurich, without whom, all this wouldn’t be possible; Sara Macken; Sarah O’Doherty; Sarah Morley; Margaret Dunne and Dan O’Brien; Marta Starosta; Dalkey Library; Tom Byrne, Richard Shakespeare and the team at dlr CoCo. Our sponsors and our Patrons (see opposite).

The wonderful team of gracious volunteers who make this all possible.

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elcome to the sixth book festival in Dalkey – the festival that combines brilliant global names with a wonderful local vibe. Because of the success of last year’s Festival Marquee in the Secret Garden, we’ve added a beautiful Seafront Marquee in the breathtaking Dillon’s Park opposite Dalkey Island.

As you know, we’ve always believed that the mind that loves great literature also loves great music, film, economics and science. It’s also a mind that is fascinated by trends in technology, politics and innovation.

So this year our guests include writers, poets, directors, psychiatrists, scientists, economists, comedians, all sorts.

Come listen to TED superstars: writer and rock chick Amanda Palmer and the unbelievably talented economist, Dan Ariely, whose combined TED talks have been seen by over 10 million people.

We have America’s finest, the inimitable PJ O’Rourke, talking politics, society and looking forward to the Presidential election. Gabriel Byrne will be here reflecting on Yeats, acting and whether TV is trouncing Hollywood.

If science and the brain is your thing, what about Professor Ian Robertson on the mind of megalomaniacs or the man who holds the Guinness Book of Records record for memory, Eran Katz on how you can improve your own brain?

One author not to miss is the best-selling female writer in the Muslim world, Turkey’s Elif Shafak and while you are here, you’d be mad not to catch the hottest property in North American writing, Patrick De Witt.

June 13th is the 150th anniversary of WB Yeats’ birthday and we’ll celebrate the bard at our special Yeats150@Dalkey series with poets, actors and critics including Fintan O’Toole, Diarmaid Ferriter and award-winning writer Paul Murray .

And if Irish history and politics do it for you, why not join Olivia O’Leary who asks, who really owns 1916?

We are delighted to welcome you to Dalkey this year and hope you enjoy the festival. We think it’s our best yet!

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Thursday 11th June 19.00 debates@dalkey2015 Can the Centre Hold?

The Secret Garden Marquee

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19.00 An Evening with Michael Murphy and Friends

The Town Hall

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20.30 Patrick deWitt in conversation with Sinead Gleeson

The Heritage Centre

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20.30 Dan Ariely: The Honest Truth about Dishonesty

The Seafront Marquee

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18.00 Paul Murray talks Books and Yeats

The Heritage Centre

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19.00 Bewley’s Café Theatre: Love and War

The Secret Garden Marquee

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19.30 Belinda McKeon and Sara Baume

The Heritage Centre

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Friday 12th June 20.00 Directors Talk Books: Lenny Abrahamson, Neil Jordan & Jim Sheridan The Seafront Marquee

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20.00 debates@dalkey2015 New World 2020 – Ready or not?

The Town Hall

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10.00 Family Storytime (age 4-7)

Dalkey Library

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10.30 debates@dalkey2015 The Next Billion

The Secret Garden Marquee

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11.00

Sarah Webb: Collage and Writing Workshop (age 7+)

Dalkey Library

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Family Storytime (age 2-5)

The Gutter Bookshop

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12.00 P J O’Rourke

St Patrick’s Church

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12.00 150 Years On, Why Does Yeats Still Resonate?

The Town Hall

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12.00 Shane Hegarty: Darkmouth (age 9-12)

The Heritage Centre

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12.30 Simon Kuper on the Beautiful Game

The Secret Garden Marquee

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12.30 Create a Picturebook Workshop (age 7-12)

Dalkey Library

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14.00 Fintan O’Toole talks Yeats (with Nick Dunning & Lise-Ann McLaughlin) The Town Hall

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14.00 Economists: What are they good for?

The Seafront Marquee

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14.00 Oisin McGann: Illustration Workshop (age 9+)

Dalkey Library

14.00 Lisa McInerney in conversation with Sinead Gleeson

The Masonic Lodge

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14.30 In Search of the Real Ireland: Donal Ryan and Mary Costello

The Town Hall

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14.30 Paul McGuinness: The Business of Music

St Patrick’s Church

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15.30 Mark Flood: Cartoons and Comics (age 8+)

Dalkey Library

Saturday 13th June

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Saturday 13th June continued 15.30 Pamela Druckerman in conversation with Colm O’Regan

The Masonic Lodge

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16.00 Diarmaid Ferriter & Yeats (with Readings from Eamon Morrissey)

The Town Hall

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16.00 Amanda Palmer: The Art of Asking

The Seafront Marquee

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Ruairi Robertson: Of Microbes and Men

The Masonic Lodge

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debates@dalkey2015 Who owns 2016?

The Secret Garden Marquee

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18.00 Viv Albertine: Clothes, Music, Boys

The Heritage Centre

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19.00 Gabriel Byrne on his Life, Career and Yeats

The Town Hall

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20.00 Paul Howard: Playing at Home with Ross

The Secret Garden Marquee

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23.00 Midnight Poe

St Begnet’s Graveyard

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Finnegan’s

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Sunday 14th June 11.30

Pub Talk with Patrick deWitt

12.00 Family Storytime (age 2-5)

The Gutter Bookshop

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12.00 Diarmuid Gavin & Vandra Costello: Dalkey in Bloom

The Secret Garden Marquee

12.00 David O’Doherty & Chris Judge: Danger is Everywhere (age 5-12)

The Town Hall

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12.30 Yoga Storytelling with Nicola Foxe (age 3-9)

Writers’ Gallery, Heritage Centre

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12.30 Made in China with Liam Casey

The Seafront Marquee

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14.00 Elif Shafak: The Politics of Fiction

The Seafront Marquee

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14.00 From the Big Bang to Black Holes: Time, the Universe and Everything The Secret Garden Marquee

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14.00 Cowboys and Indies: Gareth Murphy with Rosin Dwyer

The Town Hall

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14.00 Roisin Ingle & Natasha Fennell: Daughterhood

The Heritage Centre

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15.30 Kevin Barry

The Secret Garden Marquee

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15.30 Yoga storytelling with Nicola Foxe (age 3-9)

Writers’ Gallery, Heritage Centre

16.30 Eran Katz: Secrets of a Super Memory

The Seafront Marquee

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17.00

Martina Devlin in conversation with Lia Mills

The Heritage Centre

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17.30

Ian Robertson: Politics on the Brain

The Secret Garden Marquee

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The Seafront Marquee

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19.00 Dan Ariely: The Art of Self Control

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FamilyEvents

Family Storytime (age 4-7)

I saturday 13th june 2015 at 10am H dalkey library

free

Sarah Webb Collage and Writing Workshop (age 7+)

I saturday 13th june at 11am H dalkey library

Join Gordon Snell, Carmel Ui Cheallaigh and Auntie Andie for story time in the Library. No need to book!

Just come along!

Please note that all children must be accompanied by an adult.

Family Storytime (age 2-5)

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I sunday 13th june, 12pm H the gutter bookshop

free

Everyone loves a good story! Even the youngest book fans can join in with this year’s Dalkey Book Festival at special story times 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 and adult. Free! And no need to book!

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Shane Hegarty Darkmouth (age 9-12)

I saturday 13th june, 12pm H the heritage centre

€8

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Create Your Own Fantasy Island!

This workshop is perfect for creative youngsters who love making up stories and who also like drawing and collage. Sarah will share her research and writing secrets and help children create their own island paradise.

During the workshop the children will learn about how a story is created, from initial idea to final book. Sarah’s new series for children (age 8+), The Songbird Cafe Girls, is set on a fictional West Cork island, inspired by Cape Clear and Sherkin Islands.

Darkmouth, by Shane Hegarty, is a publishing sensation, reaping recordbreaking book deals across the world.

Set in a town where the border between our world and the world of monsters (properly called Legends) is thin, lives our hero Finn – the son of the last remaining Legend Hunter.

This means that one day soon Finn will be the last remaining Legend Hunter. Except… he’s not very good at it. And in a spectacularly unfortunate coincidence, the leader of the Legends is in the midst of planning an all-out invasion… beginning in Darkmouth.

This is a monstrously funny debut from the new star of middle-grade adventure.

FamilyEvents Create a Picturebook workshop (age 7-12)

I saturday 13th june, 12.30pm H dalkey library

Mark Flood Cartoons and Comics (age 8+) €10

I saturday 13th june, 3.30pm H dalkey library

Carmel Ui Cheallaigh (writer) & Jimmy Burns (illustrator) host the “Creating a Picturebook” workshop, suitable for aspiring and emerging picturebook writers and illustrators.

The workshop will cover a wide range of topics, including starting to write, layout, what makes a good story, and drawing great pictures to support your story.

Oisin McGann Illustration Workshop (age 9+)

I saturday 13th june, 2pm H dalkey library

€10

Writer and illustrator Oisin McGann is author of the critically acclaimed Small-Minded Giants, the Mad Grandad series and Rat Runners. In this interactive illustration workshop, Oisin will talk about how you think up characters and plot, while helping you draw all these amazing creatures swirling around your head.

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Have you ever wanted to draw your favourite character or creature from your favourite book? Well, now is your chance to join a brilliant cartoonist who will help you bring your ideas to life. Mark will guide you as you draw these creations, and of course, you can then bring the work home!

Drawing cartoons is a rare talent that demands skill, precision, humour and an uncanny ability to tell a story. One of the finest animators in Ireland, Mark’s punk economics cartoons, made with David McWilliams, have been seen by over 1million You Tube viewers.

A former Disney cartoonist and animator, Mark’s work has featured widely in many well-known Irish animations, so you’ve probably seen his work before without knowing it!

David O’Doherty & Chris Judge Danger is Everywhere (age 5- 12)

I sunday 14th june, 12pm

H the town hall, castle street

€8

Do you enjoy enjoyment? Do you find danger dangerous? You, your 5 to 12 year olds, and anybody else for that matter, are invited to this mammoth event in the history of books with David O’Doherty (words) and Chris Judge (pictures).

Yoga Storytelling with Nicola Foxe (age 3-9)

I sunday 14th june, 12.30pm

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I sunday 14th june, 3.30pm H writers’ gallery,

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the heritage centre

Yoga Storytelling is a lot of fun.

Children become the tale’s characters following the story through energizing yoga poses, before getting cosy for relaxation.

There will be storytelling, with breathwork interwoven, and a relaxation at the end. Look forward to hearing some popular books such as We’re going on a Bear Hunt and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Children must be accompanied by an adult. (Don’t worry, the adult need not participate!)

The session lasts about one hour and is for a maximum of 15 children.

Danger is Everywhere is a handbook for avoiding danger with lots of BSTs (Basic Safety Tips) to minimize the risk of SAHTY (Something Awful Happening To You).

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Thursday 11th debates@dalkey2015

An Evening with Michael Murphy and Friends I thursday 11th june 2015, 7pm

H the secret garden marquee

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Money, Mullahs, Migrants and Madmen – what’s Europe’s future?

In this massive election year all over Europe, is the EU about to lurch to the extremes? From Le Pen in France, Syriza in Greece and Sinn Fein here, anti-EU parties on the extreme left and the extreme right are making huge ground. In Britain, with Cameron back in number 10, a referendum on leaving the EU is likely.

The economy is weak, the EU’s borders are threatened by Russia in the East, Islamic fundamentalists want to attack in the West and millions of migrants are on the move from Africa.

To quote WB Yeats, “can the centre hold”?

If the global big picture is your thing, this is not to be missed.

Join Professor Mark Blyth of Brown University, David McWilliams and the redoubtable Olivia O’Leary.

Stage furnished by BoConcept.

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I thursday 11th june 2015, 7pm H the town hall

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Join Michael Murphy, with his friends Emer O’Kelly, Eamonn Lawlor, Ciana Campbell and Deirdre Purcell for an intimate evening of reflections on love, sex, friendship and family.

According to the Irish Examiner, “there are tears and lots of laughter and people are truly moved by the evening; a very unique cross between a book reading and a theatrical experience.”

The show runs for 2 hours with a short interval.

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Thursday 11th

Patrick deWitt in conversation with Sinead Gleeson I thursday 11th june 2105, 8.30pm H the heritage centre

€10

Patrick deWitt is the hottest ticket in North American literature right now. He is the author of two novels, Ablutions (2009) and The Sisters Brothers (2011), which was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

We are delighted to bring him to Ireland to talk about his third novel, Undermajordomo Minor, which will be published later this year.

Dan Ariely The Honest Truth about Dishonesty I thursday 11th june 2015, 8.30pm

TED talks have been seen by over 10 million people.

Dan Ariely explains why we all lie, especially to ourselves. If you want to know how the world works and your role in it, don’t miss this one.

Look what the brilliant James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, had to say about Dan’s book Predictably Irrational: “Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act. Predictably Irrational will reshape the way you see the world, and yourself, for good.”

H the seafront marquee

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Award-winning, NY Times bestselling author and man widely tipped to be the next Nobel prize winner for economics, Dan Ariely is the world’s preeminent behavioral economist whose understanding of what makes us tick is truly mesmerising. His

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Friday 12th

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Paul Murray talks Books and Yeats I friday 12th june 2015, 6pm H the heritage centre

Bewley’s Café Theatre Belinda McKeon and Love and War Sara Baume €10

Paul Murray, author of the brilliant Skippy Dies, will talk about his forthcoming novel. And, given it is the eve of the 150th anniversary of his birth, Paul will talk to Sophie Gorman about WB Yeats who featured in his first book, An Evening of Long Goodbyes.

I friday 12th june, 7pm

H the secret garden marquee

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Bewley’s Cafe Theatre and the Delmaine String Quartet have collaborated on a special programme of words and music reflecting the human experience of the Western Front.

Threaded through this extraordinary love story are some of the great works from the famous generation of World War One soldier poets and composers, as well as music by Bach, Ravel, Dvorak & Schubert. “... a small gem of melancholy beauty… the three combine with heartwrenching tenderness but there’s a particular poignancy in De Wrixon’s pure voice: she sings with an almost unbearable sense of loss.”

The performance runs from 7pm to 8.40pm, with a short interval.

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I friday 12th june, 7.30pm H the heritage centre

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Belinda McKeon is the author of Solace (2011), Faber Prize winner and Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year, and Tender, which will be published

by Picador this June. Her essays and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, and the Guardian. We are thrilled to have her over from New York to talk to the Dalkey audience.

Sara Baume’s debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, has been hailed by critics as the biggest new thing in Irish literature. In 2014, this highly talented young writer won the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award, previously held by the likes of Anne Enright and Claire Keegan, for her short story Solesearcher 1.

Friday 12th debates@dalkey2015

I friday 12th june, 8pm H the town hall

Directors Talk Books I friday 12th june, 8pm

H the seafront marquee

€15

This is a real gem, not to be missed.

Rarely do you get the chance to hear the best of Ireland’s film and theatrical talent talk books, story telling and how they adapt the best writers for both the screen and the stage. Now is your chance. Join Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan, and Lenny Abrahamson for this very special night of great movies, brilliant theatre, outstanding writing, marvelous storytelling and of course, entertaining conversation.

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Hard to believe, but in 2010 the first iPad was unveiled. The iPhone was still a novelty. The Arab Spring had not yet swept through the Middle East and Vladimir Putin was still everyone’s new best friend. Even here, the Troika hadn’t been heard of!

Yet all that has changed dramatically in a few short years. And that change is accelerating.

From technology to finance, health care to genetics, education to immigration; your life, and our country, are about to be hit by a tsunami of change. Are you ready? Have you even stopped to think about it? When we are all busy, sometimes we don’t have time to take in just what is going on in the world around us. Make time tonight, you can’t afford to miss it.

With Professor Mark Blyth, author and FT award winning columnist Simon Kuper, geneticist Professor Aoife McLysaght and Dearbhail McDonald of the Irish Independent. Chaired by Sean Moncrieff.

Stage furnished by BoConcept.

Chaired by Miriam O’Callaghan.

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Saturday 13th

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150 Years On, Why Does Yeats Still Resonate?

I saturday 13th june 2015, 12pm H the town hall

I saturday 13th june 2015, 10.30am H the secret garden marquee

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Over the past decade, the number of Internet users has grown to nearly 3 billion people, which is difficult to comprehend. But in the next two years, by 2017, a billion more will come online. The vast majority of the next billion users will connect from mobile devices in the world’s poorest countries.

This explosion of the global Internet population will have a profound impact on politics, economics, infrastructure, education, finance, commerce and healthcare. It will change your life, your children’s lives and the way we see the world.

To get a handle on the future join Simon Kuper, Naoise McNally, Niall Harbison and, in the chair, Aifric Campbell.

The Westbury Hotel is a proud supporter of the Zurich Dalkey Book Festival.

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In 2015, why do Yeats’ words still resonate so effortlessly? Why does this complex, tortured, flamboyantly gifted poet of the 20th century endure? What made him so significant? Why does reading his poetry still bring a mesmeric hush to even the most raucous room?

Join the Poet Laureate of Dalkey, Gary Jermyn; Abbey Theatre Director, Fiach Mac Conghail; Artistic Director of the Ark, Aideen Howard; illustrator of the Yeats in Love collection, Annie West, and writer and Horslips frontman Barry Devlin as we explore Yeats, the man, the work and the legacy.

Saturday 13th

Simon Kuper on the Beautiful Game I saturday 13th june, 12:30pm

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“My first question, then, was how soccer affects the life of a country. My second was how the life of a country affects its soccer.”

PJ O’Rourke I saturday 13th june, 12pm H saint patrick’s church

€20

America’s best-known satirist, author of 20 best-selling books, PJ O’Rourke is a constant thorn in the side of both right-on liberals and pumpedup Conservatives. Ahead of the US Presidential election, we are delighted to welcome him to Dalkey. As well as being incredibly incisive, this event will be a hoot.

According to 60 Minutes, PJ O’Rourke is “the most quoted living man in The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations”.

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A force of nature, he has been at the forefront of American culture, criticism and letters for four decades. No one escapes O’Rourke’s satirical gaze.

Legend is a word bandied around a bit, but in this case we can truly say that PJ O’Rourke is an American legend.

PJ will bring his extraordinary wit and talent to Dalkey – don’t miss it!

Aer Lingus is a proud supporter of the Zurich Dalkey Book Festival.

This is how Simon Kuper – the thinking woman’s sports writer – opened his groundbreaking, awardwining classic book Football Against the Enemy.

As the entire nation is transfixed on tonight’s game against Scotland, one of the world’s best football writers, author of Soccernomics is here in Dalkey to discuss about the only thing the rest of us are actually talking about, the beautiful game, and Ireland’s place in it.

Simon Kuper talks to Joe Molloy, presenter of Newstalk’s Off The Ball.

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Saturday 13th

150 Economists: what are they good for?

I saturday 13th june, 2pm H the seafront marquee

Fintan O’Toole talks Yeats I saturday 13th june 2015, 2pm H the town hall

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How I Learned to Love What I Do Not Like.

Award-winning author and Irish Times journalist Fintan O’Toole candidly describes how his appreciation of Yeats’ work has grown over the years. From his earliest encounters with Yeats in the Leaving Cert, 12 Zurich Dalkey Book Festival 2015

right through his adult life, Fintan chonicles his changing relationship with Ireland’s preeminant poet. If Fintan O’ Toole didn’t get him at first, there’s hope for all of us!

Celebrated stage and screen actors, Nick Dunning and Lise-Ann McLaughlin, will join Fintan on the Dalkey stage to bring some of Yeats’ most memorable poems to life.

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They missed the boom. They missed the bust. They told us there would be a “soft landing” and the banks were “well capitalized”; and even this time around, most have missed the recovery.

Can they tell us something about why we do things, how the world works and what the future holds?

With thousands of students studying economics and banks and university departments stuffed full of them, we ask whether these little Emperors have any clothes on at all?

Economists: who needs them?

Join two award-winning, selfdoubting, world-famous economists Dan Ariely and Mark Blyth.

Don’t miss this one. Your prosperity might depend on it!

Saturday 13th

Lisa McInerney in conversation with Sinead Gleeson I saturday 13th june, 2pm H the masonic lodge

€10

Lisa is simply the hottest thing in young Irish writing right now.

Everyone is talking about her book The Glorious Heresies. Joseph O’Connor described it as “a punchy, edgy, sexy, fizzing feast of a debut novel from an immensely skilled storyteller with a glorious passion for words”. It’s an exceptionally powerful and moving – but also extremely witty – debut. Come and hear her chat to Sinead Gleeson in the wonderful venue that is Dalkey Masonic Lodge.

In Search of the Real Ireland Donal Ryan and Mary Costello

Paul McGuinness The Business of Music I saturday 13th june, 2.30pm H saint patrick’s church

I saturday 13th june 2015, 2.30pm H the town hall

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We’re thrilled to put together two of Ireland’s most talented young writers, Donal Ryan (winner of the Guardian First book award) and Mary Costello (winner of Eason novel of the year award).

In conversation with Martina Devlin.

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In a business dominated by mavericks and moguls, Paul McGuinness knows everyone in the global music game.

His insights and tales of the ascent and dominance of U2 will be fascinating, of the deals signed and the behind the scene’s operation that makes a global band and global brand tick. Looking at the business of music as well as the entire entertainment game, from the creative talent that makes great art, to the piracy that wants it for free, from Spotify and copyright and today’s resurgence of wonderful creativity in TV, David McWilliams will tease out some of the issues concerning this great business man and advocate for artists, record labels and music publishers.

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Saturday 13th debates@dalkey2015

Pamela Druckerman in conversation with Colm O’Regan I saturday 13th june, 3.30pm H the masonic lodge

I saturday 13th june, 5.30pm

H the secret garden marquee

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Oh yes it’s nearly upon us, 1916! We all know nearly as many people saw U2 in the Dandelion Market as were in the GPO at the Rising, or was it the other way around?

The State is about to go into an overdrive of commemorative frenzy.

Everyone will want a piece of it because the closer you are to a Rising, which the vast majority of Irish people rejected 100 years ago, the more Irish you are.

But who really owns it? And if it happened now, what side would you be on, honestly?

Chaired by Olivia O’Leary. With Fintan O’Toole, Diarmaid Ferriter and Belfast-born BBC Radio 4 presenter Andrea Catherwood. Like so many of us, Andrea has mixed ancestry but hers beats most: one grandfather was a Presbyterian minister at the Somme while the other grandfather was fighting for Irish freedom in 1916. The question is who owns 1916? After all, at least seventy times more Irish soldiers died fighting for the British than died fighting the British.

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When your kids are making a holy show of you, have you ever thought to yourself, why don’t foreign kids behave as delinquently as Irish kids?

Well now we have the answer for you!

Pamela Druckerman, Paris-based opinion writer for the New York Times, mother and author of the global best-seller Why French Children Don’t Throw Food, which has been translated into 24 languages, talks to Colm O’Regan, comedian and author of Irish Mammies.

What can Irish Mammies learn from French Mamans about raising mannerly kids and having a life of their own? There must be a snag. By the way, her young children are being minded for the weekend by some unruly Irish teenagers, so we’ll see how that turns out!

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150 Diarmaid Ferriter and Yeats with readings from Eamon Morrissey I saturday 13th june 2015, 4pm H the town hall

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A Terrible Beauty is Born: Yeats and the Revolution Historian, writer and Irish Times columnist Diarmaid Ferriter examines Yeats’ often ambiguous feelings towards the Irish revolutionary period. Ferriter is the most prolific historian of our times and has has published numerous critically-acclaimed books on 20th Century Ireland, including his most recent, A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution, 1913-23.

This illuminating talk will also feature award-winning actor Eamon Morrissey reading a selection of Yeats’ poetry from a period that saw Ireland “Changed Utterly.”

Amanda Palmer The Art of Asking I saturday 13th june 2015, 4pm H the seafront marquee

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Ever needed help but were afraid to ask? Well put that behind you because you are about to experience something very, very different.

Amanda Palmer is a phenomenon, you simply can’t miss her. Don’t take our word for it – ask the 6 million people who have viewed her TED talk.

In her memoir, The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, the rockstar, writer, performer and thoroughly modern crowdfunding pioneer speaks passionately about the obstacles all of us face because of our reluctance to ask for help.

In conversation with Dave Fanning.

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Saturday 13th

Ruairi Robertson Of Microbes and Men I saturday 13th june, 5pm H the masonic lodge

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Did you know that you have an organ weighing 2 kilos, which is hidden inside you that does more to boost your health and tackle disease than the rest of your organs combined?

Ruairi Robertson will take you on a journey to discover the incredible role of this secret organ in the fate of your health from the moment you are born.

More importantly, learn how you can manipulate this organ through your diet to benefit both physical and mental health.

Viv Albertine Clothes, Music, Boys I saturday 14th june, 6pm H the heritage centre

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Imagine an 18 year old living in a squat in 1976, hanging out with Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, spending the day chained to Sid Vicious, touring with the Clash and having their first excruciating sexual 16 Zurich Dalkey Book Festival 2015

experience with a slightly pungent Johnny Rotten? Bet you’re glad it wasn’t your daughter!

Slits’ star and punk legend, Viv Albertine, talks to Rosin Dwyer of Hot Press about writing her memoir, Mojo’s Book of the Year 2014.

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Paul Howard Playing at Home with Ross I saturday 13th june 2015, 8pm H the secret garden marquee

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Described by the Irish Times as “Ireland’s pre-eminent satirist” and by the Irish Independent as “one of the world’s funniest writers,” Paul Howard was named National Newspapers of Ireland Columnist of the Year in 2013.

Ross is back in Dalkey, playing to his home crowd, collars up, waiting for Joe Schmidt’s call, telling it as it is!

He’s back in the deep South to entertain you… loike seriously.

Midnight Poe I saturday 13th june, 11pm

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Gabriel Byrne in conversation with Caroline Erskine I saturday 13th june 2015, 7pm H the town hall

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performance in Moon For The Misbegotten.

We are absolutely delighted to have one of Ireland’s most celebrated actors, Gabriel Byrne, rounding off our Yeats Day celebration in style.

Star of numerous Hollywood classics including Miller’s Crossing and The Usual Suspects, Byrne received a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Dr. Paul Weston in HBO’s In Treatment and a Tony nomination for his

A lover of the arts, Byrne has recited Yeats’ poetry for numerous recordings and events. Former RTÉ broadcaster Caroline Erskine will explore Gabriel’s life, his career and why he reserves a special place for Yeats in Ireland’s literary pantheon.

This is going to be a very special event on a special anniversary; don’t miss it!

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the heritage centre

Midnight Poe presented by Bewley’s Café Theatre with the Dalkey Book Festival, features one of Edgar Allen Poe’s best-known stories, The Cask of Amontillado, a pitch-black comedy of revenge, as well as his chilling, unfinished, final tale The Lighthouse alongside musical settings of some of his greatest poems. This special site-specific experience among the medieval ruins and gravestones will take the audience on a deliciously dark descent into the maelstrom of one of literature’s most frenzied imaginations.

The Westbury Hotel is a proud supporter of the Zurich Dalkey Book Festival.

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Sunday 14th

Pub Talk with Patrick deWitt I sunday 14th june 2015, 11.30am H finnegan’s

Diarmuid Gavin & Vandra Costello Dalkey in Bloom €15

One of the most feted talents in North American literature right now, Patrick deWitt, award-winning author of Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers, chats to Sophie Gorman about his latest novel and more. If you have read him, you will know what all the excitement is about; if you haven’t, you must.

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Made in China with Liam Casey I sunday 14th june, 12.30pm H the seafront marquee €10

It’s summer in Dublin and Dalkey’s gardeners have been preening their gardens to within an inch of their lives for the annual Best Garden Competition. What better time to eavesdrop on a lively conversation between two keen gardeners?

International garden designer and writer Diarmuid Gavin joins Vandra Costello, a garden historian, columnist and six-time winner of Dalkey’s Best Front Garden competition.

This promises to be an informative discussion about gardening trends past and present.

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Wired magazine described Liam Casey as “the man who made geography history”.

The entire world wants to know how to deal with China. In the coming years, China will bypass the US as the world’s biggest economy. Chinese business is changing the world. They are tearing up the traditional way of doing things and China isn’t waiting for the West, it is roaring ahead.

The Atlantic – America’s most influential magazine – christened Liam “Mr China”. Casey has built a $1 billion company, indirectly employing 25,ooo industrial workers in China.

If you are interested in how the world is changing, who’s driving it and how it will affect your life, this is one discussion you can’t afford to miss.

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From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Time, the Universe and everything

Elif Shafak The Politics of Fiction I sunday 14th june 2015, 2pm H the seafront marquee

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Elif Shafak is the Muslim world’s best selling female author. With swathes of the Muslim world being riven by ISIS, fundamentalism and war and with Islam being frequently misunderstood and vilified in the West, Elif explains why she hasn’t the luxury of being apolitical.

The most-read female author in Turkey – a country on the front line of the battle between the secular and the religious – she is an anomaly, a

woman with a politically feminist education, yet with a deep respect for and knowledge of Sufism and Ottoman culture. She has written 12 novels including Honour, The Bastard of Istanbul and Forty Rules of Love.

We are delighted to have such a brilliant writer with us at Dalkey and in a year when the Middle East threatens to descend into further chaos, it is simply wonderful to have a renowned storyteller who can dissect its complexities for us in such a sensitive manner.

For a taster of what to expect have a look at her TED Talk.

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Roberto Trotta’s book, The Edge of the Sky has been described by the BBC as “making the whole of science sound like a wonderful fairytale.”

Dr. Roberto Trotta, Lecturer in Astrophysics at Imperial College, London and writer Aifric Campbell will discuss how telling stories about science can bring the subject alive. Does telling stories illuminate scientific themes? Are Science Fiction movies and sexy physicists on TV making science more appealing or do they get in the way of the facts? They will explore how we might better teach science in schools, and the challenges of presenting scientific topics in the media.

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Sunday 14th Cowboys and Indies A History of the Record Industry I sunday 14th june at 2pm

H the town hall, castle street

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Gareth Murphy is author of Cowboys and Indies – an epic history of the record industry, which was published this year to great critical acclaim. A history of popular music from inside out, it is both encyclopedic and hugely entertaining.

For music heads, business people and lovers of popular culture this is a gig not to be missed.

The wonderful Roisin Dwyer of Hot Press is in the chair.

Kevin Barry I sunday 14th june, 3.30pm

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Roisin Ingle & Natasha Fennell Daughterhood I sunday 14th june at 2pm H the heritage centre

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How do you get on with your mother, or daughter for that matter? Why the rows, the competition, the moments of deep love, matched by profound frustration? Roisin Ingle and Natasha Fennell probe the good, the bad and the guilty of mother-daughter relationships.

In conversation with Tara Flynn, comedian, actress and author of The Irish Woman’s Secret Guide to Life.

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Kevin Barry is an extraordinary writer.

Winner of the IMPAC award and possessor of one of the wildest, most adventurous imaginations of any Irish writer today, he is also simply the best reader of his own work.

Kevin spoke at the first Dalkey Book Festival and we are delighted to have him back in the Deep South.

The Westbury Hotel is a proud supporter of the Zurich Dalkey Book Festival.

Eran Katz Secrets of a Super Memory I sunday 14th june at 4.30pm H the seafront marquee

€12

In a show packed with humour, excitement and surprise, Eran Katz reveals extraordinary techniques to boost memory power, including how to easily remember names, faces, foreign languages, facts, where we left the keys and more. He maintains that anyone can learn unique and effective techniques to upgrade their memory’s performance, Katz is an entertaining speaker and the best selling author of Where did Noah park the Ark?, Five Gifts for The Mind and Name Recall.

Eran Katz’s reputation extends well beyond his native Israel; his books have been translated to 16 languages, sold 600,000 copies and won a number of literary prizes. Katz also holds the Israeli Guinness Book of World Records title in memory stunts.

Sunday 14th

Martina Devlin in conversation with Lia Mills I sunday 14th june, 5pm H the heritage centre

Ian Robertson Politics in the Brain €10

The House Where It Happened is inspired by a true but little-known story about the last conviction for witchcraft in Ireland. In 1711, in a remote corner of Antrim, eight women from the Ulster-Scots community were accused of being witches by a pretty young newcomer. A group trial followed, causing a sensation. What happened was Ireland’s version of the notorious Salem epidemic. But why did a seemingly normal girl claim she was bewitched? And why did a community turn against eight respectable women?

Could the answer lie in the strange house where the supernatural activity was said to have taken place? Martina Devlin has fictionalised a compelling episode from history, transforming it into a spine-chilling tale.

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Dan Ariely The Art of Self Control €10

The philosopher, mathematician and peace activist Lord Bertrand Russell said that power was the essential substance of human relationships in the way that energy is the fundamental entity in physics.

He believed that power is man’s (and woman’s) ultimate goal. In this talk, Ian Robertson will show that power is one of the most potent brainchanging agents known to humanity and how political life is essentially a struggle to gain power, and then to find ways of protecting people from its effects on the brains of people who hold it. Professor Robertson will look at the neuropsychology of power and attempt to understand different types of political behaviour in terms of the underlying brain processes.

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Oh Lord make me virtuous, but just not yet! - Saint Augustin.

How often do you lie to yourself? How many times have you intended to do the right thing, but failed? How often do you give into temptation? Think about this week. Have you taken less exercise than you wished you had? Or eaten more than you wished you had?

The brilliant Dan Ariely – ten million people have already watched his TED talks – will tell us why we give in to temptation, why we deceive ourselves and whether we can become better people.

Stage furnished by BoConcept.

In conversation with Lia Mills.

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Ferry Trips to

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Booking: Ken Cunningham 085 242 6516 Special Festival price: €7 Adult; €5 Children

DALKEY BLOOMSDAY FESTIVAL 2015 TUESDAY 16TH JUNE IN DALKEY CASTLE & HERITAGE CENTRE (->) Dalkey Schoolroom Scene from Nestor Episode of Ulysses at 15.30 hours followed by guided Joycean walk. Admission €10.

(->) A Joycean Evening: A feast of Joycean Extracts linked by music and song at 20.00 hours. Admission €15 (includes refreshments)

booking www.dalkeycastle.com/book tickets or reception at Dalkey Castle

Fully licensed and insured

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

The Lodge Room

will be open for public viewing on Saturday 13th June from 11 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. excepting those ≠ours reserved for the book fe◊ival events.

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

See Things Differently‌.

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

GRAPEVINE Wine Shop, Wine Bar Open 7 Days 21, St. Patrick’s Road, Dalkey Tel: (01) 2353054 www.onthegrapevine.ie

The Tramyard Café & Wine Bar in the heart of Dalkey is an experience not to be missed. Each morning the café opens with the smell of freshly baked scones and wonderful coffee. A full selection of homemade dishes are available from lunch time till late.

On weekend evenings the Café transforms into a Wine Bar serving Irish craft beers and draught Guinness. Join us for some great live music and our excellent barbeque.

The unique space and welcoming hospitality at the Tramyard will ensure that your event is special. We have a range of facilities to suit any occasion large or small.

Whether you are planning your wedding, special birthday, family occasion or charity/corporate event, the staff at the Tramyard will advise and assist you in organising every aspect of your evening.

www.thetramyardcafe.com

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