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28th — 31st
March 2019
Festival Programme
Connect with us #M2C2019 /mountainstosea @mountainstosea mountainstosea1
Welcome by Fáilte ón
An Cathaoirleach, gCathaoirleach,
Councillor an Comhairleoir
Ossian Smyth Ossian Smyth
I am delighted to welcome you to Mountains Grace Wells and a wondrous gathering of Tá áthas orm fáilte a chur romhat chuig Féile taispeántas speisialta de Aeneid VI inár láthair,
to Sea dlr Book Festival. The festival is now in spoken word poets led by our 2018 Shine Leabhar dlr Ó Chuan go Sliabh 2019. Is í seo saothar iontach Séamus Heaney nach maireann,
its 11th year, and has established itself as one of Strong Award winner Rachael Hegarty. 11ú bliain na féile, agus tá sí ar cheann de agus ar cuireadh os comhair an phobail don chéad
the highlights of Ireland's literary calendar. bhuaicphointí fhéilire litríochta na hÉireann anois. uair ag Féile Ealaíon Chill Chainnigh in 2016.
We look forward to welcoming Stephen
As in previous years, we mark International Rea and Neil Martin for a very special Mar a bhí blianta eile, sula mbíonn an Beidh neart imeachtaí ar siúl ag an bhféile a
Women's Day on March 8th and add our voices performance of Aeneid VI, the late Seamus phríomhfhéile ar siúl, déanaimid Lá Idirnáisiúnta mbeidh suim ag an teaghlach ar fad iontu lena
to the global movement for gender balance Heaney's great work, first performed na mBan a cheiliúradh i gcomhar le UCD ag n-áirítear Sara Keating arb í ár scríbhneoir do
and equality. This year, we collaborate with back in 2016 at Kilkenny Arts Festival. déanamh ceiliúrtha ar an Scéalaíocht agus ar leanaí comhlach í a bheidh i mbun an chláir Adopt
UCD to celebrate ‘Storytelling and Activism’ Ghníomhaíochas. Cuirfimid fáilte chomh maith an Author atá againn. Tá imeachtaí scoile agus
with Skein Press authors Melatu Uche Okorie, The festival has something for all the family roimh scríbhneoir cónaithe dlr LexIcon Sarah teaghlaigh curtha le chéile againn lena n-áirítear
Philomena Mullen and playwright/ performer as we bring Sara Keating on board as our Maria Griffin agus roimh Lilly Higgins ar an data Shane Hegarty agus Dave Rudden, beirt a bhfuil
Rosaleen McDonagh in a discussion chaired associate children's writer with Adopt an tábhachtach seo chomh maith lenár nguthanna a an-tóir orthu, chomh maith le Gabrielle Kent agus
by Dr. Anne Mulhall. We also welcome dlr Author. We have assembled schools and family chur leis an ngluaiseacht dhomhanda ar mhaithe MG Leonard a bheidh linn ag M2C i mbliana den
LexIcon writer in residence Sarah Maria Griffin events including firm favourites Shane Hegarty le cothromaíocht agus cothromas inscne. chéad uair. Táimid sásta go háirithe go mbeimid
and Lilly Higgins on this important date. and Dave Rudden, along with M2C newcomers ábalta líon taispeántas nuachoimisiúnaithe
Gabrielle Kent and MG Leonard. We are Tá an fhéile lán le scríbhneoirí iontacha ficsin, a chur i láthair lena n-áirítear Suantraí le
The festival is packed full of wonderful fiction particularly pleased to present a number of scríbhneoirí mar Margaret Drabble, Kate Mosse, Tradoodle, Cochaillín Dearg Roald Dahl le Kathy
authors such as Margaret Drabble, Kate Mosse, newly-commissioned performances including Jess Kidd, Sebastian Barry, Emma Donoghue, Rose O’Neill agus Conor Linehan agus léamh
Jess Kidd, Sebastian Barry, Emma Donoghue, Suantraí with Tradoodle, Roald Dahl's Little Mary O’ Donnell agus Sally Rooney chomh maith bríomhar de The Secret Garden le Jody O’Neill.
Mary O’Donnell and Sally Rooney along with Red Riding Hood with Kathy Rose O’ Neill and le húrscéalaithe nua lena n-áirítear Anne Griffin
some debut novelists, including Anne Griffin and Conor Linehan and an atmospheric reading agus Sarah Davis-Goff. Déanfaimid machnamh Oibríonn Féile Leabhar dlr Ó Chuan go Sliabh
Sarah Davis-Goff. We take time out to reflect on of The Secret Garden with Jody O’ Neill. ar mar atá cúrsaí faoi láthair ar ár gclár náisiúnta i gcomhar le neart daoine agus eagraíochtaí
the current international state of play in our non- agus idirnáisiúnta neamhfhicsin - Present Tense - i cruthaitheacha agus ba mhaith liom mo
fiction programme - Present Tense, where we Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival gcomhluadar David Runciman, Catriona Crowe, An bhuíochas a chur in iúl go háirithe do Chomhairle
examine the precarious state of democracy with partners with many creative individuals and tOllamh Diarmaid Ferriter, Eoin McNamee, Pankaj na nEalaíon, RTÉ ag Tacú leis na hEalaíona,
David Runciman and Catriona Crowe. We take organisations and in particular I would like Mishra agus an tOllamh Ciarán Benson. Tá ríméad The Irish Times, Shine, Poetry Now agus Éire
a timely look at the Irish border issue with Prof. to thank The Arts Council, RTE Supporting orainn fáilte a chur arís roimh Ahdaf Soueif agus Ildánach as an tacaíocht ar fad a thugann
Diarmaid Ferriter and Eoin McNamee, Pankaj the Arts, The Irish Times, Shine, Poetry Now Lara Marlowe a dhéanfaidh cur síos ar an saol a siad. Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a chur in iúl
Mishra and Prof. Ciarán Benson discuss the and Creative Ireland for all their support. chaitheann siad ina scríbhneoirí agus ina n-iriseoirí. chomh maith do lucht na n-ionad breá a bhíonn
wide embrace of mass politics and the pursuit I would also like to thank our fantastic againn, Amharclann an Phailliúin, Dún Laoghaire
of wealth. We are delighted to welcome Ahdaf venues particularly the Pavilion Theatre, Dún Ar ndóigh, tá ról lárnach ag an bhfilíocht arís sa agus Amharclann an Mhuilinn, Dún Droma.
Soueif with Lara Marlowe to once again reflect Laoghaire and the dlr Mill Theatre, Dundrum. bhféile le Gradam Filíochta The Irish Times Poetry
on their lives and work as writers and journalists. Now agus Gradam Filíochta Shine Strong. In 2019, Thar ceann Chomhairle Contae Dhún
On behalf of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown tá leithéidí Damian Gorman, Bernard O’ Donoghue, Laoghaire-Ráth an Dúin, ba mhaith liom fáilte
Poetry once again takes a central role at County Council, I would like to welcome Moya Cannon, Grace Wells agus grúpa breá d’fhilí a chur roimh ár gcuid rannpháirtithe agus
the festival with The Irish Times Poetry Now all our participants and visitors to an fhocail labhartha i measc na bhfilí a bheidh cuairteoirí ar fad chuig Féile Leabhar dlr Ó
and Shine Strong Poetry Awards. In 2019, Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival and faoi stiúir bhuaiteoir Ghradam Shine Strong 2018 Chuan go Sliabh 2019 agus tá súil agam
we feature renowned poets such as Damian wish you all a most enjoyable festival.• Rachael Hegarty. Táimid ag tnúth le fáilte a chur go mbainfidh sibh an-sult as an bhféile.•
Gorman, Bernard O’ Donoghue, Moya Cannon, roimh Stephen Rea agus Neil Martin a chuirfidh
Welcome to Mountains to Sea
dlr Book Festival 2019, our
annual four day celebration
of all that is excellent in The theme of the 2019 Festival will be ‘Speaking
with Strangers’. It has been an extraordinary
to consider, as Brexit dawns, the repercussions
of these new walls going up all around us. We
contemporary writing. year for anyone who is a ‘stranger’ —the
foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and
society not their own. This too has been a
consider a history of the present, our very own
border and its uncertain future in light of the
political stalemate of the recent past. Our
remarkable year for literature —fiction, poetry guests share with us their writing lives and
and non–fiction— exploring the stories and re–affirm, in the words of Edward Said, “the
experiences of strangers in that sense but also power of culture over the culture of power.”
the notion of strangeness in our individual
sense of being. The act of storytelling is in Our 2019 children's and family programme
itself an act of profound generosity and in features our new ‘Adopt an Author’ programme
2019 we welcome truly gifted storytellers through which younger readers interact with
who will share with us their worlds of poetry, our guest authors at school. For our Big Day
fiction and non–fiction. We celebrate debuts Out on Saturday 30th March, we’ve lined up
and welcome old friends and new. quizzes, nature trails, readings, draw–alongs
and a very special live performances of Roald
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Dahl's wonderful Little Red Riding Hood as
Wall's demise. Those of us who remember the well as a reading of The Secret Garden.
wall coming down will know that it seemed to
mark, as Fukuyama famously put it, the ’end of As always, you the reader are at the
history’. The end of the Berlin Wall would mark centre of all that we do and we hope that
a new beginning for Europe where democracy you’ll find something in the mix that will
and freedom would reign, replacing the real engage, entertain and stimulate. We, as
and imagined walls of old. In 2019, we curiously always, look forward to meeting you at
find ourselves in a world where there's a new Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2019.
found enthusiasm for building walls, where, as
David Runciman has put it, we are witnessing Liz Kelly
democracy's ‘mid–life crisis’ During Mountains to Programme Director
Sea dlr Book Festival 2019, we take a moment Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2019
West and East Germans at the Brandenburg Gate in 1989. Source: Wikipedia
Events at a glance
11:00—12:00 Circle Beag Bideach. Sadhbh Devlin dlr Mill Theatre 33
International Women's Day Present Tense
Join us as we Join us and discover a 19:30—20:30 Circle
Talking to the enemy. Rosemary Hollis
dlr LexIcon, The Studio 21
with Damian Gorman.
#BalanceforBetter history of the present and
—Page 12 democracy's ‘mid-life’ crisis 20:30—21:30
The Writing Life. Margaret Drabble
dlr LexIcon, Level 4 15
Circle & Michael Holroyd.
—Page 28
Festival club with Peter Fallon, Oisin Leech The Library Bar,
21:30—22:30 Circle 21
and Saramai Leech Haddington Hotel
Speaking with Strangers — Children & Families
the writing life Meet your favourite authors,
Meet and hear from writers draw along, play and join us for
as they share the world of quizzes and scavenger hunts for
stories with us everyone aged 0 and over! Friday 29.03
—Page 14 —Page 32
Event Venue Page
The Lyric Note Workshops 10:00—11:00 Circle Tradoodle for under 4s dlr LexIcon, The Studio 34
Poetry and music —Page 38
take centre stage 10:00—11:00 Circle Knights and Bikes. Gabrielle Kent dlr Mill Theatre 34
—Page 20
11:00—12:00 Circle The Legend of Kevin. Sarah McIntyre & Philip Reeve Pavilion Theatre 33
11:00—13:00 Circle Damian Gorman. Poetry Workshop dlr LexIcon, Room 2, Level 5 38
Friday 08.03 International Women's Day
12:00—13:00 Circle Tradoodle for under 4s dlr LexIcon, The Studio 34
Event Venue Page
#BalanceforBetter: Storytelling & Activism Theatre R, Newman 12:00—13:00 Circle Darkmouth. Shane Hegarty dlr Mill Theatre 34
14:00—15:00 Circle 13
with Skein Press Building, UCD
Roald Dahl's Little Red Riding Hood with Kathy
Food for the Soul with Sarah Maria Griffin 16:00—17:00 Circle dlr LexIcon, The Studio 35
19:00—20:00 Circle dlr LexIcon, The Studio 13 Rose O'Brien and Conor Linehan on piano
& Lilly Higgins
Age of Anger. Pankaj Mishra
18:30—19:30 Circle Pavilion Theatre 29
with Prof. Ciarán Benson
For the foodies. Currabinny Cookbook
18:30—19:30 15
Thursday 28.03 Circle with Rick O'Shea
dlr Mill Theatre
Event Venue Page 20:30—21:30 Circle An evening with Sebastian Barry Pavilion Theatre 16
Kate Mosse, Hannah Beckerman,
11:00—12:00 Circle Poetry elevenses with Pete Mullineaux & Moya Roddy dlr LexIcon Lab, Level 3 21 20:30—21:30 Circle dlr Mill Theatre 15
John Boyne with Rick O'Shea
11:00—12:00 Circle Darkmouth. Shane Hegarty dlr LexIcon, Level 4 33 21:30—22:30 Circle Notions John Kelly and Caoimhín Ó Raghaillaigh dlr LexIcon, The Studio 22
The Blank Page with NLI. Bernard O’Donoghue,
19:30—20:30 Circle dlr LexIcon, The Studio 24
Saturday 30.03 Moya Cannon & Niall MacMonagle.
Event Venue Page 20:30—21:30 Circle Aeneid Book VI. Stephen Rea with Neil Martin Pavilion Theatre 24
The Importance of being Aisling. Sarah Breen &
10:00—11:00 Circle Pavilion Theatre 16
Emer McLysaght, Paul Howard w/ Roisin Ingle
10:00—11:00 Circle Knights and Bikes. Gabrielle Kent dlr LexIcon, Level 4 35 Sunday 31.03
10:00—11:00 Circle We're going to the Zoo. Sarah Bowie dlr LexIcon, Room 1, Level 3 35 Event Venue Page
10:00—12:00 Mary O’Donnell. Creative Writing workshop. dlr LexIcon, Room 3, Level 5 38 10:00—11:00 Circle Shine Strong Award dlr LexIcon, Level 4 25
Circle
Now we can talk openly about everything. Ann Devine is ready for her close up.
10:30—11:30 dlr LexIcon Lab, Level 3 22 11:00—12:00 Circle dlr LexIcon, The Studio 17
Circle Martina Evans & Rosemary Jenkinson Colm O'Regan & Maia Dunphy
Pilgrims of the Soul John F Deane
11:00—12:00 The Beetle Show. MG Leonard dlr LexIcon, The Studio 36 11:00—12:00 Circle dlr LexIcon Lab, Level 3 26
Circle with James Harpur
Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival Essays: rediscovered. Emilie Pine, Brian Dillon
12:00—13:00 dlr LexIcon Lab, Level 3 23 12:00—13:00 Circle dlr LexIcon, Level 4 17
Circle / Irish Times Poetry Now Awards & Margaret Kelleher
Democracy in Peril? David Runciman
12:00—13:00 The Secret Garden read by Jody O'Neill The People's Park 36 13:00—14:00 Circle dlr LexIcon, The Studio 31
Circle & Catriona Crowe
6 x 30 mins individual sessions with Sarah
12:30—13:30 Riot Days. Maria Alyokhina with Conor O’Clery Pavilion Theatre 29 13:00—16:00 Circle dlr LexIcon, Room 3, Level 5 38
Circle Davis-Goff from Tramp Press.
The Legend of Kevin. Philip Reeve 14:00—15:00 Circle Normal People. Sally Rooney with Edel Coffey Pavilion Theatre 18
13:00—14:00 Circle dlr LexIcon, The Studio 36
& Sarah McIntyre
Poetry & Pictures. Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Alice
13:00—14:00 Dr Hibernica Finch's Nature Scavenger Hunt dlr LexIcon, Room 1, Level 3 37 15:00—16:00 Circle dlr LexIcon, The Studio 26
Circle Maher, Gerard Smyth & Clíodhna Shaffrey.
Strangers in a Strange Land. Maeve Higgins with On the Border. Diarmaid Ferriter,
14:00—15:00 dlr LexIcon, Level 4 30 16:00—17:00 Circle Pavilion Theatre 31
Circle Sorcha Pollak, Dr Ebun Joseph and Daniel Trilling. Nuala O'Connor & Eoin McNamee
Writing Lives. Nessa O'Mahony 16:00—17:00 Circle Jess Kidd with Sara Keating dlr LexIcon, Level 4 18
14:00—15:00 Circle dlr LexIcon Lab, Level 3 16
& Mary O'Donnell
Dazzling Debuts. Anne Griffin,
14:00—15:00 The Secret Garden read by Jody O'Neill The People's Park 36 17:00—18:00 Circle dlr LexIcon, The Studio 18
Circle Sarah Davis-Goff and Ian Maleney
Roald Dahl's Little Red Riding Hood with The Wonder. Emma Donoghue
15:00—16:00 dlr LexIcon, The Studio 37 18:00—19:00 Circle dlr LexIcon, Level 4 19
Circle Kathy Rose O'Brien & Conor Linehan on piano with Edel Coffey
Slow at Sea. Aoife McElwain,
16:00—17:00 The Amazing Dr Who Quiz. Dave Rudden dlr LexIcon, Level 4 37 19:00—20:00 Circle dlr LexIcon, The Studio 27
Circle Ruth Fitzmaurice & Inni K
Talking with Strangers. Rachael Hegarty, Introducing Constellations. Sinéad Gleeson,
16:30—17:30 dlr LexIcon, The Studio 23 20:30—21:30 Circle Pavilion Theatre 19
Circle Stephen James Smith & friends Maeve Higgins, Maria Doyle Kennedy
This is not a border.
17:30—18:30 Circle dlr LexIcon, Level 4 17
Lara Marlowe with Ahdaf Soueif Circle Speaking with Strangers — the writing life Circle Childrens & Families Circle Workshops
Another Planet. Tracey Thorn with Circle The Lyric Note Circle Present Tense
18:30—19:30 Circle Pavilion Theatre 24
Nadine O'Regan
International Women’s Day
International Friday
08.03
Women's Day
2019
#BalanceforBetter
#BalanceforBetter: Food for the Soul
The future is exciting. From grassroots activism to Storytelling and Activism
• Date: Friday 08/03
worldwide action, we are entering an exciting period • Date: Friday 08/03 • Time: 7.00pm
• Time: 2.00pm • Venue: dlr LexIcon, The Studio
of history where the world expects gender balance. We • Venue: Theatre R, Newman • Tickets: €15/ €12 *
Building, U.C.D.
notice its absence and celebrate its presence. This year, • Tickets: €10* Sarah Maria Griffin and Lilly
Higgins explore the world of
we are pleased to collaborate with UCD's School of In association with UCD School
of English, Drama and Film , we
food writing. Expect to hear lots
about Lilly's approach to writing
English, Drama and Film to create an event celebrating present a special International
Women's Day 2019 call-to-action
about and presenting food and for
the day that's in it, we’ll explore
for gender balance with a special women's culinary reflections. In
Storytelling and Activism with Melatu Uche Okorie event bringing together remarkable food writing, we will see recurring
Skein Press authors Melatu Uche political projects including the
and Skein Press. We also host dlr Writer in Residence Okorie, Philomena Mullen and construction of individual identities,
playwright/ performer Rosaleen of community identities, and of
Sarah Maria Griffin in conversation with Lilly Higgins McDonagh in a discussion chaired
by Dr Anne Mulhall who is co-
a larger civic identity as well. •
on the subject of food and food writing. How do we director of the UCD Centre for
Gender, Feminisms & Sexualities
create a more fully human and equitable world though where she coordinates the MA
in Gender, Sexuality & Culture.
Special thanks to Professor Danielle
just, thoughtful, and pleasurable practices in growing, Clarke, Head of UCD School
of English, Drama and Film. • *Attend both events on
preparing and consuming what we eat? International Women's Day for €20
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Speaking with Strangers — the writing life
Speaking with Thursday
28.03
Friday
29.03
Strangers — For the Foodies
the writing life
• Date: Friday 29/03
• Time: 6.30pm
• Venue: dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum
• Tickets: €15 / €12**
Feeling hungry? Join Currabinny
Cookbook duo William Murray &
James Kavanagh as they chat about
food and food writing with Rick
O’Shea. Expect to hear lots about
how foods are explored and used
in writing, receive some delicious
recipes from our contributors and
taste some delightful food prepared
The Writing Life. by our food writers for this event.
With Margaret Drabble
and Michael Holroyd,
Chaired by Niall Rick O’Shea hosts
One of our 2018 Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival MacMonagle Hannah Beckerman,
guests, Ali Smith described ‘the act of storytelling as • Date: Thursday 28/03
John Boyne
• Time: 8.30pm and Kate Mosse
an act of profound generosity’. It always has been; • Venue: dlr LexIcon, Level 4
• Tickets: €15 / €12 • Date: Friday 29/03
story is an ancient form that will tell us everything we Dame Margaret Drabble is the
•
•
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum
need to know about the contemporary world. In sharing author of 18 novels including A
Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone,
• Tickets: €15 / €12**
stories, we cease to be strangers. The individual The Red Queen, and the highly-
acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby.
Join a stellar line up in the
company of Rick O’Shea for a
She has also written biographies, conversation about each of these
selves we all are, meet and transform in the telling of screenplays and was the editor of hugely admired novelist's latest
The Oxford Companion to English offerings. Each will shed light on
stories, into something more open and communal. In Literature. Joining her for this their characters and themes, their
event will be her husband, widely influences and the writers who
2019 Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival is thrilled to acclaimed biographer Michael
Holroyd, in a wide ranging
interest them. A very special event
for books clubs and individuals who
welcome some truly gifted storytellers who will share discussion of their lives in a very
distinctly literary household, their
are on the lookout for some great
reads; they’ll be guaranteed many
with us their worlds of poetry and fiction. writings and the question of what
constitutes a good ending. Death
additions to their wish lists with
the recommendations for must-
and how we understand it if we reads from this impressive panel. •
have lived well, preoccupies Drabble
in her most recent novel, the ** Attend both Friday evening events
enthralling The Dark Flood Rises. • in dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for €20
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Speaking with Strangers — the writing life Speaking with Strangers — the writing life
Saturday Sunday
30.03 31.03
This is not a border
with Lara Marlowe
and Ahdaf Soueif
• Date: Saturday 30/03
The Importance of Being • Time: 5.30pm
Aisling with Sarah Breen • Venue: dlr LexIcon, Level 4
Writing Lives with Mary • Tickets: €15 / €12
Laureate for Irish Fiction and Emer McLysaght
O’Donnell and Nessa
Sebastian Barry with Paul Howard hosted Two of the most important voices
O’Mahony Ann Devine is ready Essays: rediscovered.
by Róisín Ingle in reportage and literature, French
• Date: Friday 29/03 correspondent with The Irish Times for her close up. Colm Emilie Pine, Brian Dillon
• Time: 8.30pm • Date: Saturday 30/03 • Date: Saturday 30/03 Lara Marlowe, and novelist, critic
• Venue: Pavilion Theatre • Time: 10.00am • Time: 2.00pm and political activist Ahdaf Soueif
O’Regan in conversation with Professor Margaret
• Tickets: €15 / €12 • Venue: Pavilion Theatre • Venue: dlr LexIcon Lab, Level 3 come together for this special event with Maia Dunphy Kelleher
• Tickets: €15 / €12 • Tickets: €15 / €12 to explore their respective worlds.
Perched between mountains and With stellar careers as fiction writers • Date: Sunday 31/03 • Date: Sunday 31/03
sea, we’re delighted to welcome Meet Complete Aislings Sarah In this session meet author Mary and journalists, they have much • Time: 11.00am • Time: 12.00pm
Laureate for Irish Fiction Breen and Emer McLysaght whose O’Donnell in conversation with to talk about including Ahdaf's • Venue: dlr LexIcon, The Studio • Venue: dlr LexIcon, Level 4
Sebastian Barry as we explore entirely authentic voices elicit a Nessa O’Mahony about Giving Shape oeuvre, Palestine, the collapse of the • Tickets: €15 / €12 • Tickets: €15 / €12
nature and the natural world in proper snort on every page in the to the Moment, edited by Maria Elena Arab Spring, the present state of
his writing in the company of sequel to their best-selling Oh My Jaime de Pablos. This is the first the Arab world, particularly Egypt Colm O’Regan departs from his The successes of writer and critic
journalist, broadcaster and author God What a Complete Aisling. It's book to provide a critical assessment under Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and of Irish Mammy series to write about Brian Dillon's award-winning
Evelyn O'Rourke. Sebastian the abundance of wry observations of Mary's work. The essays engage course, the festival theme of the joys a fictional Irish Mammy on his and newly reissued In the Dark
Barry's novels and plays have that highlight how full of notions with O’Donnell's writing across and perils of Speaking to Strangers. first outing as a novelist. Ann Room together with Emilie Pine's
won numerous awards, and we have all become (example: multiple genres and explore the Unquestionably, a festival highlight. Devine is a warm, brilliant and Notes to Self mark a renewed public
two consecutive novels, A Long how a burrito is little more than themes and preoccupations that have This Is Not a Border is a collection funny Irish mammy with a hint interest in the essay. Both are deeply
Long Way (2005) and The Secret a rice sandwich), that has made characterised her oeuvre. Alongside of essays, poems, and sketches of steel when needed. The novel personal collections. Brian's essays
Scripture (2008), were shortlisted OMGWACA a word-of-mouth hit. their creative work, both authors from some of the world's most shows her in her home town of unfold into a stunning meditation
for the Man Booker Prize. His But in amongst the one-liners and have been steady and continuing distinguished artists, responding Kilsudgeon where any number on the nature of memory for
most recent novel Days Without the zingers, the book has more heart voices for many years within the to their experiences at PalFest and of adventures and misadventures individuals and communities while
End was published in 2016 and than meets the eye. Ireland's social world of poetry, theatre criticism, marking its 10 year existence. This transpire and where she discovers Emilie's debut collection is being
won the Costa Book of the Year and economic identity thrums in book reviewing, essay writing, radio Is Not a Border celebrates the role not all heroes wear capes, some hailed as essential reading. Both
Award and The Walter Scott Prize, the background, a character all of its broadcasts and cultural commentary. of this unique festival ,led by Adhaf wear a high-vis! Ann Devine: Ready writers are formidable essayists
and was longlisted for the Booker own. Join the Aislings together with Mary's most recent collection Empire Soueif, in strengthening artistic for Her Close-Up is a wonderful deftly combining the personal and
Prize. In 2018, Sebastian Barry Ross O'Carroll Kelly creator Paul (Arlen House) was released in links with the rest of the world and unmissable read. Join Colm polemic and their sharp insights
was named Ireland's Laureate for Howard as they discuss the ‘notions’ September 2018 and Nessa recently and re-affirming, in the words of in the company of Maia Dunphy will make for a memorable Festival
Irish Fiction, 2018 – 2021. • we all have with Róisín Ingle in the made her first foray into the world Edward Said, “the power of culture for a lively discussion of his new event in the company of UCD's
hotseat refereeing the discussion. • of crime writing in The Branchman.• over the culture of power.” • novel. We’ll put the kettle on. • Professor Margaret Kelleher.•
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Speaking with Strangers — the writing life Speaking with Strangers — the writing life
The Wonder. Emma Introducing
Jess Kidd in conversation Donoghue with Constellations. Sinéad
with Sara Keating Edel Coffey Gleeson, Maeve Higgins,
• Date: Sunday 31/03 Maria Doyle Kennedy
• Time: 4.00pm • Date: Sunday 31/03
• Venue: dlr LexIcon, Level 4 • Time: 6.00pm • Date: Sunday 31/03
• Tickets: €15 / €12 Dazzling Debuts • Venue: dlr LexIcon, Level 4 • Time: 8.30pm
• Tickets: €15 / €12 • Venue: Pavilion Theatre
Things In Jars is Jess Kidd's third • Date: Sunday 31/03 • Tickets: €15 / €12
novel. Set in London, the year is • Time: 5.00pm We welcome Emma Donoghue,
1863. Bridie Devine, the finest • Venue: dlr LexIcon, The Studio bestselling author of Room, for a From one of our best loved and
female detective of her age, is taking • Tickets: €15 / €12 reading from her latest novel, The most admired literary journalists
on her toughest case yet. Reeling Wonder published in 2018. In The and broadcasters, Constellations is
from her last job and with her These are remarkable times for Wonder, tourists flock to the cabin Sinéad Gleeson's first collection
reputation in tatters, a remarkable the number and quality of debuts of eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell, of essays. For our closing event
puzzle has come her way. Christabel available to readers. In this event, who believes herself to be living off in 2019, we celebrate Sinéad's
Berwick has been kidnapped. But we will hear from Ian Maleney who manna from heaven. Lib Wright, a writing. Speaking of Constellations
Normal People with Sally Christabel is no ordinary child. will launch a collection of essays veteran of Florence Nightingale's she says “I have come to think
Rooney and Edel Coffey She is not supposed to exist. As called Minor Monuments published Crimean campaign, is hired to of all the metal in my body as
Bridie fights to recover the stolen by Tramp Press. Sarah Davis-Goff keep watch over the girl. Written artificial stars, glistening beneath
• Date: Sunday 31/03 child she enters a world of fanatical (better known for her work as a with all the propulsive tension that the skin, a constellation of old and
• Time: 2.00pm anatomists, crooked surgeons and publishing trail blazer) shares her made Room a huge bestseller, The new metal. A map, a tracing of
• Venue: Pavilion Theatre mercenary showmen. Anomalies are wonderful Last Ones Left Alive, Wonder works beautifully on many connections and a guide to looking
• Tickets: €15 / €12 in fashion, curiosities are the thing, a brilliantly original imagining levels—a tale of two strangers at things from different angles.”
and fortunes are won and lost in the of a young woman's journey to who transform each other's In these powerful and daring
We are delighted to present Sally name of entertainment. The public discover her true identity, set in a lives, a powerful psychological essays Sinéad Gleeson delves into
Rooney in conversation about love a spectacle and Christabel may post-apocalyptic Ireland and Anne thriller, and a story of love pitted a range of subjects: art, illness,
her Man Booker Prize shortlisted well prove the most remarkable Griffin's extraordinarily moving against evil. “Outstanding . . . ghosts, grief and our very ways
novel Normal People, an exquisite spectacle London has ever seen. When All Is Said. Hear from three Exploring the nature of faith and of seeing. Sinéad is joined by
love story about how one person Things in Jars is an enchanting first timers about their new writing, trust with heartrending intensity, singer songwriter Maria Doyle
can change another person's life Victorian detective novel that their influences and their hopes Donoghue's superb novel will Kennedy and one of our favourite
and how difficult it can be to talk explores what it is to be human in and plans for 2019 and beyond. leave few unaffected.” —Booklist. New Yorkers, Maeve Higgins.•
about how we feel. The event will inhumane times. Meet Jess Kidd in Chaired by Martin Doyle, Literary Hosted by Edel Coffey. •
be chaired by Edel Coffey. • conversation with Sara Keating. • Editor of The Irish Times. •
18 www.mountainstosea.ie www.mountainstosea.ie 19The Lyric Note
The Lyric Note Thursday
28.03
Talking to the Enemy with Festival club. Peter
Damian Gorman and Fallon with Oisin Leech
Professor Rosemary Hollis (Lost Brothers) and
Saramai Leech
• Date: Thursday 28/03
• Time: 7.30pm • Date: Thursday 28/03
Poetry Elevenses • Venue: dlr LexIcon, The Studio • Time: 9.30pm
• Tickets: €15 / €12 • Venue: The Library Bar,
• Date: Thursday 28/03 Haddington Hotel
• Time: 11.00am In this very special opening • Tickets: €15 / €12
The Lyric Note at Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival • Venue: dlr LexIcon Lab, Level 3 event, poet Damian Gorman
• Tickets: Free Event meets Professor Rosemary Hollis. Enjoy an intimate interlude of
2019 affords us an opportunity to celebrate unexpected (Booking required via Eventbrite) Rosemary argues that ‘Talking to songs, readings and talk from
the enemy’ is not necessarily about three acclaimed artists from
connections, to bring together unusual pairings, to open Everyone's welcome especially conflict resolution or peace building. County Meath. As one of The
Poetry by the Pond regulars, to join In this conversation, Rosemary Lost Brothers, Oisin Leech from
the borders and to fuse into ‘something more.’ Our us for a coffee and readings hosted
by dlr Librarian Susan Lynch
Hollis and Damian Gorman will
discuss what they have learned from
Navan has played Glastonbury,
the Electric Picnic and SXSW.
words and music strand is woven into the four days of with poet Pete Mullineaux and
short story writer Moya Roddy. •
their work in cross-conflict dialogue
in the Middle East, in Bosnia and of
Tonight, he’ll sing solo and with his
sister, Saramai, another exceptional
the festival once again in 2019, in a range of events from course at home in Northern Ireland.
Both have worked at City University
singer/ songwriter who, thanks to
a recent EP and appearances at
London where they jointly ran the Other Voices and other venues,
poet Peter Fallon in the company of Oisin and Saramai Olive Tree Programme bringing is a growing force. Joining Oisin
together students from war zones and Saramai to read his poetry
Leech, Tracey Thorn through to John Kelly's wonderful who attend the university. Rosemary and stimulate a conversation is
will share her thoughts on what she award-winning poet and publisher
Notions with Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh working his has learned about the narratives we
use to define ourselves and which,
Peter Fallon, the success of whose
work has brought him around
musical magic. A highlight of The Lyric Note will be the in the Israeli-Palestinian case, have
become the scripts of the conflict
the world and who, in the words
of the Sunday Times, is ‘one of
performance of the late Seamus Heaney's Aeneid with a power of their own. We’ll also
hear from Damian who promoted
Ireland's greatest literary talents’. •
writing and story-telling as tools of
Book VI by Stephen Rea and Neil Martin. dialogue and learning. He will read
some of his poetry born out of his
work within conflict settings. •
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Dr Lucy Collins joined UCD
dlr
Friday Saturday in 2008 after previously teaching
at Trinity College Dublin and
29.03 30.03 in the UK at the University of
Cumbria. Her research interests
Poetry are in poetry and poetics; recent
publications include the anthology
Now
Poetry by Women in Ireland 1870-
1970 (Liverpool UP, 2012) and
a monograph Contemporary
International Irish Women Poets: Memory and
Estrangement (Liverpool UP, 2015).
Poetry Festival Lucy's work with UCD's Decade
of Centenaries Committee centres
on literary and cultural events.
Mountains to Sea dlr
Book Festival / Moya Cannon has published five
collections of poetry; her most recent,
Notions. With John Irish Times Keats Lives (2015), is published
Kelly and Caoimhín Ó Poetry Now Award by Carcanet Press. She has edited
Poetry Ireland Review, and was
Raghallaigh • Date: Saturday 30/03 2011 Heimbold Professor of Irish
• Time: 12.00pm Studies at Villanova University. Her
• Date: Friday 29/03 • Venue: dlr LexIcon Lab, Level 3 next collection will be published by
• Time: 9.30pm • Tickets: Free event Carcanet Press in September 2019.
• Venue: dlr LexIcon, The Studio (Booking required via Eventbrite)
• Tickets: €15 / €12
Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival Shortlist:
Constantly inventive and unerringly and The Irish Times once again Talking with Strangers.
precise, the poems in John Kelly's present the Poetry Now award • Eva Bourke Rachael Hegarty with
debut collection reveal an author in which the winner of the best
at home with both the stand-alone collection of 2018 is announced.
Seeing Yellow Emma Must, Toby Buckley,
(Dedalus Press)
lyric and the longer, apparently This year's judges are poets Bernard Helen Hutchinson and
improvisational pieces that Now we can talk openly actions taken in their youth lead O’Donoghue, Moya Cannon and • Ailbhe D’Arcy Stephen James Smith.
contribute so much to this book's about Everything. to betrayal. Martina Evans is ‘a Lucy Collins. Insistence (Bloodaxe)
extraordinary brio and style. The subtle, challenging writer with a • Date: Saturday 30/03
breadth of cultural reference is
Martina Evans with wonderfully destructive approach Bernard O’Donoghue was born
• Martina Evans
• Time: 4.30pm
Now we can talk openly
perhaps a given, but Kelly's real Rosemary Jenkinson to the pieties she describes.’ ( John in Cullen, Co Cork in 1945. He is • Venue: dlr LexIcon, The Studio
about Men.
achievement is to make sense McAuliffe, Irish Times). Joining an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham (Carcanet Press) • Tickets: €15 / €12
of a sometimes teeming field of • Date: Saturday 30/03 Martina will be Rosemary College, where he taught Medieval
vision. From the natural world to • Time: 10.30am Jenkinson whose short story English and Modern Irish Poetry. • Tom French We’ve invited Rachael Hegarty
the troubled North of his youth, • Venue: dlr LexIcon Lab, Level 3 collection Catholic Boy was He has published seven collections The Last Straw back to the Festival to respond to
through encounters with art – and • Tickets: €15 / €12 described by Mia Gallagher as of poetry, including Gunpowder, (Gallery Books) our 2019 theme. In this special
its creators – to poems that chart the “cunningly seductive, by turns winner of the 1995 Whitbread event celebrating the diversity
• Derek Mahon
seismic changes that come with love, Martina Evans’ latest collection raucous, wry and tender. A gifted Prize for Poetry, and The Seasons of voices, Rachael explores
Against The Clock
fatherhood and loss, Notions is a book Now We Can Talk Openly About storyteller, Jenkinson leavens even of Cullen Church (2016) which was representations of ‘otherness’ in
(Gallery Books)
full of humour and play, wonder Men comes in two parts, dramatic her darkest materials with biting, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize. poetry and in this event will , with
and woundedness. Joining John will monologues touching on the effervescent wit – while never His Selected Poems was published • Leanne O'Sullivan her fellow poets, ask if poetry can
be the very gifted Caoimhín Ó Irish War of Independence and breaking faith with the small, by Faber in 2008. He has published A Quarter of an Hour highlight differences, and allow
Raghallaigh on fiddle. “These are the Civil War from a woman's shabby realities of her endearing a verse translation of Sir Gawain (Bloodaxe) for a better understanding of the
very remarkable and compelling perspective. There are two voices: cast of liars, rogues, sex-addicts and the Green Knight (Penguin ‘strangers’ with whom we share
poems. With strong narratives a dressmaker on laudanum and and former World Champion Classics 2006), and is currently this island. Sharing the stage with
and events, vivid and surprising a stenographer in love with a snooker players.” This discussion translating Piers Plowman for This event is supported by: Rachael will be Emma Must,
language, and a marvellous square-on young revolutionary. The women will be chaired by Paula Shields. • Faber. He edited The Cambridge Toby Buckley, Helen Hutchinson
exactness.” Bernard O’Donoghue. • reflect with humour on how Companion to Seamus Heaney (2009). and Stephen James Smith.•
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Sunday
31.03
dlr Shortlist:
Poetry
Now
International • Maureen Boyle
Poetry Festival
The Work of a Winter
(Arlen House|)
• John Kelly
Notions (Dedalus Press)
• Neil McCarthy
Stopgap Grace
(Salmon Poetry)
Aeneid Book VI With • Laurence O'Dwyer
kind permission of the Tractography (Templar)
Heaney Estate Shine Strong Award Poetry Prize, and Flynn named as
• Jane Robinson
Journey to the Sleeping
one of twenty ‘Next Generation’ Whale (Salmon Poetry)
• Date: Saturday 30/03 • Date: Sunday 31/03 poets by the Poetry Book Society.
Another Planet with The Blank Page in • Time: 8.30pm • Time: 10.00am Drives was published by Jonathan • Moya Roddy
Tracey Thorn association with the • Venue: Pavilion Theatre • Venue: dlr LexIcon, Level 4 Cape in 2008, when Flynn won the Out of the Ordinary
• Tickets: €20 / €15 • Tickets: Free event Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and (Salmon Poetry)
• Date: Saturday 30/03
National Library of (Booking required via Eventbrite) a major Individual Artist Award from
• Time: 6.30pm Ireland Seamus Heaney's last great project the Arts Council Northern Ireland.
• Venue: Pavilion Theatre was his translation of Virgil's Aeneid An undoubted festival highlight, Profit and Loss was Poetry Book
• Tickets: €15 / €12 • Date: Saturday 30/03 Book VI, which tells the haunting our Poetry Now 2018 winner and Society Choice for Autumn 2011.
• Time: 7.30pm story of Aeneas’ descent into the 2019 Shine Strong Judge Leontia Leontia Flynn received the 17th
As an ex-Marine Girl, singer • Venue: dlr LexIcon, The Studio Underworld to look for his father. Flynn announces the winner of the annual Lawrence O’Shaughnessy
in Everything But the Girl and • Tickets: €15 / €12 We are delighted to welcome, for this best debut anthology of the year. award for Irish poetry in 2013 and
intermittent solo artist, Thorn has special performance, two friends of the AWB Vincent American Ireland
enjoyed a long and successful career Presented in association with the the poet; Stephen Rea – who knew Leontia Flynn has published Fund literary award in 2014. She
though her fear of performing live National Library of Ireland, and worked with Seamus Heaney for three collections of poems. These is currently writer in residence at This event is supported by:
means she hasn’t stepped on stage Moya Cannon and Bernard more than 30 years – will read the Days ( Jonathan Cape, 2004) the Bloomsbury Hotel, London.
in 15 years. This tricky relationship O’ Donoghue in conversation full work with the live soundscape won an Eric Gregory Award in Leontia Flynn, has written a Ph.D.
with her art brings a crucial tension with Niall MacMonagle created by another Heaney friend, manuscript, and the Forward thesis and a book on the poetry of
to Naked at the Albert Hall, a terrific The Blank Page is an NLI series composer and cellist Neil Martin. Prize for Best First Collection. It Medbh McGuckian. She has also
reflection on singing, performance in which poets discuss their work The journey described in Heaney's was shortlisted for the Whitbread written articles, reviews and essays.
and the anatomy of the voice. Music with broadcaster & writer Niall translation, like its Virgilian original,
is everything to Thorn and she MacMonagle. Join poets Bernard has both a personal and a political
doesn’t take her talent for granted. O’ Donoghue and Moya Cannon as dimension. In the Aeneid the hero's
Likewise, her Disco Bedsit Queen they discuss poetry in general and father, Anchises, whom Aeneas
began with her, a terminally shy what led the participants to poetry. carried out of the burning city of
16-year-old, auditioning for her Each poet will choose one poem Troy on his back, dies. With the
first band from inside a wardrobe. from her and his work which will aid of the Cumaean Sibyl, Aeneas
In Another Planet: A Teenager in form the basis for discussion on the undertakes the frightening journey
Suburbia, she fills in some of the story of the poem and how it came to visit him among the dead. This
gaps. Joining Tracey is journalist to written, imagery and narrative.• performance was commissioned by
and broadcaster Nadine O’Regan. • Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2016.•
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Winter's Blessing
Unexpected birdsong
in the brief sun
of Sundays after Christmas
Pilgrims of the Soul. Poetry and Pictures.
John F. Deane and James Doireann Ní Ghríofa with when you drink too much
Harpur Alice Maher and Gerard and most miss the dead.
Smyth
• Date: Sunday 31/03
• Time: 11.00am • Date: Sunday 31/03
• Venue: dlr LexIcon Lab, Level 3 • Time: 3.00pm When you bow your head
• Tickets: €15 / €12 • Venue: dlr LexIcon, The Studio Slow at Sea. Ruth
• Tickets: €15 / €12 Fitzmaurice with Inni K to the soloing thrush,
In Dear Pilgrims John F. Deane,
founder of Poetry Ireland, Poetry Join poets Doireann Ní Ghríofa
and Aoife McElwain lit like an old friend's soul
Ireland Review and Dedalus Press, and Gerard Smyth, with artist
uncovers a map of spiritual tracks Alice Maher as they discuss their • Date: Sunday 31/03 in the bones of a silver birch.
and pathways, both external and experiences of working across • Time: 7.00pm
internal. John uses his extraordinary their artforms – Doireann with • Venue: dlr LexIcon, The Studio
flair for language, his heartfelt love Alice on the beautifully produced • Tickets: €15 / €12
of nature, and his deep spiritual Salvage Press Nine Silences and From Notions by John Kelly
insight to take the reader into Gerard Smyth with the late Can the sea help us to find our
the landscapes of East Anglia, and much loved painter Sean strength? Does the power of slow
Israel and Palestine and into McSweeney on The Yellow River. live in the ocean and, if so, how
metaphysical realms far beyond. Chaired by Clíodhna Shaffrey, can we harness it? Join Ruth
Joining John for this reading will Director/ Curator of Temple Fitzmaurice (sea swimmer and
be James Harpur whose latest Bar Gallery and Studios. • author of I Found My Tribe) in
collection The White Silhouette sets conversation with Aoife McElwain
off on a snowy pilgrimage from (sea swimmer and author of
West Cork to Dorset taking in Slow at Work) as they talk about
Russian icons, the Perseids’ meteor what the sea means to them and
shower and the medieval Celtic how they found their power in
art of the Book of Kells. The title the waves. Along the coastline
poem is a powerful, haunting of this conversation, Inni K (sea
journey of ‘missed encounters’ swimmer and musician) will
in the spiritual landscapes of perform sea songs inspired by the
Tipperary, Wiltshire and Patmos. • rhyme and rhythm of the water.
26 www.mountainstosea.iePresent Tense
Present Tense Friday
29.03
Saturday
30.03
Age of Anger. Pankaj susceptible to demagogues. The Riot Days
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's Mishra in conversation many who came late to this new
world—or were left, or pushed, • Date: Saturday 30/03
demise. Those of us who remember the wall coming with Professor Ciarán behind—reacted in horrifyingly • Time: 12.30pm
Benson similar ways: with intense hatred • Venue: Pavilion Theatre
down will know that it seemed to mark, as Fukuyama of invented enemies, attempting • Tickets: €15 / €12
• Date: Friday 29/03 to re-create an imaginary golden
famously put it, the ’end of history’. In Present Tense, •
•
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
age, and self-empowerment
through spectacular violence.
In this unmissable event,
Conor O’Clery, former Russian
our non-fiction strand, we discuss democracy's ‘mid- life • Tickets: €15 / €12 He argues that today, just as in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries ,
correspondent with The Irish Times,
discusses Riot Days with Maria
crisis’ and the Age of Anger. We examine our own Border How can we explain the origins of
the great wave of paranoid hatreds
the wide embrace of mass politics
and technology and the pursuit
Alyokhina, which tells the story
of her iconoclastic balaclava-clad
that seem inescapable in our of wealth and individualism have performance in a Moscow cathedral
and take a moment to consider how writing shapes and close-knit world—from American cast many more millions adrift after which she and two of her
shooters and ISIS to Donald in a demoralised world, uprooted collaborators were arrested and
draws the wider world's attention to the complexities of Trump, from a rise in vengeful from tradition but still far from sentenced to two years in a prison
nationalism across the world to modernity. Join Professor Ciarán in the Urals. Maria Alyokhina will
a conflict zone and re- affirms, in the words of Edward racism and misogyny on social
media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj
Benson in conversation with
Pankaj Mishra, as they explore the
discuss her fight for free speech
against the forces of Vladimir
Said, “the power of culture over the culture of power.” Mishra answers our bewilderment
by casting his gaze back to the
demise of the ‘western model’ and
consider reasons to be hopeful. •
Putin's regime, her hunger strike
while in prison, as well as the work
eighteenth century before leading she is now doing to help Russian
us to the present. He asserts that prisoners at home. ‘To back down
as the world became modern, an inch is to give up a mile,’ she
those who were unable to enjoy its says in Riot Days, her account
promises—of freedom, stability, of Pussy Riot's extraordinary
and prosperity—were increasingly rise to infamy in 2012. •
www.mountainstosea.ie 29Present Tense Present Tense
Sunday
31.03
Strangers in a strange delving into his own family’s history Democracy in Peril?
land. Maeve Higgins of displacement, Joining the panel is David Runciman and
Dr Ebun Joseph who is coordinator
with Sorcha Pollak, in UCD of the first Black Studies
Catriona Crowe
Dr Ebun Joseph module in Ireland. She lectures
and Daniel Trillling on race, migration, social policy • Date: Sunday 31/03
and equality. She is a career- • Time: 1.00pm
• Date: Saturday 30/03 development specialist, author • Venue: dlr LexIcon, The Studio
• Time: 2.00pm and chairperson of the African • Tickets: €15 / €12
• Venue: dlr LexIcon, Level 4 Scholars Association Ireland. She
• Tickets: €15 / €12 is a citizen of both Nigeria and Described as “scintillating...
Ireland, and has lived in Ireland thought-provoking” by Andrew
New To The Parish is an inspiring for more than 17 years. Chairing Rawnsley, David Runciman, in
chronological timeline of personal the event is Maeve Higgins, author How Democracy Ends, observes
stories of migration, taking us on of Maeve in America, comedian that democracy has died hundreds
a journey across the globe – from and podcaster extraordinaire. The of times, all over the world. We
Cameroon to Myanmar, Poland to panel will consider how world think we know what that scenario
New York, Nigeria to Venezuela, events over the past decade have looks like: chaos descends and the On the Border. With of Anglo-Irish Politics, Professor
Iraq to Syria – and back home again. played a role in the migration military arrive to restore order, Professor Diarmaid Diarmaid Ferriter charts the history
The Irish Times journalist Sorcha crisis; from the 2004 enlargement until the people can be trusted to of the Border from the divisive
Pollak, whose own grandfather was of the European Union to the look after their own affairs again.
Ferriter, author Eoin 1920s Act to the Treaty and its
a Czech Jewish political refugee economic recession, the outbreak However, there is a danger that this McNamee and filmmaker aftermath, through ‘the Troubles’
who arrived in Ireland in 1948, of the Syrian conflict in 2011 to depiction is out of date. Until very Nuala O’Connor and the Good Friday Agreement
provides a deeper understanding Angela Merkel’s welcoming of over recently, most citizens of Western up to the Brexit negotiations. With
of what makes a person leave a million people into Germany, democracies would have imagined • Date: Sunday 31/03 the fate of the border uncertain,
their native land, often in extreme and from Brexit to the election of that the end was a long way off, • Time: 4.00pm The Border is a timely intervention
difficulty, in order to start a new Donald Trump as US president.• and very few would have thought • Venue: Pavilion Theatre into one of the most contentious
life abroad. Alongside Sorcha will it might be happening before their • Tickets: €15 / €12 and misunderstood political issues
be Daniel Trilling, whose Lights eyes as Trump, Brexit and paranoid of our time. Joining us are film
in the Distance, sees this Observer populism have become a reality. In The border between the Irish maker Nuala O’Connor in the
journalist draw on years of reporting this discussion, David Runciman Republic and Northern Ireland chair, and novelist Eoin McNamee
to build a portrait of the refugee and Catriona Crowe survey the has been a topic of dispute for over who grew up spanning the border
crisis, seen through the eyes of the political landscape of the West, a century, first in Dublin, Belfast and whose latest novel The Vogue is
people who experienced it first- helping us to spot the new signs of and Westminster and now, post an unforgettable novel of ghosts,
hand. Visiting camps and hostels, a collapsing democracy and advising Brexit referendum, in Brussels. In lies and the how the past can return
sneaking into detention centres and us on what could come next. • The Border: The Legacy of a Century with a vengeance. •
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Schools Events
& Families
Thursday Friday
28.03 29.03
Schools Event: The
Legend of Kevin with
Readings, quizzes, nature trails, draw alongs and Adopt Philip Reeve and Sarah
An Author. Our 2019 children's programme welcomes McIntyre age 7+
Sara Keating on board as Associate Writer. Sara has been Schools Event: The World
•
•
Date: Friday 29/03
Time: 11.00am
working with schools on our Adopt an Author programme. of Darkmouth with Shane
Schools Event:
•
•
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
Tickets: € 3
Hegarty age 8+
Beag Bideach
Schoolchildren get the chance to meet the authors whose le Sadhbh Devlin age 4+
Who doesn’t love ponies? Especially
• Date: Thursday 28/03 roly-poly ponies who can fly?
writing they’ve read, at our schools events on the 28th • Time: 11.00am Come meet Kevin, the four-legged,
• Venue: dlr LexIcon, Level 4 • Date: Thursday 28/03 two-winged hero of The Legend of
and 29th March. On Saturday 30th, we introduce our • Tickets: € 3 •
•
Time: 11.00am
Venue: dlr Mill Theatre, Dundrum
Kevin. A magical storm sees Kevin,
the flying pony, come crashing into
Big Day Out, a day of events that are creative, family Have you heard of the Legends?
These monstrous, human-eating
• Tickets: € 3 Max's town. With Max's quick
thinking and a constant supply
friendly and open to everyone featuring Shane Hegarty, creatures have invaded the Irish
town of Darkmouth and it's up to
Tá grá ag Nína dá deartháir, Jimí
ach, uaireanta cuireann sé isteach
of biscuits for Kevin, you’ll soon
discover that there's nothing this
twelve-year-old Finn and his friends uirthi. Go háirithe nuair atá sí unlikely duo can’t achieve. Expect
Gabrielle Kent, Sadhbh Devlin, MG Leonard and special to fight the beasts and save the ag iarraidh a bheith ag spraoi dressing-up, lots of interactive
world. Join author Shane Hegarty lena cairde, na bábóga. Ba bhreá fun, and your favourite bickies.
performances of Roald Dahl's fearless Little Red Riding as he brings his bestselling fantasy le Nína bheith bídeach ionas go Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
adventure series, Darkmouth, to life. bhféadfadh sí dul chun cónaithe are the madcap duo behind Oliver
Hood and The Secret Garden… and for all Whovians, Dave Shane Hegarty is the author of lena cairde, na bábóga. Nach and the Seawigs and Pugs of the
the four-part Darkmouth series mbeadh an saol i dteach bábóige, Frozen North, as well as The Legend
Rudden's very special Dr Who Quiz. (Harper Collins). The first book
is currently being adapted for
gan Jimí, go hiontach ar fad?! Seans
anseo do ghach éinne buaileadh
of Kevin (Oxford University
Press), the first part of the Roly
film by Alcon Entertainment. • leis an tÚdar Sadhbh Devlin.• Poly Flying Ponies series.•
Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival events are inclusive and accessible for all.
If you have any questions about accommodating your child's individual needs
please contact us at: director@mountainstosea.ie
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