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InternationalLiterature
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Dublin2015
2015May
May16–24
16–24
ilfdublin.com You complete the story
International
Literature Festival
Dublin 2015
May 16–24
ilfdublin.com
Lord Mayor’s Welcome A UNESCO City of Literature deserves a world-class literary festival and I’m very proud to welcome you to the seventeenth (and first!) International Literature Festival Dublin. This year’s festival is an all-new affair, with a new director and a brand new name, but one thing hasn’t changed: our commitment to delivering an exciting, surprising and wide-ranging programme of events that will have the city reading, talking, listening and debating over nine magical days in May. Whether you want to meet Australia’s greatest living writer, throw yourself into the LA Riots, plunge down the rabbit hole with Alice, find out what life is really like in Guantánamo, discover the secrets of a teenage superspy, make an appointment with the Book Doctor, or understand the crisis in Ukraine, You Complete the Story. I look forward to sharing it with you. Christy Burke Lord Mayor of Dublin Programme Director’s Welcome It’s a great privilege – and great fun – to shape the programme as the International Literature Festival Dublin sets off in new creative directions, and to present dispatches from Turkey, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Finland, South Korea and many more countries, alongside a celebration of Ireland’s finest contemporary writers. Translating literature from one language to another, or from one artform to another, offers a touchstone for the festival, whether in contemporary novels, in classics like Finnegans Wake, or indeed in poems written over a thousand years ago, on which Ireland’s literary heritage rests. I love the buzz of meeting writers from around the world, and I also value the space that literature festivals offer to listen, think, debate and celebrate. I look forward to meeting you here… Martin Colthorpe Programme Director
Event Venue Time Pg Event Venue Time Pg
Sat 16 May Lost in Music with Ryan Gattis The Liquor Rooms 5pm 19
Date with an Agent Belvedere House 10am – 5pm 58 Christian Kracht, Clemens Setz Smock Alley Theatre 6pm 20
& Carmen Stephan:
Craft of Fiction Seminars Irish Writers Centre 10.30am –1.30pm 59 New Writing in German
The Paper Princess The Ark 10.30am & 8 Maurice Riordan, Ciarán Carson Smock Alley Theatre 6pm 21
12.30pm & Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin:
The Finest Music
The Mouse who Ate the Moon: The Ark 11.30am 8
Petr Horáček The Only Jealousy of Emer Henrietta Street 6pm & 8pm 11
Picturing Stories with The Ark 2pm 9 Gavin Corbett & Lisa McInerney Smock Alley Theatre 8pm 22
Chris Haughton
Dublin Book Doctor The Gutter Bookshop 2pm – 6pm 10 Wurm im Apfel Oscars Café Bar 8pm 19
& Hodges Figges
Blue is the Warmest Colour: Irish Film Institute 1.30pm 12 Mon 18 May
Sepideh Jodeyri Talk & Screening Petr Horáček The Ark 10.15am & 62
Elif Shafak Smock Alley Theatre 4pm 12 11.30am
Rumble with the Romans: The Ark 11.15am 62
Sara Baume & Brian Dillon The LAB Gallery 6pm 13 Gary Northfield
Claire-Louise Bennett & Smock Alley Theatre 6pm 13 Scéinséirí Stairiúla / An Siopa Leabhar 6pm 23
Christine Montalbetti Thrilling Histories
The Only Jealousy of Emer Henrietta Street 6pm & 8pm 11 Ryan Gattis Smock Alley Theatre 6pm 24
John Gray Smock Alley Theatre 8pm 14 The Only Jealousy of Emer Henrietta Street 6pm & 8pm 11
Festival Club with Anna Jordan Oscars Café Bar 9pm 56 Poetry Ireland Irish Writers Centre 7pm 24
Introductions Series
Sun 17 May Johann Hari Smock Alley Theatre 8pm 25
Heroes of the Wild: Nicola Davies The Ark 12pm 16
Tue 19 May
Trail Tales The Ark 1pm – 4pm 17 Guantánamo Diary O'Reilly Theatre 6pm 26
Book Clinic: Meet the Book The Ark 1pm – 4pm 16 Oliver Jeffers: Smock Alley Theatre 6.30pm 27
& Doodle Doctors Words and Pictures
Bestselling Besties with The Ark 3pm 17 Poetry Ireland Irish Writers Centre 7pm 24
Judi Curtin & Sarah Webb Introductions Series
Suzanne O'Sullivan Smock Alley Theatre 2pm 15 Cogaí / Wars Smock Alley Theatre 8pm 28
Alice in Wonderland: Smock Alley Theatre 4pm 18 Jon Ronson O'Reilly Theatre 8pm 29
150th Anniversary
Seminars/Workshops Children’s Events Fringe Events
Event Venue Time Pg Event Venue Time Pg
Wed 20 May Sat 23 May
Once Upon an If... The Ark 11.15am 62 Writing Art Criticism with The LAB Gallery 10am – 5pm 61
Paper Visual Art Journal
Thought Stories: The Ark 6pm 30
Philosophy for Mindshift Irish Writers Centre 10.30am – 4.30pm 61
Young Audiences
Story Weavers The Vagabond @ 11am & 3pm 44
The Big Book Club Show Smock Alley Theatre 6pm 31 St Patrick’s Park
European Literature Night Various venues 6.30pm 32 Everyone’s a Translator: The Ark 11.15am 9
Sarah Ardizzone
Paul Muldoon Liberty Hall 8pm 33
A Retelling of Alice in Wonderland The Vagabond @ 1pm 44
Thur 21 May St Patrick’s Park
Bodies That Can Never Tire: Henry Street 8am – 8pm 38 Mr Leon’s Taxi: Sarah Ardizzone The Vagabond @ 2pm 45
The Whole City Must Dance... St Patrick’s Park
City Dreams with Bali Rai Central Library 10.15am 63 Dublin Book Doctor Books Upstairs & 2pm – 6pm 10
Dubray Books
(ILAC Centre)
Eun Hee-kyung Smock Alley Theatre 2pm 43
Killer Cats & Crummy Mummies: Pearse Street Library 10.30am 63
Anne Fine
Azar Nafisi Smock Alley Theatre 4pm 46
Diarmaid Ferriter & Maurice Smock Alley Theatre 6pm 34
Walsh: Writing Revolution Anne Enright Smock Alley Theatre 6pm 47
Poetry Ireland Irish Workman's Club 7pm 24
Introductions Series Alas Awake 13 North Great 7.30pm & 9pm 39
George’s St, D1
Second Book Syndrome Irish Writers Centre 7.30pm 59
Anne Applebaum & Smock Alley Theatre 8pm 48
Alain Mabanckou Smock Alley Theatre 8pm 35 Peter Pomerantsev
Cuisle / Pulse Smock Alley Theatre 8pm 36 Bodies That Can Never Tire RDS Concert Hall 8pm 49
Alexander McCall Smith Smock Alley Theatre 8pm 37 Festival Club with Nialler9 Oscars Café Bar 9pm 57
Alas Awake 13 North Great 9pm 39
Sun 24 May
George’s St, D1
Festival Club with Isobel Anderson Oscars Café Bar 9pm 56 Sofi Oksanen Smock Alley Theatre 12pm 50
Fri 22 May Gerbrand Bakker Smock Alley Theatre 2pm 51
Diversity in Children's Literature The Ark 11am – 1pm 60 Dermot Bolger & Smock Alley Theatre 4pm 52
Christine Dwyer Hickey
Peter Carey Smock Alley Theatre 6pm 40
Deirdre Madden, Selina Guinness Smock Alley Theatre 6pm 53
Cré Na Cille / The Dirty Dust Smock Alley Theatre 8pm 41 & Eoin McNamee:
All Over Ireland
Irvine Welsh Liberty Hall 8pm 42
Alas Awake 13 North Great 7.30pm & 9pm 39
Alas Awake 13 North Great 9pm 39 George’s St, D1
George’s St, D1
Only Himself: A Tribute to O'Reilly Theatre 8pm 55
Festival Club with Dylan Tighe Oscars Café Bar 9pm 57 Dermot Healy
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online www.ilfdublin.com 3 Central Library
Ilac Centre, Henry Street, Dublin 1 17
Festival Box Office 4 Dubray Books
In person & by phone 24 Grafton St, Dublin 2
(only from 9 May – 24 May) 5 Henrietta Street 3
14 Henrietta St, Dublin 1
B Filmbase
6 Hodges Figgis
Curved St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 56-58 Dawson St, Dublin 2
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7 Irish Film Institute
11am – 6pm Mon – Sat 6 Eustace St, Dublin 2
12 – 5pm Sunday
8 Irish Writers Centre
T +353 (0) 1 687 7977
19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
E boxoffice@ilfdublin.com
9 Liberty Hall 2
Festival Bookseller 1 Eden Quay, D1
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The Gutter Bookshop 10 O’Reilly Theatre &
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16-18 Fishamble St, Dublin 8
Festival Administration 11
12 Pearse Street Library
Dublin City Council Arts Office 144 Pearse St, Dublin 2
The Lab, Foley St, Dublin 1
13 RDS Concert Hall
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Merrion Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
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14 Smock Alley Theatre
Exchange St, Lower, Temple Bar, 15
Ticket concessions are available for students, Dublin 8
senior citizens and the unwaged. Subject to
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St. Patrick’s Park
availability. All sales are final. No substitutions Patrick St, Dublin 8
or exchanges. Online and phone bookings are
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The Ark
subject to a €1 booking fee.
11a Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
17 The LAB
Foley St, Dublin 1
18 The Liquor Rooms
7 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 20
19 The Workman’s Club
10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2
20 An Siopa Leabhar
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6 Harcourt St, Dublin 2
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The Paper Picturing Stories
Princess with Chris Haughton
Sat 23 May
Sat 16 &
Date Sat 16 May Tickets €5 (Note: capacity Date Sat 16 May Age 4+
Time 10.30am & 12.30pm is limited to 30 for each Time 2pm Tickets €5
Venue The Ark performance) Venue The Ark
Age 3 – 7
Monkeyshine Theatre Company presents The Paper Princess, a delightful show for younger Join Chris Haughton, author of the award-winning Shh! We Have
children based on the book by Elisa Kleven. A little girl makes a paper princess but, before a Plan (Irish Book Awards), for a mixture of stories, pictures,
she has finished, the princess blows away! Told using a miniature theatre with tiny lights, puppets, action and participation to delight young readers, and
and accompanied by live music, this beautiful story follows the princess’ journey as she tries watch as he brings your ideas to life with live drawing. A favourite
to find her way home. of art and design aficionados, as well as parents, Chris is the
creator of picture books A Little Bit Lost and Oh No, George!
Presented as a birthday party, the performance also includes an opportunity to make your
own paper doll using crayons, sequins and stars, ready to be taken home after the show. A perfect way to celebrate National Drawing Day.
The Mouse Everyone’s a
Who Ate the Moon: Translator with
Petr Horácek Sarah Ardizzone
Date Sat 16 May Age 4+ Date Sat 23 May Age 6+
Time 11.30am Tickets €5 Time 11.15am Tickets €5
Venue The Ark Venue The Ark
When Little Mouse wakes one morning, she finds her dream has Join award-winning translator Sarah Ardizzone for this unique event. In this special
come true. Outside her burrow, a piece of the moon has fallen from workshop, Sarah invites you to help her translate Marjolaine Leray’s witty picture
the sky and it smells delicious. Peep through the cut-out holes in this book Un Petit Chaperon Rouge from the original French into English. But don’t worry
beautiful and heart-warming tale from the much-loved Petr Horáček. – no knowledge of French is required! A fun and stimulating event for everyone aged
After the reading, children can make their own little books to take six and up.
home.
Petr Horáček has won many awards for classics such as Suzy Goose
and A New House for Mouse and was shortlisted for the prestigious
Kate Greenaway Medal in 2012.
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Sat 16, Sun 17, Mon 18
& Sat 23 May
Dublin Book Doctor The Only Jealousy
of Emer
Date Sat 16 May Date Sat 23 May Date Sat 16, Sun 17 & Mon 18 May
Time 2pm – 6pm Time 2pm – 6pm Time 6pm & 8pm
Venue The Gutter Bookshop Venue Books Upstairs & Dubray Books Venue Henrietta Street
& Hodges Figgis Tickets €5 Tickets €10 / €8
Sometimes you just don’t know what to read next. But don’t worry – the Book Doctors Part of the Cúchulainn Cycle of five plays about the life and death of the mythic Irish
are here to help! Drop into our bookshop ‘clinics’ for a consultation with one of our hero, The Only Jealousy of Emer continues Yeats’ experiments with Japanese Noh theatre
highly trained book doctors, including Paul Howard, Sarah Bannan, John Banville, as a way of bringing onto the stage demons, ghosts and supernatural events.
Gavin Corbett, Lisa McInerney, Eoin McNamee and Ryan Tubridy amongst others.
Cúchulainn has killed his son and, in grief, attempts to fight the sea. Half drowned,
Once they’ve taken the pulse of your reading habits, they’ll prescribe a brand new
he lies in a state between life and death with his wife Emer and his mistress Eithne
book-from cookery to crime-that’s guaranteed to be just what you need. Do take a
watching over him. But, as these two women struggle to revive him, is something far
chance on getting a great recommendation from a Book Doctor you might not know.
more sinister about to occur?
All proceeds go to Alone, the independent charity that works with older people in crisis.
Produced by the City Arts Office in association with Yemi and Deji Adenuga for
Presented in association with Dublin Book Doctor volunteers.
Nigerian Carnival Ireland, the production is designed by Robert Ballagh, with
costumes by Marie Tierney and choreography by Liz Roche.
Performers Oluwayomi Ogunyemi
Yemi Adenuga Esosa Ighodaro
Deji Adenuga Penelope Anyaji-Aniuzu
This production has been generously supported and forms part of the National Yeats
2015 programme.
10 11
Blue is the Claire-Louise Bennett
Warmest Colour: & Christine Montalbetti
Sepideh Jodeyri
Talk & Screening
Sat 16 May
Date Sat 16 May Venue Irish Film Institute Date Sat 16 May Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Time 1.30pm Tickets €12 / €10 Time 6pm Tickets €10 / €8
When the poet Sepideh Jodeyri published a Persian translation of Blue is the Warmest This event brings together two writers whose experimental take on narrative is pushing
Colour, a prize-winning graphic novel about a passionate relationship between two fiction in exciting new directions. Claire-Louise Bennett won the inaugural White Review
young women, she faced a campaign of intimidation in her native Iran so fierce it Short Story Prize in 2013 and writes both fiction and creative non-fiction. Her debut
drove her into exile in Prague. In this special event, Jodeyri joins LGBT activist collection of stories, Pond, has just been published. Christine Montalbetti is a professor of
Ailbhe Smyth to explore the cost of freedom of expression in a country where literature at the University of Paris and the author of several scholarly works on narrative.
homosexuality is illegal. The discussion will be followed by a special screening of Blue Her playful and digressive tales like Western (in which the story of a mysterious gunslinger
is the Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche’s adaptation of Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, is continually sidetracked by the viewpoint of passing ants) are finally appearing in English,
which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2013. confirming her reputation as one of the most engaging experimental writers working today.
Presented in association with the Irish Film Institute and Art for Amnesty. Presented in association with the Embassy of France in Ireland.
Elif Shafak Sara Baume
& Brian Dillon
Date Sat 16 May Venue Smock Alley Theatre Date Sat 16 May Venue The LAB Gallery
Time 4pm Tickets €10 / €8 Time 6pm Tickets €10 / €8
“the most exciting Turkish novelist to reach Western readers in years” Art critics don’t always make good novelists (and vice versa), and this event
The Irish Times
explores the challenges of combining the critical and the creative in writing.
Sara Baume studied fine art at Dun Laoghaire before turning to writing, and
The prolific writer and journalist Elif Shafak is one of the most significant voices in her debut novel Spill Simmer Falter Wither has been showered with the sort of
contemporary fiction. An outspoken campaigner and champion of minority rights, she acclaim usually reserved for Booker Prize winners. Brian Dillon is a lecturer at
is not afraid to tackle controversial subjects, from the Armenian genocide in The Bastard the Royal College of Art whose research into ruins produced a critical study, an
of Istanbul, to honour killings in Honour. Her new book, The Architect’s Apprentice, is a exhibition at Tate Britain and the novella Sanctuary. His new novel, The Great
spellbinding magic-realist tale set at the height of Ottoman power and telling the story Explosion, brings to life a forgotten tragedy that took place during the First
of the great imperial architect Mimar Sinan through the eyes of Jahan, a young stowaway World War.
who arrives in Istanbul with nothing but a white elephant in tow. Shafak discusses her new
work with Brendan Barrington, editor of The Dublin Review.
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Sun 17 May
Sat 16 &
John Gray Suzanne O’Sullivan:
It’s All in Your Head
Date Sat 16 May Date Sun 17 May
Time 8pm Time 2pm
Venue Smock Alley Theatre Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Tickets €12 / €10 Tickets €10 / €8
“Gray forces us to face the mirror Anyone who has experienced joy or grief knows the extreme reactions that our bodies
can have to our emotional state. But the phenomenon goes much deeper than we’re
and see ourselves as we are” prepared to admit. Many physical illnesses begin in the mind.
James Lovelock
For twenty years consultant neurologist Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan has worked with
patients with psychogenic disorders – an experience that inspired her controversial new
The acclaimed philosopher, sceptic and writer makes a welcome return to the
book, It’s All in Your Head. In this event, O’Sullivan talks to writer Brian Dillon (author
festival with his new book, The Soul of the Marionette, a characteristically provocative
of The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives) about her book, asking why we continue to
exploration of the nature of human freedom that ranges over everything from
insist on the separation of body and mind – even at the risk of our health.
cybernetics to fairground marionettes. Why do we flatter ourselves that we enjoy free
will, Gray asks, when our actions are determined, directed and restricted by a whole
range of forces: biological, social or metaphysical? Through a dazzling parade of
writers, thinkers and ideas, Gray argues that instead of deluding ourselves about our
true nature we should learn to embrace it.
14 15Heroes of the Wild: Trail Tales
Nicola Davies
Sun 17 May
Date Sun 17 May Age 7 – 10 Date Sun 17 May Age 3 – 9, family friendly
Time 12pm Tickets €5 Time 1pm – 4pm Tickets Free (Drop in)
Venue The Ark Venue The Ark
Did you know that a two-year-old child could crawl through the Become part of a knee-high board game (created by Spanish designers Milimbo) and
arteries of a blue whale? Or that its heart is the same size as a smart create your own fairy tales. As you journey through a cardboard forest, watch out for
car? Meet Nicola Davies as she shares the secrets of her work with The House of the Dwarf, Rapunzel’s Tower and The Lost Mountain. Solve the story
animals from all over the world. Nicola is a trained zoologist, a puzzle and get to the Treasure Chest to make a wish.
former presenter of BBC’s The Really Wild Show, and the award-
Presented in association with Artsadmin and the Bamboo network, supported through the
winning author of The First Book of Nature, The Promise and the
EU Culture Programme.
Heroes of the Wild series. Find out where she gets her inspiration,
ask her all your questions and share stories about your favourite and
not-so-favourite animals!
Book Clinic: Bestselling
Meet the Book Besties:
& Doodle Doctors Judi Curtin
& Sarah Webb
Date Sun 17 May Age All ages Date Sun 17 May Age 8+
Time 1pm – 4pm Tickets Free (Drop in) Time 3pm Tickets €5
Venue The Ark Venue The Ark
Are you a young reader? Feeling uninspired by your bookshelves at home? Then pop Bestselling authors Judi Curtin and Sarah Webb have been friends for many years.
along to the Book Clinic! Parents and children are invited to drop in for an informal Find out where they first met and how they help each other’s writing in this very special
consultation with one of Children’s Books Ireland’s friendly panel of Book Doctors, event. They will also answer all your questions about their brand new books, so don’t forget
ready to offer the best advice to the young readers in your family. to bring your best friend!
First families meet the Doodle Doctors, specialists in making the waiting room more Judi Curtin is the bestselling author of the Alice and Megan series (including Alice to the
fun! Then, when the Book Doctor is ready, the consultation begins. When the Book Rescue and Viva Alice!). She is also the author of the Eva series, including her latest book,
Doctor has made their diagnosis he/she writes a prescription for your local library or Only Eva. Sarah Webb’s first book in her new children’s series, The Songbird Cafe Girls:
bookshop, and every patient leaves with their own personalised Reading Passport! Mollie Cinnamon is Not a Cupcake, has recently been published. She is also the author of
the Ask Amy Green series and many other children’s books.
16 17Lost in Music
with Ryan Gattis
Sun 17 May
Date Sun 17 May Venue The Liquor Rooms
Time 5pm Tickets €5
In the age of Spotify and iTunes, the mixtape – that personal collection of favourite
songs – has all but vanished from our lives. But, for many writers, mixtapes are still
central to their work: a source of inspiration and the soundtrack to their stories. In this
one-off event for ILF Dublin, Ryan Gattis presents Lost in Music: a musical journey
through his acclaimed new novel All Involved, a kaleidoscopic tale of race, revenge and
Alice in Wonderland: loyalty set during the 1992 LA Riots (see page 24). Ryan plays the songs that feature
in the novel – everything from Cypress Hill to The Supremes – and explains how they
150th Anniversary with inspired the characters and scenes.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst,
Fiona Shaw & Vanessa Tait
Date Sun 17 May
Time 4pm
Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Wurm im Apfel
Tickets €12 / €10
It’s 150 years since an obscure English writer called Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
published the curious tale of a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole under the
pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Since then, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been through
more than 100 editions, sold millions of copies worldwide, been translated into 174
languages, and is now widely acknowledged as a timeless classic. Join us for this special Date Sun 17 May Venue Oscars Café Bar, Fishamble St
event of live readings, debate and celebration, featuring Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Time 8pm Tickets €5
author of a new biography of Carroll, actress Fiona Shaw, who has recorded readings of
the book for the BBC and Vanessa Tait, the great-granddaughter of Alice Liddell, the Wurm im apfel is a Dublin-based poetry organisation co-founded by Kit Fryatt and
girl who inspired the Alice character, and the author of The Looking Glass House. Dylan Harris. Taking its name from a poem by the late German artist and writer
Reinhard Döhl, Wurm presents fresh, unusual or experimental poetry to audiences all
over Dublin and beyond. This special event for ILF Dublin offers an eclectic mix of
music and experimental poetry from a wealth of talent, including performance poet
Máighréad Medbh and sound/performance artist Vicky Langan.
18 19Sun 17 May
Christian Kracht, Clemens Setz Maurice Riordan, Ciarán Carson
& Carmen Stephan: & Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin:
New Writing in German The Finest Music
Date Sun 17 May Date Sun 17 May
Time 6pm Time 6pm
Venue Smock Alley Theatre (Boy’s School) Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Tickets €10 / €8 Tickets €12 / €10
The German-speaking world is producing some of the most exciting writers working Three of our best poets join forces for this unique event exploring the ancient poems
today. This special event brings showcases the depth of talent with three leading on which Ireland’s rich literary heritage rests. Maurice Riordan is the driving force
writers from Austria, Germany, Switzerland. behind The Finest Music, a recent anthology that gathers Riordan’s own translations
of medieval Irish poems alongside versions by everyone from Tennyson and Auden
Through novels such as Faserland, Swiss novelist Christian Kracht has established
to Heaney and Muldoon, as well as fresh interpretations by acclaimed contemporary
himself as one of the foremost German-language writers, a master of irony, ambiguity
poets like Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Ciarán Carson, both of whom join Riordan
and suggestion. German writer Carmen Stephan’s first novel, Mal Aria, won a clutch
onstage. Featuring readings in both Irish and English, lively debate and music from
of prestigious awards, including the Jürgen Ponto-Siftung Literature Prize and the
Ciarán Carson himself, this is an unmissable celebration.
Buddenbrookhaus Debut, while Clemens Setz is an award-winning Austrian novelist,
twice nominated for the German Book Prize, whose psychological thriller Indigo was Presented in association with Poetry Ireland.
translated into English last year.
This event is presented in association with the Austrian Embassy Dublin,
the Goethe-Institut Irland and the Embassy of Switzerland in Ireland.
20 21Mon 18 May
Sun 17 &
Gavin Corbett & Scéinséirí Stairiúla /
Lisa McInerney Thrilling Histories
Date Sun 17 May Dáta / Date Mon 18 May
Time 8pm Am / Time 6pm
Venue Smock Alley Theatre Ionad / Venue An Siopa Leabhar
Tickets €12 / €10 Áirithint / Tickets €5
“[Gavin Corbett is] a wonderful “[Lisa McInerney is] totally and Tá an-éileamh go deo ar fhicsean stairiúil le blianta beaga anuas agus tá an tóir chéanna air
as Gaeilge agus atá air as Béarla. Bígí linn le haghaidh díospóireacht bhríomhar phainéil
new voice” unmistakably the real deal”
le Cathal Póirtéir mar chathaoirleach uirthi ina ndéanfar plé ar chuile rud ó Chath
Joseph O’Neill Kevin Barry Fontenoy go húrscéalta bleachtaireachta atá spreagtha ag gnéithe áirithe den stair. I measc
na bpainéalaithe beidh Liam Mac Cóil, údar Fontenoy, a bhí ar ghearrliosta na Comhairle
This event brings together two of the most exciting and original new voices in Irish Ealaíona le déanaí le haghaidh an Laureate i gComhair Ficsean Éireannach, Darach Ó
fiction to discuss their work with RTÉ’s Paula Shields. Scolaí, údar An Cléireach a bhuaigh Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin, Gradam Leabhar na Bliana
“Every sentence throbs with power” wrote Emma Donoghue of This is the Way, i 2008 agus Seán Ó Dúrois, údar Rí na gCearrbhach agus Crann Smóla.
Gavin Corbett’s award-winning debut. His new work, Green Glowing Skull, is a Historical fiction has stormed the bookshelves in recent years and is as popular in the Irish
delirious comedy set in Manhattan, where a young Irish immigrant arrives with language as in English. Join us for a lively panel, chaired by Cathal Póirtéir, that will discuss
dreams of reinventing himself as a tenor. everything from the Battle of Fontenoy to historically inspired detective novels. Panelists
Lisa McInerney’s blog about life on a Galway council estate prompted The Irish Times include: Liam Mac Cóil, recently shortlisted for the Arts Council’s Irish Fiction Laureate
to describe her as “the most talented writer at work today in Ireland”. Her first novel, and author of Fontenoy; Darach Ó Scolaí, author of An Cléireach which won Gradam Uí
The Glorious Heresies, delivers on that promise with a darkly comic tale of five post- Shúilleabháin Book of the Year Award in 2008; and Seán Ó Dúrois (Rí na gCearrbhach
boom misfits drawn together by murder. and Crann Smola).
Curtha i bhur láthair i gcomhar le hÁras na Scríbhneoirí agus IMRAM.
Presented in assocation with the Irish Writers Centre and IMRAM.
22 23Ryan Gattis
Mon 18 May
Date Mon 18 May Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Time 6pm Tickets €12 / €10
In April 1992, the acquittal of three white police officers accused
of beating black teenager Rodney King sparked frenzied rioting in
South Central Los Angeles. Out of this chaos, novelist, lecturer and
graffiti artist Ryan Gattis has woven one of the novels of the year: an
adrenaline-fuelled story of race, revenge and loyalty that follows the
intersecting lives of a huge cast of Chicano gangsters, drug dealers,
graffiti artists, medics and Korean vigilantes over six terrifying days.
Johann Hari
Gattis explores how he came to write this coruscating portrait of a
multi-ethnic city in revolt.
Date Mon 18 May
Time 8pm
Poetry Ireland Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Introductions Series Tickets €12 / €10
“Johann Hari’s book is the perfect antidote to the war on drugs,
one of the most under-discussed moral injustices of our time”
Glenn Greenwald
Date Mon 18 & Tue 19 May Date Thur 21 May
Venue Irish Writers Centre Venue Workman’s Club To mark the 100th anniversary of the first drugs ban in the United States, award-
Time 7pm Time 7pm winning British journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic journey across the world
Tickets €8 / €5 (to book visit poetryireland.ie) and into the war on drugs. Meeting the people whose lives have been devastated – in
different ways – by drugs, Hari made some astonishing discoveries: drugs are not what
Since its establishment in 1989, Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series has offered talented we think they are, and the war on drugs has very different motives from the ones we see
emerging poets a chance to showcase their work. Many acclaimed poets have come on TV. The result was Chasing the Scream, a New York Times bestseller and a passionate
through this series including Enda Wyley, Kerry Hardie, Alan Jude Moore, Pat Boran and and timely intervention into one of the most controversial questions of our time.
Caoilinn Hughes. This year, the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series teams up with the Irish
Writers Centre, The Workman’s Club and ILF Dublin to reveal 16 promising new voices
over three cabaret-style evenings that also feature specially selected accompaniment from
emerging musicians, singers and songwriters.
Poetry Ireland in association with the Irish Writers Centre, The Workman’s Club and
International Literature Festival Dublin presents Poetry Ireland Introductions Series 2015.
24 25Tue 19 May
Guantánamo Diary: Oliver Jeffers:
Nancy Hollander & Larry Siems Words and Pictures
Date Tue 19 May Date Tue 19 May
Time 6pm Time 6.30pm
Venue O’Reilly Theatre Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Tickets €15 / €12.50 Tickets €8 / €5
“the most profound account yet written of “Jeffers’s illustrations delight, inspire and
what it is like to be … collateral damage” surprise with their variety and ingenuity”
The New York Times The Guardian
Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary is one of the global publishing events of the Born in Australia, brought up in Northern Ireland and now living in New York, Oliver
year. Handwritten from his cell in 2005, and published after years of legal wrangling, it Jeffers’ work takes many forms. His distinctive paintings have been exhibited all over
describes the ordeal of a man who, despite never being charged, has spent fourteen years the world. Oliver’s picture books have been translated into over 30 languages and
in the prison, subjected to endless forms of torture under Donald Rumsfeld’s “special include Lost & Found, Stuck, The Hueys, The Incredible Book Eating Boy, The Great Paper
interrogation plan”. Caper, This Moose Belongs to Me, The Day the Crayons Quit written by Drew Daywalt,
and his most recent book Once Upon an Alphabet. He won an Emmy in 2010 for his
Larry Siems, the book’s editor, joins Nancy Hollander, Slahi’s attourney (and one of
collaborative work with MacPremo, with whom he co-directed the U2 video Ordinary
the few people to have got to know Slahi since his incarceration), to discuss how Slahi
Love in 2013. For a unique insight into his life and work, join him for a whistle-stop
wrote the book and what life is like in an institution that President Obama promised to
tour around the world of Oliver Jeffers.
close. The event is chaired by Carole Coleman, journalist and author, and RTÉ’s former
Washington correspondent, who reported from Guantánamo shortly after it was opened
and who challenged George Bush on the conditions at the prison in a live interview.
Featuring live and recorded readings by actors and writers, Guantánamo Diary is one of the
festival’s must-see events.
26 27Tue 19 May
Cogaí / Wars Jon Ronson
Date Tue 19 May Date Tue 19 May
Time 8pm Time 8pm
Venue Smock Alley Theatre (Boy’s School) Venue O’Reilly Theatre
Tickets €10 / €8 Tickets €15 / €12.50
Damhsa, ceol, prós, íomhánna ar scáileán – léiriú ar an gcogaíocht agus ar an bhforéigean “my God, he is funny”
síoraí, bunaithe ar chnuasach gearrscéalta den teideal céanna le Dáithí Ó Muirí. Páirteach
The Observer
ann tá Fearghus Ó Conchúir, rinceoir agus fear cóirithe rince, giotáraí agus cumadóir Enda
Reilly, agus Margaret Lonergan a bheidh i mbun na n-íomhánna scáileáin. Coimeádaí an
Jon Ronson is one of the most original (and funniest) investigative journalists
tionscadail: Liam Carson, IMRAM Féile Litríochta Gaeilge.
working today. Whether hanging out with the Klu Klux Klan in Them, exploring
Exploring the theme of unending war and violence, Cogaí is a stunning multi-media the US military’s fascination with the paranormal in The Men Who Stare at Goats, or
show that fuses dance, music, prose and screen projections – and is based on the short attending a UFO convention with Robbie Williams in Lost at Sea, his work exposes
story collection of the same title by Dáithí Ó Muirí. It features acclaimed dancer and the paranoid, the deluded and the bizarre. But in his new book, So You’ve Been Publicly
choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchúir, guitarist and composer Enda Reilly and screen Shamed, Ronson tells the stories of ordinary people with ordinary flaws – people who,
projections created by Margaret Lonergan. Curated by Liam Carson, IMRAM Irish after making mistakes, have found themselves at the centre of a social media storm.
Language Literature Festival. The age of Twitter is often said to have democratised justice but what, asks Ronson, if
‘justice’ really means ‘the mob’?
The event will be chaired by Today FM presenter Anton Savage.
28 29Wed 20 May
Thought Stories: The Big Book Club Show
Philosophy for Young Audiences
Date Wed 20 May Date Wed 20 May
Time 6pm Time 6pm
Venue The Ark Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Tickets €5 Tickets €12 / €10
Philosophy will be introduced into secondary schools from 2017, and many argue for Ever wondered how to write the perfect thriller? Or perhaps you’re a culture vulture
its formal introduction to primary schools. who knows a lot about books? If so, The Big Book Club Show is for you!
Thought Stories explores the potential of literature to introduce philosophy and In the first part of the show, Irish Times Digital Editor Hugh Linehan talks to acclaimed
critical thinking to children and young people, and will be of interest to parents, thriller writers Liz Nugent (Unravelling Oliver) and Sinéad Crowley (Can Anybody Help
educators and literature-lovers alike. Me?), asking how they went about creating characters who do terrible things.
Peter Worley is Co-Founder and CEO of The Philosophy Foundation and President In part two, The Big Book Club Quiz offers you a chance to test your literary knowledge
of SOPHIA, the European Foundation for the Advancement of Doing Philosophy against a team of experts captained by Hugh Linehan, and a crack book club squad
with Children. He is also an award-winning author of The If Machine. captained by comedian and writer Colm O’Regan. Hosted with irrepressible cheek by
Stephen Faloon, manager of the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, who likes to award bonus
Anne Fine is one of Britain’s most distinguished writers for both adults and children,
points for clever answers and whisk them away for mistakes, The Big Book Club Show
twice voted UK Children’s Author of the Year. Anne was UK Children’s Laureate
is a fast, fun and competitive night. You might even win a prize!
from 2001 to 2003. She set up www.myhomelibrary.org, to inspire children to form
their own home libraries.
Dr Philomena Donnelly (chair) introduced Philosophy With Children into Irish
primary schools in 1989 and since then has been an advocate of having philosophy in
the form of Socratic dialogue present at all levels of education.
30 31Wed 20 May
Words on the Street Paul Muldoon
European Literature Night
Date Wed 20 May Date Wed 20 May
Time 6.30pm – 8.30pm Time 8pm
Venue Various venues Venue Liberty Hall
Tickets Free Tickets €12 / €10
Try a taste of contemporary European writing on a literary trail around hidden, and “the definitive 21st century poet”
not-so-hidden, architectural gems from Parnell Square to North Great George’s
The Irish Times
Street. Listen to the best modern writing from 12 countries read by Irish (and a Scot)
celebrities – Alexander McCall Smith, Síle Seoige, Aidan Power, Mary Kennedy
New Weather, Paul Muldoon’s debut collection (published when he was just 20
and many more in places such as Belvedere House, Findlater’s Church, DARC Space,
years old), prompted Seamus Heaney to describe him as “the most promising poet
ICTU HQ. Pick up a programme from local libraries, venues and tourist offices.
to appear in Ireland for years”. 42 years later, that promise has been amply fulfilled.
www.dublincityofliterature.ie Muldoon is a master of language and form, a Pulitzer Prize-winner celebrated for
his linguistic dexterity, his technical brilliance and his ability to make connections
between the unlikeliest of things. All those skills are on display in this special event
for ILF Dublin, in which Muldoon showcases One Thousand Things Worth Knowing,
his acclaimed new collection that “anyone interested in new writing will want to read”
(The Irish Times).
Presented in association with Poetry Ireland.
32 33Thur 21 May
Diarmaid Ferriter Alain Mabanckou
& Maurice Walsh:
Writing Revolution
Date Thur 21 May Date Thur 21 May
Time 6pm Time 8pm
Venue Smock Alley Theatre Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Tickets €10 / €8 Tickets €10 / €8
Three years into the ‘decade of centenaries’, and with the hundredth anniversary of the “one of the continent’s greatest writers”
Easter Rising rapidly approaching, ILF Dublin brings together two leading historians
The Guardian
whose work offers fresh perspectives on the most dramatic years in Irish history.
Diarmaid Ferriter’s “magisterial” (Irish Independent) new book, A Nation and Not a
Novelist, poet and essayist Alain Mabanckou has been shortlisted for the Man Booker
Rabble, draws on newly released archive materials to tell the stories of the ordinary
International Prize 2015, and is one of the most celebrated Francophone writers of
men and women who lived and fought in the revolutionary years, while Maurice
our times, feted for his intoxicating mix of Congolese rhythms and Parisian slang. In
Walsh’s Bitter Freedom restores the conflict to its international context, showing how
a string of award-winning novels such as Broken Glass and African Psycho, Mabanckou
the Irish revolution was at the forefront of a global movement for independence.
displays a flair for exuberant satire that has led him to be dubbed Africa’s Samuel
The event will be chaired by Catriona Crowe. Beckett. Fresh from the World Voice Festival in New York, Mabanckou reflects on
his work in the company of award-winning translator Sarah Ardizzone, and talks
about The Lights of Pointe-Noire, a memoir about his return to the Congo and a tender
reflection on the meaning of home.
Presented in association with the Embassy of France in Ireland.
34 35Thur 21 May
Cuisle: Tionscadal Dordfhilíochta / Alexander McCall Smith
Pulse: The Poems and Bass Project
Date Thur 21 May Date Thur 21 May
Time 8pm Time 8pm
Venue Smock Alley Theatre (Boy’s School) Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Tickets €10 / €8 Tickets €12 / €10
Oíche speisialta ina mbeidh filí ag léamh/rapáil/caint is gan de thionlacan acu ach “McCall Smith is a literary phenomenon”
dordghiotáir. I measc na bhfilí beidh Marcus Mac Conghail, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh,
The Daily Telegraph
Liam Ó Muirthile, agus Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin. Is iad na hoirfidigh ar an
ngiotár ná Martin Brunsden (a sheinn le leithéidí Sinéad O’Connor, P J Harvey agus
It’s 15 years since The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency introduced the world to Precious
Iarla Ó Lionáird), Neville Lloyd agus Eoin O’Brien. Coimeádaí an tionscadail:
Ramotswe, Botswana’s leading (in fact, only) female PI. Since then her creator,
Liam Carson, IMRAM Féile Litríochta Gaeilge.
Alexander McCall Smith, has become one of the UK’s best-loved authors, selling over
A magical night in which poets read/rap/talk to the sole accompaniment of bass 20 million books, launching several successful new series (including Scotland Street),
guitars, both acoustic and electric. Poets include Marcus Mac Conghail, Ailbhe and becoming perhaps the second most famous resident of Edinburgh’s New Town
Ní Ghearbhuigh, Liam Ó Muirthile and Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin. The bass (where JK Rowling also lives). In this special event, McCall Smith comes to Dublin
players are Martin Brunsden (who has played with Sinéad O’Connor, P J Harvey to talk about the characters and themes that have won him millions of readers all over
and Iarla Ó Lionáird), Neville Lloyd and Eoin O’Brien. Curated by Liam Carson, the world.
IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival.
Presented in association with the British Council.
36 37Thur 21, Fri 22, Sat 23
& Sun 24 May
Bodies That Can Never Tire Alas Awake
The Whole City Must Dance –
The Whole City Must Bid!
Date Thur 21 May Date Thur 21 & Fri 22 May Time 9pm
Time 8am – 8pm Date Sat 23 & Sun 24 May Time 7.30pm & 9pm
Venue Henry Street Venue 13 North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1
Tickets All Welcome Tickets €12 / €10
The first of two events in honour of WB Yeats’ 150th birthday – and inspired by his Drawing on contemporary choral work, collage, improvisation, live electronics
famous lines, ‘That he follow with desire/Bodies that can never tire’ – Bodies That Can and installation this ambitious project is an abstract homage to one of literature’s
Never Tire: The Whole City Must Dance – the Whole City Must Bid! is an all-day dance great works of abstraction. The acclaimed composer and performer Seán Mac
marathon taking place on Henry Street, one of Dublin’s major shopping streets. Erlaine presents a new site-specific setting of Finnegans Wake for improvising choir,
woodwinds, electronics and film.
Part of Dublin’s bid to be European Capital of Culture 2020, this event extends an
invitation to Dublin’s dancers to mix contemporary, hip-hop, ballet, tap, jazz (and Presented as a theatre-style promenade piece, audiences will be led through an
everything in between) in an exuberant celebration of movement, creativity and dance. abandoned Georgian residence in a heightened environment conjuring the world and
All dance groups, amateur or professional, in any form, are welcome. Groups wishing to epoch of Joyce’s Dublin.
participate should contact dance@Dublin2020.ie. More details will be available online at
These innovative artists will work with the poetic elements of the book, without an
www.dublin2020.ie.
overt attempt to translate the text, creating an atmospheric sound-and-image world
Bodies That Can Never Tire: The Whole City Must Dance – the Whole City Must Bid! is a both immersive and beautiful.
collaboration between Dublin2020, International Literature Festival Dublin, Dublin
Clarinets, electronics, composition: Seán Mac Erlaine
Dance Festival and Dublin Town.
Vocals: Dorothy Murphy, Georgia Cusack, Sue Rynhart and Tuula Voutilainen
Free Event – all donations and fundraising proceeds go to Temple Street Children’s Hospital. Film: Donal Dineen; Lighting: John Crudden; Producer: Jen Coppinger
Photo: Dublin Youth Dance Co. Photographer Karla Holden. Presented with support by the Arts Council, Dublin City Council, Rough Magic Production
Support and James Joyce Centre.
38 39Fri 22 May
Peter Carey Cré Na Cille: Tionscadal an
Chadhnaigh / The Dirty Dust:
The Ó Cadhain Project
Bi-lingual event
Date Fri 22 May Date Fri 22 May
Time 6pm Time 8pm
Venue Smock Alley Theatre Venue Smock Alley Theatre (Boy’s School)
Tickets €12 / €10 Tickets €10 / €8
“Carey can do anything” Is dóigh le cách gurb é Cré na Cille príomhúrscéal na Gaeilge. Faoin bhfód atá na
carachtair ach leanann siad leo ag cabaireacht agus ag tabhairt amach an t-am ar fad,
The Independent
an chúlchaint chéanna a bhí ar siúl acu i dtír na mbeo. Is é atá sa seó ilmheánach
dhátheangach seo ná an leagan spleodrach fódúil a rinne Alan Titley den úrscéal,
Peter Carey is one of only three writers to have won the Booker Prize twice. In a career
The Dirty Dust, agus Graveyard Clay, leagan sofaisticiúil den úrscéal a rinne Liam Mac
spanning forty years he has turned his hand to a remarkable range of genres, from
Con Iomaire i gcomhar le Tim Robinson agus a fhoilseofar go luath. Chum Colm
historical fiction (The True History of the Kelly Gang) to futuristic burlesque (The Unusual
Ó Snodaigh ceol le haghaidh an léirithe, míreanna a sheinnfidh sé féin. Margaret
Life of Tristan Smith), infusing every novel with ferocious energy and wit. He talks to RTÉ
Lonergan a bheidh i mbun na n-íomhánna ar scáileán. Coimeádaí an tionscadail:
Arena presenter Seán Rocks about Amnesia, his rapturously received new book, tells the
Liam Carson, IMRAM Féile Litríochta Gaeilge.
story of Felix Moore, a down-at-heel journalist commissioned to write the biography of
‘Angel’, a cyber-activist on trial for unleashing a virtual ‘worm’ that throws open the doors Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille is consistently ranked as the most important novel
of prisons all over the world. in Irish. Its characters all lie dead in the graveyard, but continue the banter, backbiting
and petty gossip that characterized their lives. This multi-media bi-lingual show
features brilliant English versions by Alan Titley, from his just-published translation
The Dirty Dust, and by Liam Mac Con Iomaire, who has collaborated with Tim
Robinson on their forthcoming version, Graveyard Clay. The show features music
composed and performed by Colm Ó Snodaigh, and screen projections by Margaret
Lonergan. Curated by Liam Carson, IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival.
40 41Sat 23 May
Fri 22 &
Irvine Welsh Eun Hee-kyung
Date Fri 22 May Date Sat 23 May
Time 8pm Time 2pm
Venue Liberty Hall Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Tickets €12 / €10 Tickets Free (booking essential)
“you never know what you’re going to get with Eun Hee-kyung is one of Korea’s most distinguished writers, long celebrated for her
unique voice, sophisticated cynicism and biting humour. In a career spanning twenty
Irvine Welsh, other than guaranteed intelligence” years she has published three acclaimed novels and several short story collections,
The Observer exploring themes such as the impossibility of true human communication. She has
received many of South Korea’s highest awards, including the Yi Sang Literary Award,
Irvine Welsh has created some of the most memorable characters in recent British and with works translated into English, French, German and other languages, is
fiction, including Begbie, the charismatic psychopath of Trainspotting; Bruce rapidly gaining admirers in the West. Eun joins Martina Devlin to read from her
Robertson, the cross-dressing alcoholic police detective in Filth; and Lucy Brennan, work and explore some of the themes that inspire her.
the crazed fitness trainer of The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins. In his new novel, A Decent
Ride – packed with his usual razor-sharp dialogue, black humour and zest for breaking Presented by the Korean Embassy in Ireland and Literature Translation Institute of Korea
taboos – Welsh reintroduces one of his most popular characters: ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, in association with International Literature Festival Dublin.
the uncontrollably libidinous drug dealer, taxi driver and self-styled “gonzo porn
star” first encountered in Glue, who finds himself investigating the whereabouts of
a missing beauty. Welsh discusses Lawson’s return with journalist and broadcaster
Sinéad Gleeson.
42 43Sat 23 May
The Vagabond @ St Patrick’s Park
Date Sat 23 May A Retelling of Alice in Wonderland
Time 11am – 4pm
Time 1pm
Venue St Patrick’s Park
Tickets Free (booking essential) Gather around the hearth to hear a story inspired by Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland, with live music and some beautiful
The Vagabond, Monkeyshine’s wondering venue, is coming to surprises. This promises to be a magical experience for people
St Patrick’s Park, bringing with it some beautiful stories old of all ages.
and new. The Vagabond is a place for families to gather and
enjoy some of the simple things in life: stories, music, nature
and good company.
Enjoy wonderfully relaxed, free family events throughout
the day in the quiet heart of the city. Situated beside the Mr Leon’s Taxi: Sarah Ardizzone
impressive St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the park also boasts a
Time 2pm
children’s playground, café and literary parade.
Mr Leon, the flamboyant taxi-driver created by French
illustrator Barroux, travels the world without ever leaving his
Story Weavers: home city of Paris. But, as a special favour to The Vagabond, he’s
Find your own Wonderland driving his taxi to Dublin. Now it’s your turn to step inside and
spin us a short yarn about your own taxi ride – real or imaginary.
Time 11am & 3pm The big question is: where are you going? Hop in and tell Mr
Leon where to take you, and watch you journey being illustrated
Join the Story Weavers as they prepare to weave a story. There’s before your eyes.
a basket for everyone to gather inspiration and then it’s back to
the Story Tent to weave a brand new story! Where might you
find your own magical opening into wonderland? Presented in association with Dublin City Council Parks and Landscapes Service.
44 45Sat 23 May
Azar Nafisi: Anne Enright
The Republic of the Imagination
Date Sat 23 May Date Sat 23 May
Time 4pm Time 6pm
Venue Smock Alley Theatre Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Tickets €10 / €8 Tickets €12 / €10
“her words are essential” “Anne Enright is the perfect writer for our times”
Marjane Satrapi Nuala Ní Chonchúir
In 1995 Azar Nafisi left her job as a lecturer in Tehran to become a private tutor, In January, when Anne Enright was chosen as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction,
teaching controversial literary classics to a small group of students from her home. few people were surprised. Since The Portable Virgin, Enright has built a reputation
She turned that experience into Reading Lolita in Tehran, an uplifting exploration of as a writer of astonishing range, equally at home writing a bestselling memoir of
the power of fiction that won a clutch of literary prizes and sold 1.5 million copies motherhood (Making Babies), a bawdy historical novel (The Pleasures of Eliza Lynch)
worldwide. Her latest book, The Republic of the Imagination, focuses on classic American or a coruscating dissection of the boom years (The Forgotten Waltz). Her Man Booker
fiction, and the imaginative freedom that great novels can provide in the twenty-first Prize-winning novel The Gathering explored the grief of one family at their brother’s
century. She discusses her writing with Selina Guinness. wake, and her new novel, The Green Road, considers another gathering of sorts, when
the children of an ailing matriarch return home for a final Christmas together.
Programmed in association with Art for Amnesty.
46 47Sat 23 May
Anne Applebaum & Bodies That Can Never Tire
Peter Pomerantsev:
Faultline: Russia & Ukraine
Date Sat 23 May Date Sat 23 May
Time 8pm Time 8pm
Venue Smock Alley Theatre Venue RDS Concert Hall
Tickets €12 / €10 Tickets €20 / €18
“[Iron Curtain is] exceptionally “[Nothing is True and Everything “That he follow with desire
important, wise, perceptive, is Possible is] a riveting portrait of
remarkably objective” the new Russia”
Bodies that can never tire”
Antony Beevor Tina Brown In WB Yeats’ great play, An Baile Strand, Cuchulain is asked to take an oath to defend the
country. Against his will he agrees and sings the oath, including the lines above. Being half
With relations between Russia and the West at their worst since the end of the Cold man, half god, Cuchulain himself is a ‘body that can never tire’, but in these lines Yeats
War, ILF Dublin brings together two leading writers to examine the geopolitical fault focuses on the artist’s inner drive to satisfy dreams, visions and supernatural impulses.
lines exposed by the crisis in Ukraine. These ‘bodies that can never tire’ are different for everybody and fuel ambition, obsession
Historian and Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum is one of the world’s and revolution. They are central to artistic creation.
leading intellectuals and an acknowledged expert on the Soviet era. Her bestselling In celebration of Yeats’ 150 birthday, ILF Dublin presents the second of two special
study Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2004 events inspired by Yeats’ words. Bodies That Can Never Tire gathers some of Ireland’s
and her latest book, Iron Curtain, has been hailed as a masterpiece by reviewers. most remarkable figures – from community activists to hip-hop artists, social justice
Peter Pomerantsev spent many years working as a TV producer in Moscow and his campaigners to poets – to explore what Yeats’ vision means to them. Featuring readings,
book, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, delivers a devastating (and strangely music, poetry and dance, Bodies That Can Never Tire is a unique celebration of the legacy of
entertaining) critique of the Putin era. Ireland’s great national poet in aid of Temple Street Children’s University Hospital.
48 49Sun 24 May
Sofi Oksanen Gerbrand Bakker
Date Sun 24 May Date Sun 24 May
Time 12pm Time 2pm
Venue Smock Alley Theatre Venue Smock Alley Theatre
Tickets €10 / €8 Tickets €10 / €8
“a literary phenomenon” “an assured and mature new voice ... in European fiction”
The Times The Guardian
Sofi Oksanen has long been celebrated in her native Finland. But it was her With just two novels (IMPAC-winning The Twin and The Detour, which won
bestselling novel Purge, a dazzling tale of two generations of Estonia women grappling the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), Dutch novelist Gerbrand Bakker has
with Soviet occupation and the sudden freedoms of the 1990s, that shot her to established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary European fiction.
international fame. She talks to award-winning Soviet historian Anne Applebaum His work – spare, unsentimental and rooted in sensory descriptions of place – often
about When the Doves Disappeared, a new novel that tells the gripping story of two maps the territory of grief, and his new novel, June, is no exception. When Anna
cousins – principled freedom fighter Roland and slippery Edgar – whose paths cross Kaan, grandmother of the Kaan clan, retreats into the family hayloft with a bottle
in the 1960s, when Edgar is a communist apparatchik desperate to conceal his past. of Advocaat and stubbornly refuses to come down, her protest gradually exposes the
impact of one terrible day, forty years before, on three generations of lives. Bakker
discusses June with journalist and broadcaster Mick Heaney.
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