Dublin Writers Festival

What is it all about? Irish and international writers and poets explore themes including war, loss, national identity and modern Irish values.

In a special piece for the 2009 festival brochure Colm Tóibín remarks that an intimate and nourishing relationship has developed over the last two decades in Ireland between writers and readers and that books festivals have played an important role in nurturing that relationship.  Whereas ordinarily a book presents, for both writers and readers, a one-to-one relationship, within the context of a festival it becomes a communal experience.  And it’s that sense of being part of a writing and reading community that makes live literature and book festivals such a joy. Click here to read on…

Who? Ian McEwan Stewart Brand David Mitchell Antony Beevor Dermot Bolger Biddy Jenkinson Máighréad Medbh Liam Ó Muirthile Joseph O'Connor Paul Brady Jennifer Johnston Neil Hannon John Lynch Paul Murray Anne Enright Natasha Walter Susan McKay Sarah Bakewell Declan Kiberd Ruth Padel Hanif Kureishi Yann Martel Tom Murphy Seamus Heaney Derek Mahon Ciaran Carson Vona Groarke Michael Coady Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin John Montague Dermot Healy Medbh McGuckian Gerald Dawe Alan Gillis Peter Fallon

Where? Various locations, Dublin

When? 2- 6 June

How much? 8.00 - 20.00 Euro

Past Festivals?

SEAMUS HEANEY, MELVYN BRAGG, STEVE TOLTZ, KATE SUMMERSCALE, VAL MCDERMID, WILLIAM FIENNES, PETER MURPHY, AIFRIC CAMPBELL, ED O'LOUGHLIN, SIMON SCHAMA, ANNE MICHAELS, ZOË HELLER, GEOFF DYER, COLM TÓIBÍN, JULIA O'FAOLAIN, CLAIRE KILROY, CHRISTINE DWYER HICKEY, MJ HYLAND, PAULA MEEHAN, LEANNE O'SULLIVAN, SHANE CONAUGHTON, JOE QUEENAN, BRENDAN KENNELLY, SARAH WATERSTom Stoppard, J. P. Donleavy, Ivana Bacik, Roy Foster, Alan Gilsenan and David McWilliams, Catherine McCartney, Carlo Gébler, Susan McKay and Patrick Maguire, David Grossman, Kathy Lette, Marian Keyes, Ian Rankin, Colin Bateman

Festival website: www.dublinwritersfestival.com