Dublin Writers Festival

Plan out your Festival shows by time and day

43 writers. 25 events. 7 days. There’s a lot to fit in this festival!

If you haven’t picked up one of our programmes yet, you can download it as a PDF here.

However, if you’re planning your week and wondering what to see, I hope this will help you:

ON MY LUNCH BREAK

Tuesday 24 May | Liberty Hall | 12.30 pm | €8/€5
Sky Arts Book Show with Mariella Frostrup, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and John Boyne

STRAIGHT AFTER WORK

Tuesday 24 May | Liberty Hall | 6 pm | €8/€5
Sky Arts Book Show with Mariella Frostrup, Colm Tóibín, Rebecca Miller and Liz Lochhead

Thursday 26 May | Samuel Beckett Theatre | 6pm | €10/€8
Firsts: John Butler and Kevin Barry, chaired by Chris Binchy

Thursday 26 May | The Ark | 6:30pm | €10/ €8
Panel: What Makes a Great Childrens Book? with Siobhan Parkinson, Anna Carey, Padraic Whyte and Kim Harte

Friday 27 May | Liberty Hall | 6pm | €10/€8
Paul Harding and John Boyne with Niall MacMonagle

Friday 27 May | Goethe Institute | 6:30pm | €10/€8
Orpheus Sings: The Rilke Project with Peter Jankowski, Celia de Freine, Eva Bourke, Cormac de Barra and Margaret Lonergan

EVENING EVENTS

Monday 23 May | Samuel Beckett Theatre | 7.30pm | €12/€10
The Jekyll and Hyde Inheritance (a celebration of Edinburgh): Louise Welsh, John Burnside, Richard Holloway and Kevin MacNeil with music from Donny OíRourke & Dave Whyte

Tuesday 24 May | Sugar Club | 8pm | €10/€8
The Aisling Project with Paddy Bushe, Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, Dairena Ní Chinnéide, Seán Óg McErlane and Margaret Lonergan

Wednesday 25 May | Samuel Beckett Theatre | 7.30pm | €12/€10
Low Characters and Strange Places: August Kleinzahler and Liz Lochhead with Paul Perry

Wednesday 25 May | National Concert Hall | 8pm | €20/€15
Michael Palin in conversation with John Murray

Wednesday 25 May | Samuel Beckett Theatre | 9.15pm | Free
Screening: Who is Dervla Murphy?

Thursday 26 May | Samuel Beckett Theatre | 8pm | €12/€10
Paul Theroux with Colin Murphy

Friday 27 May | Liberty Hall | 8pm | €12/€10
Jon Ronson with Shane Hegarty

WEEKEND EVENTS

Saturday 28 May | City Wall Space | All Day
Panel: The Indie Scene Seminar on International Independent Publishing

Saturday 28 May | Dublin Writers Museum| 12pm | Free
Paul Harding on Henry James’s The Aspern Papers

Saturday 28 May | Samuel Beckett Theatre | 3pm | €10/€8
Poetry: Michael Longley and Jo Shapcott with Peter Sirr

Saturday 28 May | Samuel Beckett Theatre | 5pm | €12/€10
Dermot Healy and Hisham Matar with Paul Perry

Saturday 28 May | Samuel Beckett Theatre | 7:30pm | €15/€12.50
Czeslaw Milosz – A Centenary Celebration with Adam Zagajewski, Dennis OíDriscoll, Julie OíCallaghan, Gerard Smyth and Seamus Heaney

 

Sunday 29 May | Irish Writers Centre | 12pm | Free
Eoin McNamee on Don DeLillo’s Libra with Adam Kelly

Sunday 29 May | Fallon & Byrne | 1pm | €10/€8
Panel: Artists in the World with Hisham Matar, Fadia Faqir, Fiach MacConghail and Rita Duffy

Sunday 29 May | Fallon & Byrne | 3pm | €10/€8
On Books with Jean-Claude Carriére and John Banville and Jean-Philippe Imbert

Sunday 29 May | Fallon & Byrne | 5pm | €12/€10
Colin Thubron with Eve Patton

Sunday 29 May | Gate Theatre | 7:30pm | €15/€12.50
Paul Durcan with Alan Gilsenan