Really enjoying this Alternative Irish Christmas anthology from @tramppress.bsky.social which I bought at the launch @dublinbookfest.bsky.social 🎄 📚

All our congratulations to Joseph O’Connor and his publishing team on last night’s win, we were delighted to have Joseph in conversation about his brilliant book at DBF25 as part of @dublincitylibs.bsky.social Readers’ Day! 📚

The #bookelves2025 are getting ready for the @latelateshow.rte.ie #latelatetoyshow We will be recommending great books for children - ask away if you’d like one for the young reader in your life!

Applications for the our 2026 National Mentoring Programme are now open! This is an opportunity open to all writers across the island of Ireland to receive sustained creative and professional mentoring from an established Irish writer. irishwriterscentre.ie/national-men...

In today’s guest blog post, we loved hearing more from @rurooie.bsky.social about being part of this year’s #DBF25 schools’ programme, and how it was a bit of a full circle moment. Read the piece over on our website ➡️ bit.ly/3MgFPP7

The WINNER of the 2025 Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year is... @elainefeeney.bsky.social #APIBA #StoriesMakeUs

The WINNER of the 2025 The Last Word Listeners’ Choice Award is... The Ghosts of Rome, Joseph O'Connor (Harvill) #APIBA #StoriesMakeUs

Congrats to all those celebrated this year by the @irishbookawards.bsky.social and to last night’s winners, we loved seeing some #DBF25 books and authors in the mix

If you joined us earlier this month at our flagship festival, we would love to hear from you! Take the survey and share your feedback with us ➡️ bit.ly/49ULMLF

Swipe to see highlights from the Belfast launch at Assembly Buildings with the support of No Alibis and a brilliant discussion as part of the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social with Susan Marie Martin and Mary McAuliffe. Signed copies available now at @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social

Do Bugs Need a Glow-Up? The Culture File Debate XXXL Edition, 15 Nov www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf... Luke Clancy with Rachel McKenna (shieldbugs), Liam Lysaght (wasps), Cassia Gaden Gilmartin (earwigs), Nessa Darcy (woodlice). Recorded live at National Botanic Gardens for @dublinbookfest.bsky.social

Still revelling in all the magic of last week's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social ✨ Huge thanks to all who joined to celebrate these incredible authors, poets & thinkers And gratitude to the brilliant team at DBF, and to #TheRowanTrust, @dublincityoflit.bsky.social and @gutterbookshop.bsky.social ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

The Royal Irish Academy was delighted to take part in this year’s @dublinbookfest.bsky.social with two events.

...Bryce Dessner discussing his new work at the NCH, Joel Edgerton on Train Dreams and an entire live show from The @dublinbookfest.bsky.social. Listen back to them all on the @rteradio1.bsky.social website, @rte.ie radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. More tonight from 7pm...

Thanks to @immaireland.bsky.social & @dublinbookfest.bsky.social for hosting the 'Conflict & Creation' panel discussion over the weekend, chaired by PATHOS researcher Prof. Ailbhe McDaid: www.pathos-project.com Natalya Korniyenko & Ciarán O'Rourke both took part 🎨 irishpages.org/product/vol-...

Wonderful to host PATHOS in-conversation event @dublinbookfest.bsky.social this Sat in collab w/ @irishpages.bsky.social - it was a privilege to hear Suad Aldarra, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Ciarán O Rourke & Natalya Korniyenko speak very movingly on Conflict and Creativity to a large audience at IMMA.

Huge congrats to Ferdia Lennon as he is awarded the 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature! We were delighted to have Ferdia discussing Glorious Exploits just a few evenings ago as part of #DBF25

A beautiful tribute to Seán Rocks @dublinbookfest.bsky.social chaired brilliantly by @paulashields.bsky.social with Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry, Paula Meehan and Colm Mac Con Iomaire who finished the event with The Finnish Line which he said was a song of joy for Seán who was full of joy❤️

Such a lovely weekend at the Dublin Book Festival, especially the Raising Voices Showcase yesterday. Thank you to @childrensbooksireland.ie and @dublinbookfest.bsky.social for having me!

Ready, steady... Gearing up for last night's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social event at @molimuseum.bsky.social: 'Writing the Unspeakable', with Gaea Schoeters and Audrey Magee, in partnership with @literatureireland.bsky.social. With thanks to great audience.

Looking forward to @irishpen.bsky.social event @dublinbookfest.bsky.social It will be incredible to hear İlhan Sami Çomak read his poetry in person. dublinbookfestival.com/event/day-of...

All set to chair Out on the Page, discussing queer visibility in writing and publishing, as part of Dublin Book Festival. With thanks to @eatthestorms.com for devising such an excellent event. @dublinbookfest.bsky.social

A super event Women Writing History at the Main Hall @immaireland.bsky.social as part of the fabulous Dublin Book Festival @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Thank you to @dublinbookfest.bsky.social & speakers @sineadgleeson.bsky.social @clodaghfinn.bsky.social & writers Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan

A very enjoyable afternoon of book chat in Ballyogan Library with debut authors Sharon Guard and Caroline Madden for @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Lovely to see a few familiar faces in the audience 💜

This Dublin Book Festival event looks wonderful. @dublinbookfest.bsky.social #womenwritinghistory

I was Céadlínte/ Introductions showcase ready aréir! Beautiful night. Comhghairdeas le gach éinne. ✨️🗣✍️🏾

We’re looking forward to tomorrow morning! @dublinbookfest.bsky.social @sineadgleeson.bsky.social @clodaghfinn.bsky.social 📚 PS. Get your signed copies of After the Train at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social throughout the festival!

Delighted to collect my contributor copies of the new @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social anthology at the launch this evening in Dun Laoghaire @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Well done Sarah Binchy & @newislandbooks.bsky.social Brilliant readings and music and lovely to have the chats with fellow writers😊

Reminder that @jenniferhorgan.bsky.social is reading at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social later today!

Tickets still available for Susanna Galbraith's MORSELS Dublin launch @gutterbookshop.bsky.social as part of this year's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Tickets available at: dublinbookfestival.com/event/morsel... #ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou

Thrilled to be joining tomorrow's @culturefile.bsky.social Debate at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social! Come show the bugs some love 🦗🪳🦟🪰 dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-cu...

Thanks so much to Marcella, Derek Hand and everyone at DCU and @dublinbookfest.bsky.social for having me. I really enjoyed the event. Elaine and Lisa are so interesting in their writing and thinking; and Patrick's music was so beautiful – what a talent. Special thanks to everyone who came 🙏

Just a few tickets left for this event tomorrow in Ballyogan Library for @dublinbookfest.bsky.social I'll be chatting to Sharon Guard and Caroline Madden about their debut novels. Booking link below.

With huge thanks to @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social for such gracious chairing, to all who came, and to our supporters @dublincityoflit.bsky.social @dublincitycouncil.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social @gutterbookshop.bsky.social and our brilliant hosts Temple Bar Gallery and Studios 💫

Had a gorgeous day catching up with friends & attending @dublinbookfest.bsky.social events @nlireland.bsky.social and DCU ending with a super event with @elainefeeney.bsky.social @ronanhession.bsky.social and Lisa Harding with music from I Have A Tribe inspired by the readings. Míle buíochas to all.

If you’re not at tonight’s Slamovision Global Poetry Slam final live from 1WML in Dublin, join us now online at 7pm as we celebrate the finest spoken word poetry in the world @dublincityoflit.bsky.social ➡️ bit.ly/3WL76LE

Join us this Saturday at 11am at IMMA as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social for ‘Women Writing History’ with After the Train co-editor Evelyn Conlon and Sinéad Gleeson, led by Clodagh Finn. 🎟️ dublinbookfestival.com/event/women-...

Can't be with us live in Dublin tonight? Well you can watch the SLAMOVISION livestream on our YouTube Channel! We are going live at 7pm (Irish Time) @dublincitylibs.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social

What are you most excited to see at this years @dublinbookfest.bsky.social ? We are involved in a couple of events. You can check them out here ⬇️ childrensbooksireland.ie/news-events/... For the full Family & Children's Programme, click here ⬇️ dublinbookfestival.com/event_catego... #DBF25

Great to see two of our editors interviewed on the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social blog this week, ahead of our co-hosted event on Saturday! dublinbookfestival.com/2-minutes-wi... Tickets for Saturday's panel discussion here: dublinbookfestival.com/event/confli... @irishlittimes.bsky.social

Great launch to @dublinbookfest.bsky.social hosted by @rickoshea.bsky.social live on Arena this evening. Great show!

Super opening night of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social with a celebration of 100 issues of @thedublinreview.bsky.social broadcast live on RTE Arena. Brilliant job by @rickoshea.bsky.social and guests @mrkocnnll.bsky.social @patrickfreyne.bsky.social Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Sara Baume and Brendan Barrington

Today’s talk - a key takeaway for me from John Gibbons’ brilliant event about his book “The Lie of the Land” at @tudublinsustain.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social - “We’re facing into a future which is intensely local.”

Best of luck to everyone involved in this week's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social. The line-up is amazing as always. Check it out between now and 9 November. And how gorgeous is their festival artwork by Ashwin Chacko @whackochacko.bsky.social dublinbookfestival.com/explore-the-...

Brilliant day of events at TU Dublin today as part of the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social @bgormley.bsky.social #dublinbookfestival

The FOURTH full house of the day with @miseanja.bsky.social and Éanna Ní Lámhna with @dublinbookfest.bsky.social in @tudublin.bsky.social. I’ve been advised by John Gibbons @thinkorswim.bsky.social not to say that he “sold out” (but his event was completely booked out). Great to see the interest!

Having a chat with poet Nessa O'Mahony here. Thanks to her and Peter Salisbury for this lovely little film. Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I did doing it.

My pick for @dublinbookfest.bsky.social is Signs Preceding The End Of The World by @yuriherrera.bsky.social 🇲🇽 Full blog here dublinbookfestival.com/halloween-re...

If you'd like to know more about Dr Calvert's research, you can catch her at @ria.ie tomorrow (6.30pm) as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social where she'll be taking part in a panel discussion tracing the treatment of women in Ireland across three centuries dublinbookfestival.com/event/women-... 3/3

We have three Blackstaff Press authors taking part in @dublinbookfest.bsky.social this week: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Evelyn Conlon and Ruby Free. For more info👇 dublinbookfestival.com #blackstaffpress #dublinbookfest #eilisnidhuibhne #evelynconlon #rubyfree #Rathlin #rahlinisland