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

Full house for Catherine Cleary and Randall Plunkett for the Rewilding talk at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social @tudublinsustain.bsky.social @tudublin.bsky.social

A big day today in @tudublin.bsky.social as we host @dublinbookfest.bsky.social and welcome authors with a focus on biodiversity, climate and social justice. Delighted that we’re expecting full houses for all events. @thinkorswim.bsky.social @tudublinsustain.bsky.social

#DBF kicks off tomorrow and we're delighted to be part of it with: ✨Class Acts Poetry on Class and Belonging: dublinbookfestival.com/event/class-... ✨Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together with Phil Mullen & Afua Hirsch: dublinbookfestival.com/event/thinki... ✨This Is Not a Cookbook Launch: BOOKED OUT

This Friday our @jenniferhorgan.bsky.social will be reading from CARE at the fab @dublinbookfest.bsky.social dublinbookfestival.com/event/poetry...

There are still tickets left for our talk on Friday for @dublinbookfest.bsky.social in the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. We'll be offering publishing and business advice for children's writers and illustrators who are just starting out. dublinbookfestival.com/event/proper... #SpeirGorm #BookSky

The tarot card accompanies every copy of my short story collection 'Walking Ghosts'--a genius move by @mercierpress.bsky.social who realise that in these times we need to copperfasten Strength @epoquepress.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Lads n ladies, charge the batteries & tell wild tales!

A great line up for the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social on Friday 7th November SHADOWS OF OUR PAST with @hollowaywriter.bsky.social Níamh Ní Mhaoileoin and Kuna Shand-Baptiste in conversation with Tara McEvoy dublinbookfestival.com/event/shadow...

✨ It’s Festival Week! ✨ We can’t wait to welcome you to events all across the city this week and there’s still time to join us. Browse our programme and book your spot at #DBF25 🎟️ bit.ly/46ixJu1

Over the moon to be part of @winterpapers.bsky.social. It’s a joy to be sharing my essay ‘Mid-Life Music Lessons’ as part of this beauty alongside so many whose work I admire. The launch is @dublinbookfest.bsky.social next Sat, Nov 8. Here’s to music, winter reading & dreaming the future.

Joining this knockout panel as part of this year's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social are Gustav Parker Hibbett, Sam Furlong and Sophie White in conversation with @mollytwomey.bsky.social. Saturday 08th November @ 11:30 am @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social dublinbookfestival.com/event/writin...

Join us on Sunday 9 November for a wonderful afternoon of book talk around women’s fiction at our Festival Hub, with Faith Hogan, Sheila O’Flanagan and Sophie White in conversation with Edel Coffey 🎟️ bit.ly/47A4JQP

Just under a week to go til our opening night! Join us to celebrate @thedublinreview.bsky.social at 100. Rick O’Shea will be joined by Brendan Barrington, Sara Baume, Patrick Freyne, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Mark O’Connell, with music from Seán Mac Erlaine & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh 🎟️ bit.ly/3KgYZDD

The @dublinbookfest.bsky.social is fast approaching! We're excited to be collaborating with the PATHOS project in hosting this reading/panel discussion, 'Conflict and Creation': 10.30am, @immaireland.bsky.social (Sat Nov 10) 📚 Free entry, but booking required! www.eventbrite.ie/e/conflict-a...

As the evenings get darker and Halloween weekend rolls in, we asked some of our #DBF25 authors for reading recommendations to send chills down your spine… bit.ly/47wnkNL

Join our panel discussion at #DBF25 with Soula Emmanuel, Seán Hewitt, Anne Walsh Donnelly and Neil Hegarty as they discuss the importance of queer visibility in writing bit.ly/4qwbRq9 @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

Winter Papers 11 is here [sound up!]. Design by @johnfoley.bitedesign.com Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Launching @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Saturday 8th Nov