🌳 This Saturday at Wilton Park! Join Catherine Ann Cullen & Rachael Hegarty for a magical morning of stories, poems, songs and imagination for children aged 6+ 📚✨ 📅 Sat 22 Aug, 11.30am 🎟️ FREE – booking required A special ILFD Off the Page event with IPUT Real Estate. Book: ilfdublin.com

Join us on Wednesday, 3 June, for a very special event with Kathryn Stockett, the internationally bestselling author of The Help. Stockett will be discussing her new book The Calamity Club. 📅 3 June 🕰️ 7pm 📍 Abbey Presbyterian Church 🎫 ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

Off the Page An Evening With Kathryn Stockett

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Paddy Donnelly visited @ilfdublin.bsky.social and was gifted some fabulous fan mail from devoted young readers – we love to see it!

Some pics from a lovely Sunday and a very successful final day of ILFD! A very busy and fun day was had, with events for kids throughout the morning, music, yoga, workshops and an evening packed with riveting conversations with names like Colm Tóibín. 📸1-2Patrick Fleming 3-4 Kamyla Abreu

Had a grand time volunteering at International Literature Festival Dublin. Got to work and attend some great events. Grateful for the nice weather on the last day so I could wear my Skulduggery Pleasant dress to coordinate with Derek's awesome shirt :) @ilfdublin.bsky.social @dereklandy.bsky.social

The festival may be over but we haven’t closed the book on ILFD 2026 yet! Join us next week for two very exciting Off the Page events, starting on Tuesday, 2 June with Leïla Slimani. 📅 Tuesday 2 June 🕰️ 7pm 📍 Abbey Presbyterian Church 🎫 ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

Off the Page An Evening With Leïla Slimani

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The Doireann Ní Ghríofa event this evening at the @ilfdublin.bsky.social was genuinely inspiring. And props to the person who asked the camping car question!

Myself, @sallyhayd.bsky.social and a handful of Irish people joined what seemed like most of Dublin's Italian community at @ilfdublin.bsky.social 's event featuring @robertosaviano.bsky.social this evening. Despite the weighty topics, the rapturous response he got made for an uplifting experience.

Full house & standing ovation for @robertosaviano.bsky.social in Dublin tonight at @ilfdublin.bsky.social. His new book is ‘Shout it Out: 28 Portraits for a Committed World’ www.dubraybooks.ie/product/shou...

Don’t miss a very exciting Off the Page event tomorrow evening with Douglas Stuart! 📅 Monday 25 May 🕰️ 7pm 📍 Pepper Canister Church 🎫 ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

Off the Page An Evening With Douglas Stuart

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Limited tickets left for Richard Armitage this evening at 8pm! The actor and author will be talking about his career, the highwire act of writing thrillers, and The Cut, his brilliantly crafted psychological page-turner. ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

Making The Cut Richard Armitage

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This evening! Don’t miss Doireann Ní Ghríofa in conversation at 6pm. The award-winning author of A Ghost in the Throat will be discussing Said the Dead, her unforgettable polyphonic history of an institution that is both history and ghost story. 🎫 ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes... (limited tickets)

Today at 8pm, I'm interviewing Roberto Saviano at @ilfdublin.bsky.social ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

Refusing Silence Roberto Saviano

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What an evening with Ali Smith at the @ilfdublin.bsky.social 📚 - a worthy winner of the Dublin Literary Award 2026. Wonderful to have been in the audience and one of many to receive a signed copy of her winning book Gliff 👏

What a joy it was to participate at this year's Slamovision at @ilfdublin.bsky.social this week to represent Ireland in Iowa ✨️ Scoth an filíocht ar an oíche! Comhghairdeachas le gach éinne 👏🏾🙌🏾 go háirithe an buaiteoir: @murchadhmor.bsky.social ! Ceol álainn ó @amanoanseo.bsky.social freisin.

Some highlights from Friday at ILFD! Ali Smith, winner of the 2026 Dublin Literary Award was in conversation about her novel Gliff, alongside events with Helen Oyeyemi, Dave Tynan and Djamel White, a beautiful evening soundbath with The Space Between and more 📸 Pati Guimarães

Book to hear 2026 Dublin Literary Award winner Ali Smith in conversation with Belinda McKeon this evening – or watch online from anywhere in the world. The first 200 guests will receive a complimentary signed copy of Gliff! 📅 Friday 22 May 🕰️ 6pm 🎫 ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

2026 Dublin Literary Award Winner Ali Smith In Conversation with Belinda McKeon

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More fun at @ilfdublin.bsky.social yesterday w/ lots of catching up w/ old friends. Here's #PatrickGale looking positively angelic as he told stories of his family & youth & reading from new novel #LoveLane plus #KathleenMacMahon gave us a superb event on her new novel #OtherPeoplesLives #ILFDublin

Some pictures from yesterday’s Dublin Literary Award ceremony, where Ali Smith was announced as winner of the 2026 award for her novel Gliff. Don’t miss Ali in conversation this evening at 6pm – tickets are free but booking is essential 📸 : Patrick Fleming

A look back at Wednesday at ILFD! Scroll to see snaps of some of our events – including music by Éire & Cú Chulainn, talks by Emanuela Anechoum, Daniela Catrileo, Sally Hayden and Elif Shafak and Slamovision 2026 📸 Pati Guimarães

So delighted to see Saara kill it before a rapt crowd @ilfdublin.bsky.social - I got my copy! A reader asked if I was Sarah Rees Brennan so I joined her and her friend in the signing line like HI NEW FRIENDS. They were very patient about this. #booksky

Incredibly cool to read at the launch of Issue 54 of @stingingfly.bsky.social at @ilfdublin.bsky.social Fabulous readings to a full house and a super appreciative audience. Amazing photographs are by Patrick Flemming #Launch #LiteraryJournal #Poetry #Prose #NonFiction

I have two events today (Thursday May 21) in Dublin, join if you're in the area! The first is a conversation on queer literature with Jade Wilson of Dyke Affair at the international literature festival of Dublin, @ilfdublin.bsky.social at 12:30 in merrion square: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

Noon Fix Alternative forms in queer literature PhotoIreland at ILFD

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The winner of the 2026 Dublin Literary Award will be announced today live from @ilfdublin.bsky.social in Merrion Square Park! ✨🏆 Hosted by Rick O'Shea, you can join us in person or watch along online to find out who will take home the big prize. Watch online here: www.youtube.com/live/4tJnaQ1...

2026 Dublin Literary Award Ceremony

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Some pics from Tuesday at ILFD! There were some fascinating talks from John Grindrod, Maria Alyokhina and more, a screening of Underland and the launch of the newest edition of Poetry Ireland review – to name but a few of the events that took place across the day. 📸 Patrick Fleming

A limited number of free tickets are now available for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award ceremony this Thursday in Merrion Square Park! 📅 Thursday 21 May 🕰️ 12pm 🎫 ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

Some snaps from Monday at ILFD! 📸 1-2Patrick Fleming 3-4 Patrícia Guimarães