Main Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre
Sunday 18th, 2.00pm – 2.50pm • Free entry
Jimmy Magee, one of Ireland’s best-loved and most respected sports commentators, talks to Darragh Maloney, rté commentator and presenter, about fulfilling his dream to work in radio and his varied and much-travelled life, portrayed in his memoir, Memory Man. Having covered 11 Olympic Games, 12 fifa World Cups, 29 European Cup finals, 11 athletics world championships, 30 world title fights and 10 Tours de France, Jimmy Magee is truly an institution in Irish broadcasting life.
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Main Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre
Saturday 17th, 2.00pm – 2.50pm • Free entry
This anthology of short stories by Ireland’s most prominent authors has been released in aid of Console. Editor Sinéad Gleeson (broadcaster and journalist with the Irish Times) joins contributors Roddy Doyle (Booker prize-winning author of The Commitments), Siobhán Mannion (Hennessy New Writer of the Year 2011) and Declan Hughes (award-winning author of the Ed Loy PI series).
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Main Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre
Saturday 17th, 8.00pm – 9.30pm • €10/€8 concession
Historian and broadcaster, Dr John Bowman talks about the research and writing of his book: Window and Mirror, rté television: 1961-2011. Can such an rté insider write an objective history? Why has television been such a comparatively neglected subject by historians? John discusses these challenges and the impact which television has made on modern Ireland. Illustrated with archive footage. John will be signing copies of the book which will be available at this event.
He will be in conversation with author Diarmaid Ferriter who is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD. His books include The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004), Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the life and legacy of Eamon de Valera (2007) and Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (2009). His new book, Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s has just been published. He is a regular broadcaster on RTE television and radio and contributes to a number of Irish newspapers.
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Main Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre
Friday 16th, 8.00pm – 9.30pm • €10/€8 concession
Madeleine Keane, literary editor of the Sunday Independent, broadcaster and co-founder of the Irish Book Awards, talks with the Irish Book Award nominees in the Best Newcomer category. An evening of optimism and hope as Madeleine discusses the literary journey of each nominee. The Nominee names have just been announced this week:
Mary Costello for the China Factory (Stinging Fly), Donal Ryan for The Spinning Heart (Lilliput Press, Doubleday Ireland), Rosemary McLoughlin for Tyringham Park (Poolbeg), Kathleen MacMahon for This is How it Ends (Little, Brown) and Selina Guinness for The Crocodile By the Door (Penguin Ireland).
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Vincent Browne, Constantin Gurdgiev, Margaret E. Ward, Brian Lucey and Dearbhail McDonald
Main Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre
Thursday 15th, 6.30pm – 7.30pm • €10/€8 concession
For what promises to be a lively debate, Vincent Browne, presenter of Tonight on tv3, brings together a panel of experts: Constantin Gurdgiev, Adjunct Professor of Finance, Trinity College, Dublin and former editor of Business and Finance magazine; Margaret E. Ward, businesswoman and award-winning financial journalist, broadcaster and author; Brian Lucey, Professor of Finance in tcd, author and commentator on financial news; and Dearbhail McDonald, an Eisenhower Fellow, broadcaster and Legal Editor of the Irish Independent.
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Main Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre
Wednesday 14th, 8.00pm – 9.30pm • €10/€8 concession
Jennifer Johnston is one of the foremost Irish writers of her generation. She has won the Whitbread Prize, the Evening Standard Best First Novel Award, the Yorkshire Post Award, and the Best Book of the Year award on two occasions and has won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish Book Awards. She has also been shortlisted for the Booker Prize with Shadows on our Skin. Her other novels include Truth or Fiction, Foolish Mortals, The Gingerbread Woman, Two Moons and Shadowstory.
Dermot Bolger, renowned poet, playwright and author of many books (most recently his poem sequence The Venice Suite: A Voyage Through Grief and his novella, The Fall of Ireland, both of which are published this autumn) discusses literature, life and days gone by with Jennifer.
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In Association with DUBLIN UNESCO City of Literature
Main Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre
Tuesday 13th, 8.00pm – 9.30pm • €10/€8 concession
The Dublin Book Festival opens with a very special evening with travel-writing legend, Dervla Murphy, author of over 20 travel books, including her most recent, Cuba: The Island that Dared, and Gaza: A month by the Sea which will be released in February 2013. Also sharing the evening is one of Ireland’s most popular authors, Alice Taylor, who talks about the special people in her life in And Time Stood Still, her first book for a number of years. Sean Rocks, presenter of RTE Radio 1’s Arena, will lead both authors in a conversation about their lives and sources of inspiration throughout their writing careers.
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Jimmy Magee, one of Ireland’s best-loved and most respected sports commentators, talks to Darragh Maloney, rté commentator and presenter, about fulfilling his dream to work in radio and his varied and much-travelled life, portrayed in his memoir, Memory Man. Having covered 11 Olympic Games, 12 fifa World Cups, 29 European Cup finals, 11 athletics world championships, 30 world title fights and 10 Tours de France, Jimmy Magee is truly an institution in Irish broadcasting life.
