Feargal Quinn, George Mordaunt, Darragh Doyle and Paul Davis
In Association with Dublin City Enterprise Board
Main Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre
Thursday 15th, 9.00am – 10.20am • €5
Join our panel of experts for a seminar on how your business can survive and even flourish in the recession. Entrepreneur Feargal Quinn will give tips on how to make your business successful with what has worked for him in the past, while business specialist Paul Davis will offer advice on how to develop your company’s potential. George Mordaunt will impart his experience of how bust businesses can lift themselves out of the mire and recover, while internet guru Darragh Doyle will guide you through communicating and marketing your company online successfully.
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Ages 9-10+ years
Central Library
Thursday 15th, 10.30am – 11.30am
Booking essential, places limited to one class only
Brian Gallagher, author of the fantastic historical novels Across the Divide, Taking Sides and his brand new book Secrets and Shadows, has written about major events from twentieth-century history. Nicola Pierce wrote her thrilling story Spirit of the Titanic after her research uncovered the amazing true story of Samuel Scott. Hear how Brian and Nicola combine their historical research and imaginations to create their fascinating novels, loved by readers nationwide!
To enquire about bookings, please email: info@dublinbookfestival.com
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Ages 5-7 years
Ballymun Library
Thursday 15th, 10.30am – 11.30am
Booking essential, places limited to one class only
A morning of story and drawing with an extraordinary (and slightly nervous) Dragon Hunter. Based on a new picturebook written by Patricia Forde and illustrated by Steve Simpson, both well known slayers of dragons.
Scéalta agus ealaín le sealgaire dragún (iontach ach neirbhíseach)! Bunaithe ar phictiúrleabhar nua scríofa ag Patricia Forde agus maisithe ag Steve Simpson, beirt a bhfuil cáil orthu féin mar shealgairí dragún!
To enquire about bookings, please email: info@dublinbookfestival.com
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In Association with Dublin City Enterprise Board
Neven Maguire, Tom Doorley and Pamela Fitzmaurice
Main Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre
Thursday 15th, 10.45am – 12pm • €5
Need some advice on how to make your café, restaurant or food business a real success? Neven Maguire, author and one of Ireland’s most successful restaurateurs, Tom Doorley, food and drink author and restaurant critic for the Irish Daily Mail and Pamela Fitzmaurice, author and owner of Blazing Salads, come together to give advice on how to make your food business a real success and how to stand out in the crowd.
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Launch Area, Smock Alley Theatre
Thursday 15th, 11.15am – 12.10pm • Free entry
Jenni Doherty presents Rain Spill, her first solo collection of poetry, prose, fiction, observation and comment pieces. The collection illustrates an emotive, honest and lyrical view of a sense of place, belonging and experience spanning four decades. Rain Spill is published by Guildhall Press.
No booking required.
Celeste Augé, John Walsh and Freya McClements
Launch Area, Smock Alley Theatre
Thursday 15th, 12.20pm – 1.00pm • Free entry
Come browse our bookshop and then take a pew as Irish-Canadian writer Celeste Augé, poet John Walsh and bbc journalist and literary reviewer Freya McClements read extracts from their acclaimed short stories.
No booking required.
Tom Inglis and Eina McHugh
Launch Area, Smock Alley Theatre
Thursday 15th, 1.10pm – 2.00pm • Free entry
The Dublin Book Festival invites you to spend your lunchtime with author and Associate Professor of Sociology in ucd, Tom Inglis and Fulbright Scholar Eina McHugh as they read extracts from their memoirs, illustrating how life can inspire art.
No booking required.
Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland by Patricia Craig
Launch Area, Smock Alley Theatre
Thursday 15th, 2.30pm – 3.30pm • Free entry
Leading literary critic and anthologist Patricia Craig launches A Twisted Root: Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland. Craig traces the remarkable story of her ancestors, weaving the threads of their individual stories into the sweeping panorama of Irish history. A Twisted Root is published by Blackstaff Press.
No Booking required.
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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Niamh O’Connor and Conor Brady. Chaired by Louise Phillips.
Launch Area, Smock Alley Theatre
Thursday 15th, 6.30pm – 7.30pm • Free entry
Join some of Ireland’s top crime writers and hear where they draw inspiration from for their hair-raising thrillers. Niamh O’Connor is the author of three crime novels and true crime editor for the Sunday World.
Conor Brady, is former editor of The Irish Times and author of crime novel A June of Ordinary Murders.
Louise Phillips is the author of Red Ribbons and her second novel, The Doll’s House, is due out in 2013.
No booking required, seats are limited and we advise you to arrive 15 minutes before the start time.
Sean Moncrieff and Michael Clifford. Chaired by Niamh O’Connor.
Main Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre
Thursday 15th, 8.00pm – 9.15pm • €10/€8 concession
An exploration into the murkiness of recessionary Ireland and how it inspired two new novels. Journalists Sean Moncrieff and Michael Clifford discuss how writing their novels, Angel of the Street Lamps (Moncrieff) and Ghost Town (Clifford), against the backdrop of the recession impacted their storytelling.
This discussion will be chaired by Niamh O’Connor, true crime editor for the Sunday World.
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