DUBLIN, ITS PLACE IN LITERATURE - FULLY BOOKED!!
in Association with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature & National Library of Ireland
Eileen Battersby in conversation with Anthony Cronin and Dermot Bolger
WEDNESDAY 2 MARCH 6.30pm: Up for Discussion
National Library of Ireland
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Born in California, EILEEN BATTERSBY is Literary Correspondent of The Irish Times and four times winner of the National Arts Journalist of the Year Award. Her book, Second Readings: From Beckett to Black Beauty, a volume of literary criticism, was published in 2009 and subsequently reprinted. She is currently working on a new book due to be published by Faber in November.
ANTHONY CRONIN is an acclaimed poet, novelist, and biographer. His reminiscences of Dublin literary life during the early 1950s in Dead as Doornails, provide detailed portraits of Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, and Brendan Behan. His novel, The Life of Riley, was recently reissued by New Island. He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 2003, an honour awarded for exceptional artistic achievement.
DERMOT BOLGER’S ten novels include The Woman’s Daughter, The Journey Home, The Family on Paradise
Pier and New Town Soul. In 2010 he published A Second Life: A Renewed Novel. Author of thirteen stage plays, his Ballymun Trilogy was published in 2010. He has published eight volumes of poetry, devised the bestselling collaborative novel, Finbar’s Hotel, and has edited numerous anthologies, including The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: STEPPING INTO A BRIGHTER FUTURE - FULLY BOOKED!!
Vincent Browne, Shane Coleman, Justine McCarthy, Stephen Kinsella, Ken Foxe
THURSDAY 3 MARCH 6.30pm: Up for Discussion
The Cube, Project Arts Centre
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VINCENT BROWNE is a highly respected Irish journalist and broadcaster. He is a columnist with The Irish Times and The Sunday Business Post and has his own show Tonight with Vincent Browne on TV3 , a very popular topical issues panel show.
SHANE COLEMAN is the Political Editor of The Sunday Tribune. He is a regular analyst of Irish politics on TV and radio. He is also the best selling author of four books including Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia and, most recently, Scandal Nation – Key events that shook and shaped Ireland.
JUSTINE McCARTHY is an award-winning journalist and columnist with The Sunday Times. She has been chief features writer and columnist with both The Irish Independent and The Sunday Tribune and was deputy editor of Village magazine. She is a frequent broadcaster and has written two books: Mary McAleese, the Outsider and Deep Deception: Scandals in Irish Swimming.
STEPHEN KINSELLA is a lecturer in economics at the University of Limerick. He is the author of Ireland in 2050: How we will be Living and Understanding Ireland’s Economic Crisis: Prospects for Recovery. His research spans the area of computable economics, health economics, and experimental economics.
KEN FOXE is the author of Snouts in the Trough: Irish politicians and their expenses. His work led directly to the resignation of Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue and a major reform of how politicians are paid allowances. Ken works as the Public Affairs Correspondent of The Sunday Tribune. He is also the author of Revenge, a true crime book.

TRUE CRIME: CRIMINAL MINDS
John Mooney, Barry Cummins, Abigail Rieley, Emer Connolly
THURSDAY 3 MARCH 6.30pm: Up for Discussion
The Gutter Bookshop
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JOHN MOONEY is the security correspondent for The Sunday Times and is a regular contributer to BBC, RTÉ, and Channel 4 news programmes. He is the author of several bestellers including, Gangster: the biography of John Gilligan, The Torso in the Canal and Black Operations: The Secret War Against the Real IRA. He is also the editoral director and founder of Maverick House Publishers.
BARRY CUMMINS is the author of four true-crime books, published by Gill & Macmillan: Missing, Lifers, Unsolved and his latest book, Without Trace, published in October 2010. Barry is a native of Tallaght. He is currently researching another book on unsolved murders.
ABIGAIL RIELEY is a writer and journalist based in Dublin, specialising in murder trials. She writes mainly for The Sunday Independent and also blogs at abigailrieley.com Her first book, Devil in the Red Dress, was published by Maverick House. Her second book, Death on the Hill, was published by O’Brien Press.
EMER CONNOLLY is author of the book, Lying Eyes and the Hitman for Hire, based on the trial of Ennis woman Sharon Collins. Emer is a journalist with The Clare People, specialising, more recently, in the coverage of crime and the courts. She lectures in Journalism at the University of Limerick and has won three awards from the Law Society of Ireland as well as the ‘Excellence in Journalism’ award from NUI Galway.

SPEAK TO THE PROFESSIONALS: SETTING UP YOUR BUSINESS & SURVIVING THE RECESSION
Brody Sweeney, Bobby Kerr, Yanky Fachler
FRIDAY 4 MARCH 9.45am: Up for Discussion
Main Stage, City Hall
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BRODY SWEENEY founded the O’Briens Sandwich Bar chain in 1988, and built the chain to over 300 outlets in 16 countries. In March 2010, he sold his interest in the remaining O’Briens businesses. The O’Briens business continues to thrive. He is author of two business books, Making Bread and Small to Tall.
BOBBY KERR is an Irish entrepreneur and businessman. He is the Chairman of Insomnia Coffee and has a variety of business interests in food and hospitality, technology, hardware and exhibitions. Best known as a ‘dragon’ on RTÉ’s Dragons’ Den, Bobby is also a popular public speaker and business mentor. More recently, Bobby started a Newstalk radio show Down to Business.
YANKY FACHLER is a broadcaster and motivational speaker, delivering keynotes, seminars and masterclasses to corporations, business events, and Business Start audiences. He is the author of several business books, including, Fire in the Belly: An exploration of the entrepreneurial mindset and The Selling Conversation (co-authored with Dermot
McConkey).

YOUR CAREER AND PERSONAL FINANCES: GETTING BACK ON TRACK
Colm Rapple, Brendan Foley, Jane Downes
FRIDAY 4 MARCH 11.15am: Up for Discussion
Main Stage, City Hall
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COLM RAPPLE’S personal finance guide Family Finance has been an annual best seller since first published in
1977. He is a journalist by profession having been at various times in his career business editor of The Irish Independent, The Sunday Independent and The Irish Press Group. He writes on economic and personal finance topics in The Irish Mail on Sunday, The Irish Daily Mail and The Irish Examiner.
BRENDAN FOLEY is a life and business coach who, through his company Seachange Training, has worked with 1,000’s of people and 100’s of companies in Ireland and the UK to help them create meaningful success. He is the author of the Yin Yang Complex (Mercier Press) and his forthcoming book, The 5 States of Success; Tools for Meaningful Success in your Career, Business and Life launches in July 2011 (Mercier Press).
JANE DOWNES is one of Irelands best known Career Coaches and author of, The Career Book– Help for the Restless Realist. She owns Clearview Coaching Group, a Career Coaching and Training business, which she established in 2004 following an extensive career working in the area of recruitment and HR consulting. In addition, Jane regularly writes for the national press and is invited to speak on national radio. Jane held the position of weekly Career Expert in 2010 on TV3’s The Morning Show.

IRISH CRIME WRITING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Gene Kerrigan, Niamh O’Connor, Paul Charles chaired by Declan Burke
SATURDAY 5 MARCH 2.00pm: Up for Discussion
Main Stage, City Hall
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After seven non-fiction books GENE KERRIGAN, veteran journalist received critical acclaim in Ireland, the UK and the USA for his crime novels, Little Criminals, The Midnight Choir and, Dark Times in the City, which won the Ireland AM Crime Novel of the Year at the 2010 Irish Books Awards. His new novel, The Rage will be published in spring 2011. He lives in Dublin.
NIAMH O’CONNOR is True Crime editor for The Sunday World. She is author of the bestsellers, The Black Widow: The Catherine Nevin Story, Cracking Crime which inspired the TV forensic science series of the same name, and Blood Ties. Her first novel, If I Never See You Again, was nominated in the Best Newcomer category of the Irish Book Awards in 2010. Her next novel, Taken is due to be published in May 2011.
PAUL CHARLES was born in Magherafelt and divides his time between writing and working in the music business as an
agent. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, Detective Inspector Christy Kennedy series and the Inspector Starrett series. His next book, the tenth Kennedy mystery, A Pleasure to do Death with You, will be published in September 2011.
DECLAN BURKE is a crime fiction author and arts journalist. He is the author of three novels: Eightball Boogie, The Big O and Crime Always Pays. He is the editor of the forthcoming Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century (Liberties Press), and hosts a website dedicated to Irish crime fiction called Crime Always Pays

THE PAST IS NOW: LESSONS FOR TODAY FROM IRELAND’S PAST
Ryan Tubridy, Diarmaid Ferriter, chaired by Susan Cahill
SATURDAY 5 MARCH 4.00pm: Up for Discussion
The Cube, Project Arts Centre
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RYAN TUBRIDY is a broadcaster, writer and wellknown bibliophile. His first book, JFK in Ireland, was published in 2010 and won Best Irish Newcomer at the Irish Book Awards.
DIARMAID FERRITER is one of Ireland’s leading historians. He is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD and has published extensively on twentieth century Irish history. His books include the bestsellers, The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 and Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the life and legacy of Eamon de Valera, winner of three Irish Book Awards in 2008. His latest book is, Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland. He is a regular broadcaster with RTÉ and his three-part history of twentieth-century Ireland, Lovers of Liberty, was broadcast by RTÉ television in June 2010.
SUSAN CAHILL has over 17 years of media experience in radio, film and television and has worked on numerous independent radio documentaries in Africa, South America, the Middle East & South East Asia. Currently Susan produces Talking History Ireland’s leading national history show on Newstalk 106-108. Talking History won Best Specialist Speech Programme and the 2009 PPI Radio Award.

POLITICAL REFORM IN IRELAND: A NEW REPUBLIC – FULLY BOOKED!!
Naoise Nunn, Pat Leahy, Fintan O’Toole, Kevin Rafter, Susan McKay
SUNDAY 6 MARCH 2.00pm: Up for Discussion
Council Chamber, City Hall
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NAOISE NUNN is a political consultant and co-author of, The House Always Wins, with John McGuinness TD. He also founded and produces the Leviathan political cabaret series and MindField festivals.
PAT LEAHY is the political editor of The Sunday Business Post. A frequent contributor to radio and television debates, his first book, Showtime: the Inside Story of Fianna Fáil in Power, was acclaimed by the critics and became a bestseller.
FINTAN O’TOOLE is a writer, journalist, and political commentator. With over fourteen books published, his most recent, Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic, has received much acclaim.
KEVIN RAFTER is the author of political histories of Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and Clann na Poblachta. He has worked as a political journalist in Dublin and is now a senior lecturer in the School of Communications at DCU. Democratic Left; The Life and Death of an Irish Political Party will be published in March 2011.
SUSAN McKAY joined the National Women’s Council of Ireland in 2009 as CEO, and led it’s No Going Back campaign against budgetary cuts. She is an awardwinning journalist and author of four books including, Sophia’s Story. As CEO of the NWCI she chairs the Irish Observatory on Violence Against Women.

TOMORROW’S WOMEN: WHAT’S NEXT FOR MNÁ NA hÉIREANN
Victoria White, Dr Ann Matthews, chaired by Susan McKay
SUNDAY 6 MARCH 3.00pm: Up for Discussion
Council Chamber, City Hall
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VICTORIA WHITE worked as a journalist, becoming arts editor of The Irish Times. She resigned in 2002 to concentrate on writing. Victoria is an activist against climate change and a founding member of Dublin Friends of the Earth. Mother Ireland: Why Ireland Hates Motherhood was published by Londubh Books in 2010.
DR ANN MATTHEWS has worked on a number of independent research projects. Her publications include, among others Vanguard of the Revolution and the Irish Citizen Army 1916. In 2010 she published part of her PhD dissertation as Renegades: Irish Republican 1900-1941. She teaches in NUI Maynooth.
SUSAN McKAY joined the National Women’s Council of Ireland in 2009 as CEO, and led it’s No Going Back campaign against budgetary cuts. She is an awardwinning journalist and author of four books including, Sophia’s Story. As CEO of the NWCI she chairs the Irish Observatory on Violence Against Women.

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