FRIDAY LUNCHTIME WITH THE DUBLIN BOOK FESTIVAL: REAL LIFE, REAL STORIES
Ralph Riegel, Jenny McCudden, Yvonne Joye
FRIDAY 4 MARCH 1.00pm: Be Inspired!
Main Stage, Dublin’s City Hall
Admission Free – no booking necessary!
RALPH RIEGEL is Southern Correspondent for Ireland’s biggest newspaper group, covering The Irish Independent, Sunday Independent and Evening Herald. A regular contributor to RTÉ, TV3, BBC, Channel 4, NewsTalk and C103FM. Author of seven books, four of which were bestsellers and the sixth is now the focus of a Sky TV documentary.
JENNY McCUDDEN is Western Correspondent for TV3 News. She has worked with The Sunday World, The Westmeath-Offaly Independent, and Midlands Radio 3. She spent five years working for BBC News in London, before moving to TV3 News. She was a featured reader at the 2009 Cuírt International festival of Literature in Galway.
YVONNE JOYE’S first novel Ten Fingers and Ten Toes was published by Book Republic. Having spent almost
a decade working in the financial services she now works on a part-time basis in event management.

DUBLIN, ITS PLACE IN POETRY in association with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature
Peter Sirr, Gerard Smyth, Michael O’Loughlin, Iggy McGovern, Jessie Lendennie, Alan Jude Moore, Máighréad Medbh
SATURDAY 5 MARCH 1.15pm: Be Inspired!
The Cube, Project Arts Centre
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PETER SIRR lives in Dublin where he works as a freelance writer and translator. His most recent collection of poems The Thing Is (Gallery Press) was published in 2009. He is also the author of Marginal Zones, Talk, Talk, Ways of Falling, The Ledger of Fruitful Exchange, Bring Everything, Selected Poems and Nonetheless.
GERARD SMYTH was born in Dublin where he still lives. His poetry has appeared in publications in Ireland, Britain, and America, as well as in translation, since the late 1960s. He has published seven collections, most recently The Fullness of Time, New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press).
MICHAEL O’LOUGHLIN was born in Dublin in 1958 and lived for many years in Amsterdam. He has been Writer in Residence in Galway and Writer Fellow in TCD. His most recent collection of poetry, In This Life, has recently appeared from New Island Books.
IGGY McGOVERN is Associate Professor of Physics at Trinity College. His first collection, The King of Suburbia, published by Dedalus Press in 2005, received the inaugural Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry. His second collection Safe House was published by Dedalus Press in 2010.
JESSIE LENDENNIE is founder and Managing Director of Salmon Poetry Ltd. In 1988, she published a book-length prose poem entitled, Daughter. A new edition of Daughter, with added poems, was published in 2001. She has edited several anthologies, including, Poetry: Reading it, Writing It, Publishing It and, Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology.
ALAN JUDE MOORE is the author of three poetry collections, Black State Cars, Lost Republics and Strasbourg (Salmon Poetry). His short fiction has twice been short-listed for the Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writing.
MÁIGHRÉAD MEDBH is the author of several poetry collections: The Making of a Pagan (Blackstaff Press) Tenant (Salmon) Split (Arlen House), When the Air Inhales You (Arlen House) and Twelve Beds for the Dreamer (Dublin: Arlen House). Máighréad has been published in numerous journals and anthologies.

PAUL HOWARD: THE REAL FACE BEHIND ROSS O’CARROLL-KELLY - FULLY BOOKED!!
SATURDAY 5 MARCH 2.00pm: Be Inspired!
Council Chamber, Dublin’s City Hall
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED!!
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PAUL HOWARD is a journalist, author, playwright and creator of the cult character Ross O’Carroll-Kelly. He is a former Irish Sports Journalist of the Year and a two-time Irish Book Awards winner.

FICTION: SHORT STORY READINGS
Christine Dwyer Hickey, Martin Malone, Gerardine Burke, Billy O’Callaghan, chaired by Jack Harte
SATURDAY 5 MARCH 3.10pm: Be Inspired!
Main Stage, Dublin’s City Hall
Admission Free – no booking necessary!
CHRISTINE DWYER HICKEY is author of, The Dublin Trilogy – The Dancer, The Gambler and The Gatemaker. Her novel, Tatty was shortlisted for Irish Book of the Year in 2005 and was also longlisted for The Orange Prize. Her novel, Last Train From Liguria was longlisted for the Prix d’Europe. Her sixth novel, Cold Eye of Heaven, is due in Autumn 2011.
MARTIN MALONE is the author of five novels, a memoir, a short story collection and several productions for TV and radio. His first novel, Us, won the John B Keane Sunday Independent Literature Award. His second novel, After Kafra was adapted for RTÉ TV. The Broken Cedar was nominated for an IMPAC Award. Martin is a former soldier with six tours of duty to the Middle East.
GERARDINE BURKE has been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Award and the Fish Historical Short Story Competition. Her debut novel is My Father’s Lands (Wordsonthestreet). Her second novel, Tangled Lives, is due in 2011.
BILLY O’CALLAGHAN is the author of two short story collections, In Exile and In Too Deep (Mercier Press). He has won and been shortlisted for many prizes, including the George A. Birmingham Award, the Faulkner-Wisdom Award, the Francis MacManus Short Story Award, the Lunch Hour Stories Prize and the Molly Keane Creative Writing Award.
JACK HARTE is currently Chairman of the Irish Writers’ Centre. His most recent book is, Unravelling the Spiral, a memoir/biography of the sculptor Fred Conlon. His fiction includes the collection of stories, From Under Gogol’s Nose, and the novels, In the wake of the Bagger and, Reflections in a Tar-Barrel.

FRESH VOICES I / GUTHANNA ÚRA I
Claire Kilroy, Kevin Power, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Proinsias Mac a’ Bhaird chaired by Dr. Adam Kelly
SUNDAY 6 MARCH 1.10pm: Be Inspired!
Main Stage, Dublin’s City Hall
Admission Free – no booking necessary!
CLAIRE KILROY is the author of three novels: All Summer, Tenderwire and All Names Have Been Changed, which was shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Novel of the Year as well as the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. She was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2004.
KEVIN POWER is the author of Bad Day in Blackrock (Lilliput Press). He is the winner of the 2009 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Hennessy XO Award for Emerging Fiction 2009.
CAITRÍONA NÍ CHLÉIRCHÍN won fi rst prize in the Oireachtas 2010 competition for new writers for her first collection of poetry, Crithloinnir. She writes reviews, academic and journalistic articles and has published poetry in Comhar, Feasta and Blaiseadh Pinn, Cyphers, The SHOp, An t-Ultach and An Guth.
PROINSIAS MAC A’ BHAIRD is a native of Árainn Mhór in Donegal. He currently lives between the island and Letterkenny where he works as a teacher. He has published eight books in Irish, most recently a novel, Rún an Bhonnáin, and a collection of poetry Faigh greim ar an ghrian.
DR ADAM KELLY was awarded his doctorate by UCD in 2010 for a thesis entitled Moments of Decision in Contemporary American Fiction. He was an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar during the writing of his thesis and has taught courses on American literature, as both a tutor and a lecturer, for a number of years.

FRESH VOICES II
Paul Soye, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Liam Carson, Yvonne Cassidy, chaired by Sinéad Mac Aodha
SUNDAY 6 MARCH 4.00pm: Be Inspired!
Main Stage, Dublin’s City Hall
Admission Free – no booking necessary!
PAUL SOYE is the author of two full-length plays: Cherished and, The Birdcage. Paul has also written a one-act play for young children and his play, In Irons was broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1’s Sunday Night Playhouse. The Boy in the Gap, is published by Liberties Press.
NUALA NÍ CHONCHÚIR is an award-winning fiction writer and poet. Her debut novel, You, was published by New Island in 2010. Her third short fiction collection, Nude was published in 2009. Nude was shortlisted for the 2010 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Nuala’s third poetry collection, The Juno Charm, is forthcoming.
LIAM CARSON is the director of the IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival, which he founded in 2004. Over the past twenty years, Liam has also worked as a literary publicist for many Irish publishers. His reviews, critical articles, essays and poems have appeared in a wide range of periodicals including Poetry Ireland Review, Fortnight, The Irish Review. His memoir, Call Mother a Lonely Field, was published in 2010.
YVONNE CASSIDY has written short stories, television scripts and is a regular reviewer for UK magazine The Tablet. Yvonne’s first novel, The Other Boy was published by Hachette in May 2010 and her second, What Might Have Been Me, will be published in 2011.
SINÉAD MAC AODHA is the director of Ireland Literature Exchange, a Government-funded organisation which promotes Irish literature abroad, hosts literary translators in Ireland and organises the participation of Irish writers at events and festivals around the world. Before joining ILE, Sinéad was the Literature Officer at the Arts Council.

FICSEAN ÚR AS GAEILGE
Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhride, Orna Ní Choileáin, Anna Heussaff faoi chathaoirleacht Liam Carson
SUNDAY 6 MARCH 5.00pm: Be Inspired!
Council Chamber, Dublin’s City Hall
Admission Free – no booking necessary!
Tickets: FREE – admission is FREE to this event, but you do need to reserve a seat. Click here to BOOK NOW!! Tickets can be collected from Dublin’s City Hall on the day of the performance only. Tickets must be collected a minimum of 30 minutes before the scheduled performance.
EOGHAN MAC GIOLLA BHRÍDE is an Irish short story writer, film writerand novelist. He has published two short story collections, Idir Feoil agus Leathar and, Díbeartaigh. In 2007 he wrote and directed the short film, An Teanga.
ORNA NÍ CHOILEÁIN has won numerous prizes for creative prose, poetry, drama and short stories in the Oireachtas Competitions. She also enjoys writing in English and has been awarded the An Post National Penmanship prize. Orna is the author of Canary Wharf: Cnuasach gearrscéalta, published by Cois Life.
ANNA HEUSSAFF’S latest novel, Buille Marfach (Cló Iar-Chonnacht), is a crime mystery set on the southwest coast. Bás Tobann (Cois Life) featured some of the same characters and was a bestseller. She has also written Cúpla Focal, a romantic novella, and Vortex, a fantasy adventure for young teens.

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