2010 Programme of Events
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| All events are free and unticketed. It is possible to reserve a maximum of two seats for The Irish Times in Conversation Series. Bookings are also taken for the Children’s Workshops with Siobhán Parkinson and Conor Kostick. See each event for details. For all other events simply turn up on the day! The venue is fully wheelchair accessible. If you are concerned about seating because of health, age, ability or any other reason please pop us an email and we’ll sort it out, bookings@dublinbookfestival.com |
Monday 8th March 2010
10am |
Treats for Kids: The “Lough Neagh Monster” by Sam McBratney |
| The winners of the 2009 Design a Book Cover competition join CBI and O’Brien Press to launch a special new edition of Sam McBratney’s 1994 classic The Lough Neagh Monster. | |
11am
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Treats for Kids: Celebrating the Panda series with Gillian Perdue, Anne O’Hara and Sarah Webb |
| GILLIAN PERDUE is a full-time children’s writer and former primary school teacher. She is author of 3 books in the O’Brien Press Panda series, and Adam’s Starling (O’Brien Press). ANNE O’HARA is an illustrator. SARAH WEBB was a children’s bookseller before becoming a writer. Among her books are the Amy Green, Teen Agony Queen series and Emma the Penguin (O’Brien Press). She is the children’s reviewer for The Irish Independent. |
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10.30am Council |
Festival Forums: Ireland’s First Children’s Books Laureate with Mags Walsh |
| With the announcement of Ireland’s first Children’s Books Laureate due in May 2010, this session introduces the origins of the project as well as details of the nomination and selection process. Come along to hear plans for the Laureate for 2010 and beyond. The Children’s Laureate is an initiative of The Arts Council, Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Children’s Books Ireland and Poetry Ireland. MAGS WALSH is Director of Children’s Books Ireland. CBI is involved in many activities and aims to engage young people with books, create greater understanding of the importance of books for young people and resource everyone with an interest in books for children. |
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11.30am Council |
Festival Forums: Possibilities, Partnerships and Publishing in Ireland in the Digital Age with Niamh Brennan |
| NIAMH BRENNAN is ‘Digital Librarian’, Research Information Systems and Services at Trinity College Library. | |
12.00pm The |
Up for Discussion: Sports Writing with Gerry Thornley, Gavin Cummiskey and Liam Toland |
| GERRY THORNLEY is rugby correspondent with The Irish Times. His books include Trevor Brennan: Heart and Soul and The Irish Times Grand Slam 2009 (Irish Times). GAVIN CUMMISKEY is a sports writer with The Irish Times and contributor to The Irish Times Grand Slam 2009 (Irish Times). LIAM TOLAND is a rugby correspondent for The Irish Times and contributor to The Irish Times Grand Slam 2009 (Irish Times). |
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12.30pm Dublin |
Be Inspired: Emerging Writers: Poetry with Erin Halliday, Davnet Heery, David Rowell and John Taylor |
| ERIN HALLIDAY is a PhD student at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, QUB. She has published in Fortnight, The Stinging Fly and The Yellow Nib and is preparing her first collection. DAVNET HEERY talks to seals or rocks or herself on the long walks she takes at Chois Fharraige, where she lives tinkering with words and images. DAVID ROWELL has published in Poetry Ireland Review; Crannóg and County Lines (New Island). He was chosen by Poetry Ireland to read in their Introductions series and is one of the contributors to the forthcoming TCD anthology, Leave Us Some Unreality. JOHN TAYLOR has studied English and Creative Writing at Aberdeen Univerity and UCD. He is completing his first collection, Belfast Flaneur, a set of poetic explorations around his home city. |
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1.00pm Council |
Festival Forums: The Google Book Settlement – where to now? with Samantha Holman |
| This session will cover the amendments to the Google Book Settlement and how they affect Irish rightsholders SAMANTHA HOLMAN has been CEO of the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency (ICLA) since 2001. She is also on two national voluntary boards, the Copyright Association of Ireland and the Irish Visual Artists’ Rights Organisation. |
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Be Inspired: International Women’s Day Poetry Reading with Joan McBreen, Catherine Phil MacCarthy and Louise C. Callaghan |
| JOAN MCBREEN’s poetry collections include, from Salmon, A Walled Garden in Moylough; Winter in the Eye: New and Selected Poems and Heather Island. Salmon publish her anthologies The White Page/An Bhileog Bhán: Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets and The Watchful Heart: A New Generation of Irish Poets. CATHERINE PHIL MACCARTHY’s poetry collections include How High the Moon (Poetry Ireland); This Hour of the Tide (Salmon); the blue globe (Blackstaff ) and Suntrap (Blackstaff ). Her first novel, One Room an Everywhere, was published by Blackstaff. LOUISE C. CALLAGHAN’s poetry collections are The Puzzle-Heart and Remember the Birds (Salmon). She compiled and edited Forgotten Light: An Anthology of Memory Poems (A & A Farmar). Her play, Find The Lady, based loosely on the life of Kate O’Brien, was read at the Abbey Theatre. |
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2.00pm Dublin |
Up for Discussion: Surviving Redundancy with Lisa O’Callaghan, Andrew McCann and Frank Scott-Lennon |
| LISA O’CALLAGHAN is a marketing professional with twelve years management experience. After experiencing redundancy during the telecoms downturn, she began documenting her experiences during a creative writing programme and then wrote Surviving the Axe (Liberties Press). ANDREW MCCANN is author of Know Your Rights (Blackhall Publishing), now in its 5th edition. He is the Development Manager of Fingal (North County) Citizens Information Service, which provides free, impartial information, assistance and advocacy to over 165,000 people in North Fingal. FRANK SCOTT-LENNON is the creator of ManagementBriefs.com and an experienced management consultant. He is co-author of Redundancy: A Development Opportunity for You (Management Briefs) and co-editor of Ideas at Work: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey MacKechnie (A & A Farmar). |
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2.30pm |
Come Celebrate: Celebration of Nuala O’Faolain’s A More Complex Truth: Selected Writings (New Island) |
| Nuala O’Faolain’s selected non-fiction from the mid-1980s to shortly before her death in 2008 casts a canny eye on all matters Irish – from sex, contraception and old age, to the rights of the marginalised. Edited and selected by Tony Glavin. With Fintan O’Toole. |
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Up for Discussion: The Legacies of Feminism with Margaret Mac Curtain, Susan McKay, Ivana Bacik and Catríona Crowe |
| MARGARET MAC CURTAIN is one of Ireland’s most renowned historians with a career spanning over 50 years. She is a human rights advocate, feminist and Dominican sister. Her latest book is Ariadne’s Thread: Writing Women into Irish History (Arlen House). SUSAN MCKAY is the director of the National Women’s Council. Her books include Without Fear: 25 Years of the Rape Crisis Centre (New Island); Sophia’s Story (Gill and Macmillan) and Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People (Blackstaff). IVANA BACIK is a Labour Senator for Dublin University, a practising barrister and the Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at TCD. She is a campaigner on civil liberties, human rights and feminist issues. CATRÍONA CROWE is a writer and critic and former President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland. She works as Senior Archivist, Special Projects at the National Archives and is a contributor to The Dublin Review. |
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3.30pm Dublin |
Be Inspired: Emerging Writers: Prose with Colm Byrne, Tania Tynan and Catherine Finn |
| COLM BYRNE is an MA in Writing student at NUI Galway. His plays have been performed in the US and UK and he is a recipient of the San Francisco Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award. His most recent play is Freefall:Hero. CATHERINE FINN is a student on the M.Phil Programme in Creative Writing at TCD. She has been published in The Stinging Fly. Her work appears in the forthcoming anthology, Leave Us Some Unreality. TANIA TYNAN writes children’s and adult fiction and has written screenplays. She is currently living in Dublin. Since finishing her MA in Creative Writing in UCD in 2009 she is working on a memoir of her mother. |
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Be Inspired: Fiction with Claire Keegan and Molly McCloskey |
| CLAIRE KEEGAN’s first collection of short stories, Antarctica, was published in 1999 and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature. Her second collection, Walk the Blue Fields, was published to enormous critical acclaim in 2007. Her short story ‘Foster’ won the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009 and was published in Davy Byrnes Stories (Stinging Fly Press). MOLLY MCCLOSKEY is author of Solomon’s Seal (Phoenix House), The Beautiful Changes (Lilliput Press) and a novel, Protection (Penguin Ireland). She has recently completely a non-fiction work on schizophrenia within her family, and is the Writer Fellow at TCD for the 2009/2010 academic year. |
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