dalkeybookfest

Join Willy Vlautin for a session on Saturday night. Willy will be playing songs from Richmond Fontaine, The Delines plus instrumentals featured on the new soundtrack from his new book ‘Don’t Skip Out on Me’.

The songs will be interspersed throughout with banter between Willy and Dave Fanning on Willie’s new book. There’ll be a Q&A discussing his books, music and America, and the new movie of his novel ‘Lean on Pete’.

Accompanied on pedal steel by David Murphy (who previously toured with Richmond Fontaine).

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16th June 2018

Robert Fisk is the multi-award winning Middle East correspondent of The Independent, based in Beirut. He is just back from Syria. Bob has lived in the Arab world for more than 40 years, covering Lebanon, five Israeli invasions, the Iran-Iraq war, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Algerian civil war, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, the American invasion, occupation of Iraq and the 2011 Arab revolutions. Fisk’s best-selling books on the Middle East include Pity the Nation and The Great War for Civilisation.

In conversation with Pat Kenny.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 14th June 2018.

These two masters both write with dark humour and wit; we are excited to present them together to talk about “Writing Dublin”. You’d be mad to miss this!

Roddy Doyle has moved readers for more than three decades. The initial larking of the Barrytown Trilogy has given way to many more complex stories, exploring the harsh emotional intricacies of everyone’s everyday lives. Roddy’s also picked up a few awards along the way. His latest novel Smile is an extraordinary work, about as far away from The Commitments as it’s possible to go. Although this will probably annoy him, Doyle is a national treasure.

John Banville, fellow Booker winner, and winner of a great many prestigious awards, has published 18 novels and a series of crime novels as Benjamin Black. He has also written a memoir of Dublin, Time Pieces: a Dublin Memoir, published in 2016.

With Ryan Tubridy.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16 June 2018

Anne Enright is Ireland’s first Fiction Laureate, Man Booker Prize winner, author of six novels, three short story collections , and a book of essays. During her three year stint as laureate, she wrote three essays, each one about the female voice, heard and unheard. To talk about this and being an Irish female writer today, join us in the Secret Garden for a very special event. With Hilary Fannin.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 17 June 2018

100 years ago, Dalkey’s greatest, George Bernard Shaw, was the most famous man on the planet. He was a global brand before global brands existed, a socialist thinker, agitator, vegetarian, novelist, columnist, world intellect and fiercely proud Irishman. The only man ever to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar until Bob Dylan joined him in 2017.

Fintan O’Toole, author of Judging Shaw, talks Shaw with David McWilliams to assess the life and times of Torca Road’s finest GBS!

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16 June 2018

What is going to happen now that the US has in effect declared war on Iran? How will the Muslim world react? With the hopes of an Arab Spring destroyed, what comes next? With central Europe turning virulently anti-Islamic, can we live together or will there be a clash of civilisations?

Join former Tehran correspondent of The Economist Christopher de Bellaigue, Afghan/Canadian film maker Nelofer Pazira and the FT’s Mehreen Khan, as they discuss the region, the role of Iran and who’s next for this cauldron now that America has adopted Israeli foreign policy as its own.

With Ruadhan MacCormaic of the Irish Times.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16 June 2018

From the brilliant, contorted imagination of the Rubberbandits, comes an explosive gospel of short stories that will blow your mind. This is the Ireland we refuse to acknowledge, dark, degenerate, and hilariously so. From deepest rural parts, to hipster central, Blindboy’s observations are part Flann O’Brien, part Mad Max – utterly compelling. Prepare to be dazzled.

With Prof Declan Kiberd.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16 June 2018

Internationally renowned bestselling author and a true global literary superstar, Michael Ondaatje is one of the world’s foremost writers. He has influenced an entire generation of writers and readers. Author of books of poetry, a memoir, and a nonfiction book on film editing, his novels include The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil’s Ghost, Divisadero and The Cat’s Table. He has received the Man Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger for his fiction. His new novel Warlight is published in May.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 17 June 2018

Democracy is on the rocks. Populism is on the march. Democracy is eating itself from within, throwing up all sorts of extremists and populists. It is also losing ground, losing credibility and more significantly not providing stability. In France, Germany and Italy, populist parties are attracting millions of votes. Britain looks ungovernable and America is ruled by tweets. What is driving this? Where is it going to end and how long can Ireland avoid these alarming developments?

With Ed Luce, Bill Emmott, Katherine Boo, Sunil Khilnani and David McWilliams.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 15 June 2018

They represent journalism at its most exciting, influential, but also lethal. We have gathered in Dalkey a panel of five remarkable journalists who have reported from the frontline in Syria, Myanmar, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Latin America, Northern Ireland, and covering a wide spectrum of issues from repression in North Korea, to brutal Islamist terrorism.

They will explore how “frontline” reporting is changing, how the tech revolution and social media access allows everyone to tell their story without intermediaries and what effect this is having on getting the real story. Five foreign correspondents lift the lid on one of the most glamorous and dangerous jobs in journalism.

With Michael Vatikiotis, Carlo Pizatti , Nelofer Pazira, Sebastian Junger and Mark Little .

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 17 June 2018