dalkeybookfest

Is this the most significant protest movement in the history of humanity? Are women finally speaking up? Or is there a danger the pendulum has swung too far in the tricky, thorny and impossible to regulate area of sex, power and gender?

As each day brings fresh allegations against well -known (and sometimes well-loved) male celebrities, will there be a backlash? Is there any weight in the infamous “Deneuve letter” which objected to the culture of victimhood and the infantilising of women?

Has the culture of protest become too Americanised? Does this social media protest work for real women in less glamorous jobs? And is it all really about power?

To explore these questions, join Lionel Shriver, Jennifer O’Connell, Suki Kim and Dearbhail McDonald.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 15 June 2018

Settle in! This is a treat for movie and book lovers. Join four giants of the screen, stage and page. Two outstanding directors, Lenny Abrahamson and Neil Jordan, with author of the international bestseller The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger and our finest living playwright Conor McPherson talk books and movies with Nadine O’Regan.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 15 June 2018

Never afraid to take on a difficult subject, topic or indeed take on conventional wisdom, Lionel is that rarest of things, a truly brave thinker and writer. In an increasingly PC and sanitised world, the most laudable writers dare to think differently. Shriver is one of those artists. Winner of the prestigious Orange Prize for female fiction, Lionel Shriver is one of the most important female voices in the English language today. “We need to talk about Kevin” was a massive bestseller, while her novel The Mandibles was astonishingly prophetic in this age of Trump. Her latest book is The Standing Chandelier.

With Rick O’Shea.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16 June 2018

Russia is back and it means business. 30 years after the fall of the Wall, the Kremlin is the only power in the Middle East, Putin is the world’s only serious leader, Russia’s gas keeps Europe warm in winter and Dublin handles billions of euros of Russian money.

What does Russia really want, at what cost and what side are we on?

With Jana Bakunina, Pinchas Landau. Carlo Pizatti and Shona Murray.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 15 June 2018

Join our brilliant panel of journalists, to examine the state of journalism in the modern post-truth age. Who owns the news? Who can we believe? Is the “citizen journalist” the biggest threat to truth? What about the role of Facebook and Twitter in social movements such as #Me Too, the Arab Springs, the election of Trump? Is fake news new? Who owns the truth?

With Mark Little, Pinchas Landau, Jennifer O’Connell and Caitríona Perry.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 17 June 2018

What is happening in the America we thought we knew? We often hear other people’s view of the US, but what do Americans actually think? Three outstanding American thinkers, authors and journalists gather in Dalkey to tell us their own personal experience of what it’ s really like living in Trump’s America. Expect sparks to fly!

Sebastian Junger, Willy Vlautin, and Katherine Boo with Caitríona Perry.

Reorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16 June 2018

Suki Kim, New York Times best-seller, is the only person ever to have lived undercover in North Korea – and survived. She worked intensely deep within the North Korean regime. Few people on earth understand North Korea like Suki. “It was a world where they invented their own truth”. We are delighted to have her in Dalkey, especially at such a pivotal time for North Korea and the world.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 15 June 2018

If you think the world is falling apart, Steven Pinker is here to tell you it isn’t. Amid the relentless negativity, his case for optimism has never been more compelling. Let’s take a walk on the bright side with one of the most provocative and original thinkers of the 21st century. Harvard professor Steven Pinker, the renowned psychologist, has won numerous prizes for his research, teaching, and nine books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, and The Better Angels of Our Nature. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, and one of Foreign Policy’s “World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals” and Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.”

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival, Friday 15th June

Michael Vatikiotis, Victor Mallet and David McWilliams what will happen when China rules the world, if it wants to. What will that world look like? Will America cede top dog position peacefully? As the world’s axis shifts ever eastwards, what does this mean for us?

Recorded live at The Dalkey Book Festival 15th June 2018

Sebastian Junger, Pinchas Landau, Mehreen Khan, Nathalie Handal and Ruadhan MacCormaic four megatrends that will change the world.

10 years ago Facebook barely existed, the iPhone had just been launched, Russia was in the G8, Donald Trump was a failing reality TV host and AngloIrish bank was voted the best bank in Europe. How things change! We identify the mega trends that will change our world from economics to populism, technology, migration and privacy.

Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival, 14th June 2018