Summer swimsuits, student summers abroad, evocations of New York and Greece and links between Ireland and Brittany, with Mae Leonard, Shane O’Sullivan, Lauren Green, Gary Coyle and Neil Hegarty

Seán MacBride remembered, Eric Ravilious’s distinctive art, a dramatic Sligo jailbreak, and a lifelong love of an uncool pop star, with John Hedigan, Mary O’Donnell, Doreen Finn, Breege Brennan, Joe Kearney and Gerald Dawe

Marking the centenary of Joyce’s epic novel at Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, a vibrant live mix of words and music with Rachael Hegarty, Emer O’Kelly, Joseph O’Connor, Sara Keating, Declan Kiberd, Barry Gleeson, Malachy Robinson, Anita Vedres, Dermot Dunne, Darina Gallagher and Sinéad Murphy

Swifts, swallows and the Skerries triathlon, meeting Paul McCartney, and Ulysses in the jazz age, with Margaret Galvin, Gerry Mullins, Tim Carey, Ann Marie Durkan, Angela Keogh and Colin Murphy

Considerations around The Great Book of Ireland, created by Irish artists, writers and composers between 1989-1991, which in time would echo other great books of the past with Thomas McCarthy, Michelle McAdoo, Dorothy Cross, the late Mathew Sweeney and Michael Coady

Exam anxieties, audience protests, overheard conversations and Maeve Binchy’s writing advice, and fearless Dervla Murphy remembered, with Margaret Ward, Rachael Hegarty, Ian Sherry, Bernard Farrell, John Toal and Pádraig Ó Macháin

Bright visions, wonderful parties and things of the spirit: a special Miscellany marks the Arts Council of Ireland’s 70th anniversary, with John Banville, Shelly Furlong, Diarmaid Ferriter, Iarla Ó Lionard and Marina Carr

Secret languages, silent retreats, Ireland’s last Viceroy and things not to put on pizza, with Niamh Campbell, Jonathan White, Seán Beattie, Olive Travers, Nuala O’Connor and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

Mary Maher remembered, a snatch at Eurovision fame, glory days in a Dingle pub and meditations on a sense of home, with Séamus Dooley, Tom Clonan, Sharon Hogan, Mary Wall, Joe Ó Muircheartaigh and Mary O’Donnell

Barley sticks and bonbons, teenage anxieties, a mysterious hill, a haybarn and a poem for Strokestown, with Tim Carey, Leo Cullen, Lani O’Hanlon, Martine Madden, Vincent Woods, Mia Döring and Noelle Lynskey