#ComingUp at 17:30, The Algorithm (AKA Kelly Mullins) generates algorithmic poems in real time with a little help from the audience. 🎟️👉 ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festi… #ILFD2024

📚✨️ Buíochas le International Literature Festival Dublin for bringing Natalie Diaz & I together for a beautiful, nourishing conversation about native language, language activism, the atomic power of rage in poetry, and love for the sake of love (and not as an act of resistance or defiance) #poetrysisters

#ComingUp at 19:30! Colin Barrett and Ferdia Lennon talk to John Patrick McHugh about navigating the nuances of ‘masculinity’ and capturing authentic Irish voices & dialects on the page. 🎟️👉 ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festi… #ILFD2024

It has been such a pleasure having Mircea Cărtărescu with us these past few days to accept his award as winner of the 2024 Dublin Literary Award on Thursday and to discuss his winning novel Solenoid with Alex Clark on Friday. ✨

Our farewell event for this year's festival is coming up at 20:00! Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, in conversation with Enrica Ferrara, transports us to the real Rome with her newest collection, Roman Stories 🎟️👉 loom.ly/SeOxW18 #ILFD2024

Glad I dodged the downpours to get to an entertaining and compelling talk at International Literature Festival Dublin. Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with Anna Carey on writing, art, music, islands, inspiration and how it’s never too late. Looking forward to reading Sinead’s book Hagstone.

I had the best time seeing Sayaka Murata and Olivia Laing earlier this week. Thank you for a wonderful lineup, International Literature Festival Dublin!

And that's a wrap! The sun has set on another wonderful year of International Literature Festival Dublin here in Merrion Square Park. Thank you for joining us – we'll be back before you know it! #ILFD2024 📸 Ana Duca Dublin City Council The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

This was a very special last event of International Literature Festival Dublin 💕 Very Irish 🍀🍀 (it was lashing raining outside!) Very International with an incredibly articulate, intelligent, compassionate Jhumpa Lahiri talking about #migration #borders #identity #translation & the power of #literature👏👏

🚨VENUE CHANGE ALERT 🚨 We will now be celebrating the launch of The Queer Arab Glossary at Rich Mix on 5 June at 7pm. @MarwanKaabour, Sophie Chamas and Hamed Sinno will be in conversation with Dr Akanksha Mehta, with a performance by singer Etaf. eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

If you haven't already, take a few minutes to let us know what you thought of #ILFD2024 📚 You may even win a gift card to Dubray! ✍️👉 forms.gle/636W6sqnKyjCzs… 📸 Kamyla Abreu

A fond look back at what was a truly memorable and exhilarating 2024 Dublin Literary Award ceremony last week featuring this year's winners Mircea Cărtărescu and Sean Cotter ✨🎉 Dublin City Council International Literature Festival Dublin Dublin City Libraries Deep Vellum Dublin UNESCO Anton Hur 🧵1/2

It's Friday, the sun is shining ☀️ and we've got the perfect bank holiday weekend suggestion... Get your early bird ticket for the Children’s Books Ireland Annual International Conference! You can purchase at the link below 🔗 eventbrite.ie/e/childrens-bo… A reminder, this year’s

GAIRM OSCAILTE Tugann IMRAM cuireadh d’ealaíontóirí, le haghaidh tionscadail litríochta nua go bhféadfaí a léiriú na féile IMRAM i 2025 a chur chugainn. Beidh na tionscadail fréamhaithe i litríocht na Gaeilge [email protected] roimh an 31 Iúil 2024 imram.ie

Join us on Friday, 5 July, from 6pm for First Fridays! The museum and Commons Café will be open until 9pm, with free museum admission from 6pm. Additionally, there will be an interview with Louis de Paor (with IMRAM) & a talk by artist Sarah Browne. moli.ie/events

"Dictatorships, Kadare argues, breed untruth, selfishness, distrust, fear and irrationality. In the state of our world today, this alone renders Kadare essential reading." RIP Ismail Kadare. theguardian.com/books/article/…

Some exciting news regarding our 2024 conference will be landing later this week! If you just CAN'T WAIT until then, tickets are available now through Eventbrite page: eventbrite.ie/e/childrens-bo… 📸: Ross Montgomery speaking at our 2023 conference, taken by Ruth Ennis

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon is the winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024! A riotously funny and deeply moving tribute to the power of storytelling. What will survive of us is art! Find it here or in your local Waterstones: exyu.short.gy/Q6d1xB #WDFP

Why Ireland, a country that you can drive the length of in a few hours, punches so far above its weight when it comes to literature.😃 theguardian.com/books/article/…