Book now to hear award-winning writer Thant Myint-U in conversation about his book Peacemaker – an extraordinary chronicle of a golden age of diplomacy.
📅 Tue 19 May
🕰️ 6pm
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Join Alan Windram for a lively event full of cats, chaos, games, songs and dancing. Meet Sparky and George, laugh along with their wild adventures, and enjoy a fun-filled story celebrating friendship, bravery and the joys of exploring the big wide world.
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Book now for A Fragile Utopia with Jan Carson!
Hear the award-winning author of The Raptures and The Fire Starters discuss Few and Far Between – her magically surreal new novel about history, identity and redemption.
📅 Sunday 17 May
🕰️ 3pm
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Show your love of literature with our 2026 merch, featuring specially commissioned illustrations by artist Bronagh Lee!
Shop now at everpress.com/profile/ilfd
Come along and see me talk to Doireann about my favourite book of the year so far...
🐸 Don’t miss Philip Ardagh’s Animal Crackers! 🐸
Get ready for lots of rollicking rhymes and silly Saturday morning fun! Join Philip as he goes animal crackers with his books Ribbit Rabbit and Are You Looking At Me?
📅 Sat 16 May
🕰️ 12pm
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Arts Bubbles uses the arts as ways to understand bigger things. Following on from last year’s fantastic living anthology of the senses, this special ILFD edition of Arts Bubbles explores the theme Entelecheia — Becoming What We Are.
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Our Spotlight Sessions bring together some of the most exciting voices in contemporary music and spoken word—artists who blur boundaries, bend genres, and create something truly unforgettable in the process. ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...
Award-winning author Sally Hayden returns to ILFD with a powerful new account of human resilience, capturing our capacity for love and connection against all odds.
📅 Wednesday, 20 May
🕰️ 6pm
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Book now for Tales Of This City with Dave Tynan & Djamel White!
Hear from the two writers on writing a dark and edgy Dublin, toxic masculinity, and why you have to blast through language in order to make it your own.
📅 Friday 22 May
🕰️ 6pm
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🧚 Book now for Happy Birthday Isadora Moon! 🧛♀️
Harriet Muncaster’s bestselling books about a half-vampire, half-fairy girl in a human world have been a phenomenal hit worldwide. Dress up as Isadora and celebrate with fun activities & a fab draw-along!
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Don’t miss Oyinkan Braithwaite, the best-selling author of My Sister The Serial Killer, in conversation at ILFD this May!
Braithwaite will be talking about her new novel Cursed Daughters.
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🐙 Festival favourite Aoife Dooley is back with the Squid Squad! This interactive event features stories, pictures and the chance to draw along 🎨
Book now at ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festival/type/kids-families/shrimply-the-best-aoife-dooley/
Suitable for ages 6+
📅 Sun 17 May
🕰️ 13:00
Don’t miss Colm Tóibín at ILFD!
A master of understated emotions, the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island returns to ILFD with The News from Dublin, a beautiful new collection of short stories.
📅 24 May
🕰️7pm
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Looking forward to discussing conflict, activism, food and the radical possibilities of artistic practice as part of the PATHOS public engagement programme @ilfdublin.bsky.social - Stirring the Pot with Hannah Khalil, Roxana Manouchehri & Bojana Janković. Tickets here: share.google/ZYjGWwwsgLKW...
Explore Dublin’s intimate relationship with the written word, and discover the people, places and texts of the city’s queer past on James Murray’s unique tour.
Book now: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...
Just a bit of notice that I’ll be leading a beginners’ in-person #workshop in #haiku #poetry as part of this year’s Intl Litfest in #Dublin, @ilfdublin.bsky.social.
It takes place on Sun 17/5 at 3pm and will include a ginko / walk around Merrion Square. (Cost €18/16). ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...
🎨 Book for The Art of the Alebrije with
Jimena Larraguivel 🧑🎨
Children of all ages can enjoy a puppet show inspired by Mexico’s most colourful folk art, followed by the chance to create their very own papier-mâché alebrijes.
📅 24 May
🕰️3pm
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Happy publication day @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social! You can catch Jan in conversation at ILFD this May – ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...
And then there were six! ✨📚
Lovely shot of the six shortlisted novels for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award taken in City Hall by Kamyla Abreu.
Explore the shortlist here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/...
Tangerinn is the novel for a displaced generation. For this event, Emanuela Anechoum talks to Naoise Dolan about her remarkable and brilliantly observant debut, and why she wanted to dig deep into questions of home, identity and belonging.
📅 20 May
🕰️6pm
🎟️ €12 / €10
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I will be interviewing Maria Alyokhina (Masha) - Russian political activist, member of Pussy Riot & author of 'Political Girl' - at @ilfdublin.bsky.social on May 19 at 8pm.
Tickets here: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...
Did you know that most gnomes live in towns and cities, just like us? A friendly gnome called Kick shows you around his world at this fun, interactive event!
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Calling all writers!
This is your final reminder to get your submissions in for Date with an Agent– the deadline is tonight at midnight! Don't miss your opportunity to get your manuscript in front of some of the most sought-after agents in Ireland and the UK.
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The Dublin Literary Award 2026 Shortlist is here! 🎉
Congratulations to Ali Smith, Magdalena Blažević, Brigitte Giraud, Laurent Binet, Ocean Vuong and Éric Chacour!
👉 Visit dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/prize-years/... to explore these six outstanding novels.
You’ve seen the hit Netflix drama, Adolescence. Now hear about the guide to modern masculinity that explains it. James Bloodworth discusses his undercover investigation into the paranoid and misogynistic subcultures of the manosphere.
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🐈⬛ An ancient curse lands honest Theo Pincher on the wrong side of the law. 🐈⬛
Join stand-up comedian & author Anders Sparring with bestselling illustrator Per Gustavsson, performing as the Pincher Brothers, for a slapstick crime caper of curses, cat statues & chaos.
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🕵️ Book now for Tidy Towns, Messy Murders
with Ardal O’Hanlon 🕵️
What really goes on inside the cut-throat world of the Tidy Towns competition? One of Ireland’s best-loved actors and stand-up comedians discusses A Plot to Die For, the first in his new mystery series.
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📚 One park, ten days, a world of stories 📚
Earlier this week we announced the programme for our 29th edition, bringing together some of the most exciting international and Irish writers of our time in Merrion Square Dublin from 15-24 May.
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The fabulous ILF Dublin festival is on its way, with the programme now live - and I'm looking forward to moderating 'Seeing Double', with Hanna Johansson and Henrietta McKervey, on 17 May in a summery (we hope...) Merrion Square.
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