Dalkey Book Festival | 14-17 June 2018 | Box Office: 01 565 4560 | dalkeybookfestival.org

Dalkey Book Festival

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Willy Vlautin Deborah Levy Lionel Shriver Michael OndaatjeThe Secret Garden, 9.15pm A one-off opportunity to see the writer who is taking the US by storm.

The Secret Garden, 8.15pm In the second part of her memoir, The Cost of Living, Levy looks at the reason she writes.

Seafront Marquee, 6.30pm Never afraid to take on a difficult subject, Lionel is that rarest of things, a truly brave thinker and writer.

Seafront Marquee, 6.00pm Internationally renowned bestselling author and a true global literary superstar.

1 The Meaning of Life with Michael Harding 4pm, Secret Garden €15

Michael Harding is quite simply a national treasure. He asks the big questions, the ones we all think about, the only ones that really need to be answered. Profound, thoughtful, funny and humane, Michael reads from his latest memoir, ruminating on psychotherapy, religion, and pilgrimages in his ongoing search for the meaning of life. With Prof. Ian Robertson.

2 Book Launch: David McWilliams launches Prishela Row’s Kindness of the Irish People 4.30pm, Grapevine FREE

“In this book, I love Prishela’s contention that we Irish are the kindest people she knows. After living in Ireland for 22 years, Prishela has been with us long enough to make this judgement. The emphasis on the importance of kindness chimes well with what I have believed for years,” Miriam O’Callaghan.

3 Robert Fisk on Syria 6pm, Seafront Marquee €20

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. With Pat Kenny.

4 Eden – a play, written & performed by Barbara Hammond 6.45pm, Heritage Centre €15

In Eden, an Irish ex pat returns home from her rebellious life in Paris to face a choice that will haunt her for the rest of her life. This is the first time Barbara Hammond’s remarkable new play from The Eva Trilogy will be performed in Ireland since its debut to rave reviews at the Magic Theatre, Sam Shepard’s artistic home, in San Francisco last autumn.

5 Four Megatrends that Will Change the World 8pm, Secret Garden €15

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 Anglo/Irish 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. With Sebastian Junger, Pinchas Landau, Mehreen Khan, Nathalie Handal (above) and Ruadhán MacCormaic.

6 Willy Vlautin: an American Legend 9.15pm, Secret Garden €15

This is a one-off opportunity to see the writer who is taking the US by storm, Willy Vlautin, up close. The Irish Times calls him the “literary version of a Neil Young or a Tom Petty, bearing a ragged standard for empathy, compassion and decency, a throwback to a generation of novelists who still championed the underclass”. With Nadine O’Regan.

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Curating the festival is a joy and it’s a thrill to see favourite writers milling about Dalkey and bumping into their fans. Dreamt up round the kitchen table in 2010, we now welcome 15,000 people over these 4 midsummer days. And while Dalkey is at the heart of the festival, in keeping with our cosmopolitan outlook, we attract some of the finest minds from all over the world.

This year’s festival brings some of the greatest authors, innovators, thinkers and agitators from across the globe to Dalkey.

We have creative people of all sorts — novelists, poets, musicians, scientists, economists, historians, comedians, and activists — from the US, Korea, Canada, Singapore, India, Germany, Italy, Afghanistan, Palestine, Australia and the UK.

Combine the speakers, the visitors, the unique and beautiful venues on a summer day by the sea and you have something very special.

With four Booker, two Pulitzer and two American National Book Award winners, I think we have the best literary line up yet.

Deborah Levy, John Banville, Lionel Shriver, Willy Vlautin, Roddy Doyle, Paul Muldoon, Anne Enright and Michael Ondaatje are just some of the literary stars. I am especially excited to bring you some outstanding, perhaps less well-known writers, who I have enjoyed discovering this year, including Caoilinn Hughes, Chris Power, and Tishani Doshi.

We are very much a festival of ideas and like to shed light — not heat — on the issues of the day. For example, we are flying in direct from the US/North Korea Summit in Singapore, Suki Kim, New York Times bestseller and the only person to have lived undercover in North Korea (and survived) because we believe in bringing the very best people on the most up to date topics back home to Dalkey. We are also bringing leading

experts on Iran, Syria, China, Korea, Russia, and the Middle East to really examine and make sense of the world around us. We will of course be discussing — in depth — Brexit, Trump, fake news, social media and #MeToo. Harvard professor and world-renowned psychologist Steven Pinker will be arguing the case for science, humanism and progress while Harry Barry will teach us about emotional resilience in an age of anxiety. Oh and did I mention history, poetry, music, and comedy? Hopefully, there is something for everyone!

I sincerely hope you enjoy the festival and have a wonderful time at Dalkey.

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7 Unleashing the Power of the Short Story: a writing workshop with Jan Carson (3 hours) 10.30am–1.30pm, The Magpie €35

This interactive workshop will offer practical advice on writing concise, punchy and innovative short stories. The session will include opportunities to focus on character, dialogue, setting, pacing, plot development and editing with a special emphasis upon identifying and building upon the core of your story. Jan will lead participants through a series of bespoke writing exercises which will help you to unleash the potential in your short stories. Suitable for beginners and those with some experience. (3 hours)

8 Poison, Politics and Putin; Russia and the new Cold War 11.15am, Secret Garden €15

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 (above), Pinchas Landau, Carlo Pizzati and Shona Murray.

9 When China Rules the World 12.45pm, Town Hall €15

It is only a matter of time, but very soon China will rule 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? With Michael Vatikiotis, Victor Mallet and David McWilliams.

10 Undercover in North Korea: Suki Kim talks to Matt Cooper 2.30pm, Seafront Marquee €15

Suki Kim (above), 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.

11 The Retreat of the West: is democracy defeating itself? 4pm, Secret Garden €15

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 credibility and failing to provide 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 Edward Luce, Bill Emmott, Katherine Boo (above), Sunil Khilnani and David McWilliams.

12 Two Minute Beach Clean with Flossie Donnelly and The Riptide Movement 4.15pm, Bullock Harbour FREE

Roll up your sleeves beach lovers! Help rid the beach of marine litter and plastic pollution, two minutes at a time. With flossieandthebeachcleaners.com and The Riptide Movement #cleancoasts

s p ec i a l t h a n k s to:Our lead sponsor, Zurich, without whom, all this wouldn’t be possible; Rev. Bruce Hayes; Brian Meyer; Sarah Morley; Margaret Dunne; Dan O’Brien; Selwyn Davies; Marta Starosta; The Gutter Bookshop; Dalkey Library; Michael Kingston and DLR Parks.

Our partners and patrons (see back page) and the wonderful team of gracious volunteers who make this all possible.

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Saturday 16Friday 15 21 Once Upon a Time: Twisted Fairy Tales Writing Workshop with Sarah Webb (age 8+) 10am, Library €10

What if Cinderella’s best friend was a dragon? What if Little Red Riding Hood was secretly a witch? What if Sleeping Beauty was really Sleeping Handsome? Write your own version of a classic fairy tale in this fun, interactive writing workshop. Suitable for bold girls AND boys! Sarah Webb is an award-winning children’s writer. Her latest book is A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea.With Steve McCarthy. Inspired by CBI’s #Bold Girls campaign.

22 New York Behind Closed Doors – Polly Devlin 11am, Town Hall €15

Curious to peek inside some of New York’s most beautiful homes? Polly Devlin will show photographs from her new book New York: Places to Write Home About. She gained rare behind-the-scenes access to some of New York’s most extraordinary interiors. This is a chance to peer through the windows of New York’s most exclusive residences. Polly Devlin tells about the intimate, minimalistic and lavish interiors of New York’s dreamiest homes designed by people who refuse to live in a strictly functional world, who believe “creativity and inventiveness are essential in our lives”.With Jane McDonnell of The Gloss.

23 Masterclass in Public Speaking with David Nihill 11am-1pm, Masonic €30

You’re scheduled to give a business presentation, pitch to investors, or deliver a wedding toast. And you’re petrified. You’re simply not cut out for public speaking, never mind being entertaining. Have no fear! David Nihill has walked and talked in your shoes and we have convinced him to come talk to you using beer and mild manipulation. David went from being deathly afraid of standing in front of an audience to performing stand-up routines, winning story telling competitions in front of packed houses and becoming one of the world’s leading experts on public speaking. David will share the techniques of the world ’s best TED speakers in a humorous class. You will learn how to craft a story your audience will want to listen to, deal with stage fright, and avoid ever going blank on stage. (2 hours)

24 Iran, America and Upheaval in the Muslim World 11.15am, St Patrick’s Church €15

What is going to happen now that the US has in effect declared war on Iran? How will the Muslim world react, not just to this but also to the moving of the American Embassy to Jerusalem? With 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 filmmaker 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 Ruadhán MacCormaic.

25 How the rest of the world lives: Katherine Boo 11.30am, Secret Garden €15

Katherine Boo, one of the most acclaimed American investigative journalists and authors, documents the lives of forgotten people living in poverty. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the MacArthur “genius” award. There are books that change the way you feel and see the world. The Beautiful Forevers is one such book winning the National Book Award for non-fiction. David McWilliams was beguiled by it as was The Times: “Astonishing…one’s first reaction is disbelief followed by stunned silence. Boo is unsentimental, unjudgmental, uncondescending, yet brimful of compassion”. Join David as he sits down with the extraordinary Katherine Boo.

26 Cartoon Workshop with Mark Flood (age 8+) 11.30am, Library €10

Join one of Ireland’s finest animators, Mark Flood, and learn how to draw your favourite cartoon characters – or invent your own! Mark Flood, together with David McWilliams, has created award-winning animations commissioned by the Financial Times. Mark is also working with Disney at the moment and in this special event you can learn to draw from one of the greats!

27 Republic of Rhetoric: The State of The Nation 12pm, Seafront Marquee €15

As we recover from a divisive Referendum, marking possibly the end of a half-century culture war in Ireland, where are the new battlegrounds? Join some of the finest thinkers, writers and analysts in the country as we talk about ourselves. We are about to commemorate the War of Independence, but what does Ireland stand for right now and where are we heading? Join this discussion as we examine the State of the Nation, warts and all. With Fintan O’Toole, Blindboy, Dearbhail McDonald, Theo Dorgan and Hugh Linehan.

28 How to Write for Bold Girls (and Boys)! 12pm, Heritage Centre €10

Have you always wanted to write for children? Don’t know where to start? Three renowned children’s authors talk about research, plotting and creating strong girl and boy characters that jump off the page. They will also discuss agents, publishing and submitting your work. With Sarah Webb, Anna Carey and Sarah Moore Fitzgerald. Inspired by CBI’s #BoldGirls campaign.

29 The Book Clinic (for young readers) 12-4pm, Festival Hub FREE

Are you a young reader? Looking for a new series to delve into? Feeling uninspired by your bookshelves at home? Do you need an exciting new read? Then pop along to the Book Clinic at the Festival Hub! Young readers of all ages are invited to drop in and meet the Book Doctor – no appointment needed, and no nasty jabs or tablets, we promise. Come away with a prescription for your next book, which you can take to your local bookshop or library! With Children’s Books Ireland and the CBI #BoldGirls campaign which aims to break down societal barriers and to instil confidence in girls and young women by showing them female characters in children’s books with agency, power and opinions, addressing at a young age some of the issues that stand in the way of women achieving their ambitions, whether that be in leadership, government or the arts.

13 Page to Screen: Movie Makers Talk Books 5.30pm, Seafront Marquee €20

Settle in! Never before has there been such a demand for top quality content and never before has the viewer been more discerning. This will be a treat for movie, television and book lovers. Join four giants of the stage, screen and page, who have translated for the big screen – and increasingly now your small screen. 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.

14 How to Talk Funny - Public Speaking Cracked with David Nihill 6pm, Secret Garden €15

In one year, from being deathly afraid of public speaking David began hosting business conferences and winning storytelling competitions in front of packed houses. He did it by learning from some of the best public speakers in the world: stand – up comedians. He also told a lot of funny stories along the way which David will share along with some of the techniques used by the world's best TED speakers. Join us for an evening of laughter with bestselling author David Nihill.

15 Plastic Oceans and The Big Gig! The Riptide Movement & friends 6-8pm, St Patrick’s Church €20

Nothing is more precious or fragile than our environment and right now our seas are under severe threat from plastic. Sophie Darlington (David Attenborough’s cinematographer), Cara Augustenborg (environmental scientist), Victor Mallet (FT journalist and author of Ganges, River of Life, River of Death) will be joined by Mal Tuohy, the lead singer of The Riptide Movement, to highlight the desecration of the Irish coastline. Join us to learn how you can make a difference. Then kick back and enjoy the gig as The Riptide Movement perform their inimitable full live show. (2 hours)

16 Has #MeToo gone too far or not far enough? 7pm, Seafront Marquee €15

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? Does this social media protest work for real women in less glamorous jobs? And is it all really about power? With Lionel Shriver, Jennifer O’Connell, Suki Kim and Dearbhail McDonald.

17 Deborah Levy: The Art of Life 8.15pm, Secret Garden €15

Deborah Levy is a cultural phenomenon, an outstanding writer and an uncompromising thinker. In the second part of her memoir, The Cost of Living, Levy looks at the reason she writes. In this beautiful work, she explores marriage, motherhood, love, death and friendship. Fiercely intelligent and generously humane, the twice-Booker shortlisted writer will be in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson.

17B Dermot Bannon: Room to Improve 8:30pm, Seafront Marquee €15

Room to Improve is quite simply a national phenomenon. Combining Ireland’s most conspicuous characteristics – an obsession with property and an outrageous nosiness, Dermot Bannon is the conductor who brings it all together. Dermot Bannon is the nation’s favourite architect. He has hosted the ‘Room to Improve’ TV series since 2007 and has helped transform the homes and lives of hundreds of clients. Viewers are head-over-heels about this show. Dermot joins us for the first time at the Dalkey Book Festival to share his expertise and advice on designing our homes to make them better places to live. With Orna Mulcahy.

18 Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now – why Global Pessimists are Wrong 9.30pm, St Patrick’s Church €25

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 is compelling. 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 Blank Slate, and is one of Foreign Policy’s “World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals” and Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today”.

19 Shazia Mirza: With Love from St Tropez10pm, Secret Garden €20

Shazia Mirza is back! This time breaking new ground in comedy with her show, With Love from Saint Tropez. Having (just about) survived Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls, the woman who gave us The Kardashians Made Me Do It brings us her new stand up, the riotous odyssey With Love from St Tropez. “Dry as they come, sharp socio-political sass on Brexit, burkinis & butt plugs”. The Guardian bbbb

20 Transformer /Master: Gavin Friday talks Bowie with Eoin Devereux 10-11.30pm, The Vico €15

In reflecting on the formation of his band The Virgin Prunes in 1979, Gavin Friday has stated: “Blame it on Sister Nora, my career guidance officer at St. Kevin’s C.B.S./ Blame it on Oscar Wilde and David Bowie…” Join us for a lively conversation tracing Friday’s lifelong interest in Bowie. Friday and Devereux will discuss Bowie's interest in Expressionism, German Cabaret, and Modern Literature. Expect some stunning visual imagery and some classic Bowie sounds played on vinyl. (90mins)

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3 Robert Fisk in conversation with Pat Kenny

4 Eden: a play, written and performed by Barbara Hammond

1 The Meaning of Life: Michael Harding (with Ian Robertson)

5 Four Megatrends that will change the world by 2025

6 Willy Vlautin: An American Legend (with Nadine O’Regan)

2 Book Launch: David McWilliams launches Prishela’s Row’s Kindness of the Irish People FREE

10 Undercover in North Korea: Suki Kim talks to Matt Cooper

8 Poison, Politics & Putin: Russia & The New Cold War

7 Unleashing the Power of the Short Story, a writing workshop with Jan Carson 10.30am-1.30pm Venue: The Magpie

9 When China Rules the World (Michael Vatikiotis, Victor Mallet & David McWilliams)

11 The Retreat of the West: is Democracy de-feating itself? Ed Luce, Bill Emmott, Katherine Boo, Sunil Khilnani

12 Two Minute Beach Clean with Flossie Donnelly & The Riptide Movement

Venue: Bullock Harbour

14 How To Talk Funny: Public Speaking Cracked with David Nihill

15 Plastic Oceans & The Big Gig - The Riptide Movement & Friends (6pm-8pm) Mal Tuohy, Cara Augustenborg, Sophie Darlington, Victor Mallet, Gerry Foley and The Riptide Movement

17 Deborah Levy: The Art of Life (with Sinéad Gleeson)

19 Shazia Mirza: With Love from St Tropez

18 Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now - Why Global Pessimists are Wrong 20 Transformer/

Master: Gavin Friday talks Bowie with Prof Eoin Devereux

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13 Page to Screen: Movie Makers Talk Books

16 Has #MeToo gone too far or not far enough? Lionel Shriver, Jennifer O’Connell, Suki Kim, Dearbhail McDonald

17B Dermot Bannon: Room to Improve (with Orna Mulcahy)

27 Republic of Rhetoric: State of the Nation

25 How the rest of the world lives: Katherine Boo with David McWilliams

35 Why Philosophy Matters: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (with Ian Robertson)

42 The Irish writer and the World: Declan Kiberd & Eithne Shortall

45 The Psychology of Anger Why is Everyone so Angry? Prof. Ian Robertson

33 Trump’s America: Sebastian Junger, Willy Vlautin, Katherine Boo, Caitríona Perry

41 Brexit: England’s Nervous Breakdown

48 Lionel Shriver in the House (with Rick O’Shea)

50 Paul Howard: Dancing with the Tsars

53 Oliver Callan Live

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Saturday 16 30 The Bookshop is Dead, Long Live the Bookshop 12.30pm, Magpie FREE

Closure of a local bookshop has become a symbol of all that is wrong with society – but is this justified? Is the death of the bookshop wildly exaggerated, and do we really need local bookshops anymore? Join these bookshop owners (and ex-owners) to discuss the challenges faced by our high street bookshops and their predictions for the future.With Bob Johnston, Liz Meldon and Mary Burnham.

31 Stefanie Preissner: Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope 1.30pm, Town Hall €15

Stefanie Preissner burst on the scene with her acclaimed book and TV series Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope which hilariously captures the angst, hopes and dreams of Ireland’s millennials. Her live show Solpadeine is my Boyfriend marked her out as one of Ireland’s leading new writing talents. The second series of Can’t Cope is on our screens right now. She talks to Miriam O’Callaghan about life, work and everything in between.

32 South East Asia: the most dangerous place in the world? 1.30pm, Masonic €15

South East Asia is a tinderbox. Fought over by China, India and a retreating US, it could well be the Balkans of the 21 st century. Awarding winning journalist and author of Blood and Silk, Power and Conflict in Modern South East Asia, Michael Vatikiotis – who speaks five Asian languages and has been reporting on the region for years – warns us to be vigilant.

33 Trump’s America 1.45pm, Seafront Marquee €20

What is happening in the America we thought we knew? What do Americans really think? Three outstanding American thinkers, authors and journalists gather in Dalkey to tell us their own personal experience of what it’s like to live in Trump’s America.With Sebastian Junger, Willy Vlautin, Katherine Boo and Caitríona Perry.

34 The Power of the Short Story: Chris Power 2pm, Magpie €15

Since 2007, Chris Power has been writing “A brief survey of the short story” in The Guardian. After a decade examining in forensic detail the strengths and weaknesses of so many practitioners of the short form, what happens when you turn your hand to it yourself? He has – justly – been compared to Alice Munro and his stories have been garlanded with praise from Jon McGregor. His stories are profound, tender, precise and artfully crafted.With Jennifer O‘Connell.

35 Why Philosophy Matters: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein with Ian Robertson 3pm, Secret Garden €15

You rarely get the chance to listen to one of America ’s leading public intellectuals. Author of 11 books, in 2015, President Barak Obama presented Rebecca Newberger Goldstein with the highly prestigious National Humanities Award for her outstanding contribution to American debate. In an increasingly distracted world, Rebecca will explain why philosophy and your own personal philosophy matters more than ever.

36 Something to Write Home About: A Tribute to Seamus Heaney 3pm, Town Hall FREE

Seamus Heaney lit up St Patrick ’s Church in 2012. This was a special day for us at the festival and for many it remains the most memorable event we have hosted. Seamus didn’t need to do it, supporting us when we had just started, but he threw himself into it, listening to fans and being incredibly warm and generous with his time. No one knew there was so little of it left. This session honours his memory, exploring his home ground, the boundaries, divisions and ‘the possibility of true understanding’. With Glenn Patterson and Cathy Brown.

37 Book Launch: Don Conroy 3pm, Library FREE

Don Conroy launches Richie Conroy’s YA novel The Diary of Emily Porter - An Jailtacht! (Leabhair COMHAR)

38 Social Media or Social Menace? Facebook, freedom and your future 3.15pm, St Patrick’ s Church €15

In 1984 Orwell created the terrifying Big Brother who spied on enemies; today our dystopia is that we are spying on each other. We are all spies and we are all working for Facebook. Is Facebook the enemy? Is secretive online profiling and selling data to influence elections just the tip of the iceberg? Where is this headed? Join Ryan Tubridy, Paddy Cosgrave, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Jana Bakunina and Carlo Pizzati.

39 George Bernard Shaw: The Most Famous Irish Man Ever3.15pm, Masonic €15

100 years ago, Dalkey ’s greatest, George Bernard Shaw, was perhaps 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 to David McWilliams about Torca Road’s finest, GBS!

40 Susannah With Strings Attached 4.15-5.30pm Northover Hall €15

The best of the American Songbook, along with contemporary, comedic and cabaret gems. Featuring the Delmaine String Quartet, this is a fusion of jazz, classical and cabaret that is a music lover’s ‘must see’ show!

41 Brexit: England’s Nervous Breakdown 4.30pm, Seafront Marquee €15

Do we really understand the English? What happened to the England we thought we knew? Are they losing it? Are the normally implacable, stiff-upper-lip English having a collective nervous breakdown? Let’s talk about England. It’s not just their rugby team that looks out of sorts! Don’t forget that when England sneezes, we tend to get a cold. With Robert Shrimsley, Dearbhail McDonald, Michael Vatikiotis, Mehreen Khan and Victor Mallet.

42 The Irish writer and the World: Declan Kiberd & Eithne Shortall 4.30pm, Secret Garden €15

Declan Kiberd is the finest literary critic and cultural commentator in Ireland. Listening to him is always a joy and an education. Declan’s writing is fused with wit and wisdom. Insights zip off the page. Eithne Shortall is Chief Arts writer at the Sunday Times whose debut novel Love in Row 27 has just been optioned for TV. This is a jewel of an event for literature lovers.

43 # MeToo – a vision from the Eastern World: Tishani Doshi5pm, Town Hall €15

This is a special #MeToo event you will never forget. Exploring Asian women’s experience in a spellbinding performance – half dance, half reading – by one of India’s most acclaimed and talented young poets, Tishani Doshi, Girls are Coming out of the Woods is a dance and poetry performance of extraordinary beauty. Tishani, a renowned dancer as well as celebrated poet, takes us through a breath-taking panorama of danger, memory, beauty and haunting discoveries exploring our oldest themes of love, grief, suffering and anger. Introduced by the wonderful Theo Dorgan.

44 Writing Dublin: Roddy Doyle and John Banville 5pm, St Patrick’s Church €20

Roddy Doyle has moved readers for more than three decades. Although this will probably annoy him, Doyle is a national treasure. John Banville, fellow Booker winner, has published 18 novels and a series of crime novels as Benjamin Black and a memoir of Dublin, Time Pieces: a Dublin Memoir. With Ryan Tubridy.

45 The Psychology of Anger: Why is Everyone So Angry? Prof Ian Robertson 6pm, Secret Garden €15

Everywhere you look people are angry, States are angry, electorates are angry. Why now, why here, what’s driving this? Mark Twain said that anger is an acid that burns the person holding it. Ian tests the truth of Twain’s aphorism in an interactive session on the psychology and neuroscience of anger. Be prepared to flex your anger muscles.

46 Sex Trafficking in Ireland: Lisa Harding 6pm, Heritage Centre €15

These girls are all over the country in every town. We think sex trafficking is something that goes on in Thailand and Vietnam, but it’s here on our doorstep. Harding’s devastating novel, Harvesting, explores the world of trafficked women in Ireland. She talks to Jennifer O’Connell.

47 Crudo: Olivia Laing in conversation 6pm, Masonic €15

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of being Alone was published to remarkable critical acclaim, cementing Laing’s reputation as one of the most original writers of contemporary non-fiction. Her first move into fiction charts in real time what it was like to live and love in the horrifying summer of 2017. From a Brexit-paralysed UK, to Trump tweeting the world into nuclear war, the political, social and natural landscapes are in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead and the planet is hotting up. Is it worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all? With Sinéad Gleeson.

48 Lionel Shriver in the House6.30pm, Seafront Marquee €20

Never afraid to take on a difficult subject, 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. Winner of the Orange Prize, 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. With Rick O’Shea.

49 The Gospel according to Blindboy 6.45pm, Town Hall €15

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. Prepare to be dazzled. With Professor Declan Kiberd.

50 Paul Howard: Dancing with the Tsars 8.15pm, Seafront Marquee €20

Paul Howard is best known as the creator of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, a fictional rugby jock whose exploits have been the subject of seventeen novels, which have sold more than one million copies in Ireland alone. He has been described by the Irish Times as “Ireland’s pre-eminent satirist” and by the Irish Independent as “one of the world ’s funniest writers”.

51 Out of the West, American Style - Words & Music with Willy Vlautin8.15-9.45pm, St Patrick’s Church €20

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 Willy’s new book. There’ll be a Q&A discussing his books, music, America, and the new movie of his novel Lean on Pete. Accompanied on pedal steel by David Murphy. With Dave Fanning.

52 Wildlife Up Close with Sophie Darlington 8.30pm, The Vico €15

Sophie is a BAFTA and multi award-winning natural history filmmaker and cinematographer who has been making wildlife feature films and television for more than 25 years. Sophie has worked on feature films for BBC Earth and landmark TV series for the BBC and National Geographic such as The Hunt, Planet Earth II, and Life Story, narrated by Sir David Attenborough. With Simon Carmody.

53 Oliver Callan Live 10pm, Seafront Marquee €20

Best known for the hugely successful Callan’s Kicks on RTÉ Radio One, the impressionist skewers political and entertainment figures with true bite, aiming to inform audiences as well as entertain. His new show is a mixture of comedy and commentary, peppered with characters and stories. Ireland has changed since Enda Kenny departed as Taoiseach and Callan’s Kicks is more focused now on our social media “Teesh” Leo and his sidekick Eoghan Murphs (ledgebag).

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28 How to Write for Bold Girls (and Boys)! With Sarah Webb, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald & Anna Carey

22 New York Behind Closed Doors: Polly Devlin with Jane McDonnell

23 Masterclass in Public Speaking: David Nihill

24 Iran, America and Upheaval in the Muslim world

31 Stefanie Preissner: Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope

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32 South East Asia: the most dangerous place in the world? (with Michael Vatikiotis & Victor Mallet)

36 Something to Write Home About: A Tribute to Seamus Heaney (Cathy Brown & Glenn Patterson) FREE

38 Social Media or Serial Menace? Facebook, freedom and your future

39 George Bernard Shaw, The Most Famous Irish Man Ever? (Fintan O’Toole and David McWilliams)

43 # MeToo – a vision from the Eastern World: Tishani Doshi (introduced by Theo Dorgan)

44 Writing Dublin: Roddy Doyle & John Banville with Ryan Tubridy

49 The Gospel according to Blindboy with Professor Declan Kiberd

46 Sex Trafficking in Ireland : Lisa Harding (with Jennifer O’Connell)

51 Out of the West, American Style: Words and Music with Willy Vlautin (Dave Fanning & David Murphy)

47 Crudo: Olivia Laing in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson

21 Once Upon a Time: Twisted Fairytales Writing Workshop (age 8+) with Sarah Webb

26 Cartoon Workshop with Mark Flood (age 8+ )

37 Don Conroy launches Richie Conroy’s YA novel ‘The Diary of Emily Porter - An Jailtacht!’ FREE

29 12-4pm Book Clinic at Festival Hub FREE

30 The Bookshop is Dead, Long Live the Bookshop! Bob Johnston, Liz Meldon

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34 The Power of the Short Story: Chris Power & Jennifer O’Connell

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40 Susannah With Strings Attached: performing the great American songbook

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52 Wild Life Up Close: Sophie Darlington (with Simon Carmody)

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56 The Power and the Story: Fake News, Journalism and the Loss of Trust

60 Blitzed! Drugs in Nazi Germany: Norman Ohler (with Patrick Freyne)

66 Insurgents: Reporting from the Frontline

69 Michael Ondaatje: Dissolving the Line Between Poetry and Prose (with Tishani Doshi)

54 Surviving in the Age of Anxiety: Dr Harry Barry (with Fiona O’Doherty)

58 Poetry Now: Marie Heaney with Olivia O’Leary

61 Our first laureate: Anne Enright (with Hilary Fannin)

70 The Grand Finale Lament for Art O’Leary with Paul Muldoon, The Horslips’ Barry Devlin, Jim Lockhart, Johnny Fean and Paul McAteer, Lisa Dwan and Ruth Smith followed by The Last Word with Paul Muldoon

64 Kit de Waal: Where are the working class voices? (with Paula Shields)

68 Brexit: What Does Germany Really Want? Robert Gerwarth, Norman Ohler, Pinchas Landau, Jana Bakunina

59 Why The First World War Never Ended: Robert Gerwarth (with Myles Dungan)

65 That Sh*t Will Never Sell: The Real Story behind Bailey’s Irish Cream (David Gluckman talks to Patrick Freyne)

57 Unreasonable Women: the equality war goes on

62 Bright Young Things: DBF Picks. Caoilinn Hughes, Danny Denton, Andrew Meehan & Rick O’Shea

67 The Politics of Poetry (Olivia O’Leary in conversation with Nick Laird, Nathalie Handal & Tishani Doshi)

55 Why Tribes Matter (Sebastian Junger and Nick Laird with Barry Devlin)

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63 Magic in My Eyes: The Love Poems of Thomas Hardy, (Michael J Forde & Delmaine String Qrt)

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54 Surviving in the Age of Anxiety: Harry Barry 11am, Secret Garden €15

We are living in the middle of an anxiety epidemic. Depression is the one of the most significant mental health issues of our time, self-harm appears endemic amongst school children and technology and social media are insidiously and pervasively invading our lives, leading to toxic stress. How can you deal with this? In his latest book, bestselling author and GP Harry Barry reveals how you can unlock your inner emotional resilience reserves, deal with the challenges of life, and protect your mental health. With Fiona O’Doherty.

54B NAMALAND: Frank Connolly11am, Heritage Centre €15

NAMALAND is the shocking story of how political recklessness conspired to disinherit the Irish people and empower a new global elite. Here, and for the first time, bestselling investigative journalist Frank Connolly unravels the scandal at the heart of NAMA’s mission.Beneath NAMA’s veneer of impartiality lies a world built on political patronage and nepotism, rife with conflicts of interest and vulnerable to shocking instances of corruption, where political influence and mismanagement has handed the initiative to a small coterie of international venture capitalists and created a vibrant trade in state secrets.

55 Why Tribes Matter: Sebastian Junger & Nick Laird 11.30am, Finnegan’s €15

In this globalised world, do you sometimes feel a bit lost, without a sense of place? You are not alone. In Tribe, Sebastian Junger explores why for many soldiers and civilians, war feels better than peace, adversity can turn out to be a blessing and disasters are sometimes remembered more fondly than weddings or holidays. Junger explores why we are stronger when we come together. In his latest novel, Modern Gods, Nick Laird, explores how religious faith is inseparable from violence in a book about families, tribes and peoples. With Barry Devlin.

56 The Power and the Story: Fake News, Journalism and the Loss of Trust 12pm, Seafront Marquee €15

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, Robert Shrimsley, Pinchas Landau, Jennifer O’Connell and Caitríona Perry.

57 Unreasonable Women: The Equality War Goes On 12pm, Masonic €15

Next year marks the 100-year anniversary of women getting the vote in Ireland. Much has been achieved in terms of gender equality, but women are still fighting on many of the same issues and women are still a minority in government today. How important was and is female activism in effecting change and, 100 years after suffrage, where are we now with regards to equality? And what would Markiewicz make of it all? With Senator Lynn Ruane, Margaret Ward, Nell Regan, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Martina Devlin.

58 Poetry Now: Marie Heaney with Olivia O’Leary 12.30pm, Secret Garden €15

All Through the Night is Marie Heaney’s collection of moving and evocative night poems for all stages of life. Lullabies and other poems relating to children and parenting form the opening section, while later poems celebrate or give voice to our various night-time pleasures and preoccupations. The elegiac poems towards the end of the book turn to face the prospect of that last long sleep that awaits us all. Marie Heaney’s wide-ranging selection includes WH Auden, William Blake, Eavan Boland, Emily Dickinson, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, John Keats, Derek Mahon, Paula Meehan, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, and WB Yeats. With Olivia O’Leary.

59 Why the First World War Never Ended: Robert Gerwarth 12.30pm, Heritage Centre €15

The Great War began a cycle of violence that continued to play out until after the second World War and in some parts of the world – notably the Middle East and Ukraine – it continues to be worked through even today. At a time when Vladimir Putin seems intent on regaining Tsarist Russia’s frontiers, and the map of the Middle East drawn by the victorious powers becomes ever more blurred, we ask whether the First World War has ended yet? Join Robert Gerwarth, Professor of Modern History at UCD, in conversation with Myles Dungan.

60 Blitzed! Drugs in Nazi Germany: Norman Ohler (with Patrick Freyne) 2pm, Seafront Marquee €15

Was Hitler a “super-junkie”? In his bestselling book, Norman Ohler argues that Hitler's vegetarianism and image as a teetotaller were part of propaganda to create an impression of a saintly person concerned only about his country. In fact, Hitler was a drug fiend, addicted to methamphetamine, which became central to military life in Germany. Addiction level rose to a point that people were taking it as they take coffee or tea. Ohler’s brilliant and controversial book paints a vivid picture of Hitler in a distressed condition during his last days in a bunker as Allied bombing of Berlin destroyed the pharmaceutical firm where the drug was being produced.

61 Anne Enright: our first laureate 2pm, Secret Garden €15

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.

62 Bright Young Things: Dalkey Book Festival Picks the very best new writing 2pm, Masonic €15

How many people were actually at U2 ’s iconic gig in the Dandelion Market? There is a thrill in seeing talent when it is first emerging which is why we at Dalkey are delighted to showcase some of the bright young things of Irish literature. Emerging Irish talent has rarely been stronger. Come listen to three of the best. You heard it here first! Caoilinn Hughes, Danny Denton and Andrew Meehan will be talking to Rick O’Shea.

63 Magic in My Eyes: The Love Poems of Thomas Hardy, words and music 3pm, Northover Hall €15

This new collaboration with the Delmaine String Quartet and Michael James Ford explores one of the great romances in literary history – Thomas Hardy’s courtship of Emma Gifford. When Emma died in 1912, after many years of estrangement, Hardy was inspired to write some of the greatest love poetry in the English language and to revisit the landscape of his first great passion. The Delmaine Quartet have selected music that reflects this complex emotional landscape, drawn primarily from the lyrical, multi-layered chamber works of Frank Bridge.

64 Kit de Waal: Where are the Working-Class Voices? 3.15pm, Town Hall €15

Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the Irish community of Birmingham in the 60s and 70s. Her debut novel My Name Is Leon was a critical and commercial hit. Her second novel, already longlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction, also draws on her Irish heritage. Kit de Waal is more than just a successful novelist with an internationally bestselling and Costa First Novel Award shortlisted novel under her belt. She famously used the advance she received for her debut to set up a creative writing scholarship for aspiring writers from disadvantaged backgrounds, for whom she’s also since become a powerful voice. With Paula Shields.

65 That Sh*t Will Never Sell: The Real Story Behind Bailey’s Irish Cream 3.30pm, Heritage Centre €15

How does advertising get inside your head? You think you know your own mind, but do you? David Gluckman spent over 40 years in a dream job, creating drinks, mostly alcoholic ones. Everyone knows Bailey’s Irish Cream. Hear about how it began, where the idea came from, and the rocky road it took to becoming the world ’s best-selling liqueur. There are successes: Baileys, Sheridan’s, Le Piat d’Or and Tanqueray Ten. Some interesting failures too. With Patrick Freyne.

66 Insurgents: Reporting from the Frontline 4pm, Seafront Marquee €15

They represent journalism at its most exciting, influential, and dangerous. Five remarkable journalists – who have reported from the frontline in Syria, Myanmar, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Latin America, and Northern Ireland – explore how “frontline” reporting is changing, how the tech revolution 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 perilous jobs in journalism. With Michael Vatikiotis, Carlo Pizzati, Nelofer Pazira, Sebastian Junger and Mark Little.

67 The Politics of Poetry 4pm, Masonic €15

Is poetry political? Why do you think Northern Ireland has produced so many remarkable poets from Heaney to Muldoon, Longley to Laird? At a time of political conflict perhaps poets have a permission to say what others can’t say. Poetry is about identity, where you are from, the forces that make you and the politics around you. Indeed the poet often has licence to address issues that the novelist, journalist and cultural commentator tend to avoid. In this intriguing session, Ireland’s finest political thinker, Olivia O’Leary, talks the poetic, personal and political with Tishani Doshi, Nathalie Handal and Nick Laird, three outstanding poets from deeply divided societies: Palestine, India and Northern Ireland.

68 Brexit: What does Germany really want? 5pm, Town Hall €15

Brexit has obscured the real issue in Europe, which is what does Germany really want? After the second World War, Germany did not have the permission to say publicly what it wanted. But that is changing. Where Germany goes, Europe will go – and Ireland, shorn of one of its major allies in Europe, the UK, will have to figure out Germany. Join our brilliant panel to tease out what Germany really wants. With Robert Gerwarth, Norman Ohler, Jana Bakunina, Pinchas Landau and David McWilliams.

69 Michael Ondaatje 6pm, Seafront Marquee €15

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 non-fiction 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 is Warlight. With Tishani Doshi.

70 The Grand Finale with Paul Muldoon, Lisa Dwan, The Horslips’ Barry Devlin, Jim Lockhart, Johnny Fean, Paul McAteer and Ruth Smith 7-9pm, Secret Garden €25

A new performance of the classic poem, translated by Paul Muldoon and set to original music composed and performed by Horslips’ Barry Devlin and Jim Lockhart and the wonderful Lisa Dwan reading the part of Eileen O’Leary, The Lament for Art O’Leary is a powerful new presentation of a great 18th-century poem. Perhaps the greatest love poem in the Irish language, it was composed at the time of his wake by O’Leary’s widow, Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, and tells the story of the young hussar’s persecution and murder.We are thrilled to give the last word of the Dalkey Book Festival 2018 to Paul Muldoon, the greatest living poet in the English language.

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