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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 Willie’s new book. There’ll be a Q&A discussing his books, music and America, and the new movie of his novel ‘Lean on Pete’.
Accompanied on pedal steel by David Murphy (who previously toured with Richmond Fontaine).
Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16th June 2018 -
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. Fisk’s best-selling books on the Middle East include Pity the Nation and The Great War for Civilisation.
In conversation with Pat Kenny.
Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 14th June 2018. -
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These two masters both write with dark humour and wit; we are excited to present them together to talk about “Writing Dublin”. You’d be mad to miss this!
Roddy Doyle has moved readers for more than three decades. The initial larking of the Barrytown Trilogy has given way to many more complex stories, exploring the harsh emotional intricacies of everyone’s everyday lives. Roddy’s also picked up a few awards along the way. His latest novel Smile is an extraordinary work, about as far away from The Commitments as it’s possible to go. Although this will probably annoy him, Doyle is a national treasure.
John Banville, fellow Booker winner, and winner of a great many prestigious awards, has published 18 novels and a series of crime novels as Benjamin Black. He has also written a memoir of Dublin, Time Pieces: a Dublin Memoir, published in 2016.
With Ryan Tubridy.
Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16 June 2018 -
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.
Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 17 June 2018 -
100 years ago, Dalkey’s greatest, George Bernard Shaw, was 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 Shaw with David McWilliams to assess the life and times of Torca Road’s finest GBS!
Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16 June 2018 -
What is going to happen now that the US has in effect declared war on Iran? How will the Muslim world react? With the 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 film maker 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 Ruadhan MacCormaic of the Irish Times.
Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16 June 2018 -
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. From deepest rural parts, to hipster central, Blindboy’s observations are part Flann O’Brien, part Mad Max – utterly compelling. Prepare to be dazzled.
With Prof Declan Kiberd.
Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16 June 2018 -
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 nonfiction 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 Warlight is published in May.
Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 17 June 2018 -
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 ground, losing credibility and more significantly not providing 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 Ed Luce, Bill Emmott, Katherine Boo, Sunil Khilnani and David McWilliams.
Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 15 June 2018 -
They represent journalism at its most exciting, influential, but also lethal. We have gathered in Dalkey a panel of five remarkable journalists who have reported from the frontline in Syria, Myanmar, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Latin America, Northern Ireland, and covering a wide spectrum of issues from repression in North Korea, to brutal Islamist terrorism.
They will explore how “frontline” reporting is changing, how the tech revolution and social media access 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 dangerous jobs in journalism.
With Michael Vatikiotis, Carlo Pizatti , Nelofer Pazira, Sebastian Junger and Mark Little .
Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 17 June 2018 -
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.
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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.
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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 - Show more
