don’t miss
Watt
Wed 4 - Sat 7 Mar, 8pm
★★★★★ The Reviews Hub
★★★★ Time Out
Back after 2019’s sold-out run, Watt tells the story of a nomadic manservant in the house of his unseen master as adapted and performed by Barry McGovern.
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The State of Home
Thu 26 Mar, 7pm
Venue: dlr LexIcon
Ramallah in reflection: Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation is Raja Shehadeh’s absorbing account of a day-long walk through Ramallah, his Palestinian home, on the anniversary of its occupation.
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True American: Curtis Sittenfeld in conversation
Thu 26 Mar
Venue: dlr LexIcon
With moving insight and uncanny precision, Curtis Sittenfeld pinpoints the questionable decisions, missed connections, and sometimes extraordinary coincidences that make up a life.
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Festival Club: What to bring when we leave
Thu 28 Mar, 9.30pm
Venue: Haddington Hotel
A collaborative commission of spoken word and music, culminating in a unique continuous live performance by Tom French and Danny Diamond.
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Rollickin Rhymes with Michael Rosen
Fri 27 Mar, 4pm
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
Riotous rhyme and rollicking rhythms are on the menu with the inimitable Michael Rosen.
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Apeirogon
Fri 27 Mar, 7pm
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
Meet bestselling author Colum McCann as he joins us for a discussion of his most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon - named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides
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My name is Why - Lemn Sissay
Fri 27 Mar
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
Lemn Sissay, in conversation with Evelyn O’Rourke, will reflect on his childhood in care, on self-expression and Britishness; exploring the care system, race, family and the meaning of home and celebrating the redemptive power of creativity.
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Poetry Workshop with Maureen Boyle
Sun 29 Mar, 10.30am
Venue: dlr LexIcon
Join poet and educator Maureen Boyle for a poetry workshop aimed at those who are already writing poetry and who would like to hone their writing skills
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Fifty Years On: The State of the North
Sun 29 Mar, 12 noon
Venue: dlr LexIcon
Journalist and commentator Malachi O’Doherty charts the North’s social evolution over the past half-century
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X Borders: Refuge Showcase
Sun 29 Mar, 1.30pm
Venue: dlr LexIcon
XBorders is a cross-border project from the Irish Writers Centre that brings emerging writers together to explore and write about selected themes through fiction or non-fiction.
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Colette Bryce and Jackie Kay
Sun 29 Mar, 1.30pm
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
We are delighted to welcome our Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2020 judges Colette Bryce and Jackie Kay for a special reading of their latest work.
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Platform Seven
Sun 29 Mar, 2.30pm
Venue: dlr LexIcon
Join author Louise Doughty in conversation with Madeleine Keane about her writing career, including her latest novel, Platform Seven, a gripping, brilliant, original & eerily-timely novel.
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The Summer Isles: A Voyage of The Imagination
Sun 29 Mar, 2.30pm
Venue: dlr LexIcon
Travel writer Philip Marsden’s wonderful new book, The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination, gives an unforgettable account of the search for actual places, invented places, and those places in between that shape the lives of individuals and entire nations.
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Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson
Sun 29 Mar, 4pm
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
In this conversation with Sinéad Gleeson, Rebecca Solnit explores her latest book, Recollections of My Nonexistence. A memoir set against the backdrop of a 1980s San Francisco rife with gender violence and trauma
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John McAuliffe, Katie Donovan and Nidhi Zak (Aria Eipe)
Sun 29 Mar, 5pm
Venue: dlr LexIcon
In association with Poetry Ireland, we are delighted to welcome John McAuliffe, Katie Donovan, Nidhi Zak and Aria Eipe to discuss their latest works.
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This is Happiness
Sun 29 Mar, 6.30pm
Venue: dlr LexIcon
Join Niall Williams, acclaimed author of Man Booker-long listed History of the Rain and author of the most enchanting novel you’ll read this year, This is Happiness which is set in 1950s Ireland with the coming of electricity.
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Feminism Across Borders: Susan McKay
Sun 29 Mar, 7.30pm
Venue: dlr LexIcon
In this event, the award-winning writer will reflect on the transgenerational impact of a history of violence in Northern Ireland.
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An evening with Paul Muldoon and Lisa Lambe
Sun 29 Mar, 9pm
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
We end Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2020 with a very special evening of poetry and song from Paul Muldoon and Lisa Lambe.
An Evening with Michael Harding
Fri 23 & Sat 24 Oct, 8pm
Join Ireland’s foremost storyteller as he takes to the roads, dispensing his unique take on ordinary and extraordinary life in Ireland today.