For the Bloomsday Dedalus Lecture 2023, author Belinda McKeon (Solace, Tender) delivered the museum’s annual lecture inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses, drawing on a range of contemporary Irish novels, including Kevin Curran’s Youth. Read the lecture below. LANDLORD NEVER DIES THEY SAY Inhabiting Fiction in Contemporary Dublin In December 2018, at Sotheby’s London, the auction catalogue entitled English Literature, History, Society, Children’s Books and Illustrations contained a lot which was none of those things: an iron latchkey, thin and brown and intricately knobbled with rust, 98mm long and noticeably warped with age. This was the key to 7 Eccles Street, the fictional home of Leopold and Molly Bloom in Ulysses, a fictional home which was based on a…

The Lilliput Press cordially invites you to the launch of The Moving Land by Billy Mundow at The City Assembly House on Tuesday, 30th April, 2024, from 6pm, with special guest speaker, filmmaker and playwright Jim Sheridan. The Moving Land: Ireland in Image and Verse by Billy Mundow, foreword by John Banville This selection of documentary photography by Billy Mundow matches monochrome images of Ireland from the 1960s to the words of Irish poets, recalling lost generations. Themes of a vanished world spool through the pages, capturing the remote and sparsely populated West of Ireland and its islands – places of breathtaking beauty and tranquillity – the midlands and Dublin’s streetscapes. Concentrating on portraiture and personality,…

A three-day festival celebrating the life and works of Irish writer and philosopher, John Moriarty. Book tickets here.   Browse the work of John Moriarty here.

Blurring the Lines: Fictionalising Reality Award-winning author Besserie discusses the art of fictionalising the real lives of artists, from Francis Bacon to Samuel Beckett and W. B. Yeats. In this intriguing conversation, Besserie will discuss the ways in which literature and art can subvert conventional narratives and challenge audiences to reconsider even the most familiar stories. Book tickets here. Award-winning author Maylis Besserie discusses the art of fictionalising the real lives of artists, from Francis Bacon to Samuel Beckett and W. B. Yeats. Her work gently probes the border between fact and fiction, creating stories that reimagine history, challenge perceptions, and uncover the blurred boundaries between reality and imagination. In the final instalment of her…

Mark your diaries and join us for the book launch of the hotly-anticipated debut novel Ravelling by Estelle Birdy on Thursday 9 May 2024 from 6pm at Hodges Figgis. All welcome, free to attend – reserve your spot here. An Irish Times, Sunday Independent and The Journal Most Anticipated Book of 2024 SET IN DUBLIN’S LIBERTIES, Estelle Birdy’s explosively original debut Ravelling channels the energies and agonies of young men let loose in the city, their city, navigating the tumultuous trajectory of youth and young manhood, where they balance their hopes with the harsh realities of their present. Hurtling between friendships, feuds, drug-deals, family and brushes with the law, this is modern Dublin as never before portrayed. Ravelling follows Deano, a weed-smoking hurling star,…