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A Dublin Book Festival Gallery ~ Day One

March 2, 2011 – 2:25 pm

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Pecha Kucha At The Dublin Book Festival: Talking about Thinking about Books

March 2, 2011 – 9:30 am

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Dublin Book Festival, IPN will be running a Pecha Kucha (Don’t know what means, check this out) event in the Good Room on Saturday 5th March 2011. The Good Room takes place in the Mercantile Bar and Grill, 28 Dame Street, Dublin 2.
Talking about Thinking about Books will run from 4pm-5pm and entry is FREE.

The aim is to offer a high-octane series of short presentations from writers, publishers and creative about books, publishing, creativity and fun.

Speakers will have only 6 minutes and 40 seconds to impress and what’s more they will be presenting with 20 slides in their decks* all of which are set to automatically move on after 20 seconds!

So far we have three excellent speakers, David Maybury and Catherine Ryan-Howard and Zoe Faulder. If you are interested in speaking, get in touch: Editor @ IrishPublishingNews.com

Expect fun and entertainment with a lesson (but the good kind) or two mixed in!
See you there.

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Dublin Book Festival Programme Released

February 14, 2011 – 11:49 am

The Dublin Book Festival has launched its full program in PDF and online.

Running from 2 March through to 6 March 2011, the programme opens with Dublin, Its Place I Literature moderated by Eileen Battersby and featuring Anthony Cronin and Dermot Bolger.

The programme also features discussions about; Ireland’s future with Mark Little, Shane Coleman, Justine McCarthy, Stephen Kinsella and Ken Foxe; Ireland’s crime problems with John Mooney, Barry Cummins, Abigail Rieley and Emer Connolly; Careers and personal finance with Colm Rapple, Brendan Foley and Jane Downes; a session on writing for young children with Sarah Webb, Kevin Stevens and chaired by Mags Walsh; and The Past is Now: Lessons for today from Ireland’s past, a discussion about Irish history with Ryan Tubridy, Diarmaid Ferriter and Susan Cahill.

The festival will also feature book launches for The Boy In The Gap by Paul Soye, The Last Irish Plague: The Great Flu Epidemic in Ireland 1918-19 by Catriona Foley and October Moon by Michael Scott

The Good Room in the Mercantile bar will feature a tea party extravaganza, Lady-dee nov’lists swanning about in all their glory, literary heads having cosy chats with cuddly writer Brian Leyden and Good Room games such as ‘Bring Your Girl/Boyfriend to Meet The Mammy’ and silent scrabble with the Child Who Can Be Seen and Not Heard. Irish Publishing News will host a Pecha Kucha session in the Good Room at 4pm on Saturday 5 March.

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Dragon's Den Star To Host Business Panel At Dublin Book Festival

February 8, 2011 – 10:45 am

Dragon’s Den star Bobby Kerr will host a panel discussion at the Dublin Book Festival on 4 March.

Kerr will be joined by Brody Sweeney, founder of O’Brien’s Sandwiches, and Yanky Fachler, author and motivational speaker.

The panel will discuss the challenges facing entrepreneurs and start-up businesses in the current environment. They will also share their own experiences, offer advice and answer questions.

The discussion will take place on Friday, 4 March, 9:45am – 11:00am, at Dublin City Hall. Entry is free and no booking is required.

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Young Adult Writing Competition For Dublin Book Festival

January 17, 2011 – 2:32 pm

The Dublin Book Festival has launched a new writing competition for young writers aged between 12 and 14.

The teenagers are being asked to write and submit a story between 500 and 1000 words in length for the chance to win a creative writing workshop with the Roddy Doyle!

The story must be submitted by 11 February and judges will pick eight winners will be chosen to attend the workshop on 26 February 2011.

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Dublin Book Festival Set For March 2011

January 12, 2011 – 11:41 am

Dates for the Publishing Ireland organised Dublin Book Festival have been announced. The event will run from Wednesday 2 March until Sunday 6 March two more days than previous festivals.

Jean Harrington, President of Publishing Ireland said, ‘We are delighted to be in a position to extend both the duration and scope of the Dublin Book Festival at a time when funding for the arts is in decline.’

Although the event schedule will not be released until the Thursday, 24 February, the festival will feature over 60 of Ireland’s leading authors, poets and journalists taking part in readings, debates, workshops and book launches spread between City Hall the National Library of Ireland and the Project Arts Centre.

The City Hall hub will feature a bookshop with titles for sale from over 100 Irish publishers and coffee shop run by Insomnia.

All events in the City Hall location will be free of charge, though some events at other locations may require donations from patrons.

The festival is backed by Irish book publishers and supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport, Foras na Gaeilge, Dublin City Libraries and Dublin City Council.

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Dublin Book Festival Program Announced

February 15, 2010 – 1:20 pm

Dublin Book FestivalIn depth conversations with Nell McCafferty, Declan Hughes, Mary Kenny and Sarah Webb will be among the highlights of the Dublin Book Festival program announced over the weekend.

The Book Festival, which will take place from Saturday 6th to Monday 8th March 2010 in Dublin’s City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin 2, will also feature discussions covering topics like: REWRITING IRELAND’S REBEL HISTORY and SURVIVING REDUNDANCY.

The Annual Séamus Brennan Memorial Seminar on Irish Publishing will cover: IRISH LITERARY AND CULTURAL PUBLISHING: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES.

For more, visit the Dublin Book Festival website.

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Daily Links 15/02/20101

February 15, 2010 – 11:23 am

Guest blog: Twins A and C come to Little Island
A rather nice feature Liitle Island’s junior interns are sharing their thoughts
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Author Dick Francis dies aged 89
89 is a good age!
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Epic achievement lays milestone for Irish scholarship
The Independent covers the Dictionary of Irish Biography
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Sunday Indo feature plus Arts Council news
Odd how they hide the big news down the bottom!
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Loose Leaves
Notes on the Dublin Book Festival!
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Captain Rock and a hard place
review of Collins’ Captain Rock
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In pursuit of the pinkindindies
Noleen Dowling rounds up some local history releases!
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Poetry Now Festival
Emerging shares the highlights of the upcoming poetry now festival
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National Library of Ireland appoints new Director
Fiona Ross appointed new Director of the National Library of Ireland.
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