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Dublin Book Festival is one of Ireland’s most successful and dynamic book festivals, running since 2006 in the heart of Ireland’s capital with its rich literary history. ​This annual public festival is a celebration of Ireland’s writers and publishers. It showcases, supports and develops Irish writers and publishing by programming and promoting Irish books and their authors, editors and contributors, all in an entertaining, festive, friendly and accessible environment.Dublin Book Festival 2026 will take place across Dublin City from 4 - 8 November  2026For general queries please emailinfo@dublinbookfestival.com

Dublin Book Festival

Claire Gleeson and June O’Sullivan  in conversation with Sophie Grenham.

Irish Museum of Modern Art

Dublin Book Festival 2025

Dublin Book Festival is one of Ireland's most vibrant book festivals, with over 100 events around Dublin City including fringe events and across main 5 days, showcasing and celebrating Ireland's writers, illustrators and publishers.

This event takes place in the Creativity Hub by the main reception of IMMA. How do we go on when the worst has happened? Claire Gleeson’s Show Me Where It Hurts (Hodder and Stoughton) and June O’Sullivan’s The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife (Poolbeg) are two deeply affecting debuts exploring loss, grief, motherhood, and the power of the human spirit to survive. Join the authors in conversation with arts journalist Sophie Grenham.Please note we may be capturing candid imagery at this event for use on our social media and website.Claire Gleeson is from Dublin, where she lives with her young family and works as a GP. Her short stories have been short- and long-listed for numerous prizes. In 2021 she was awarded a Words Ireland literary mentorship while she worked on the first draft of Show Me Where It Hurts, which went on to be a runner-up at the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2023.June O’Sullivan lives on an island in Co. Kerry, Ireland. She writes historical fiction, flash fiction and short stories. Her writing has appeared in the Leicester Writes Short Story Anthology 2022, The Ogham Stone Journal, The York Literary Review, Seaside Gothic, The Storms Journal, The Waxed Lemon, Sonder and online as part of the National Flash Flood Day. She is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. Her bestselling debut novel The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife is published by Poolbeg.To hear first about our future events sign up to our newsletter <a href="https://dublinbookfestival.com/sign-up-to-our-newsletter/" title="https://dublinbookfestival.com/sign-up-to-our-newsletter/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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