Europe Turns Right
From Coolock to Cannes, Rotherham to Rotterdam, Berlin to Budapest, and Bologna, Europe is swinging to the Right. Immigration and anaemic economic growth have made... Read More
Kathy Lette’s Revenge Club
Bestselling author, Kathy Lette, first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and... Read More
Barry McGovern Reads Beckett
Acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest Beckett interpreters, Barry McGovern comes to Dalkey for a very special performance. Reading from selected poems and prose,... Read More
Claire Keegan in Conversation
Claire Keegan’s prose has been described as exquisite, elegant and economical. Her novels are beautiful, jewel-like, perfect. Translated into 35 languages, Keegan has won many... Read More
The 2nd Irish Republic: Reimagining Ireland for the 21st Century
Ireland needs a reset. We have so much talent and so much money now, but we appear hampered by indecision. The country has never been... Read More
The German Genius
From the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into... Read More
Kevin Barry: The Heart in the Winter
Many years ago, Kevin Barry came to Dalkey and read his work. It was an unbelievably special event, no one reads their own work as... Read More
My Family and Other Rockstars
My Family and Other Rock Stars is a wonderfully warm memoir about Tiffany Murray’s extraordinary childhood growing up in the 1970s at the legendary Rockfield... Read More
Great Britain: Great Expectations or Great Escape?
The UK has been in a political, social and economic tailspin for over a decade now. It never really recovered from the 2008 crisis, Brexit... Read More
American Psycho
Patrick Bateman, the status-obsessed Wall Street investment banker in American Psycho conjures a certain type of man — vain, narcissistic, jealous, absurdly petty, materially wealthy but... Read More
