What's on

The Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015-2018) Anne Enright presents her latest novel, ‘The Green Road’, launched tonight in French translation.

For Nuit de la littérature (20th arrondissement), CCI has invited Kevin Barry to represent Ireland and read from his latest work ‘Beatlebone’ (2015); Marc Roger will lend his voice to the French translation.

Marc Roger reads this evening from Edna O’Brien’s novel ‘In the Forest’ - a grimly fascinating portrait of a young Irish psychopath

Join us for the launch of ‘L’Irlande des poètes’ - evocative poetry and images of Ireland presented in the form of a book and a CCI courtyard exhibition.

In Paris for the first night of his play ‘The Testament of Mary’ at the Théâtre de l’Odéon, Colm Tóibín will discuss his striking portrait of the Virgin Mary as well as his latest novel, ‘Nora Webster’.

Veritable path-breakers, these three poets continue to find new ways to tell truths of femininity, language, sexuality and culture.

Writing or drawing in the margins of a book was quite acceptable up to the 19th-century. Emmanuelle Chapron discusses the wonderful variety of marginalia in works held in our Old Library collection.

Award-winning Irish and French writers will engage in a series of debates and talks about the preoccupations, styles and dynamics of contemporary literature.

This evening, in the candlelit surroundings of the Old Library, Marc Roger will read from 'The Battle of the Books' by Jonathan Swift.

In her latest work translated by Theo Dorgan, renowned Syrian poetess Maram al-Masri chronicles the lives of women living within a Muslim culture in contemporary France.

‘The Thing About December’, launched tonight in French translation, confirms Donal Ryan as one of Ireland’s rising literary stars.

Hélène Lanscotte reads this evening from Edna O’Brien’s latest novel in which the inhabitants of small-town Cloonoila fall under the spell of a professed poet, exile, visionary and therapist…

Catherine Wilsdon sheds light on the people J.M. Synge encountered and the ideas to which he was exposed.

This evening, Oscar Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland looks into contemporary reactions to ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘Salomé’.

A special launch of the last volume of Beckett’s letters which covers the final period of his life from 1966 to 1989.

Writer-in-residence Pat Boran is best known as one of Ireland’s leading contemporary poets.