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Síobhra Quinlan

Vocalist Síobhra Quinlan performs classical and contemporary pieces responding to the theme of Dublin’s Franco-Irish Literary Festival 2020 - ‘A Better World’ - together with readings in English, French and Irish.

21 Feb 2020

Literature

Poetry Jukebox #1 Climate

Throughout 2020, visitors to CCI’s courtyard will be able to listen to Maria McManus’ judicious choice of poems relating to climate concerns as well as experiences of migration, exile and other themes related to our programme.

24 Jan — 27 Mar 2020

Literature

Jan Carson & Hannah McPhillimy

Author Jan Carson and singer-songwriter Hannah McPhillimy present five years of artistic collaboration and discuss the alchemy of weaving two art forms together.

21 Jan 2020

Literature

Maggie O'Farrell and Noëlle Châtelet

On 8th March 2019, International Women’s Day, the CCI will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Alliance Française Franco-Irish Literary Festival.

8 Mar 2019

Literature

Nuala O’Connor and Michèle Forbes

Our writer-in-residence Nuala O’Connor and author Michèle Forbes will read from their latest novels and discuss writing about affairs of the heart.

19 Feb 2019

Literature

Jacques Bonnaffé reads Flann O’Brien

Renowned French actor Jacques Bonnaffé will bring to life some of satirist Flann O’Brien’s most popular daily columns published in The Irish Times.

19 Jan 2019

Literature

Paul Lynch

Launched tonight in French translation, ‘Grace’ is an epic coming-of-age novel and a poetic evocation of the Irish famine by one of Ireland’s finest novelists.

17 Jan 2019

What's on

Síobhra Quinlan

Poetry Jukebox #1 Climate

Jan Carson & Hannah McPhillimy

Premier amour

Je viens de loin, j’écris en français Samuel Beckett

Rencontre avec Emilie Pine

Une voix pour… Les voyages de Gulliver

La Médiathèque rencontre… Ronan Ryan

Café littéraire

Writing Workshop: Developing a Perspective / Darragh McKeon

Evening with Donal Ryan

An evening with Anne Griffin

Maggie O'Farrell and Noëlle Châtelet

Nuala O’Connor and Michèle Forbes

Jacques Bonnaffé reads Flann O’Brien

Paul Lynch

Je viens de loin, j’écris en français
Samuel Beckett