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Dublin Writers Festival
Note: Details below refer to the previous event. Updated information for this year will be published here as soon as it becomes available.
Over the course of this four day festival over 40 Irish and internationalwriters and poets, journalists, political commentators, and evenlawyers will gather in Dublin for a series of readings, discussions, debates and publicinterviews. The Festival will explore themes as diverse as war, loss,national identity, Irish values, childhood, crime, and the art of theshort story.
The undoubted highlights of 2008 were appearances by Tom Stoppard, whose remarkable career wwascelebrated, and J.P. Dunleavy, multi-million selling author, who was the subject of a retrospective at the Project Arts Centre.
Also at the Project Arts Centre Ivana Bacik, Roy Foster, Alan Gilsenan and David McWilliams took part in a wide ranging discussion on the topic of Modern Irish values.
The combination of Linn Ullmann (daughter of Ingmer Bermand and Liv Ullmann) and Esther Freud (daught of Lucien Freud in an exploration of childhood memory, family secrets and absent patriarchs was a fascinating prospect that drew an appreciative audience.
A special event, "Dust to Dust - Laying the Troubles to Rest ", looked beyond politics in Northern Ireland, while "War Games – the true cost of the war on terror" saw international lawyer Philippe Sands joined by Philip Gourevitch author of Standard Operating Procedure - the first full reckoning of what really took place in the now infamous Iraqi Abu Ghraib prison.
These a just a small selection of events from a very impressive programme in 2008, and undoubtedly the organisers will come up with just as good a programme when the 2009 details are announced.
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For a look at some other activities and attractions that we recommend within reach of this event, including tour itineraries and articles of interest, see our Dublin City Area Guide.
