Popular Library Events

Between the Red Lines: Becoming A Journalist

Live talk and Q&A with Brian Mahon, reporter for The Times.

Between the Red Lines: The Camino & Dublin with Historian Cathy Scuffil

This presentation explains the story of the Camino and its long connections with Dublin.

Between the Red Lines: Pure Gold: John Patrick McHugh in conversation

Join debut author John Patrick McHugh in conversation with festival programmer Mark Ward on his short story collection Pure Gold, which heralds a bright new voice in Irish fiction.

Between the Red Lines: Wooden Heart’ Shadow Puppet Theatre Project and Competition

Join Children’s Writer & Theatre Artist Margaret Callan Bergin from Garbo Productions on a creative journey to write a new Shadow Puppet Theatre play.

Decade of Centenaries Lecture Series: The IRA’s Guerrilla Campaign 1919-21

Historian Lorcan Collins takes us through the IRA's campaign during the War of Independence

Decade of Centenaries Lecture Series; The other great pandemic: Spanish flu

Join historian Dr Ida Milne for a talk on the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Ireland

Decade of Centenaries Lecture Series: The War in the Shadows

Join Dr Myles Dungan for a talk on Michael Collins, the Squad and the IRA versus British Intelligence

Decade of Centenaries Lecture Series: Women & the Campaign for Independence

Dr Sinéad McCoole presents on the role of women of the campaign for independence.

RLBF 2020: The Art of the Glimpse with Sinéad Gleeson, Melatu Uche Okorie & Blindboy Boatclub

This event, chaired by poet Jessica Traynor, will see the collection’s editor Sinéad Gleeson speaking with contributors Blindboy Boatclub and Melatu Uche Okorie. There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a collection like this.

RLBF 2020: Making Zines with Sarah Maria Griffin

Creator of Wordfury Zines, author Sarah Maria Griffin will run a workshop on the world of Zines.