South Dublin Libraries‘ Red Line Book Festival starts this week on 13th November and runs to Saturday 17th November.
This year they have expanded what was previously a single Readers’ Day into a festival proper with a huge range of events over the course of the week in a variety of locations. You can download the full programme of events here.
I’m looking forward to hearing Colm Keegan, Eileen Casey and Louise Phillips read from their new work on Wednesday night at 8.15 in the Civic Theatre. Before that in Rua Red there is a reading of work by local emerging writers read by South Dublin actor groups.
Also on Saturday next Readers’ Day proper will be held at the Civic Theatre, Tallaght, hosted by the irrepressible Dermot Bolger as usual. Among the writers present will be Gerard Donovan, Michael D. Higgins and Anne Enright. I’m hoping get to some or all of this – certainly to Gerard Donovan whose novels Julius Winsome and Schopenhauer’s Telescope have to be among the best new novels by an Irish writer in recent years. Go check them out, seriously.
