Book Festival
Now in its third year, Dalkey Book Festival was set up to celebrate and foster the wealth of literary talent in and around the town. The festival takes place over a weekend in Mid-June every year. Festival directors, David McWilliams and Sian Smyth, work with the support of a superb team of volunteers and the Dalkey Business Group to ensure the festival’s success. Contributors this year included Seamus Heaney, Maeve Binchy, Joseph O'Connor, Derek Landy, Jennifer Johnston, Robert Fisk, Eamon Morrissey, John Waters, Matt Cooper, Julian Gough and Sinéad Cusack.
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“A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 16:16,17.