Programme

Evil Literature Exhibition

The Evil Literature exhibition is focused on a selection of banned books in the collections of Dublin City Reading Room and Dublin City Archives, including the work of Edna O’Brien.

The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O’Brien, the book choice for Dublin: One City One Book Festival in 2019, was censored in Ireland. Edna subsequently became one of a number of active opponents to censorship and was involved in reforming the manner in which the Censorship of Publications Board operated from 1967.

Accompanying the exhibition is an artistic response by Dan Eames, a graduate from NCAD, to the banning of The Country Girls, which was awarded by the International Society for Typographic Design and The Design and Crafts Council of Ireland. It includes a printed book, a mobile app and a retroftted prie-dieu display

The exhibition is on display in the Dublin Room, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse St, Dublin 2 from 4th April to end of May.

Opening Hours:

Monday to Thursday 10am to 8pm

Friday and Saturday: 10am to 5pm

Admission: Free

Christine Dwyer Hickey In Conversation

Join us for a special evening with Christine Dwyer Hickey, author of this year’s Dublin One City One Book choice Tatty, in association with Dublin Book Festival. Christine will be in conversation with literary critic Niall MacMonagle in the beautiful setting of Kevin Street Library, Dublin. She will discuss Tatty, her varied writing career, and in particular how music influences her writing.

Musical interludes will be contributed by pianist Leonora Carney, trumpeter Colm Byrne and piper Donnacha Dwyer.

Tatty was originally published in 2004 and earlier this year a special Dublin One City One Book edition, with a new introduction by Dermot Bolger, was published by New Island Books. Christine recently won the 2020 Dalkey Literary Award and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for her most recent novel The Narrow Land.

This event will be available to watch online via www.dublinbookfestival.com and www.rte.ie. Please note that you will need to register in advance to watch the event.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dublin-one-city-one-book-christine-dwyer-hickey-in-conversation-tickets-117999891853

Love, says Bloom Exhibition at MoLI

Love, says Bloom

Into the heart of the Joyce Family curated by Nuala O’Connor. Runs until 3rd July at Museum of Literature Ireland, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.

https://moli.ie/lovesaysbloom/

—Love, says Bloom looks at the deep love between Irish writer James Joyce, his wife Nora Barnacle, and their children Giorgio and Lucia, using music as a steadfast element in their lives. Giorgio trained as a singer, Lucia was an accomplished dancer, and all four Joyces often sang at the piano, with friends, for both celebration and succour.

The Joyces lived in a war-ruptured early twentieth-century Europe – in Pola, Trieste, Zürich, and Paris – and their native Ireland was also up-ended by division. In this exhibition, curator Nuala O’Connor celebrates the Joyce’s mutual devotion, alongside some of the music that bound them, while their world was in flux.

Curator Nuala O’Connor was born in Dublin in 1970 and lives in County Galway. Her fifth novel NORA (Harper Perennial/New Island, 2021), about Nora Barnacle, wife and muse to James Joyce, was named as a Top Ten historical novel by the New York Times in 2021. Nuala is editor at flash fiction e-journal Splonk. nualaoconnor.com