Programme

Join TY (Transition Year) students from all over Dublin to hear all about Tatty and the life of a writer from the books author, Christine Dwyer Hickey. TY Co-ordinators are invited to get in touch with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature at cityofliterature@dublincity.ie to arrange a group seating allocation, plus free copies of Tatty for students wishing to take part.  

Presented by Garrett Fagan, this course is designed to tie in with events in the Dublin One City One Book festival 2020

culminating in an extended engagement with the selected title and making full use of events staged during April.

Students read a variety of books chosen to relate thematically to the 2020 Dublin One City One Book choice.

No prior knowledge is required for this course beyond an enjoyment, an interest in reading and in finding out more about your city.

Meeting author Christine Dwyer Hickey for an evening of discussion and readings from Tatty,this year’s Dublin One City One Book choice.

From characterisation to research, Christine Dwyer Hickey will help you to negotiate the landscape of your novel or short story. First five pages of work may be submitted for discussion. Individual attention will be offered to each participant.  Limit of 15 persons

Christine joins Clondalkin Library’s Book Club to discuss Tatty at a special meeting.  Non-members are very welcome to attend.

How has the language we use been shaped by a rapidly shifting cultural, political and digital landscape?

What can writers and artists do to challenge the current public discourse that creates division and conflict?

Join a host of artists and activists in this forum that will explore the use of language in contemporary society

and unpack the ways in which new modes of communication have added to this climate of intolerance.

Details of speakers nearer the time on www.irishwriterscentre.ie

This event is the result of collaboration between the Irish Writers Centre,

the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, English PEN, the Freedom to Write Campaign (Ireland),

and No Small Talk group. 

Kindly sponsored by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and English PEN

Tuesday 28^th April. 10.30am to 4pm.

Wood Quay Venue. Fishamble St. Dublin 8

Join Christine Dwyer Hickey for a special open book club meeting in the library,

where she will answer all your questions on Tatty and her work as a writer.

Presented by the Irish Film Institute. Christine Dwyer Hickey will introduce a programme of short films illustrating themes explored in Tatty. Films about alcoholism, martial breakdown and disability made between the 1960’s and 1980’s show how representations have changed dramatically in the intervening years. The programme includes some lighter notes in films about childhood and everyday suburban life in Dublin. These short documentaries, public information films and television commercials are selected from collections preserved in the Irish Film Institute.

Presented by The New Theatre and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. Dramatised performed readings from the novel Tatty – a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of the break up of a troubled Dublin family, as told through the eyes of a child.

Join author Christine Dwyer Hickey, author of Tatty, as she talks about her life, career and much more.

Presented by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and The New Theatre Dramatised performed readings from the novel Tatty – a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of the break up of a troubled Dublin family, as told through the eyes of a child.

Presented by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and The New Theatre. Dramatised performed readings from the novel Tatty – a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of the break up of a troubled Dublin family, as told through the eyes of a child.

Presented by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and The New Theatre.  Dramatised performed readings from the novel Tatty – a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of the break up of a troubled Dublin family, as told through the eyes of a child.   Post show talk this evening with Christine Dwyer Hickey.

Presented by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and The New Theatre. Dramatised performed readings from the novel Tatty – a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of the break up of a troubled Dublin family, as told through the eyes of a child.

Presented by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and The New Theatre. Dramatised performed readings from the novel Tatty – a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of the break up of a troubled Dublin family, as told through the eyes of a child.