Opening of the festival
H. E. Mr. Yannick Gérard, Ambassador of France to Ireland

Panel discussion
Memory and identity:
a long story

Moderator: Michael Cronin With Albert Memmi (France), Anne Enright (Ireland), Béatrice Commengé (France), Liam Mac Cóil (Ireland).

Is memory more important now than ever before? In a world that is constantly speeding up we seem to hold onto our memories as the sole source of our identity and to have become overly obsessed with remembering the past. Is memory always unjust because it is by definition selective?

Panel discussion
Memory: rewriting the
past to invent the future?

Moderator: Liam O’Muirthile With Régine Robin (France), Antoni Libera (Poland),
Marina Carr (Ireland), Pavel Verner (Czech Republic).

Literature seems to be based on different kinds of memory-individual, collective, conscious or unconscious. Is memory a duty, a burden or a privilege for a writer? Is the future born out of the way we remember or is the way we remember always a function of our present needs and future anxieties?

Café Littéraire

Moderator: Johnnie Gratton

Café Littéraire

Moderator: Jean-Philippe Imbert

Presentation of the latest works of Béatrice Commengé (France), Tanja Dückers (Germany),
Gerard Mannix Flynn (Ireland), Kossi Efoui (France).

Literary Brunch

Memory: a duty of catharsis.

Moderator: Michael Cronin

With Dany Laferrière (Québec), Régine Robin (France), Antoni Libera (Poland), Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (Ireland), Hugo Hamilton (Ireland), Medbh McGuckian (Ireland).

An Hour with
Gerard Mannix Flynn and Grégoire Bouillier

Moderator: Theo Dorgan
Interviews of Gerard Mannix Flynn (Ireland),
Grégoire Bouillier (France).

Panel discussion :
In Joyce’s Wake

Moderator: Terence Killeen With Dany Laferrière (Québec), Fabrice Lardreau (France), Liam Mac Cóil (Ireland), Hugo Hamilton (Ireland), Charles Dantzig (France).

An Hour with
Pavel Verner and Denis Tillinac

Moderator: Theo Dorgan
Interview of Pavel
Verner (Czech Republic),
Denis Tillinac (France).

An Hour with
Charles Dantzig and
Marina Carr

Moderator: Emer O’Beirne. Interviews of Charles Dantzig (France), Marina Carr (Ireland).

An Hour with
Albert Memmi and
Joseph O’Connor

Moderator: Jean-Michel Picard Interview of Albert Memmi (France), Joseph O’Connor (Ireland).

Readings

Introduced by Emer O’Beirne With Tanja Dückers (Germany), Medbh McGuckian (Ireland).

Readings

Introduced by Sinead Mac Aodha With Anne Enright (Ireland), Gérard Macé (France).