About the Festival

 

News update 16.06.2010
The date of the 2011 Festival are confirmed:  8, 9, 10 April 2011
 
 
News update 19.04.2010
The pictures for the 2010 Festival are up!
See them here

 
 
 
News update 19.04.2010

The 2010 Festival is over now!
We would like to say a very special “Thank You” to all of you who supported the festival this year despite the last-minute changes to the programme necessitated by the volcanic ash and cancelled flights of a number of writers

 
 
News update 08.03.2010
 


News update 16.04.2010 Under the volcano!
In spite of the circumstances, the Festival is going ahead on Friday and Saturday but we do have to cancel the Sunday Brunch at the Alliance Française.
 
News update 11.01.2010

Final 2010 Festival line-up !
France: Benoit Peeters & Francois Schuiten, Jacques Reda, François Bon, Martine Sonnet, Véronique Ovaldé.
Ireland: Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Gerard Smyth, Claire Kilroy, Kevin Power,Pat Boran, Patrick James Lynch.
Québec: Catherine Mavrikakis.
Germany: Michael Kleeberg.
Spain: Enrique Vila-Matas.
Mexico: Paco Ignacio Taibo II.

 
 
News update 18.12.2009

Writing competition!
We are all unpublished writers at heart, all of us have something vital to express. The eleventh Franco-Irish Literary Festival gives you this opportunity. Visit our blog [http://afdublin.blogspot.com] and take part in our Short Story/Poem Competition (French and English language).

 
 
News update 01.12.2009

The 2010 Festival writers are confirmed!
French authors include Benoit Peeters & Francois Schuiten, Jacques Reda, François Bon, Martine Sonnet, Véronique Ovaldé and Irish ones are Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Gerard Smyth, Claire Kilroy, Kevin Power,Pat Boran, Patrick James Lynch.

 
 
News update 01.07.2009

The 2010 Festival will take place on 16, 17 and 18 April 2010 in Dublin Castle and the Alliance Française.

The theme will be: La ville / The City / An Chathair

 
 
News update 01.05.2009

The pictures for the 2009 Festival are now available!

See them here
 
 
 
News update 06.04.2009

The Festival is over now but was a huge success. For our 10th anniversary we broke our attendance record everyday!

We wish to thank you for coming along and helping the promotion of French and Irish literature in Ireland !

We also want to thank all our sponsors without which this festival was impossible, all our cultural partners, Dublin Castle, the Festival moderators and translators, and, of course, every writers for their talent and kindness.

 

 
News update 02.04.2009
The Festival is starting tomorrow in the Coach House, Dublin Castle!

 
 
News update 30.03.2009
The 2009 Festival starts this Friday!
We are also celebrating this week the
10th Anniversary of the Festival!

 
 
News update 01.03.2009
Full programme and website are up!

 

 

News update 16.02.2009

Full programme and mini-website for the 2009 edition will be available at the end of February.

 

 
News update 12.01.2009
Here is the design for the forthcoming festival:
 
 

 
News update 28.10.2008

The next Franco-Irish Literary Festival will take place in Dublin Castle and the Alliance Française on April 3rd 4th and 5th 2009.
This year topic is
L'amour, la mort / Love and Death


 

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