2026 dates: Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th October
Friday 2 October, 7.30 pm
Elizabeth Moynihan’s Happiness Then… exploring family, identity and belonging. Directed by Liam Halligan, starring Sorcha Furlong and Rachel Dowling.
Post-show discussion with Elizabeth Moynihan in conversation with Professor Ian Robertson.
Saturday 3 October, 9.30am – 5.30pm
Echoes of Maeve & Gordon featuring: John Boyne in conversation with Ryan Tubridy; Lorraine Kelly in conversation with Miriam O Callaghan; and Dominic Dromgoole, Sarah Binchy, Dermot Bolger, Rory Carroll, Sinead Crowley, Martina Devlin, Caroline Erskine, Neil Hegarty, Faith Hogan, Margaret Kelleher, Julia Kelly, Catriona Lally, Niall MacMonagle, Chris Morash, Vicki Notaro, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and John O’Donnell.
Sunday 4 October
11.00am Marvellously Maeve Guided Walk with Rita Biggs. (Leaves from Dalkey Castle).
3.00 pm Rehearsed Reading of Maeve Binchy’s Flat in Ringsend, adapted and directed by Jim Culleton, Artistic Director of Fishamble: The New Play Company, from a story in Maeve’s 1982 collection Dublin 4. A young woman moves from the country to Dublin in the 1970s and experiences quite the culture shock!
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