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The Documentary: World Book Café: Dublin

World Book Club: Dublin

29/08/2020 GMT

World Book Café: Dublin

BBC World Service - The Documentary, World Book Café: Dublin

Authors Naoise Dolan and Caitriona Lally on living and writing in Dublin

Novelists Naoise Dolan and Caitriona Lally, publisher and writer Sarah Davis-Goff, and poet Stephen James Smith discuss Dublin city's literary life.

World Book Café travels to Dublin to explore the city’s literary life.  Roisin Ingle is joined on stage by novelists Naoise Dolan and Caitriona Lally; publisher and writer Sarah Davis-Goff, and poet Stephen James Smith for lively conversation, readings and performance. Dublin is a city with a rich literary heritage – associated with  James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett and many more. But what it is like to be a writer in the city now, with rising property prices and fast paced social change? What is the role of writers in Dublin, what are they writing about and what do they give back to the city? 

World Book Café: Dublin also  investigates the thriving publishing and magazine industry in Dublin, and ask if the city nurtures the creative spirit.

This programme was recorded just before lockdown, in front of an audience at MoLI, Dublin’s new museum of literature.

(Photo: WBC Dublin in MoLI with Roisin Ingle centre stage and Stephen James Smith standing up and an inviited audience in the foreground)

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