Christine Falls by John Banville is the One Dublin One Book choice for 2026, following on from Dublin Written in Our Hearts, an anthology, chosen for 2025. One Dublin One Book aims to encourage everyone in Dublin to read a designated book connected with the capital city during the month of April every year. This annual project is a Dublin City Council initiative, led by Dublin City Libraries and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, which encourages reading for pleasure. The author introduces us to the maverick pathologist Quirke whose only passion is finding truth in science. While readers

The scale and ambition of the Irish censorship regime is preserved in a blacklist of over 12,000 publications. From 1930 to 2016, the censorship board banned all manner of printed material. Sex education manuals, pulp fiction, nineteenth-century pornography, celebrity memoirs, and newspapers and magazines appear alongside literature from the greatest twentieth-century writers. This state censorship emerged from the report of the Committee on Evil Literature (1926), which gathered opinions from churchmen of all persuasions, newsagents, charities, trade unions and civil servants. The moral attit

In the majestic surroundings of the Round Room at the Mansion House in Dublin, acclaimed performer Noel O’Grady presents a moving and celebratory one-man show honouring his great friend, the legendary Irish poet Brendan Kennelly, on the 90th anniversary of his birth. This intimate and richly layered performance is both tribute and remembrance, a heartfelt portrait of a giant of Irish literature told through personal stories, rare recordings, powerful recitals and song. O’Grady, who knew Kennelly personally, weaves together vivid anecdotes of the man behind the poems: his generosity of s