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Dingle Lit is back !

 All the authors' books are available on our website. This year we are delighted to offer a 10% discount on all the festival's titles.  For information on the events  click on this link. Dingle Lit

Dingle Lit is a three day literary festival which takes place on the Dingle Peninsula from the 19-21 November 2021.

Dingle Lit is a festival that aims to celebrate and enhance the cultural and economic life of the Dingle Peninsula, already widely known for its creativity. It is a new, inclusive and accessible festival for adults and children focused on the literary arts – fiction, poetry and non-fiction in English and Irish – and delivered through readings, workshops and performance.

All funds generated by the festival will go towards organising and promoting an annual Dingle Lit festival for both adults and children on the Dingle Peninsula.

Details of all events and weekend timetable on website.

Congratulations to Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin, on winning this year's Michael Hartnett Poetry Award.

“I am nothing less than stunned,” Ms Ní Bheildiúin said in response to her success in winning this year’s award which was for a second or later collection of poems in Irish.

A long-time admirer of Michael Hartnett’s own poetry she continued: “I always get a great hit out of reading Michael Hartnett’s poetry. I became aware of him, his poems and his life story shortly after I started to compose pieces of Irish language verse. I felt an immediate affinity to him that he had toiled in the same mistiness of Gaeilge as a second language as I was doing. I find his poetry in both Irish and English powerful.”

In this homage to the mountain, Ní Bheildiúin demonstrates her own deep appreciation of Mount Brandon. Nature poetry and a sense of place are central to the Gaelic tradition and Agallamh sa Cheo should be considered among the most significant works of this era that contemplates our relationship with the natural world.”

The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 'one of our greatest living authors' New York Magazine .

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.

Táimid an-shasta a fhógairt go mbeidh an leabhar ar leith COGAR á láinsáil ar an 17ú Meán Fómhair i Lána an Phúca agus Thyme Out  Dygate Lane, sa Daingean.

We are delighted to announce that on Culture Night 17th of September, Ponc.Press will be launching the special edition book Cogar. The book is inspired by Cogar events at Other Voices. 7pm Ponc Press, Lána an Phúca and Thyme Out, Dygate Lane.

Bailiúchán liricí, dánta agus rapanna a d'eascair as Féile Other Voices.

A collection of lyrics, poems and raps.

The limited edition book will cost €60, some of the proceeds will be donated to Pieta House and the Simon Community.

For more information phone  +353 872220853

After an exceptionally busy Summer, with a full blown heat wave we are delighted to welcome in the cooler and less frantic days of September. The streets of Dingle have a bit more space now, so visitors and locals can wander and browse with ease. We are looking forward to new titles from Sally Rooney, Colm Tóibín, Colson Whitehead, Anne Ingle and Diarmaid Ferriter, to name but a few. There is also the Dingle Literary Festival to look forward to in November, 19-21st. We will have all the books available to pre-order here. So take care and keep safe.