Our Festival Sunday begins with author Dermot Bolger conducting his traditional public conversation with two guests, author Eoin McNamee and musician Keith Donald, whose recent books – a novel and a memoir – explore their pasts in very different ways.

Keith Donald’s memoir, Music and Mayhem charts the immersive and explosive life of one of Ireland’s most important musicians, and the golden decades of Irish music he was at the very centre of. His memoir is starkly honest about music, addiction and recovery. Eoin McNamee comes at the past from a different angle in his acclaimed new novel, The Bureau, which has been described by David Peace as “his most personal and heart-breaking novel yet, (that) stands shoulder to shoulder with his finest work.”

Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpretation will be provided for this event.

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