Afric McGlinchey, Paul Perry and Nithy Kasa, in conversation with Molly Twomey Wednesday 22 April 2026 City Library | 6.30pm | Free

The Thirteenth Moon explores the interplay between the world and the mind, between silence and voice. Heimlich and unheimlich. Climate change, war, personal loss, ageing — what seemed to be permanent now feels transitory, like the different phases of the moon. The poems in this collection reflect the poet’s belief that it is through the power of creation, the power of our art, that we can navigate a way to live in the present.

How to Make Love to a Colonised Body is the second collection of poetry by Congolese-Irish poet Nithy Kasa. Written during the time of lock-up, followed by subsequent release, the collection addresses matters in our relationships, both personal and political, with a focus on the two nations Nithy calls home. Holding on to the beauty that exists in nature and in life, these poems play with a language that is second-hand to Nithy. All the while she is testing herself and mingling clear-cut contemporary tones with that of the dreamy traditional Irish poetry

A number of the stories in John O’Donnell’s collection focus on people who run foul of the law, an area in which the author has expertise

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John O’Donnell’s day job as senior counsel has granted him an all-access pass to the darker corners of the human condition. You just know that he understands the architecture of a lie and the specific...

Mr Hoo and other stories - Couture - Hello Charlie

Mr Hoo & Other Stories is the latest short story collection from award-winning writer John O’Donnell. Loneliness, vengeance, sorrow, and desire are among the themes featuring in these compelling stori...

And Then the Sun Broke Through A sea of jade and muscatel; the sky, gun-metal.

In this event we explore the power of poetry to care for the vulnerable, to extol the living and honour the memory of all that is lost. What is a poet’s relationship to the experience of pain, their r...

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