Name: Catastrophe
Start: 2025-11-05T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-05T18:00:00+00:00
Location: TU Dublin, Grangegorman Campus

Fintan Drury in conversation with Dr Ciaran O’Carroll.
About this Event

In partnership with TU Dublin and Green Foundation Ireland.

In Catastrophe: Nakba II (Merrion Press) journalist, author and migration activist Fintan Drury provides an insightful and moving analysis of the decades-long oppression of the Palestinian people by Israel. Deeply researched and unflinching, this provocative, eye-opening and unapologetically direct book is a call to understand the unique suffering of the Palestinians, and how history is repeating itself before our eyes. Join us for this powerful discussion where the author will be in conversation with Dr Ciaran O’Carroll.

This is a free event. Alternatively, by choosing a donation ticket to any amount, you would be contributing towards keeping DBF events accessible for all.

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This event takes place in Lower House, TU Dublin Grangegorman Campus, Grangegorman Lower, Dublin 7, D07 N6R2.

Fintan Drury was a journalist with RTÉ in the 1980s. Before co-anchoring Morning Ireland for its first three years, he was a correspondent in Northern Ireland and reported from Britain, Europe, Africa and the USA. In 1985 he volunteered in the then largest refugee camp in the world, in Darfur, with GOAL. A longtime activist on migration, he’s written extensively on the subject. In 2016 he volunteered in a refugee camp in Athens, which led to a fifteen-part series in The Irish Times on the diary of a Syrian refugee. Fintan now lives and works in Dublin; he is chair of SARI (Sport Against Racism Ireland).

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This event is part of Sustainability Here and Now, a day of Dublin Book Festival events in partnership with TU Dublin and Green Foundation Ireland.

TU Dublin is deeply committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through its Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) strategy. TU Dublin also raises awareness through public engagement, including a new partnership with Green Foundation Ireland and Dublin Book Festival to host five SDG-aligned events. This event is aligned with SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions).