Modern Fables, Ancient Ghosts

Sat Nov 08 2025 at 08:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC+00:00

Bartley's Bar & Restaurant | Dublin 2

Dublin Book Festival
Publisher/HostDublin Book Festival
Modern Fables, Ancient Ghosts
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With Oisín Fagan, Barbara Leahy and Ferdia Lennon.
About this Event

This event takes place in the Bartley's Lounge, Grafton Hotel.

Join an evening of conversation around three transportive and absorbing novels. Set in an era of global upheaval, Eden’s Shore (John Murray Press) by Oisín Fagan is an epic and imaginative tale of greed, revenge and love. Rembrandt’s Promise (Eriu) by Barbara Leahy draws us back to the Dutch Golden Age in this gripping story of passion, loss, ambition, and redemption. Glorious Exploits (Penguin) by Ferdia Lennon brings ancient Sicily to life in this bold and humorous novel exploring the worst, and best, of what humans are capable of.

This is an 18+ event.

Please note we may be capturing candid imagery at this event for use on our social media and website.

Oisı́n Fagan has had short fiction published in the Stinging Fly and the anthology Young Irelanders, with work featured in the Irish Museum of Modern Art. In 2016, he won the inaugural Penny Dreadful Novella Prize for The Hierophants. His debut novel, Nobber, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Award.

Barbara Leahy is from Cork. She was a winner of the Irish Writers' Centre Novel Fair in 2023. Her short stories have won numerous awards, appeared in the Bridport Prize Anthology, the Bristol Prize anthology, and been broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1. Rembrandt's Promise is her first novel.

Ferdia Lennon was born and raised in Dublin. He holds a BA in History and Classics from University College Dublin and an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia. Glorious Exploits is his first novel. A Sunday Times bestseller, it was adapted for BBC Radio 4 and was the winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024. After spending many years in Paris, he now lives in Norwich with his wife and son.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Bartley's Bar & Restaurant, 31/32 Stephen Street Lower, Dublin 2, Ireland

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