Cork World Book Fest 2025 Programme

Get Published Day

Meet the Agents Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin with Simon Trewin and Nicky Lovick. City Library | 10am | Free

Getting into Print Sam Blake talks to Amy Jordan. City Library | 2pm | Free

First Page Pitch Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin City Library | 11.30am | Free

The Many Voices of Spain: 10,000 Miles by Bike Xabier Cid in conversation with Martín Veiga and Keith Payne. City Library | 4.45pm | Free Journeys and Flowers Gala Sicart Olavide with Nick Caistor. In conversation with Helena Buffery. City Library | 5.30pm | Free Beautiful, Wilful & Adrift Kathleen Murray and Lisa Harding. In conversation with Paul McVeigh. Triskel | 7pm | Free Buile Shuibhne: Sweeney's Madness A Multi-Media Performance of Spoken Word, Visuals and Live Music Rody Gorman, Seán MacErlaine, Diane Ní Channáin and Margaret Lonergan. Triskel | 8.30pm | €5 Presented in association with Poetry Ireland Book Fest by Night: Music & Poetry Paul Dunlea with Billy Ramsell and Damen O'Brien. MC Dean Browne Plugd Records & Café | 9.45pm | €5 Crime Time at the River Lee Catherine Kirwan and Catherine Ryan Howard. In conversation with Mairead Hearne. River Lee Hotel | 4.30pm | Free - booking essential In the good seats: Essays on film Cathy Sweeney and Francis Halsall. In conversation with Benjamin Rupprecht.

Book Market on the Grand Parade 10am-4pm | Free Arabic Storytelling Sanaa Khabbar and Meryem Idar City Library | 11am | Free Noah's Galway Adventure Nadine Hughes Campbell City Library | 2pm | Free One City One Book: Stone Mad by Seamus Murphy Book Launch by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Walking Tour with Eoghan Daltun. In association with Mercier Press. Cork Public Museum, Fitzgerald's Park | 2pm | Free Tales of Resilience Brighid ‘Biddy’ McLaughlin and Katriona O'Sullivan. In conversation with Elmarie Mawe. Triskel | 3.30pm | €5 The Holy Hour Cónal Creedon and Gerry Murphy. Callanan's Bar | 4.15pm | Free Designed for Life: Architecture and Design in Cork City 1900-90 Walking Tour with Tom Spalding. City Library (meeting point) | 11am | Free - booking essential Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story Triskel Cinema | 12pm | €7.50 The Best of Everything Kit de Waal in conversation with Paul McVeigh River Lee Hotel | 3pm | Free - booking essential

With Out of Frame, Cork. The Roundy | 6pm | Free

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