Mountains to Sea Monster Book Lunch

Saturday 10th September

Hosted by Your Favourite Authors

12.00pm to 3.00pm Royal St George Yacht Club, Seafront, Dun Laoghaire

E15 per child e25 per adult (Includes lunch) Age 9+ (Not suitable for younger children) Early booking is essential.

Dedicated children’s bookshop on site provided by Raven Books

A fantastic literary lunch with a writer hosting every table, plus a guest performance by Guy Bass, author of the Secret Santa books and one of the funniest men around.

Authors hosting tables: Cathy Cassidy, Judi Curtin, Marita Conlon McKenna, Sarah Webb, Oisin McGann, Joe O’Brien, Conor Kostick, Laura Jane Cassidy, Anna Carey, Denise Deegan, Claire Hennessy, Paula Leyden and John Newman.

Please note any adults attending will be seated together; the dining room is strictly for writers and young readers only. Children will be signed in and out at the door.

After booking, if your reader would like to sit at a particular author’s table please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your young reader’s name and top three author choices and we will do our best to accommodate their wishes where possible.

Bass_Guy A fantastic literary lunch with a writer hosting every table, plus a guest performance by Guy Bass (left), author of the Secret Santa books and one of the funniest men around.

Authors hosting tables include Cathy Cassidy, Judi Curtin, Marita Conlon McKenna, Sarah Webb, Oisin McGann, Joe O’Brien, Conor Kostick, Laura Jane Cassidy, Anna Carey, Denise Deegan, Claire Hennessy, Paula Leyden and John Newman.

Please note any adults attending will be seated together; the dining room is strictly for writers and young readers only. After booking, if your reader would like to sit at a particular author’s table please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your young reader’s name and top three author choices and we will do our best to accommodate their wishes where possible.

A dedicated children’s bookshop on site will be provided by Raven Books

Saturday 10th September
12.00pm to 3.00pm
Royal St George Yacht Club, Seafront, Dun Laoghaire
€15 per child / €25 per adult (Includes lunch)
Age 9+
Unaccompanied children will be signed in and out at the door.
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Paul Perry announced as new Curator of Poetry Now

Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea, dlr Book Festival

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office are delighted to announce that poet Paul Perry has been appointed as the curator of Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea, dlr Book Festival.

The dlr Poetry Now International Poetry Festival has been a core strand of the Dún-Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Arts Office programme for the last sixteen years. It is highly regarded for its artistic excellence and has become the most anticipated event on the annual poetry calendar in Ireland. Previous curators have included Patrick Galvin, Conor O’Callaghan and John McAuliffe. The outgoing curator is Belinda McKeon, who curated the festival from 2008 to 2011.