Do you always find out about events the day after they happened? Yeah. Me too.
So I’ve started compiling a list of book related events., and I thought I’d share.
Saturday 1st August 2026 at 13:00 – 14:15, Dublin
The beloved baker whose TikTok videos of her portable horsebox bakery have taken the internet by storm serves up her debut cookbook featuring all her favourite delicious and easy-to-prepare bakes.
Thursday 6th August at 6pm, Dublin
Join us for the launch of Andrew Fitzsimons’s collection of poetry, My Father The Dog. With opening remarks from Alan Gilsenan.
Ticket Required!
Thursday August 6th 2026, Dublin
Eason are delighted to welcome Steve Cavanagh to celebrate the release of One Of Us Guilty, the latest instalment in the Eddie Flynn series. Join us in Eason, O’Connell St. Dublin where Steve will talk about his new book, take questions from the audience and follow with a book signing.
Ticket Required!
Thursday 6th August at 6pm, Galway
Bestselling Irish author Donal Ryan will be at Kennys Bookshop on August 6th, joining Tomás Kenny in conversation about his new book, Where are the Kings.
Donal Ryan is the author of The Spinning Heart, From a Low and Quiet Sea and Heart, be at Peace among others. His work has been published in over twenty languages to major critical acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was voted ‘The Irish Book of the Decade’.
Ticket Required!
Thursday, August 13 at 7pm-8pm, Dublin
Dubray is proud to present an evening with author Donal Ryan, to celebrate the launch of his breathtaking new novel ‘Where are the Kings’.
Join us at The Pepper Canister Church Dublin, to hear Donal discuss the background, themes and inspiration of his long-awaited new book, with literary journalist Alex Clark. Followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
Waterstones| Book signing- From Scratch with Alice Kelly
Saturday 15th August 2026 at 12:00 at Waterstones, Cork
We are excited to welcome Alice Kelly to Waterstones Cork to sign copies of her book From Scratch. Alice, known to many as @fromscratchbaker, is a 22-year-old classically trained baker and digital creator who brings accessible, easy-to-follow baking recipes to a wide online community.
Wednesday 19th August 2026 at 6:30pm, Dublin
We are delighted to welcome Keith Ridgway for a discussion on his original new novel, Dooneen. Join us as Dooneen takes us into a strangely timeless Dublin alive with song, rumour, ghosts, and an unmistakable sense of isurgency… Keith Ridgway will be in conversation with Patrick Freyne, author of Experts in a Dying Field. All are welcome to attend.
Attendance is free but booking is essential.
Wednesday 19th August 2026
18:00 – 19:45 at Waterstones, Dublin – Hodges Figgis
After the sudden death of his father, Dara Waldron became disoriented in a world that had once filled him with wonder. A year later, he meets an abandoned border collie called Oscar hiding on a derelict farm in County Clare. When Dara brings him home, he believes he’s committing an act of rescue.
Thursday 20th August 2026 at 6:00pm, Dublin
Shapeshifting Stories: The Fascinating History of Fairy Tales with Dr Kate Forsyth
In this engaging and eye-opening 1 hour talk, Kate explores her own fascination with fairy tales, their long dark history and hidden meanings, and why they continue to speak so potently to so many people.
Thursday, 27th August, 6.00pm, Dublin
Dubray are delighted to host the launch in Dubray Grafton Street of I Am Not A Dog, the latest picture book from Peter Donnelly, one of Ireland’s best-known and most beloved picture-book makers.
Thursday 27th August 2026
18:00 – 19:45 at Waterstones, Dublin – Hodges Figgis
In ‘At the Villa Celeste’, Elizabeth Wassell Montague conjures a hauntingly beautiful tale of longing, memory, and the fragile architecture of identity.
Ticket Required!
Friday 28th August 2026 at 6pm, Galway
Bestselling Irish author Sebastian Barry will be at Kennys Bookshop on August 28th, joining Tomás Kenny in conversation about The Newer World.
Tickets for this event are free but are limited, and you can book below.
Sebastian Barry is the author of nine novels, five of which have been long-listed or short-listed for The Booker Prize, most recently Old God’s Time. He was the 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction and his work has won numerous awards including the Costa Book of the Year award, the Walter Scott Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Friday 28th August 2026
18:00 – 19:45 at Waterstones, Dublin – Hodges Figgis
In this dynamic new collection of essays, critically acclaimed author Roisin Kiberd dissects the business of attaining perfection – or even normality – through consumption and body modification.
Ticket Required!
Sunday 30th August at 7:30pm, Dublin
Dubray are delighted to present the brilliant creator of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly and bestselling author, Paul Howard, as he discusses his audacious new novel A Nation Once Again in a live interview with one of Ireland’s leading journalists Matt Cooper for his Paths to Power podcast.
Monday 31st August 2026 at 6:00pm, Dublin
Mícheál McCann’s newest poetry collection, Lives of the Saints, brings canonical saints into the realm of ordinary people. Saint Francis drifts during a spin class, Saint Bridget snoozes during Mass, an A&E doctor shoots the breeze with Saint Sebastian… While Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin’s novel Ordinary Saints, inspired by her own devout upbringing, tells the story of a queer woman who learns that her late brother may be made into a Catholic saint.