Kildare Readers Festival 2026

Kildare Readers Festival 2026

About the event

The line-up includes Recollection and Transformation, with Miriam Mulcahy in conversation with Lesley Bond; Ten Books You Should Read with Louise Nealon and Katriona O’Sullivan, and our Debut Authors panel featuring Jennifer Bray, Djamel White, Edie May Hand and Patrick Freyne.

Fiction fans can go Behind the Bestsellers with Sheila O’Flanagan, Carmel Harrington and Faith Hogan, while The Perfect Crime will bring together John Banville, Edel Coffey, Patricia Gibney and Fiona Sherlock.

Families and younger audiences are also well catered for, with a Puffin Rock children’s workshop and film screening, a Faerie Isle workshop with Síne Quinn and a Teen Comic Book Creation workshop led by Aoife Dooley.

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Upcoming dates

This event runs on several dates — pick the one that suits you.

October 2026

  • Thu 1
  • Sun 11

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