I’m reading alongside Martina Devlin, Wendy Erskine, Caitriona Lally and Paul Murray at the Festival of Italian and Irish Literature in Ireland on Friday 25th September. I’ll be celebrating Il Bravo Figlio / The Good Son from Barta Editions. I’m also teaching at Trinity on Saturday 26th. There’s events on all day Saturday.
“We are delighted to announce the fourth edition of FIILI – Festival of Italian and Irish Literature in Ireland coming to Dublin this 25th and 26th September!
This year’s Festival of Italian and Irish Literature in Ireland is dedicated to the theme “Literature as Resistance”, and we are delighted to welcome so many outstanding writers, translators and poets from Italy and Ireland.
FIILI is a Festival organized by Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin and Embassy of Italy, FIILI Association, Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and Trinity College Dublin.
The Festival is also supported by Literature Ireland, Foras na Gaeilge, the Society for Italian Studies, the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation and the Irish Writers’ Centre.
We look forward to welcoming you all this 25th and 26th September for a Celebration of literature, dialogue and cultural exchange.”
Peter Bradshaw is an author and critic who has been chief film critic for The Guardian since 1999 and is also contributing editor of Esquire UK. His most recent publication is The Body In the Mobile Library and Other Stories and in addition he has written three novels and an edited selection of his Guardian reviews entitled The Films That Made Me. He also writes for radio and television and is currently co-writing a drama-thriller for Channel Four TV entitled I Am Not Alice Bell. He lives in London with his wife and son.
Paul McVeigh‘s short stories have been in numerous anthologies including Being Various, The Art of the Glimpse and Common People. They have also appeared in The London Magazine, The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, on BBC Radio 3, 4, 5, RTÉ Radio 1, and Sky ARTS. His ten-part short story series, The Circus, aired on BBC Radio 4 in 2023 and was repeated on BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle. His debut collection of radio stories, I Hear You, was published by Salt in March 2025. Paul co-founded the London Short Story Festival and was associate director of Word Factory, described by The Guardian as ‘the UK’s national organisation for excellence in the short story.’
Paul McVeigh 