Bono has been added to the line-up of this year's Dalkey Book Festival and will join his U2 band mate The Edge and Hollywood star Tom Hanks for the event in the Dublin village this June.
We are also delighted to announce that Bono is coming back to Dalkey Book Festival for an evening with Fintan O'Toole ✨
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The singer and activist, who published his memoir Surrender last October, will be in conversation with journalist Fintan O’Toole on the closing day of the festival, which runs from 15 to 18 June.
The fellow Dubliners, who were born in 1960 and 1958 respectively, will discuss their very different but overlapping memoirs, Surrender and We Don’t Know Ourselves.
On Bloomsday, 16 June, Hanks, who collects vintage typewriters, will talk about his debut novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece and his path from film to fiction.
Hanks's book tells the story of a troubled soldier, who returns from the Second World War and meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years.
The novel then jumps to 1970 when the nephew is now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero.
In the present day, a commercially successful film director discovers the 1970 comic book and decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie.
Physicist Brian Cox will join a second event at Dalkey, talking to Ruth Freeman, head of Science Foundation Ireland, on Saturday 17th June. His event with The Edge, during which they’ll talk about "dark matter and guitar riffs", has sold out.
Tickets to the new events will go on sale this Wednesday 3 May from 10am here.
Ruby Wax, Dylan Moran, John Banville, Sebastian Barry, Richard Ford, Liz Nugent, Roddy Doyle, Joseph O'Connor, Deirdre O’Kane are also among the names who will speak at this year’s Dalkey Book Festival across 72 events.
