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Celebrates books, writing & reading in South Dublin! 12-18 October 2026📚🎉#redline26
Brought to you by @sdcclibraries

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My week in history. How lucky am I?!

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The Tallaght Library was super fun @redlinefest Head to the library and grab a super adventure.

#readingisfun #libraryfun #superhero #redlinebookfestival2026 #beinspired

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The Tired Mammy Book Club November 2026 book is The Fallen by Louise Brangan

After the author’s @redlinefest event yesterday evening @solennsbooknook said she was going to suggest The Fallen for our non-fiction November pick, @nursefancypants concurred, @mommyandherd and I were also in attendance, and so it was ratified.

‘Following independence in 1922, Ireland began to chase a dream: to become the perfect Catholic nation. But purity had a price. Throughout the twentieth century, thousands of women and girls who did not conform – the wayward, the poor, the disabled, the abused – were sent to the Magdalene Laundries. Each was perceived to have fallen in some way. Once locked inside, their hair was shorn off, their names were erased – and then they were put to work. They washed, they scrubbed and they prayed, labouring in an attempt to salvage their souls.

Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the last Laundry’s closure, The Fallen is the forgotten story of the Magdalene Laundries, told through the voices of the women who endured them, the nuns who presided over them and the communities that lived alongside them.

Unflinching and compassionate, Louise Brangan draws on archives and survivors’ testimonies to dismantle long-held myths about what the Laundries were, who was sent to these places of violence and secrecy, and why. As we move from the past into the present, Brangan compels us not only to confront this shameful history, but to ask a deeper question: what do we choose to remember?’

We will be discussing The Fallen at 8.30pm on Sunday 29th November 2026.

#TiredMammyBookClub #NotJustForMammies #TiredMammy30minutes #NonFictionNovember

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Red Line Festival 2026 - in its 14th year and it just keeps getting better! Thank you for having me back again this year. Roll on 2027 / year 15!!

Finding Calm in a Busy World with @dearbhlam and @miriammulcahy at Lucan Library on Thursday evening - discussing their books: Finding Joy and Walking to the Foot of the Sky

First Fiction: Debut Novels with @jenniferbrayinsta, @rebeccam_ire and @nursefancypants in the Civic Theatre studio space on Friday evening - discussing their books: The Lies Between Us and Blood and Water

Now You Are Wonderful with @marykennedyrte in conversation with @nursefancypants in the Civic Theatre studio space on Sunday afternoon

and wrapping up the festival with Aoife McMahon: Behind the mic in the Civic Theatre Studio Space one last time on Sunday evening

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De mi paso por Dublín, Irlanda.
16 de octubre de 2026 en @civictheatretallaght

Residencia artística para el montaje de Reel Flamenco,con artistas Irlandeses. Entablando una conexión entre su música y el flamenco.
Una experiencia inolvidable con gente maravillosa.
Hasta pronto…

Gracias @creativeconnexionsireland @artscope_events @redlinefest @sdcclibraries
📸 @hendrykkar

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The lovely Mags @actionmags opening this evening's @redlinefest event with Chloe @nursefancypants chatting to debut authors @jenniferbrayinsta and @rebeccam_ire, a very honest, lively and fun discussion of what it's really like behind the scenes. ❤️📚✨️#redline2026

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✨ It’s a wrap on ReelFlamenco! 💃🎶

What an absolutely fantastic night at The Civic, Tallaght! Irish and flamenco dance, music and song came together in a celebration of heritage, collaboration and shared musicality.

A huge thank you to dancers Louise O’Sullivan and Juan Carlos Avecilla, all our wonderful musicians and singers from Ireland and Spain, and everyone who joined us and made the evening so special.

Our thanks also to the Red Line Book Festival, The Civic, and SDCC Libraries and Arts - it was a night to remember!

📸 For today, here are a few photo highlights from the night. There’s more to come, and we can’t wait to share it with you!

As part of The Red Line Book Festival, presented by SDCC Libraries and Arts.

An initiative of South Dublin County Council Arts and Libraries in association with Artscope/Creative Connexions Ireland. Funded as part of the Culture Programme for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026.

Photos by Hendryk Kar @hendrykkar

@artscope_events @sdublincoco @sdcc_arts @sdcclibraries @redlinefest @cultureireland @civictheatretallaght @institutocervantesdublin @louisesully23 @louiseosullivanfitness @juancarlos.avecilla @embespanirlanda @clairesherry @clairesherrymusic @desireparedesmusic @simonmorganirl @siobhanbuckley9 @damomullane @brian.fleming.7777 @timdoyle_ceol es
#ReelFlamenco #RedLineBookFestival #CreativeConnexionsIreland #IrishDance #Artscope

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What a gorgeous week I've had at the @redlinefest

Kicking it off with such a fun evening at the Redline Poetry Competition where my wee poem "Sunflowers Crowd" was shortlisted (and my fellow kidlit enthusiast @olwenrowe came in 2nd place whoooooooop!!). I've nary a photo to show for this unforch

Then today I had an absolute ball with the wonderful @doyle_oran who's debut novel Give Me 'Til Midnight I am just DEVOURING atm, chaired by the one and only YA queen @chennessybooks

Thank you so much to Redline and @sdcclibraries for having us. It was so special to meet with some really lovely young people who were brilliantly engaged and asked such thoughtful questions. This photo the SDCC team snapped of myself and a lovely student (who was so kind to gift me an oceanic pen 🌊) will stay with me for the rest of my writing career.

Most 📸 shamelessly robbed from the SDCC / Redline social media team ❤️❤️❤️

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Delighted to say I'll be performing an original piece as part of Songs from the Red Line.

After five weeks of writing, experimenting and making music working closely with Bríd Lyons, the Red Line Book Festival’s Songwriter in Residence, we come together for an intimate night of new music, new voices and original songwriting.

Taking place Saturday 17th 7pm Aras Chronain

Photo of me by @ibeatrizsantana

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7pm this evening @civictheatretallaght as part of the @redlinefest. Looking forward to talking to @_imani_thompson_ about our chilling ( thrilling!) very different takes on campus noir! Hosted by the brilliant @tanyasweeney 👏

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🎶 Spotlight on the ReelFlamenco Musicians! ✨

Meet the musicians bringing Irish and Spanish sounds together for ReelFlamenco, alongside dancers Louise O’Sullivan and Juan Carlos Avecilla!

🎸 Felip Carbonell – guitar
🎶 Tim Doyle – uilleann pipes, concertina, low whistle and viola
🪗 Damien Mullane – accordion
🎵 Siobhan Buckley – harp
🎻 Claire Sherry – fiddle, banjo and mandolin
🥁 Brian Fleming – percussion
🎸 Manolín García – flamenco guitarist

✨ Including members of The Rubik’s Ensemble, this line-up combines multiple instruments and musical personalities in a vibrant showcase of contemporary Irish traditional performance, highlighting both the depth of the tradition and its evolution through collaboration.

🎤 Also joining the line-up are vocalists Simon Morgan and Desiré Paredes, whom we featured in yesterday’s spotlight.

Through percussive footwork, live traditional music and emotional storytelling, ReelFlamenco creates a distinctive choreographic and musical dialogue between Irish and Spanish traditions, celebrating the power of performance to connect cultures and open new creative possibilities.

👉 Thursday 15 October 2026 | 7.30pm
🎟️ Civic Theatre, Tallaght | Free entry - Reserve your tickets here:
https://redlinefestival.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873667239

As part of The Red Line Book Festival, presented by SDCC Libraries and Arts.

An initiative of South Dublin County Council Arts and Libraries in association with Artscope/Creative Connexions Ireland. Funded as part of the Culture Programme for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026.

Come along for an evening rooted in heritage, collaboration and shared musicality.

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✨ ReelFlamenco: Spotlight on Juan Carlos Avecilla! ✨

We’re incredibly excited to have Juan Carlos Avecilla taking the lead for ReelFlamenco alongside Louise O’Sullivan at the Civic Theatre, Tallaght, on Thursday, 15 October 2026!

🕺 Juan is a Spanish director, choreographer and flamenco dancer, trained in Spanish Dance at the Maribel Gallardo Conservatory of Cádiz and holding a degree in Spanish Dance and Flamenco Choreography from the Maria de Ávila Superior Conservatory of Dance in Madrid.

He has performed with leading flamenco companies including Antonio Márquez, Javier La Torre, Ángel Rojas and María Pagés, appearing at major international festivals such as the Festival de Jerez, Flamenco Biennial of Seville and Arte Flamenco Mont-de-Marsan.

✨ An award-winning choreographer and performer, his works have received multiple Max Award nominations. He currently performs regularly at renowned flamenco tablaos including Corral de la Morería, Teatro Flamenco Madrid and Tablao Cordobés in Barcelona.

An Artscope and Creative Connexions Ireland production, ReelFlamenco brings together the rhythmic vitality of Irish traditional dance and the expressive power of flamenco, accompanied by musicians from Ireland and Spain, including members of The Rubik’s Ensemble.

👉 Thursday 15 October 2026 | 7.30pm
🎟️ Civic Theatre, Tallaght | Free entry - Reserve your tickets here:
https://redlinefestival.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873667239

As part of The Red Line Book Festival, presented by SDCC Libraries and Arts.

An initiative of South Dublin County Council Arts and Libraries in association with Artscope/Creative Connexions Ireland. Funded as part of the Culture Programme for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026.

Come along for an evening rooted in heritage, collaboration and shared musicality.

@artscope_events @sdublincoco @sdcclibraries @sdcc_arts @louisesully23 @redlinefest @civictheatretallaght @creativeconnexionsireland @cultureireland @institutocervantesdublin @louisesully23 @juancarlos.avecilla

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