Saturday 30th April
2.30pm
€10

A stunning line-up of authors and musicians. Book early to avoid disappointment. With Dermot Bolger, Carlo Gebler, Brian Leyden and June Considine. Music by legendary blues guitarist Ed Deane and Trevor Knight

Words and Music is sponsored by Margaret Cox, Kathleen Coleman, The Oarsman, Al...

Wednesday 13th April
8.30pm
€12/€10

Like Bob Dylan? You’ll love this…

Michael Gray is a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan. Tonight, using great records and rare footage, the author of Song & Dance Man and The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia will show how hugely Dylan has been inspired by the blues, and how much of its poetry h...

Saturday 09th April
2-4pm
€7

The poetry film is as old as film-making itself. It brings together two art forms that could not be more different – poetry films combine the sound-worlds of the art of words with the visual power of cinema.
The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, a project initiated by Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, has e...

Thursday 07th October
8.30pm
admission free

Leitrim poet/playwright and broadcaster Vincent Woods will launch and introduce poets from the recently published anthology, Landing Places alongside new writing from immigrants and locals in Leitrim, some who have just completed a series of poetry workshops at The Dock with poet Alice Lyons. This i...

Friday 24th September
7.30
Admission Free

CULTURE NIGHT SPECIAL
IRISH MODERN DANCE THEATRE presents
ACTIONS

The biggest dance hit by John Scott and Irish Modern Dance Theatre will be performed in The Dock’s beautiful gallery space amidst the new sculpture show by Cathy Carman opening on the same evening. Actions is a physi...

Saturday 01st May
2.30pm
€10/€8

Trinity Rare Books presents Words and Music, sponsored by Margaret Cox and Kathleen Coleman. This years’ stunning line up includes Joseph O’Connor, Carlo Gébler, Brian Leyden and Kevin Barry, with music from classical flautist Bill Dowdall, accompanied by classical guitarist John Feeley.

A...

Thursday 01st October
6pm
FREE!

The Written Word Weekend presents Readings and music in The Dock’s café style space, featuring this years iYeats winner Michael Herron, David Cameron plus other members of ‘The Pig Executives’ fresh from their performances at Flatlake Festival and Electric Picnic. The evening will also feature Kitia...

Saturday 08th August
2.30pm – 4.30pm
Free but pre registration is required please

Words and Music will feature JP Dunleavy, Brian Leyden, Niall Williams and Marsha Mehran. Renowned classical guitarist John Feeley will provide the music. Please note that this is a ticketed event, while there is no charge, tickets must be booked in advance.
This event is sponsored by Cox’s Pha...

Saturday 08th August
2.30pm
Free but pre registration is required please

Trinity Rare Books in association with Cox's Pharmacy presents
JP Donleavy. A wonderful opportunity to hear the words read by the master himself.

Thursday 23rd July
5pm
Free

To bring together interests in both The Dock’s exhibition, John Walker: Painter, and the John McGahern International Seminar, which comes to Leitrim in July, The Dock is presenting writer and journalist Belinda McKeon in public conversation with art critic and writer Declan Long on the topic ‘The wr...

Wednesday 11th February
8.30pm
€10

The Dock’s Poetry and Fiction series curated by John F. Deane continues with Booker Prize winner JOHN BANVILLE and current Ireland professor of Poetry MICHAEL LONGLEY.

JOHN BANVILLE
Novelist, short story writer, playwright and screenwriter, John Banville has a string of awards to his ...

Wednesday 03rd December
8.30pm
€10

The second in a new series of readings curated by acclaimed poet John F. Deane. Hugo Hamilton is author of five novels, a collection of short stories, and a memoir of his Irish-German childhood ‘The Speckled People’, which was acclaimed by the New York Times as one of the most notable memoirs o...

Thursday 02nd October
8.30pm

One of the most popular of contemporary Irish poets, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s writing in Irish draws upon themes of ancient Irish folklore and mythology, combined with contemporary themes of femininity, sexuality, and culture. She is an animated reader of her poetry and unlike some other poets who wri...

Saturday 16th August
2.30pm
ADMISSION FREE

Trinity Rare Books presents
WORDS AND MUSIC

as part of the CARRICK WATER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Booker Prize Winner DBC Pierre, Martina Devlin, Brian Leyden and Catherine O’Flynn will read selected pieces from their books, accompanied by Ed Deane on blues guitar and Trevor Knight on ke...

Saturday 26th July
8.30pm
€12/€10

In this reading the players, without the aid of sets, costumes or make up, strive to convey the huge strangling emotions of this play, to bring the audience into a world of greed and barely-repressed sexuality, where forgiveness is misunderstood and the love-theme is jangling out of tune, where reli...

Saturday 18th August
2pm
FREE ADMISSION

Renowned authors Bernard MacLaverty, Brian Leyden and Morag Prunty will read selected pieces from their books, accompanied by Roy Mitchell on piano. Sponsored by Cox’s Pharmacy. Admission is free on a first come first served basis.