These two masters both write with dark humour and wit; we are excited to present them together to talk about “Writing Dublin”. You’d be mad to miss this! Roddy Doyle has moved readers for more than three decades. The initial larking of the Barrytown Trilogy has given way to many more complex stories, exploring the harsh emotional intricacies of everyone’s everyday lives. Roddy’s also picked up a few awards along the way. His latest novel Smile is an extraordinary work, about as far away from The Commitments as it’s possible to go. Although this will probably annoy him, Doyle is a national treasure. John Banville, fellow Booker winner, and winner of a great many prestigious awards, has published 18 novels and a series of crime novels as Benjamin Black. He has also written a memoir of Dublin, Time Pieces: a Dublin Memoir, published in 2016. With Ryan Tubridy. Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16 June 2018