Kildare Readers Festival 2026

When

• 1–11 October 2026

Where

Various Locations, Co Kildare, Ireland

About

The line-up includes Recollection and Transformation, with Miriam Mulcahy in conversation with Lesley Bond; Ten Books You Should Read with Louise Nealon and Katriona O’Sullivan, and our Debut Authors panel featuring Jennifer Bray, Djamel White, Edie May Hand and Patrick Freyne. Fiction fans can go Behind the Bestsellers with Sheila O’Flanagan, Carmel Harrington and Faith Hogan, while The Perfect Crime will bring together John Banville, Edel Coffey, Patricia Gibney and Fiona Sherlock.