Tom Hanks to appear at Dalkey Book Festival

On BlOOmsday, June 16, Hollywood legend, actor and author, Tom Hanks, will be coming to dalkey to talk about his début novel The making of another major motion Picture masterpiece and his path from film to fiction. Each ticketholder will receive a copy of The making of another motion Picture masterpiece.

To close the festival, Bono and Fintan O’Toole sit down together to talk about their very different but overlapping memoirs, surrender and We don’t Know Ourselves. Two dubliners, two lives, two books. Beg, borrow or steal to be at this one! and 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 on sunday has sold out.

Tickets to the new events with Tom Hanks, Brian Cox and Bono & Fintan O’Toole, will go on sale this at Wednesday 3rd may from 10am from dalkeybookfestival.org

This year’s festival, running since 2010, includes some of the world’s foremost writers and sharpest thinkers. The festival brings together thinkers from the worlds of literature, history, politics, journalism, comedy and science including Brian Cox, Ruby Wax, The Edge, dylan moran, masha Gessen, Peter Frankopan, david Brooks, John Banville, Ramita navai, sebastian Barry, Jeff Goldberg, dan ariely, Richard Ford, linda yueh, liz nugent, Roddy doyle, lea ypi, Barry mcGovern, mariella Frostrup , Helen lewis, Jan Carson, sally

Hayden, Oliver Jeffers, Joseph O’Connor, simon Kuper, Robert shrimsley, deirdre O’Kane and many more.

From 15th to 18th June, one hundred of the world’s finest authors and sharpest intellects will descend on the beautiful, historic seaside town of dalkey, including writers from Turkey, america, syria,

Brazil, Iran, England, Russia, France, Germany, albania, Taiwan, China, Italy, France and of course Ireland, coming together in a spectacularly varied programme of 72 events. see the full programme at dalkeybookfestival.org

HIGHLIGHTS: Richard Ford, sebastian Barry,