It's already four in a row, and the Dublin Writers Festival is ready to rock again this June. Ravers and writers came to hear what's going to happen between Thursday, June 13th and Bloomsday, June 16th.
The British ambassador, Sir Ivor Roberts, a keen literary enthusiast, was there, as were three Labour Dublin City councillors, including Eric Byrne, the deputy Lord Mayor, who launched the programme, who welcomed Cllr Mary Freehill and Cllr John Gallagher to the gig.
Christopher FitzSimon says his book, The Boys, the definitive account of Micheál Mac Liamóir and Hilton Edwards, has just been re-issued.
Jamie O'Neill, author of At Swim, Two Boys, has just moved into his new house - a thatched cottage in Gortachalla, outside Galway, that's to be called an Teachín. Next, he's off to the Sydney Writers' Festival.
Ronan Wilmot, director of Temple Bar's New Theatre, says Carmel McCafferty (youngest sister of the famous Nell) is coming to perform in the one-woman show, The Woman of Derry, by Brian Foster at end of June.
Also spotted at the party was Miriam Gallagher, a writer from Waterford, whose work features in the anthology of new writing from the Déise, called The Turning Tide, edited by poet Thomas McCarthy.
Eilís Ní Dhuibhne says her new collection of selected stories, Midwife to the Fairies, is due out later his year. Dorothy Kenny, owner of The Cobalt Café, which will be the club venue during the festival, chatted to Camille O'Sullivan, architect and cabaret singer, who performs in the café at weekends.
James Joyce, a principal in Scoil Shámais Naofa in Barna, Co Galway, and his wife, Martha Joyce, were both curious about and impressed with the festival line-up. So on with the show.
See Sadbh on Weekend 10 for more details