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Competition Closed: Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, Midnight Poe and The Happy Prince at Dalkey Book Festival

**Competition Closed – Winners will be contacted**

Summertime and the living is easy…local towns and villages are coming up trumps with the usual round of summer festivals and this year there’s a brand spanking new one to add to the calendar. Hold onto your hats, I’m about to sing the praises of one of them like the inky-fingered book geek that I am.

The first Dalkey Book Festival kicks off on Friday June 18th and runs until Sunday 20th and their programme of events is worth getting excited about. If you’re the bookworm kind, it has all of the expected elements of a book fest with talks from Marita Conlon-McKenna (she of Under the Hawthorne Tree) on writing for children, John Connolly and Declan Hughes on 10 Crime Novels to Read Before You Die, Conor McPherson on Writing for the Stage and of course Dalkey’s most famous writer in residence Maeve Binchy is featured in an event called simply ‘Maeve Binchy’ (and sure what more would you need to know about it?) Impressively, most of the talks from writers are free and there are plenty to choose from.

Even if your nose isn’t quite so regularly stuck in a book, there are a couple of inventive gems lined up in Dalkey for the weekend and Culch have some tickets to give away.

Friday 18th at 6pm in Dalkey Town Hall sees a performance of the children’s play The Happy Prince (based on the Oscar Wilde story). It’s a nice something-to-do with the kids and tickets are €10. We have a pair going free, all you need to do is post a comment saying that you want ‘em.

Saturday 19th at 10pm in The Vico, Paul ‘Ross O’Carroll Kelly’ Howard will be hosting a chat about ROC’K himself before morphing into the The Vico’s DJ for the night. Tickets are €15 or you could just ask nicely for the pair Culch has to give away by dropping a comment below. Who doesn’t want to say they’ve been to a club DJ’d by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly?

Also on a Saturday night is very unique offering Midnight Poe. Poe’s chilling The Cask of Amontillado is being performed in the we-kid-you-not venue of St Begnet’s Graveyard kicking off at 11.40pm. Again, we have a pair of tickets to give away….if you think your nerves can take it

There you have it kids. Whatever your flavour – Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, The Happy Prince or Midnight Poe just let us know in the comments and the tickets could be yours. Meantime, check out the full line-up of events here (many are free but you do need tickets so get RSVP’ing) and starting thinking about whether you’re DARTing, driving or busing out to the South Counties on June 18th, because it’s looking like it’s worth the trip.