Dublin is turning into Barrytown for the month of April.
It’s to celebrate The Barrytown Trilogy selected as this year’s Dublin: One City One Book, choice.
Sixty events are taking place around the city including a Barrytown meets Musictown celebration in Vicar Street on the 12th of April.
Festival highlights also include “Are you Havin’ a Laugh?” a hilarious exploration of Dublin’s unique humour with Peter Sheridan at various venues from 30th March and “City of a Thousand Bands” which will relive Dublin’s 1980s music scene at the Church Café on 21st April.
There are also photographic exhibitions, film screenings, concerts, and discussions which will explore the City and the people that inspired Roddy Doyle.
The Barrytown Trilogy is made up of The Commitments (1987), The Snapper (1990) and The Van (1991) and their publication announced the arrival of a new, contemporary and distinctive Dublin voice.
