Dates: Launch 11 September 2025 and Festival Days 1 and 2: 26 and 27 September 2025
Times: See below
Various Locations:
- MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin
- Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Dublin
- TCD - Regent House, Trinity College Dublin.
All events are free, and no booking required for Festival days 1 and 2 (subject to availability). Eventbrite booking is required for the launch which is now fully booked.
Further details on the programme, dates, times and venues are available on the programme images on this page and at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Dublin, website and Irish PEN / PEN na hÉireann website.
FIILI is an initiative of the Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin, Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and Trinity College Dublin (part-funded from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund), supported by Literature Ireland, the Society for Italian Studies and the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation and in partnership with MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland.
FIILI – a nod to ‘poet’ in Irish and the ‘thread of the story’ in Italian – ‘filo narrativo’ – brings together a host of fascinating contemporary writers.
This September sees the third edition of FIILI, and the festival organisers are delighted to welcome to Dublin so many outstanding writers, translators and poets from both countries. Co-curated by its three founders - Marco Gioacchini (IIC Director), and authors Catherine Dunne and Enrica Ferrara - the festival will highlight the work of Italian poets and writers Alessandro Baricco, Claudia Durastanti, Silvio Perrella, Gian Maria Annovi, Marco Balzano, Nadia Terranova, Giovanni Fasanella and Stefania Auci. Irish writers and poets in conversation are Joseph O’Connor, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Justine McCarthy, Kimberly Campanello, Aifric MacAodha, Naoise Dolan and Darran Anderson. All of the festival’s guests will speak to the theme of imagining and translating the world ‘In Other Wor(l)ds’.
This year’s festival launch will take place at MoLI on 11 September 2025, with the renowned author Alessandro Baricco in conversation with Enrica Ferrara.
On Friday 26 September 2025, Joseph O’Connor will be in conversation with Catherine Dunne at the Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin. Acclaimed translators Elvira Grassi, Howard Curtis and Katherine Gregor will discuss the challenges of translating regional differences with James Hadley.
On Saturday 27 September 2025, panels will be moderated by the curators and by Sinéad Mac Aodha, Viviana Fiorentino and Stiliana Milkova. They will take place at Regent House, TCD, and simultaneous translation will be provided.
Further information is available by emailing Dr Enrica Ferrara, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, TCD at FERRARAE@tcd.ie
This event is part-funded by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund.