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May 26 2013

Keyif1

where 1b Blessington Street, Dublin 7.

when 12pm-10:30pm

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Keyif

Arguments over the best kebab in Dublin could go on until well after closing time. Claiming one is better than another is as futile as suggesting there is one definitive pub for the best pint of Guinness in the city. Sure, there are preferable situations in which to imbibe the black stuff, but it ultimately comes down to a combination of factors. In terms of the humble kebab, those factors could be understood as the following: the succulence of the meat, the sauces, the salads, the setting and in the case of Keyif, the receptacle in which these bountiful temptations are served. Karol, the ultra-sound owner, is reluctant to reveal exactly what makes his homemade Turkish flatbread so divinely mouth-watering. Whatever the secret ingredient is that Karol’s grandma passed down to him, it is lip-smackingly delicious. / Simon Judge

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May 26 2013

Fountain30

where Smock Alley Theatre, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
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when 6pm

how much €12/€10

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Kevin Powers & Ben Fountain

War! What is it good for? Absolute nothing! Apart from inspiring countless writers with inspiration for literary works, that is. Whether it’s Siegfried Sassoon condemning “scarlet Majors” in Base Details or Joseph Heller detailing the exploits of Yossarian in Catch-22, war has provided fodder for many a scribe. In the past year, two novels have surfaced to be added to the great canon of war literature, courtesy of Kevin Powers and Ben Fountain. Kevin Powers’ Yellow Birds is a concise, visceral account of a soldier’s tour of duty in Iraq. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, meanwhile, is a searing comic novel following a group of soldiers as they return to Texas after a tour of Iraq. Two of America’s finest contemporary authors, Fountain and Powers join forces to discuss their work and more. Ten-hut! Win Tickets / Amy O’Connor

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May 26 2013

Rebeccasolnit

where Smock Alley Theatre, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
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when 2pm

how much €10/€8

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Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is something of a female Indiana Jones in that her writing seems to traverse every subject and every discipline with an ease and audacity that are on the lines of heroic. Her best-selling book Wanderlust put the act of walking at its centre, analysing it as a cultural phenomenon that is disappearing and how with its demise “goes an ancient and profound relationship between body, world, and imagination.” Her subjects are place, history, urban spaces, travel, gender, art, politics, etc. She won a Guggenheim for her biography of fin-de-siecle photographer Eedweard Muyer, in which she condensed an unlikely and inspired description of the industrial formation of the world seen through the photographer's lens and work. If this all sounds stuffy… well Beyonce named her baby, Blue Ivy, after one of Solnit’s poems so it can't be that bad./ Roisin Agnew

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