Festivals
As well as participating in many festivals around the world David runs two festivals in Ireland. The Dalkey Book Festival, Ireland’s fastest growing literary festival, every June and Kilkenomics every November, which is the world’s only Economics and Comedy Festival.
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Europe’s first economics festival and the world's first economics and comedy festival brings together with leading economists, financial analysts and media commentators from across the globe with some of our funniest, sharpest stand-up comedians. We’ve been called “Davos with jokes” and we wouldn’t disagree with that assessment.
Our informal, entertaining formats invite our audiences to engage and enjoy. As we like to say: it’s serious, but it’s fun too!
Jump into Kilkenomics now and engage with as many shows as possible, equip yourself with the information and insight we hope can help us all make smart choices for our futures – inform and entertain yourselves.
Dalkey Book Festival
Described by Salman Rushdie as “the best little festival in the world”, the annual Dalkey Book Festival takes place in June just outside Dublin. Set up by Sian Smyth and David McWilliams in 2010, the festival has hosted Booker Prize winners, Nobel prize winners and Oscar winners, including Seamus Heaney, Steven Pinker, Malcolm Gladwell, Roddy Doyle, John Banville, Anne Enright, Bono, Bob Geldof, Edna O'Brien, Elif Shafak, Deborah Levy, Colm Toíbín, Brian Eno, Neil Jordan, Isabelle Allende, David Brooks, The Edge, Michael Ondaatje and Tom Hanks .