Bread & Roses Festival

Panels and workshops on trans liberation; revolutionary feminist history; AI and misogyny ; capitalism’s fascist threat; revolutionary art & more. Crafting, poetry, music, photography, bookstalls galore.

The Bread and Roses Festival 2026 will see the Irish launch & book signing of Meena Kandasamy's highly anticipated forthcoming novel, Fieldwork As a Sex Object about incels, influencers and the far-right in online spaces. Meena Kandasamy is a feminist and anti-caste activist and a women’s prize shortlisted writer based in Chennai, India. “A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement” INDEPENDENT

Other guest speakers include Dan Hoff lead singer of Gurriers; Ailbhe Smyth veteran feminist, LGBTQ and socialist campaigner; leader in repeal and marriage equality movements ; Hazel Behan victim/survivor & campaigner; Eman Mohammed award-winning Palestinian photojournalist from Gaza; Dean Van Nguyen author of Words for my comrades: A political history of Tupac Shakur & more

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