Last night.

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan Twelcomed Ireland’s leading writers to Iveagh House to mark “21 years of partnership between the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Ireland Literature Exchange in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Iveagh House, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.

Nice pad, in fairness.

From  top: (l-r) Sinead Mac Aodha Director of Ireland Literature Exchange, John Banville,  Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan  Anne Enright, Inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction and poet Eilean Ni Chuilleanain; Banville, Enright and  Ni Chuilleanain.

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall ireland)