Dermot Bolger’s annual public conversation with a leading writer has become an integral part of each Phizzfest. This year he interviews writer Carlo Gébler, whose family had deep roots in Cabra and Glasnevin, about his complex relationship with his father.
Carlo was raised by his mother and endured difficult visits to Dublin to see his Cabra-born father, who was initially a more famous writer than his mother but became an reclusive and contrary figure until he succumbed to Alzheimer’s and Carlo became his father’s guardian.
Carlo Gébler is the son of the writers Edna O'Brien and Ernest Gébler.
