Plan Life Go, Spring 2026

In this wild and vivid memoir, the artist Julie Fogarty draws a psychic map of 1990s Dublin in the midst of both an explosive rave scene and a devastating heroin epidemic - both forever leaving their marks on the social fabric of the Irish capital.

Chaotic, thoughtful, hilarious and sobering, Plan Life Go traverses raves and rehab, courtrooms and dance-floors, house parties and NA meetings, jail cells and bedroom breakdowns. Ferociously told through the eyes of an exceptional artist losing herself in hedonism, addiction, and queer lust, Plan Life Go strikes at the heart of what it means to almost destroy oneself, and what it takes to crawl back from the brink.

Plan Life Go doesn’t so much unseat the characterisations and clichés of addiction and self-discovery, as completely tear them apart. A willing pilot of her own wreckage, Fogarty traverses the laneways and corners of Dublin, finding carnage and community in a raw exploration of one queer woman’s journey deep into - and out of - the limitations and liberation of a strobe-lit city. Plan Life Go announces Fogarty as an utterly authentic new voice in Irish writing. 

Plan Life Go image and design by Matt Lambert.