Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson.
In this episode writers and editors talk about anthologies and gender balance, and read from their very favourite short stories. Featuring Sinéad Gleeson, Alan Hayes, Rob Doyle, Eimear Ryan and Philip St John. Chaired by Lia Mills with music by Ciara Sidine, accompanied by Conor Brady. Ciara’s daughters Ava and Romy also feature.
For rights reasons you will only hear clips from Ciara’s songs, to hear more visit www.ciarasidine.com
Recorded at Farmleigh House on 6 April 2018
The Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson read by Philip St John
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Robbins read by Lia Mills
San Francisco by Amy Hempel read by Eimear Ryan
Zidane's Melancholy by Jean-Philippe Toussaint read by Rob Doyle
People Like that are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk by Lorrie Moore read by Sinéad Gleeson
Alan Hayes reads Butcher Bird by Geraldine Mills; The New Wife by Órfhlaith Foyle; Staying Thin for Daddy by Deirdre Brennan; I, Caroline by Nuala O'Connor
Finest Flower, Watching the Dark, Trouble Come Find Me and Little Bird Song by Ciara Sidine
Our theme tune is Dream of the forest (jazzy mix) by articom (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. dig.ccmixter.org/files/articom/61177
