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poco.lit. podcast07: Was liest du eigentlich? Zwischen irischer Kolonialgeschichte und Sachtexten über Migration
Bevor wir mit der zweiten Staffel des poco.lit. Podcasts starten, widmen wir uns in dieser Folge unserer Lesepraxis: Was lesen wir eigentlich? Wie suchen wir Bücher aus? Was begeistert uns? Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, stellen Susi und Anna jeweils drei Bücher vor, die sie in den ersten drei Monaten in 2025 gelesen haben. Bei Susi lag der Schwerpunkt auf irischer Literatur, sie hat Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Kerri Ní Dochartaigh und Louise Kennedy gelesen. Annas Auswahl beinhaltete Jennifer Neal, Maryam Aras und Melina Borčak und es ging viel um Migration und (schöne und diskriminierungskritische) Sprache...2025-03-2637 min
Lit IlluminatedCacophony of Bone - A Look at ThemesWelcome to Lit Illuminated. Join me as I pull a book off the
shelf of my library and share my study of patterns and insights with you. Whether you’re a bibliophile, a casual reader, or someone who simply loves a good story, this podcast takes you on an enlightening journey through the pages of classics and contemporary gems.
As a fellow book lover, I know the joy of being lost in the
world of books. I’m thrilled to have you join me on this journey with Lit Illuminated, where we celebrate the sheer pleasure of read...2024-12-0716 min
Brand SeasonsBonus 01 ~ Caregiving + creativity with Kerri ní DochartaighIn this first episode of a special four-part bonus series, I'm joined by writer Kerri ní Dochartaigh to explore how our life experiences shape our creativity. Together, we delve into topics such as caregiving, community and connection.Kerri shares personal stories about her creative journey, including insights gained through motherhood, her relationship with nature, and moments of transformation. We also touch on the importance of finding pockets of creativity within busy seasons.Key topics include:The role of nature and cycles in grounding usHow transitions and challenges shape our creative outputRedefining what it means t...2024-11-1556 min
Beauty & Bone PodcastBeauty & Bone | The Element Sessions | Episode TwoHi dear friends, Welcome to the second conversation in this series of slow seasonal explorations of the five elements : The Element Sessions. Today, I’m sharing, for all subscribers, a glorious conversation I had with writer, mother, grower and holder Kerri ní Dochartaigh. (More on this below!)Next Tuesday morning I’ll be holding a live workshop and journalling session focussing on the element of EARTH. I’m so looking forward to putting some faces to names and meeting some of you in person. If you are curious about the offering but not yet a paid su...2024-09-2058 min
Not Too Busy To WriteS9 E2. Kerri ni Dochartaigh on finding home in the Irish landscapeKerri ni Dochartaigh is the award winning author of Thin Places and Cacophany of Bone. Kerri's work delves deep into home and belonging, from her childhood in Derry during the troubles, where her family were forced to leave their home, to an adulthood of wrestlessness, unable to find a feeling of home, until she returned to the Irish landscape of her early years. We talk about intergenerational trauma, what it means to our sense of safety and belonging to have a home forcibly removed, as so many are facing in the world today, and finding home in...2024-09-041h 08
The Irish Itinerary Podcast50. Kerri ní Dochartaigh in conversation with Fiona McCann (25 April 2024)In her conversation with Fiona McCann, Kerri ní Dochartaigh discusses the writing and editing process of Thin Places (2022) and the importance of form; the community of writers and how citation is an act of love; the real power we find in one-anotherness and interconnectedness; resilience and its link to the land; and language learning as a way back to the core of oneself. Kerri also reads from Cacophony of Bone (2023). www.efacis.eu2024-04-2547 min
dlr SoundcloudSEA MOTHER – on milk and tears and iceAlice Kinsella and Easkey Britton in conversation with Kerri ní Dochartaigh on climate emergency, care-giving and the sea as the original mother.2024-03-0450 min
ReseedOur Tenderness Needs to Match the Brutality – Kerri ní DochartaighWe are midwives of a transformation, in a time of crises and grief. Now is a moment to find our most expansive definitions of motherhood, nature, and ancestry in order to equip us for this moment. This episode of Reseed explores mothering in these times of ours, writing through emergency, a ceasefire in Palestine, and the power of togetherness. Kerri ní Dochartaigh is an Irish mother, writer, and grower. Her work explores ideas of emergency, interconnectedness and ecologies of care. For her first book, Thin Places, she was awarded the Butler Literary Award 2022, and highly com...2024-02-1655 min
Emergence Magazine PodcastWhen You Could Hear the Trees – Kerri ní DochartaighIn this narrated essay, Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s experiences of pregnancy and motherhood bring her into an emerging realization of her own mammalhood. When she encounters her animal self, deeply embedded in the ecosystems around her, it transforms everything: her sense of home and safety; what it means to feel, to act, to care through the ancient, feral knowledge of instinct. Listening for teachings from the Earth, Kerri feels her way through the anguish and tenderness of raising a child in a burning and breaking—and beautiful—world.Read this essay.Learn more about our upcomin...2023-11-1435 min
explore words discover worldsS2 EP12: 20 Years of the Good Friday AgreementIt has been 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement helped bring peace to Northern Ireland, but how stable is that peace today? Join David Donoghue and Kerri Ní Dochartaigh as they discuss the legacy of this historic deal and what it means to the people of Northern Ireland and their future.2023-11-011h 00
MILK & BONE#18 SLOW DOWN: 5 books to cozy up with this autumnIn this episode I'm sharing 5 books that I highly recommend this season. Light comes later in the morning now, darkness arrives more quickly in the evening. The days days rapidly grow shorter, and the air gets crisper, the notion of spending time curled up with a good book and a cup of tea sounds increasingly perfect. I’m talking in depth about:“ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR - The seven deadly sins and the price women pay to be good” by Elise LoehnenTHE “MISTS OF AVALON” by Marion Zimmer Bradley...2023-10-2623 min
Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good ReadEpisode 191 - Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough with Poet Shuly CawoodChris and Emily are happy to welcome back author SHULY CAWOOD to talk about her new poetry collection, SOMETHING SO GOOD IT CAN NEVER BE ENOUGH. Shuly reads a poem and talks about her poetic process, and we ask her to discuss our favorite(s) in the collection. We enjoy Shuly’s poetry in part because it is so accessible.
Biblio Adventures are always fun and interesting, and we went on one that opened up a huge new-to-us genre, ROMANCE! We recap a conference we attended at Yale, Popular Romance Fiction: The Literature of Hope. Chris watched the Senate Judiciary Co...2023-09-261h 45Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good ReadEpisode 190 - Haunted by Hawthorne & The Invisible Hour by Alice HoffmanIt’s another 10th episode which means we’re hosting a giveaway for newsletter subscribers! One lucky winner will receive a copy of DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy Maclean and THE DANTE CLUB by Matthew Pearl. To be entered to win, head to www.bookcougars.com/subscriber to join our newsletter; the winner will be chosen on September 15th.
In between some fantastic Biblio Adventures to Salem, MA, and a Couch Biblio Adventure where we watched the 1934 adaptation of THE SCARLET LETTER, we managed to do some reading. We bot...2023-09-121h 14
Sunday MiscellanyHome and Belonging: Northern voicesSwift boxes, borders and safe places to nest: More live recordings from Ballyshannon, Derry and most recently, the Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, with writers Neil Hegarty, Maureen Boyle, Louise Kennedy, Kerri Ní Dochartaigh and Colette Bryce2023-07-0931 min
How We Live Now with Katherine MayKerri ní Dochartaigh on the mystical everydayKerri ní Dochartaigh’s writing rings with a sense of connection between this world and the otherworld, and nowhere is it expressed more clearly than in her latest book, Cacophony of Bone. Here are pages full of subtle signs that are legible only to those who are in the practice of seeking them. It’s a work of plain mysticism, a very personal representation of direct contact with the sacred. At its roots, it’s about perception: how we allow it, honour it, foster it. How we can allow ourselves to encounter beauty and transcendence in the everyday.B...2023-06-0951 min
Field RambleField Ramble with Martin Macinnes and Kerri ní DochartaighSend us a textTwo more great interviews with two wonderful authors. We talk to Martin Macinnes about his stunning, epic In Ascension. And the wonderful Kerri ní Dochartaigh about her incredible lockdown chronicles Cacophony of Bone. Our beautiful music on this episode is all by Ian Hawgood. Find all his music on Bandcamp by searching Home Normal and check out the beaut that is @_handstitched on instagram. Tracks used on this episode were taken from the albums:Fields - Upward Eyes EPFor Distance Brings Us Closer - Upward Eyes EP2023-04-2847 min
Woman Who Rubs the MountainThe Land Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself [Episode 23]Paths lead us forward in acts of collective mark-making, while also leading us backwards into memory, as well as inwards, deeper into ourselves. In this one-year anniversary episode of the Woman Who Rubs the Mountain podcast, I reflect on this sense of pressing into the place where we live, all the while exposing overlapping intimacies between personal story and land story. This episode brings a deep curiosity to why we live where we do (out of all the places on the planet, why here?) And in what ways does this land already know who we are, what we could...2023-04-2356 min
Listen, Relax and Enjoy the Wonders of Full AudiobookMilk: On Motherhood and Madness Audiobook by Alice KinsellaListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 601213
Title: Milk: On Motherhood and Madness
Author: Alice Kinsella
Narrator: Alice Kinsella
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:34:36
Language: English
Release date: 03-09-23
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Parenting, Women
Summary:
'Sublime' - Donal Ryan, author of Strange Flowers
'Here is a writer who matters' - The Irish Times
'A book about the raw, riotous, brutally beautiful act of being alive.' - Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places
'Milk is a raw, unvarnished journey down the mothering rabbit hole' The Irish Independent
I have become t...2023-03-096h 34
Immerse Yourself in Storytelling With Full AudiobookRaven's Nest Audiobook by Sarah ThomasListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 600449
Title: Raven's Nest
Author: Sarah Thomas
Narrator: Sarah Thomas
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:02:00
Language: English
Release date: 08-18-22
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Genres: Travel, Europe
Summary:
'Fascinating' -Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways
'Truly a thing of wonder' - Kerri nI Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places
'Lyrical [and] thoughtful' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment
Visiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in 2008, Sarah Thomas is spellbound by its otherworldly landscape. An immediate love for this country and for Bjarni, a man she meets there...2022-08-1910h 02
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The Bookshop PodcastSara Baume, Author and ArtistSend us a textIn this episode I chat with Irish author Sara Baume about her visual artwork, writing, the financial difficulties of living as a creative, and her new book, Seven Steeples. SARA BAUME studied fine art before earning a master's in creative writing. Her first novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and was short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award. She is also the recipient of the Davy Byrnes Short Story Award and the...2022-05-2527 min
Fully Booked by Kirkus ReviewsKirkus International EpisodeOn this special International Episode, Anton Hur joins us to discuss his forthcoming translation of Violets by Man Asian Prize-winning novelist Kyung-Sook Shin (April 12). Then our editors join with their international reading recommendations for early 2022, with books by Sang-Keun Kim (tr. Ginger Ly), Chesil (tr. Takami Nieda), Olga Tokarczuk, Shen Fuyu, and Kerri ní Dochartaigh.
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The Shaking Bog PodcastEpisode 6: WINTER – A ‘Festival’ PodcastA special podcast episode that looks back at The Shaking Bog’s Festival last September. Presenting a montage of excerpts from the festival programme this podcast is just a small taster of what happened over that magical weekend.
Artists featured in this Festival Podcast, in order of appearance, include: Michael Longley, Paddy Glackin, Liz Berry, Alice Oswald, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Kerrí ní Dochartaigh, Dara McAnulty, Lisa Lambe, Marty Rae, Melissa Harrison, Mary Coughlan and Roddy Doyle.
This podcast is produced by The Shaking Bog Festival in collaboration with Coillte Nature & Mermaid Arts Centre, with fund...2021-12-1245 min
ShelfmarksShelfmarks: Ep 1 | Kerri ní DochartaighIn this first episode of Shelfmarks Zoë Comyns looks at an expedition to Rockall off the north-east coast of Donegal funded by the Royal Irish Academy in 1896.
The island is extremely remote and poor weather conditions meant it was impossible to land on Rockall. The crew of geologists, naturalists and biologists did collect dredge samples and bird specimens. This programme evokes his journey and the sense of discovery.
One of those on board was RIA member R.M. Barrington, whose interest in birds led to him to publish The Migration of Birds as Observed at I...2021-09-2435 min
The Royal Irish AcademyShelfmarks: Ep 1 | Kerri ní DochartaighIn this first episode of Shelfmarks Zoë Comyns looks at an expedition to Rockall off the north-east coast of Donegal funded by the Royal Irish Academy in 1896.
The island is extremely remote and poor weather conditions meant it was impossible to land on Rockall. The crew of geologists, naturalists and biologists did collect dredge samples and bird specimens. This programme evokes his journey and the sense of discovery.
One of those on board was RIA member R.M. Barrington, whose interest in birds led to him to publish The Migration of Birds as Observed at Irish Lighthouses and Lightships (1900). Barrington a...2021-09-2335 min
The Writing LifeKerri ní Dochartaigh: Weather With You #1Three writers reflect on the atmospheric pressure of the year they’ve just had in Weather With You – a series of three written commissions and podcasts that address what it means to be a writer today, and why we write.
Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in 1983, in Derry-Londonderry at the border between the North and South of Ireland. She read English Literature and Classical Civilisation at Trinity College Dublin and trained as a Waldorf teacher in Edinburgh. She taught in Edinburgh and Bristol, before returning to Ireland in her early thirties. She writes about nature, literature and place...2021-05-2435 min
The Radiance ProjectI Love This BookHeidi dives into the book “Thin Places” by Kerri Ni Dochartaigh and explores the astrology of the author. It’s a profoundly poetic and healing book, exploring the idea of belonging, coming home to oneself and healing.2021-04-2335 min
Tender Buttons005 Kerri ní Dochartaigh: Thin PlacesIn this episode we chat to writer Kerri ní Dochartaigh about her new book Thin Places (Canongate) and its powerful weaving of memoir, history, Irish folklore, language and nature writing. We discuss her childhood growing up in Derry amidst the Troubles, the necessity of expanding our kinship with the non-human world and the ways in which a new generation of writers of landscape are blazing open the field.
You can find Kerri's book at storysmithbooks.com/tenderbuttons.
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Start the WeekFamily struggles - from Greek tragedy to The TroublesKerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry-Londonderry at the height of the Troubles, to a Catholic mother and Protestant father. In Thin Places she traces a life affected by poverty, loss and violence, and the invisible border that runs through it. But she tells Kirsty Wark how the natural world has helped heal the traumas of childhood.For the writer Sally Bayley it was Shakespeare that brought her solace and ignited her imagination. Growing up in a working class household with no father figures Bayley roamed through his plays looking for companions and escape from her oppressive h...2021-02-2242 min
How We Live Now with Katherine MayKerri Ni Dochartaigh on healing the trauma of The TroublesWelcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.This week Katherine chats to Kerri Ni Dochartaigh, author of 'Thin Places'.Kerri talks in detail about the aftermath of growing up in Derry at the height of the Troubles, as the daughter of a Protestant father and a Catholic mother. Forced to come to terms with trauma and survivorship guilt, Kerri found healing in the dark magic of the Irish landscape and Celtic mythology.In a wide ranging conversation, she and Katherine cover ground including relationships, names, unidentified and hidden grief...2021-02-1243 min
The Women's PodcastEp 474 Thin Places: Kerri ní DochartaighNature writer and essayist Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles. The daughter of a Catholic mother and Protestant father, her childhood was one of trauma and violence. Struggling to identify with either side, her family were forced out of two homes and were also victim to a frightening petrol bomb attack. In her first book, Thin Places, ní Dochartaigh lays bare the ways in which these events affected her life. Weaving between two contrasting genres, nature writing and memoir, the book is an emotional history of the Troubles and an exploration in...2021-02-1147 min
Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 463 Pod 141: African Europeans, The Troubles and ‘anyone for tennis?’In 2018, Professor Olivette Otele became the UK’s first black female history professor. 2018! She chats to Mick about missing stories, her book African Europeans, and the toppling of Edward Colston. Hannah catches up with writer Kerri Ni Dochartaigh to talk growing up in The Troubles, how nature can help your mental health and Kerri’s beautifully written debut, Thin Places.In Jenny Off The Blocks, ahead of next week’s Australian Open, Jen’s on the blower to Jo Durie, tennis pundit and former world number 5. And it’s an absolute treat of a Rated or Dated, as the tea...2021-02-031h 30
The Shaking Bog PodcastEpisode 3: WinterThe year has turned and it’s deep mid-winter. Guided by the mood of the season this episode of The Shaking Bog Podcast explores memory, mythology and some of the hidden recesses of the natural world.
Presenting a blend of conversations, readings and reflections, the Winter episode features writer Kerri Ní Dochartaigh, writer, herbalist and activist Oein DeBhairduin, poet Nuala ní Dhomhnaill and artist Chanelle Walshe in conversation with herpetologist Collie Ennis.
Produced by The Shaking Bog Festival in collaboration with Coillte Nature & Mermaid Arts Centre. Written & presented by Catherine Nunes, edited by Bjorn MacGiolla, mixe...2021-01-2041 min
The YourShelf Podcast#11 Prose Book of the Year 2020 with Doireann Ní GhríofaTo support our work and listen to additional content from previous episodes, see here: https://patreon.com/yourshelf and follow us on social media @_yourshelf_ (note: there is no Patreon episode for either of our Books of the Year 2020 episodes). In our latest, eleventh episode of The YourShelf Podcast, Prose Book of the Year 2020, our chief curator Juliano Zaffino (Jay) catches up with Doireann Ní Ghríofa to discuss Doireann's book A Ghost In The Throat, the life of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, Dubh's poem Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire which survives in the Irish oral tradition, motherhood, voices, aston...2021-01-051h 14