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dlr SoundcloudThe Art of the Short Story: Mary Morrissy and Mary O'Donnell in conversation with Niall MacMonagleAs short stories continue to captivate, join us to delve into two striking collections. Mary Morrissy’s Twenty-Twenty Vision (The Lilliput Press) is a collection of stories exploring hindsight, honesty and late middle-age regret, with empathy and wry humour. Mary O’Donnell’s Walking Ghosts (Mercier Press) takes us from urban encounters to sun-drenched beaches and beyond, capturing the secret sorrows and resilient hopes of characters caught between who they were and who they might become. Join the authors in conversation with writer and critic Niall MacMonagle.
2025-11-181h 05
Listen and Be Heard Networks3e32 Mary Morrissy, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Gina Chung, Brett CookTony Robles speaks with writers, Mary Morrissy, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Gina Chung at The International Short Story Festival in Cork, Ireland. Martha Cinader speaks with artist, Brett Cook about Greg Tate Day in Harlem, New York. Jay Rodriguez Sierra presents new music, Your Sound - featuring Lonnie Plaxico, Pete Drungle and Pheeroan Aklaff. Poetry from Tony Robles and Martha Cinader.
2025-10-2358 min
The BookshelfReading James Joyce's Ulysses for Bloomsday (and new fiction galore)A guide to James Joyce from Irish writer Mary Morrissy, ahead of Bloomsday (16 June); New Zealand writer Becky Manawatu continues to explore howls of pain and compassion in her second novel, Kataraina; and magic realism in the boundaries between life and death, and Eastern Europe, in Helen Marshall's The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death. BOOKSJames Joyce, Ulysses (1922)Mary Morrissy, Penelope Unbound, Banshee PressBecky Manawatu, Kataraina, ScribeHelen Marshall, The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death, Titan Books(Keep s...
2025-06-1200 min
Books for Breakfast (Ireland)75: Mary Morrissy's Twenty-Twenty VisionSend us a text‘A beautiful tapestry of late middle age reckoning’ – today we interview the writer Mary Morrissy about her new collection of short stories, Twenty-Twenty Vision, published by Lilliput Press. For her Toaster Challenge, Mary chooses The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazard. Get the coffee on!This episode is supported by a Project Award from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008...
2025-03-2043 min
Prime Spark with Sara HartSuzy Prudden On Fitness and Much More, a podcast with Suzy PruddenSuzy Prudden is a legend. An influencer for the past 45 years, Suzy is bringing her expertise to the publishing world. She is an award winning, internationally acclaimed speaker, workshop and seminar leader, N.Y. Times bestselling author, fitness expert, body/mind pioneer, hypnotherapist, success and empowerment coach, TV host (NBC and Nickelodeon), Radio Host (WBAI in New York), Creator of the Inner Mind ™ Certification Program and Book Publisher. Suzy has shared the stage with: Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Dr. John DiMartini, Louise L. Hay, Bob Proctor, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, Rev. Michael Beckwith, Rev. Mary Morrissy, Jay...
2024-11-2027 min
The Ireland Podcast77. Bloomsday 2024: Part 2 - Drumcondra PerformancesEpisode 77 is also dedicated to Gerry Enright, Kerryman, lover of life, literature and Dublin, with us from March 19, 1960 to July 8, 2019.Episode 77 is the final instalment of Bloomsweek 2024 (or should that be Bloomsfortnight?) and features performances from the annual Drumcondra Joycean Jaunt on the 120th anniversary of Bloomsday. It is the second part of the Bloomsday 2024 recordings with Episode 74 being the first part.Drumcondra Joycean Jaunters convened at the current day shrine of the Blessed Virgin in Our Lady’s Park on the banks of the Tolka, across from Fagan’s, to celebrate the day...
2024-06-211h 27
History HubWomen and the Irish Constitution - a roundtable discussion.Featuring Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD) Prof. Caitriona Beaumont (LSBU), Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth), Orla O'Connor (NWC), Prof. Lindsey Earner Byrne (TCD) and poet Julie Morrissy.
2024-02-201h 27
UCD Humanities Institute PodcastWomen and the Irish Constitution - a roundtable discussion.Featuring Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD) Prof. Caitriona Beaumont (LSBU), Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth), Orla O'Connor (National Women's Council), Prof. Lindsey Earner Byrne (TCD) and poet Julie Morrissy.
2024-02-201h 27
The Irish Itinerary Podcast33. Mary Morrissy in conversation with Alessandra Boller (26 May 2022)In her conversation with Alessandra Boller, Mary Morrissy discusses the elasticity of short story fiction; her recent turn to flash fiction; the differences between her ‘exploded novel’ Prosperity Drive (2016) and her upcoming short story cycle 20/20 Vision; her new speculative historical novel on Nora Barnacle, whom she describes as a prisoner of Joyce’s fiction; and she ponders whether writing means plundering other people’s lives. Mary Morrissy also reads the story ‘Girls in Trouble’ from her unpublished collection 20/20 Vision and an extract from her new novel Penelope Unbound. www.efacis.eu
2022-05-2650 min
The Dingle Lit PodcastEp 3: Look! It‘s a Woman Writer: Éilís Ní Dhuihbne and Evelyn Conlon
Look! It’s a Woman Writer with Éilís Ní Dhuihbne and Evelyn Conlon chaired by Mia Colleran as they reflect on women writing in Ireland since the 1950’s
Féach! Scríbhneoir mná atá ann – Éilís Ní Dhuihbne agus Evelyn Conlon, faoi chathaoirleacht Mia Colleran, agus iad ag machnamh ar scríbhneoirí mná in Éirinn ó na 1950idí i leith
It's Episode 3 of The Dingle Lit Podcast and the first broadcast of our Live events.
Irish novelist and short story writer Éilís Ní Dhuibhne asked 21 writers who were born in mid-twentieth-century Ireland, North and South...
2022-03-3132 min
Culture FileCulture File "Likes": Mary MorrissyJournalist, writer and curator, Mary Morrissy on some of her current favourite watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
2022-03-2507 minCulture FileThe Culture File Weekly Mar 19th: Una Watters, Dabbledomusic, The Naturalist's BookshelfMary Morrissy remembers the glowy moment she discovered a love for the paintings of Una Watters; Paddy Woodworth breaks the rules by adding a second book by Helen Macdonald to The Naturalist Bookshelf, and Aine Gallagher heads into a pleasantly distressed industrial space in central dublin to hear how to do music education right.
2022-03-1628 minCulture FileWalking in The Rain with Una Watters | Culture FileWriter, Mary Morrissy on the painting that launched her journey into the work of Irish 20th Century painter, Una Watters
2022-03-1507 min
The National Library of IrelandEpisode 2 of Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution with Dr Alice RekabIn Episode 2 of Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution we are joined by Dr Alice Rekab for a conversation about flags and song in the context of their artistic practice and Julie’s research at the National Library. Dr. Alice Rekab is an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin. Their practice is concerned with expressions and iterations of complex cultural and personal narratives. Alice takes their own mixed-race Irish identity as a starting point from which to explore experiences of race, place and belonging. Over the last ten years Alice's practice has centred around collaboration and interdisciplinary work from wh...
2021-12-2343 min
The National Library of IrelandEpisode 1 of Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution with Dr Susan CahillIn Episode 1 of Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution Dr Susan Cahill joins us for a conversation about writer and activist Dorothy Macardle. Cahill is a writer, editor, academic, thinker, and activist. She is well known for her activism for the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment. Cahill was the first woman to tell her abortion story on the stage of the Abbey Theatre, which was subsequently published in the Irish Times. She is a former professor of Irish Studies and is currently working on her debut children’s novel The Dream Door. Her work is published in Winter Papers, and Th...
2021-10-1541 min
FICTION AT THE FRIARY AND ON CAMPUSFICTION AT THE FRIARY Part 2This programme features Mary Morrissy on campus, in the Cavanagh Pharmacy Building. FormerlyAssociate Director in the School of English at UCC, Mary is an award-winning Irish novelist and short story writer. She is the author of three novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey, and two collections of short stories, A Lazy Eye and Prosperity Drive. Here, she reads from her latest work, a speculative novel about Nora Barnacle.
The guest author at Fiction at the Friary is John O’Donnell, award-winning poet and fiction writer. He reads from his debut short st...
2020-12-0247 min
FICTION AT THE FRIARY AND ON CAMPUSFICTION AT THE FRIARY Part 2This programme features Mary Morrissy on Campus. FormerlyAssociate Director in the School of English at University College, Cork, Mary is an award-winning Irish novelist and short story writer. She is the author of three novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey, and two collections of short stories, A Lazy Eye and Prosperity Drive.
The guest author at Fiction at the Friary is John O’Donnell, award-winning poet and fiction writer, whose debut short story collection, Almost the Same Blue, was published by Doire Press in 2019.
The Open Mic reader is Do...
2020-12-0247 min
Enjoy Collecting of Full Audiobooks in Erotica, ModernReal Daughter: A Novel - Lynne MckelveyListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: Real Daughter: A NovelAuthor: Lynne MckelveyNarrator: Emily O'brienFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6:09:56Language: EnglishRelease date: 10-01-2019Publisher: Findaway VoicesGenres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseSummary:A REAL DAUGHTER is a horror novel that offers a frightening take on step-parenting and a disturbing testament to the unknown in all of us.
When her infant daughter Sarah unexpectedly dies, Claire moves to Los Angeles and reinvents herself as a landscape gardener. Meanwhile, C...
2019-10-016h 09
The Attic SessionsEpisode #19. In Conversation with Mary Morrissy & Tanya FarrellyEpisode #19. In Conversation with Mary Morrissy & Tanya Farrelly by Nessa O'Mahony
2017-11-1647 min
The HeadStuff Podcast12. Mary MorrissyMary Morrissy agreed to be a guest on the HeadStuff Podcast and I was suitably delighted. Mary is one of Ireland’s finest writers with all of her books, The Rising of Bella Casey, The Pretender, Mother of Pearl and A Lazy Eye, receiving critical acclaim. She was one of my tutors on the Creative Writing MA in UCD and […]
La entrada Episode 12 – Mary Morrissy se publicó primero en Headstuff.
2015-09-151h 29
The Fidelio PodcastEpisode 21: Thomas Morris and Dubliners 100 Dubliners 100 is a collection of 15 short stories, just like James Joyce's original short story collection, Dubliners, but each one written by a contemporary Irish wirter. They are not re-written stories or modernizations of the original work, but editor Thomas Morris thought of the idea of making 15 "cover versions" like in pop music. Dubliners 100 was released on the 100th anniversary of the publishing of Joyce's Dubliners. While Joyce wrote about the everyday middle-class people of Dublin, the new stories reflect these people 100 years later and speaks to our time. Marie chats with Thomas Morris...
2015-06-2257 min