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Books for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast81: Mary O'Donnell, Walking GhostsSend us a textThis episode sees us visiting Dublin's historic United Arts Club where Enda interviews Mary O'Donnell about her latest collection of short stories, Walking Ghosts. Praise for Walking Ghosts'Each story shines in its own distinctive light.' —Neil Hegarty'O'Donnell is unflinching in her ability to display humanity in all its flaws and vulnerabilities.' —Mary Costello'The magic of her writing is in the subtle, mysterious evocation of the unconscious, of the potent mixture of mo...2025-08-0747 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast80: Sarah Moss on RipenessSend us a textOn this episode we drop in to the Carlow University Pittsburgh MFA summer programme in Trinity College, Dublin to interview Sarah Moss about her latest novel, Ripeness. 'Tender and rueful . . . Sarah Moss is a marvel of insight and eloquence' - Emma Donoghue'One of our greatest living writers' - Katherine May, author of WinteringMore Praise for Sarah Moss:'Throws much contemporary writing into the shade' - Hilary Mantel‘One...2025-06-1250 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast79: Mall Life: Karin-Lin GreenbergSend us a textOn this episode we talk about this year's International Literature Festival Dublin which runs from 16-25 May, and where Enda will be interviewing novelists Gethan Dick and Patrick Holloway. We also talk to Karin-Lin Greenberg about Your Are Here, her novel set in a dying mall in upstate New York."Lin-Greenberg’s web of characters illustrate the complex lives of ordinary people." —Laura Zornosa, Time"Like Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, the charm of Lin-Greenberg’s engaging story lies in the sweetness of the chara...2025-05-1525 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast78: Richard Blanco; Poetry at StrokestownSend us a textIn this episode, on Poetry Day, we cross the Atlantic and. breakfast in Miami, where we talk to Cuban American poet Richard Blanco about his Homeland of my Body: New and Selected Poems, a rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with two full sections of new poems bookending Blanco’s selections from his five previous volumes. We also feature this year’s Strokestown International Poetry Festival, including the five poets shortlisted for the Strokestown Poetry Competition. If you’re around for the festival Enda will be giving ...2025-05-011h 04Books for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast77: Mary O’Donnell on new fiction and poetrySend us a textOn this episode we talk to poet novelist and critic Mary O’Donnell about Mary O’Malley’s The Shark Nursery, Patrick Holloway’s The Language of Remembering,  ! All’ ARME /? by Eilish Martin and Beginnings Over and Over: Four New Poets from Ireland, edited by Leeanne Quinn.We also give a shout out to a special anthology for One Dublin One Book, Dublin, Written in our Hearts, published by the Stinging Fly Press and edited b...2025-04-1739 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast76: Pat Boran on Hedge SchoolSend us a textFinding inspiration in the local and near at had, attentive to climate concern and global unrest, to home and homeless, belonging and welcome, concern and global and welcome – on today’s episode we talk to poet and publisher Pat Boran about his eight collection Hedge School. 'A writer of great tenderness and lyricism' – Agenda, UK'... local and international, full of wisdom and wry humour ...' – Irish Literary Supplement, USAThis episode is supported by a Project Award from the Arts Council/An Chomhairl...2025-04-0338 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast75: 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 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast74: John Banville and Doris KarevaSend us a textWas 1950s Dublin really a place of murder and intrigue? On today’s show we travel to the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation  in Dublin’s Fenian Street to talk to novelist John Banville about his latest novel, The Drowned, the fourth in a series featuring Detective Inspector St John Strafford and the pathologist Quirke familiar to many from the Benjamin Black novels. And we talk to Estonian poet Doris Kareva who visited the Centre recently about her own poetry, translation, and Estonia. Brew up a big pot o...2025-03-0650 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast73: John Montague: A Poet's LifeSend us a textHow much do we need to know about a writer's life? How does the life impinge on the work? What is the human price of art? In this episode we talk to biographer Adrian Frazier about John Montague: A Poet's Life.‘The best Irish poet of his generation’ – Derek MahonAlready a highly lauded biographer, Adrian Frazier was a close acquaintance of Montague for more than forty years. In this fully authorised narrative he reveals the sources of poetry in Montague's life and traces the progre...2025-02-2056 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast72: Andrew Miller, The Land in WinterSend us a textIn the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage.  Across the field, in a farmhouse impossible to heat, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He's been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small d...2025-02-0657 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast69: The Amergin Step, An Exploration in the Imagination of IveraghSend us a textThis episode sees us back in Books Upstairs in Dublin’s D’Olier Street again. This time we’ve come for a conversation between Paddy Bushe and poet and academic Ben Keatinge on the occasion of the Dublin launch of The Amergin Step: An Exploration in the Imagination of Iveragh. The book is named after the famous poem that Leabhar Gabhála Éireann or The Book of Invasions tells us was recited by the poet and lawmaker of the Gaelic Milesian people, as he stepped ashore in Kerry after their vo...2024-12-1237 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast68: Oksana Makysmchuk, Still City: Diary of an InvasionSend us a textAs we write it is 1002 days since the fullscale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, but over ten years since Putin first seized Crimea and sponsored insurrection in the Donbas. And even longer that he has sought to meddle in Ukrainian affairs. So we thought we would mark those suffering filled days and years by talking to Oksana Maksymchuk whose Still City: Diary of an Invasion, published by Carcanet Press, came out this year. Oksana is also translator and co editor of Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine. We caught up with Oksana...2024-11-2126 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast67: IMRAM festival, Kelly Michels' American AnthemSend us a textFirst up on today's show, I chat with Liam Carson, who is back again with another episode of the Irish language Festival, IMRAM. And we hear from Kelly Michels, whose Forward Prize shortlisted debut collection,  American Anthem, published by Gallery Press this year, focuses on the tragedies both personal and national, of the opioid epidemic and its devastating effects of addiction and of gun violence in America, where the poet grew up. We talk to Kelly about growing up in the U.S., writing about her mother's addiction,  the mass shootings in...2024-10-3154 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast66: Mícheál McCann and Katie DonovanSend us a textToday's show features conversation and poems from two poets with new collections: Katie Donovan, whose collection May Swim, is published by Bloodaxe Books, and Micheál McCann, whose debut collection Devotion, is published by Gallery Press.Both poets take on the Toaster Challenge, this time a Toaster Poem Challenge. Micheál' choce is Louise Glück's 'Sunset' from her collection The Wild Iris, while Katie chooses Pascale Petit's ‘Jaguar Girl.’ from Mama Amazonica.Intro/outro music: Colm Ma...2024-10-0338 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast65: Christine Dwyer Hickey, Alba de Cespedes, CatullusSend us a textWe're back from the summer break and in conversation with Christine Dwyer Hickey, who was the subject of our very first Books for Breakfast podcast. This time around we're talking to her about her latest novel Our London Lives, just published this week. We also give ourselves a double Toaster Challenge. Enda talks about Alba de Cespedes' Roman novel Forbidden Notebook, while Peter stays in Rome but goes back 2000 years to the last years of the Republic and the poet ...2024-09-0551 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast64: Summer journals, Tessa Hadley, Noel MonahanSend us a textOn today's edition, the last before our summer break, we look at  new editions of Poetry Ireland Review and The Stinging Fly. We feature recordings of three poets published in Poetry Ireland Review: Valentine Jones, Patrick Chapman and Shakeema Edwards, and we also feature a poem by Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin from The Stinging Fly.  Enda discusses the novels of Tessa Hadley, who also has an. essay in The Stinging Fly, and we travel to Cavan fo...2024-06-0641 minThe Ireland PodcastThe Ireland Podcast61. Lorcan Sirr: Lecturer and housing policy analystEpisode 61 is an overview of the Irish property market with Lorcan Sirr, a senior lecturer of housing in the Technical University of Dublin as well as a housing policy analyst.Conversation includes: introductions; Henry Sirr and Robert Emmet; personal career path; the returning diaspora; Aidan Regan; Mary Harny ‘Boston or Berlin’; an overview of the rental and buying sector; long term lets and short term lets; the taxpayer picking up the tab; escooters; capitalism and an arch form of capitalism; housing as an investment product; climate vs. housing political targets; building properties to rent vs. properties to buy...2024-05-271h 03Books for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast63: Neil Astley on Soul Feast and moreSend us a textOn today's show we interview poet, novelist and publisher of Bloodaxe Books Neil Astley. We talk to Neil about the latest Bloodaxe Books poetry anthology, Soul Feast, poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit, companion volume to 2007's Soul Food.  We also talk about how he got into publishing, what poetry means to him and  some of the discoveries he's made along the way. Two Irish poets in the anthology, Enda Coyle Greene and  Mary O'Donnell , read their contributions. Intr...2024-05-1639 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast62: Strokestown International Poetry FestivalSend us a textToday’s show marks 25 years since the foundation of the Strokestown International Poetry Festival in Co. Roscommon. This year’s festival takes place over the May Bank weekend, May 3 - 5. We spoke to the Director,  Joseph Woods about the festival and his new book, Veld Fires. We also feature poems by Eva Bourke whose Tattoos was published this year, and Patrick Deeley, who reads from his new collection, Keepsake.We also interview the Welsh poet Tony Curtis , whose new collection is Leaving the Hills. Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Io...2024-05-0240 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast61: Paul Muldoon on his new book; Strokestown shortlisted poetsSend us a textToday’s show marks Poetry Day Ireland with readings by the five poets shortlisted for the Strokestown International Poetry Competion, the winner of which will be announced at the Festival over the May Bank Holiday Weekend. And we go the Trinity College Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation to talk to poet Paul Muldoon about his role as Ireland Professor of Poetry and his new collection of poems Joy in Service on Rue Tagore.Intro/outro music: ...2024-04-2549 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast6O: Mary Costello on BarcelonaSend us a textWe’re joined on this morning’s show by Mary Costello, whose new collection of short stories, Barcelona, has just been published by Canongate."Barcelona is full of devastating lines … Costello is working in the tradition of her literary heroes [Kafka, Musil, Coetzee]: delivering insights which are painful but also energising because of the beauty with which they're captured … The most impressive collection I've read in some time"  JOHN SELF  The Times"Clear-eyed and provocative, bruised and bruising: these are the stories of...2024-04-0436 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast59: Victoria Kennefick on Egg/ShellSend us a textOn this mornings's show we talk to Victoria Kennefrick about her new collection Egg/Shell, just published by Carcanet, a double album, as she describes it, which explores early motherhood and miscarriage, and the impact of a spouse's gender transition and the dissolution of a marriage. The book is a follow-up to her widely acclaimed first collection  Eat or We Both Starve. Hers had been described as one of the boldest poetic voices to emerge in recent years and Egg/Shell is The Poetry Book Society S...2024-03-1435 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast58: Fleur Adcock, Kerry Hardie and Aoife LyallSend us a textOn today's show we discuss Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems, newly published by Bloodaxe Books, and we go to the launch of two more Bloodaxe books in Hodges Figgis, Kerry Hardie's We Go On and Aoife Lyall's The Day Before. We talk to both poets about their work and listen to them reading their poems. So put the kettle on and join us!Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks...2024-02-2931 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast57: Remembering Philip CaseySend us a textWe're back with a show dedicated to a book commemorating the life and achievement of a fondly remembered writer: Distant Summers: Remembering Philip Casey, Writer, Fabulist, Friend, edited by Eamonn Wall, Katie Donovan and Michael Considine, Arlen House, 2024. We feature contributions by Katie Donovan, Dermot Bolger and Michael O'Loughlin, and Michael Agustin reading his poem from the book.We also cover the recently...2024-02-1428 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast{Stanza}Send us a textNot Books for Breakfast this time but a link to our poetry programme Stanza on RTE Radio 1. In conversation with fellow poets, Paula Meehan and Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Enda Wyley and Peter Sirr will discuss why poetry matters. We also visit Poetry Ireland to hear about their big plans for 2024, and hear from viral spoken word poet Mikey Cullen. Produced by Clockwork Productions, producer Fiona Kelly. Additional reporting by Taylor Mooney.2024-01-0200 minMy Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastS05E02 - Review of The Negotiator (1998) *5minFix*Welcome to MyMovieFix Podcast. A Show where the coherence doesn't matter and the Episode seasons are made up. It would take less time to listen to the episode than to read this GIve me a 5 star rating wherever 5 star ratings are found Follow me on ⁠Letterboxd⁠ at "Sirr" Email questions/comments/concerns/Apples to MyMovieFixPodcast@Gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mymoviefixpodcast/message2023-10-1006 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast56: Summer is icumen in; TCD Writer Fellow James HarpurSend us a textWe're not back in full podcast  mode quite yet but we will be back in the autumn, all going well, and in the meantime we visited poet James Harpur during his stint as Trinity College Writer Fellow and we thought it was time for a couple of summer poems. Have a listen and enjoy the summer!Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it. Incidental music "Timeless One" by...2023-06-1535 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast55: Injury Time; A New BashoSend us a textEnda has been recovering from a recent injury so podcast productivity has taken a hit, but we're back with our first episode for a while, which features a conversation about Basho with Andrew Fitzsimons, whose Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho has recently been published by the University of California Press. And we've got the old toaster working again and revived the Toaster Challenge. Andrews's choice is Three Days by Thomas Bernhard.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac...2023-03-0950 minMy Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastS04 E01: Top 10 Movies of 2022!! Featuring Sam and VitoMy Movie Fix is a place where I come to get...my movie fix. I have takes that need taking, and this is the place to hear my deep-dive discussions on new movies, as well as thoughts on other content in the media world. Ending as always with a sendoff to help lighten your load this week. Apologies for my audio, after years of podcasting I still can't figure out how to use a mic. Today's guests are frequent collaborators Sam and Vito! Today's episode is a 2022's TOP 10 EPISODE! Overall...2023-02-273h 18Books for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast54: New Year's Eve 2022 SpecialSend us a textSome of the highlights of this year's Books for Breakfast, featuring contributions by Gabriel Byrne, Thomas McCarthy, Wendy Erskine, Colm Tóibín, Brian Leyden, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Leland Bardwell, Kevin Power, John McAuliffe, Kelly Michels, Mark Granier, Judith Mok and Mark Roper.Enda and Peter also discuss some of the books on their desks at the moment: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by  David W. Anthony; 2022-12-3151 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast53: Interview with Eiléan Ní ChuilleanáinSend us a textWelcome to a special  Books for Breakfast edition this morning to celebrate  Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's 80th birthday. We wish her all the best on this very special day. This  isan edited audio version of the interview we did in 2020 in MoLi to celebrate the publication of her Collected Poems. Listen and enjoy!Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.Artwork by Freya SirrTo s...2022-11-2834 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast52: IMRAM 2022; Mark Roper's Beyond StillnessSend us a textToday we talk to Liam Carson, Director of annual Irish language festival Imram, about this year's programme. And we interview Mark Roper about his latest collection of poems, Beyond Stillness, of which Martina Evans wrote in the Irish Times:Roper has an unerring sense of the gulfs between the miracle and damnation, life’s beginning and its end:As I dragged the dead harefrom the road, a crack of bone.Those marvellous feet, mishandled.Its shadow waits on the mo...2022-11-1042 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast51: Judith Mok: The State of DarkSend us a textOn todays’s show we talk to Judith Mok, whose memoir The State of Dark has just been published by Lilliput. Judith Mok was born in the Netherlands, to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. She trained as a classical singer and travelled the world performing as a soloist, and has also  fiction and poetry. For the last twenty years she has been based in Ireland, where she works as a voice coach with classical singers and  international pop stars. The State of Dark is a memoir and detective story. Like...2022-10-2745 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast50: Love poems for today: a new anthology from DedalusSend us a textDoes love poetry still pack a punch? Do new anthologies of love poetry have anything to say about the kind of world we live in? Join us on today’s show to hear some answers as we discuss Romance Options: Love Poems for Today, just out from Dedalus Press. We’ll be talking to editors Joseph Woods and Leanne Quinn, and we’ll be listening to poems read by contributors Mark Granier, Catherine Ann Cullen, Mark Roper, Kelly Michels, Martina Dalton, Phil...2022-10-1341 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast48: Two Salmon Poets; Trump RantSend us a textThree poetry collections on the breakfast table today ... We begin with Stars Burn Regardless by Jean O'Brien and Moonlight: A Full Moon by  Louise C. Callaghan, both published by Salmon Poetry.  Of Jean's book Mark Roper has said 'These poems rise to their occasion, they are tough, tender, generous, passionate and deeply engaged — I cannot recommend Stars Burn Regardless highly enough.' Thomas McCarthy has written of Louise's book: 'Here is this marvellous poet of elegies and cele...2022-05-1241 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast47: Leland Bardwell at 100Send us a textToday's show is a bit special. We're very happy to feature My Name Suspended in Air: Leland Bardwell at 100, published by Lepus Print, to coincide with Poetry Day Ireland 2022.  Leland was a remarkable poet, and indeed fiction writer, and this book is a selection of her poems chosen by Irish women poets and writers:  Eva Bourke, Jackie Bardwell, Mary Branley, Siobhan Campbell, Jane Clarke, Evelyn Conlon, Monica Corish, Enda Coyle-Greene, Martina Devlin, Katie Donovan, Anna Dunn, Fionnuala Gallagher, Peggie Gallagher, Tess Gallagher, Olivia Goodwillie, Eithne Hand, Libby Hart, Rita Ann Ri...2022-04-2847 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast46: Colm Tóibín talks about Vinegar HillSend us a textThis morning we talk to Colm Tóibín in New York about his debut poetry collection, Vinegar Hill.From the best-selling author of Brooklyn, Nora Webster, The Master, and the recent The Magician Colm Tóibín’s first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion, and belonging through a modern lens.‘Fans of Colm Tóibín’s novels will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Tóibín in verse. Vinegar Hill explores the liminal space between privat...2022-04-0745 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast45: Wendy Erskine; Ukrainian poetrySend us a textOn this morning's show we talk to Wendy Erskine, whose second collection of short stories, Dance Move, has just been published by The Stinging Fly. And we feature two Ukrainian poems: 'Crow, Wheels' by  Lyuba Yakimchuk, with permission from Words without Borders where it first appeared, and Ilya Kaminsky's 'We Lived Happily During the War'  from his acclaimed collection Deaf Republic. Praise for Wendy Erskine's work:‘I found Dance Move to be a profound, moving and brilliant collection of short stories.’—Adrian Duncan‘Wendy Erskine writes a damn good story...2022-03-2436 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast44: Paul Lynch's The Black Snow; John McAuliffe on his Selected Poems and Wong MaySend us a textWe begin this weeks's show with In Trust. In Gratitude. In Hope. 10 Years at the Laois Arthouse, an exhibition featuring the work of over 60 artists who have been part of the Laois Arthouse programme since its establishment in 2011 by Laois County Council Arts Service. Enda talks about a book that has impressed her recently, The Black Snow by Paul Lynch.Our guest this morning is John McAuliffe, whose Selected Poems, was published last year by Gallery Press. John talks about his...2022-03-1043 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast43: Gabriel Byne: on Walking with GhostsSend us a textThis morning actor and writer Gabriel Byrne talks to Books for Breakfast about his newly published memoir Walking with Ghosts. In a lively and wide ranging conversation with hosts Enda Wyley and Peter Sirr Gabriel talks about his love of reading, his favourite writers, and the importance of memory for both acting and writing, Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.2022-02-2440 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast42 : Poetry, Memory and the Party: Thomas McCarthy Tells AllSend us a textToday's show is devoted to an in-depth interview with poet Thomas McCarthy, whose Poetry, Memory and the Party: Journals 1974-2014 has recently been published by Gallery Press. The journals span forty years of Thomas McCarthy’s life lived between a modest background and the ‘Big House’ of West Waterford and his immersion in the literary life of Cork against the troubles of a changing Ireland. It's an intimate portrait of a poet's life with all its attendant excitements and frustrations, as well an engrossing account of the literary and social...2022-02-1057 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast41: Thomas Kinsella 1928-2021; breakfast highlights of 2021Send us a textA special Christmas Eve edition of Books for Breakfast. In the last episode of the year we pay  tribute to the work of Thomas Kinsella 1928-2021. We also feature some highlights from this year’s podcast. So take a break from turkey basting and join us for a listen!Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.Artwork by Freya SirrTo subscribe...2021-12-2443 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast40: Claire Keegan on Small Things Like TheseSend us a text'A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.'– Hilary Mantel'A haunting, hopeful  masterpiece'.– Sinéad Gleeson'Astonishing ... Claire Keegan makes her moments real – and then makes them matter.'– Colm Tóibín'A moral tale that is unsentimental and deeply affecting, because true and right.'– Andrew O'HaganSome...2021-12-0943 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast39: New poetry from Eleanor Hooker, Amanda BellSend us a textOn today's show we talk to two poets who have published new collections: Eleanor Hooker, whose Of Ochre and Ash is published by Dedalus Press, and Amanda Bell whose Riptide is available from Doire Press. Eleanor's Toaster Challenge choice is 'Snow Woman',  a poem by Breda Wall Ryan while Amanda chooses 'I Worried',  a poem by Mary Oliver.And we mark the passing of two fine Irish poets, Máire Mhac an tSaoi and Brendan Ken...2021-11-2543 minMy Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastSPECIAL CROSSOVER SERIES: THE BEFORE TRILOGY. Pt 3: Before Midnight(2013) ft. Mike of NYFMMy Movie Fix is a place where I come to get...my movie fix. I have takes that need taking, and this is the place to hear my deep dive discussions on new movies, as well as thoughts on other content in the media world. Ending as always with a sendoff to help lighten your load this week. This weeks episode is the final part of a 3-Episode crossover series with the Podfathers of the "Not Your Father's Movies" podcast where we cover Richard Linklater's BEFORE trilogy Today's guest is Mike! We discuss the third...2021-11-221h 25My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastSPECIAL CROSSOVER SERIES: THE BEFORE TRILOGY. Pt 2: Before Sunset(2004) ft. Vito of NYFMMy Movie Fix is a place where I come to get...my movie fix. I have takes that need taking, and this is the place to hear my deep dive discussions on new movies, as well as thoughts on other content in the media world. Ending as always with a sendoff to help lighten your load this week. This weeks episode is part of a 3-Episode crossover series with the Podfathers of the "Not Your Father's Movies" podcast where we cover Richard Linklater's BEFORE trilogy Today's guest is Vito! We discuss the second movie of...2021-11-151h 24Books for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast38: Imram 2021; Alannah Hopkin on A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan HigginsSend us a textOn today's show we talk to Liam Carson, director of the Irish language literary festival IMRAM about this year's wide-ranging and adventurous hybrid programme, which starts today. And we talk to Alannah Hopkin about her honest and heartbreaking literary memoir of the lives of two Irish writers,  A Very Strange Man : A Memoir of Aidan Higgins, published by New Island Books. Alannah's Toaster Challenge choice is Songs for the Flames, stories by International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner Juan Gabriel Vasquez.2021-11-1159 minMy Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastSPECIAL CROSSOVER SERIES: THE BEFORE TRILOGY. Pt 1: Before Sunrise(1995) ft. Lis & Jesse of NYFMMy Movie Fix is a place where I come to get...my movie fix. I have takes that need taking, and this is the place to hear my deep dive discussions on new movies, as well as thoughts on other content in the media world. Ending as always with a sendoff to help lighten your load this week. This weeks episode is part of a 3-Episode crossover series with the Podfathers of the "Not Your Father's Movies" podcast where we cover Richard Linklater's BEFORE trilogy Today's guest is Jesse from the pod and his wife...2021-11-081h 19Books for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast37: Short story special with John MacKenna and Madeleine D'ArcySend us a textToday's show is a short story special and double Toaster Challenge edition. We begin with John MacKenna whose We Seldom Talk About the Past, the first selection of short stories from one of Ireland's great masters of the form, has just been published by New Island. John's Toaster Challenge choice is Raymond Carver's All of Us: The Collected Poems.Next up is Madeleine D'Arcy, who talks about her follow up to her award-winning first collection Waiting for the Bullet with Liberty Terrace...2021-10-2857 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast36: Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Éilis Ní Dhuibhne and Catherine DunneSend us a textWhy have women been treated differently, and discriminated against, in the literary world? Why has gender been a ‘problem’ in the writing, publishing, funding and reviewing scene? And why does it matter? Éilis Ni Dhuibhne asked twenty one writers who were born in mid-twentieth-century Ireland, north and south, to write about their literary lives. The resulting essays, full of fascinating insights into the journeys of these writers, are published as  Look! It’s a Woman Writer!: Irish Literary Feminisms, 1970-2020 edited by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne...2021-10-1449 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast35: 30 Years of the Irish Writers Centre; Kent HarufSend us a textTo celebrate thirty years of the Irish  Writers Centre, Enda talks to co-host Peter, who was the first director of the Centre, about the early years, and Peter talks to current director Valerie Bistany about current activities and plans for the future. And the toaster is back in action, with Valerie choosing Kent Haruf’s Plainsong for her Toaster Challenge.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.2021-09-3043 minMy Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastThe Tomorrow War(2021) - Guest: Sam(of Sirr's movies!)My Movie Fix is a place where I come to get...my movie fix. I have takes that need taking, and this is the place to hear my deep dive discussions on new movies, as well as thoughts on other content in the media world. Ending as always with a sendoff to help lighten your load this week. Today's guest SAM, from... THIS podcast? We discuss the new Amazon Prime release "The Tomorrow War"! Sam gets her fix by discussing her dislike for the dumbing down of films, I get my fix by venting about...2021-08-021h 15My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastGunpowder Milkshake(2021) - Guest: Sam(of Sirr's movies!)My Movie Fix is a place where I come to get...my movie fix. I have takes that need taking, and this is the place to hear my deep dive discussions on new movies, as well as thoughts on other content in the media world. Ending as always with a sendoff to help lighten your load this week. Today's guest SAM, from... THIS podcast? We discuss the new Netflix release "Gunpowder Milkshake"! Sam gets her fix by discussing her dislike for the Harry Potter films, I get my fix...2021-07-191h 22Books for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast33: Intimate City: Dublin essays, Aoife Lyall on Mother Nature; A Line Made by WalkingSend us a textToday, in the last podcast in the current season, Enda Wyley talks to Aoife Lyall about her debut collection Mother Nature, published by Bloodaxe Books. Aoife's Toaster Challenge Choice is A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume, published by Tramp Press in 2017.And Books for Breakfast co-host Peter Sirr talks about his Intimate City: Dublin Essays, just published by Gallery Press.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The...2021-07-0850 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast32: Sinéad O'Connor's Rememberings, Victoria Kennefick, Sharon OldsSend us a textToday former RTE producer and writer Julian Vignoles, know for his biographies of Rory Gallagher and David Thomson of Woodbrook fame, reviews Sinéad O'Connor's memoir Rememberings, described as 'inspiring, liberating, hilarious and fascinating'  by theIrish Times and  'beautifully observed ... lyrical, funny and anguished' by the Guardian.Our Toaster Challenge guest is Victoria Kennefick whose debut collection Eat Or We Both Starve, was published recently by Carcanet.  Her collection draws readers into seemingly recognisable set-pieces - the family home, the...2021-06-2447 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast31: Louise Kennedy, Penelope Shuttle, Denise LevertovSend us a textThis morning's show features  interviews with two outstanding writers. First up is Louise Kennedy whose collection of stories The End of the World is a Cul de Sac has been widely praised. 'A dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection' said the Guardian while the Sunday Times said that 'Kennedy's voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric'. Our Toaster Challenge guest is the fine poet Penelope Shuttle whose new collection, Lyonesse, is published this month by Bloodaxe. The submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of...2021-06-1058 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast30: Evelyn Conlon, The Examined Life, Grace PaleySend us a textToday we talk to Evelyn Conlon whose new collection of stories, Moving About the Place, has recently been published by Blackstaff Press. Brilliantly written, witty, and full of the sharp observation for which Conlon is well known, Moving About the Place brings together some of the best of her recent work, along with brand-new stories, including a novella, to show how borders, movement and history change and transform people’s lives.Evelyn’s Toaster Challenge Choice is the classic Enormous Changes At the Last Minute by Gr...2021-05-2747 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast29: Moya Cannon's Collected, The Best Address in Town, Nan ShepherdSend us a textWhere did Dublin's uber-toffs live in the eighteenth century? Melanie Hayes drops in to talk about The Best Address in Town, Henrietta Street, Dublin and Its First Residents, 1720-1780, published by Four Courts Press. Our Toaster Challenge guest is Moya Cannon, whose Collected Poems was recently published by Carcanet, featuring more than three decades of fine work. Moya's Toaster Challenge choice is the classic The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd. Bring them with you on your morning walk!2021-05-1354 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast28: Philip Ó Ceallaigh's Trouble; in Prague with Justin Quinn; Edith TempletonSend us a textWe're looking eastward toward today, with Toaster Challenge guest poet Justin Quinn who joins us from Prague, and we review the latest collection of stories from Bucharest based Philip Ó Ceallaigh. Justin's latest collection Shallow Seas was published by Gallery Press late last year; Philip's collection, Trouble, will be published by The Stinging Fly in May but is available for pre-order. Today's Toaster Challenge choice is Edith Templeton's Living on Yesterday. Templeton was born Edith Passerová in...2021-04-2947 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast27: A Gap in the Clouds: James Hadley and Nell Regan; haiku and senryu from Grant Caldwell; Hamsun's HungerSend us a textThis waning moon         is pitiless, as dawn swiftly follows and we       must separate –such heartbreak!–Mibu No TadamineToday's show features James Hadley and Nell Regan talking about their translations of Japanese classical poetry for A Gap in the Clouds published by Dedalus Press. And we travel all the way to Melbourne for an interview with Australian poet Grant Caldwell whose Blue Balloon is a collection of his  best haiku and senryu poems spanning several decades. So bring these brillian...2021-04-1551 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast26: Mountains to Sea podcast audio edition with Laura McKenna and Conor O'CallaghanSend us a textWelcome to the audio edition of the special Books for Breakfast video  podcast for Mountains to Sea dlr Books Festival.  We were delighted to be the opening event for the festival, with two writers and  two Toaster Challenges. Our first  guest was  Laura McKenna, whose new, ambitious and epic novel Words to Shape My Name  has just been published by New Island. Inspired by true events, this outstanding story of failure hope and resilience traverses continents and two centuries and has at its core the unbreakable bond between the Irish...2021-04-0147 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast25: Apocalypse now; Una Mannion on A Crooked Tree; stories from the end of the worldSend us a textWelcome to the 25th episode of Books for Breakfast! On today’s show we review Apocalypse: An Anthology, edited by James Keery, the first anthology of Apocalyptic or neoromantic poetry since the 1940s and including more than 200 poets. Our Toaster Challenge guest is Una Mannion whose novel A Crooked Tree has just been published by Faber to considerable acclaim. Una’s Toaster Challenge choice is Louise Kennedy’s short story collection The End of the World Is A Cul-de-Sac. So put...2021-03-1845 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast24: Shirley Hazzard; Poetry and Money; Leeanne Quinn; the last of the SovietsSend us a textToday we look at Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus, often considered her most brilliant novel,  and poet Peter Robinson's investigation of the relationships between poets, poetry and money from Chaucer to the the present in Poetry and Money. Our Toaster Challenge guest is Leeanne Quinn whose new poetry collection Some Lives  has recently been published by Dedalus. Leeanne’s Toaster Challenge choice is Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets  by Nobel Prize winner...2021-03-0446 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast23: 40 Years of Salmon Poetry; Bachelard's images; Cathy BeltonSend us a textThis week we begin by looking at Days of Clear Light, a festschrift in honour of Salmon Press founder Jessie Lendennie to celebrate 40 years of the poetry press. Peter reflects on a favourite book, Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, and our Toaster Challenge guest is actor Cathy Belton, fresh from her performance in the Landmark Productions online version of Mark O’Rowe’s The Approach.Cathy’ s Toaster Challenge choice is The Great Gatsby   by F...2021-02-1840 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast22: New and recent poetry; Michael O'Loughlin's Liberty Hall; in search of lost godsSend us a textIn this episode we look at new and recent poetry collections, which we list below.  And our Toaster Challenge guest is Michael O’Loughlin whose new book of poetry and prose, Liberty Hall, will be published by New Island in April. Michael goes in search of lost gods with his Toaster Challenge choice, Roberto Calasso's  Literature and the Gods. Here's a list of poetry books mentioned in the episode. Maurice Scully, Play BookJustin Quinn, Shal...2021-02-0444 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast21: Fiction for 2021; Berryman's letters; African American poetrySend us a textWelcome to Books for Breakfast in 2021! We begin the year with a look at some noteworthy fiction from new and familiar writers. Books mentioned are:The Art of Falling  by Danielle McLaughlin A Crooked Tree  by Una Mannion Words to Shape My Name  by Laura McKenna Pure Gold  by John Patrick McHugh Snowflake  by Louise NealonWe Are Not in the World  by Conor...2021-01-2148 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast20: Christmas Special: Paula Meehan, Tara Bergin, Pessoa's disquiet, Dublin's 20th century buildings, new poems.Send us a textThis is our bumper Christmas episode, featuring two Toaster Challenges with Tara Bergin and Paula Meehan respectively. Paula also discusses  her recently published As If By Magic: Selected Poems. Tara's Toaster Challenge Choice is Fernando Pesssoa's The Book of Disquiet,translated by Margaret Jull Costa, while Paula chooses  More than concrete blocks: vol. II, 1940–72: Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories.Tara also reads  a poem by Anne Carson and w...2020-12-1757 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast19: IMRAM's magical films; forging Dracula with Henrietta McKerveySend us a textIMRAM  is a longstanding festival that celebrates writing in Irish. This year sees it going digital with an enticing series of 'magical film' featuring translations of Ovid, Rilke's Duino Elegies, the Scottish performer and poet MacGillivray  and much more. We spoke to festival director Liam Carson about the inspirations behind this year's programme. Today's Toaster Challenge guest is Henrietta McKervey whose A Talented Man  was published this year. Henrietta's Toaster Challenger is Anagrams  by 2020-12-0346 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast18: Poems for Winter; Kathleen MacMahon, Helen Garner.Send us a textIt’s not quite winter yet but we thought we’d begin with some poems to get us in the mood for the approaching season. Thanks to John O’Donnell, Jean O’Brien, Jane Clarke and  Mark Granier for reading some of their favourite winter poems.Today’s Toaster Challenge guest is Kathleen MacMahon, whose new novel Nothing But Blue Sky  has recently been published.  Kathleen’s choice is The Spare Room  by Helen Garner2020-11-1945 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast17: Fuggedaboutit: dictionaries and languages; on the wild side with Seán Lysaght and Dara McAnultySend us a textAre dictionaries still important? Who uses them? How does new words get into a dictionary? Are they ever kicked out?  Today's show features a discussion of an important new addition to the Irish language, the Concise New English Irish Dictionary  edited by Pádraig Ó Mianáin and also looks at  the latest updates to the Oxford English Dictionary. This week's Toaster Challenge guest is poet and nature writer Seán Lysaght  whose account of the North Mayo landscape, Wild Nephin, has just bee...2020-11-0541 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast16: Hilary Mantel: Giants and Ghosts; Books for Younger ReadersSend us a textWho are the people who keep a love of books alive in our city and in our communities? Our Toaster Challenge guest is Bernadette Larkin who has extensive experience in literature and arts education for children and young adults. Bernadette chats to us about books for young adults and, among other things, her role as project manager and curator of  Our City Our Books, an initiative of Dublin City Council Culture Company. What books matter to you?  Bernadette is eager to hear from readers about th...2020-10-2944 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast15: Shirts for books; Kerry Hardie; The Radetzky MarchSend us a textThis morning, to mark Irish Book Week, we go on a virtual tour of Dublin bookshops past and present. Our Toaster Challenge guest is Kerry Hardie, whose new poetry collection, Where Now Begins, is published in November by Bloodaxe Books. Kerry's Toaster Challenge choice is The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann.In Moving Light by Martijn de Boer (NiGiD) (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial  (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/NiGiD/612722020-10-2236 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast14: Derek Mahon, Louise Glück, The Great Hunger; Neil HegartySend us a textThis morning's episode pays tribute to the late Derek Mahon, one of Ireland's finest poets, and also considers the work of Louise Glück who has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. We also review the Abbey Theatre's production of Patrick Kavanagh's The Great Hunger at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. This week's Toaster Challenge is author Neil Hegarty whose novel The Jewel was published last year. Neil's choice is Alison Lurie's The War Between The Tates. 2020-10-1542 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast13: The latest Ferrante; Mary O’Donnell; the poem that wouldn’t go awaySend us a textToday we look at one of the most famous poems of the twentieth century as we consider Ian Sansom’s brilliantly entertaining book about the poem and the poet, September 1, 1939: W.H. Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem . We’ll also be looking at the latest novel by Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults. This week’s Toaster Challenge guest is Mary O’Donnell, whose poetry collection Massacre of the Birds has just been published by Salmon Books. 2020-10-0850 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast12: The other Elizabeth Taylor; Sarah Bannan; Lee HarwoodSend us a textThis week we delve into the fiction, and particularly the short stories  of the other Elizabeth Taylor. Our Toaster Challenge guest is novelist and Arts Council Head of Literature Sarah Bannan who talks about Weightless, writing and the plight of artists in Covid times. And we also explore Lee Harwood's collection The Orchid Boat.Toaster Challenge choice: Sarah Crossan, Here is the Beehive.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con I...2020-10-0147 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast11: Owen Roe: An actor calls; 32 Words for FieldSend us a textOn this morning's show we discuss Manchán Magan's newly published Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost words of the Irish landscape, and our Toaster Challenge guest is the widely acclaimed Irish actor Owen Roe. The Whole Story, the 3 October event he mentions in The Pavilion Theatre has had to be cancelled because of the Level 3 restrictions in Dublin. Toaster Challenge choice: J.P. Priestley, Lost EmpiresIntro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire2020-09-2441 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast10: Zadie Smith; Caitriona Lally: Driving on Eggshells; Michael HartnettSend us a textToday's show opens with a discussion of Zadie Smith's lockdown essays, Intimations; our Toaster Challenge guest is Caitriona Lally, author of the award-winning Eggshells, and we also feature the work of poet Michael Hartnett (1941-1999).Thanks to filmmaker Pat Collins for permission to use audio excerpts from his film about Michael Hartnett 'A Necklace of Wrens' (1999). Poems quoted are by kind permission of the Estate of Michael Hartnett and The Gallery Press.2020-09-1747 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast9: Death and Nightingales; Joe Woods; Kathleen Jamie's Scots accent of the mindSend us a textThis week features a celebration of the work of Eugene McCabe, who died in August, with particular focus on his timeless novel Death and Nightingales. Our Toaster Challenge guest is poet and former Director of Poetry Ireland Joe Woods and we also discuss Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie’s Selected Poems. Toaster Challenge choice: Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shal...2020-09-1044 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast8: Birdcage Walk; Olivia O'Leary; A Legendary DinnerSend us a textToday's show features Helen Dunmore's final novel Birdcage Walk and her poetry collection Inside the Wave.  Our Toaster Challenge guest is journalist and broadcaster Olivia O'Leary, and we also review Stanley Plumley's The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb.Toaster Challenge choice: Eibhear Walshe, Kate O'Brien: A Writing LifeIntro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Car...2020-09-0347 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast7: What You Don't Want to Know; Adam Wyeth; Coming Close to Charles SimicSend us a textToday’s show features Deborah Levy’s Things I Don’t Want to Know, Flights by Olga Tocarczuk; the Toaster Challenge guest is poet and playwright Adam Wyeth. We also discuss Charles Simic’s latest collection of poems Come Closer and Listen and The Life of Images: Selected Prose.Toaster Challenge choice: Clarice Lispector,Hour of the StarIntro/outro music: Colm Mac Con...2020-08-2744 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast6: Country Pursuits, Marianne Lee's A Quiet Tide, Poetry from SwedenSend us a textThis morning's show features an excursion into the country in the company of a favourite novel of Enda's, J.L Carr's A Month in the Country. Toaster Challenge guest debut novelist Marianne Lee talks about the inspiration behind A Quiet Tide, recently published by New Island, and we travel, at least in our heads, to Sweden to explore the poetry of Lars Gustafsson, whose Selected Poems, translated by John Irons, are published by Bloodaxe Books. Toaster Challenge...2020-08-2036 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast5: The Art of Seeing, Short Stories, Poetry and PlaceSend us a textThis morning we consider two books concerned with the arts of looking and seeing:On Looking: a walker's guide to the art of observation by Alexandra Horowitz, and Ditch Vision: essays on poetry, nature and place by poet and critic Jeremy Hooker.Our Toaster Challenge guest is poet John O’Donnell whose first collection of short stories Almost the Same Blue has recently been published by Doire Press. John's choice is John Banville's The Book of Ev...2020-08-1338 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast4: Cities, languages, elegies; Philip DavisonSend us a textThis week we console ourselves by looking at books about people and places, our Toaster Challenge guest is Philip Davison whose novel Quiet City has recently been published by Liberties Press, and we delve into Julie O'Callaghan's new book of poetry Magnum Mysterium.Other books mentioned:Jan Morris, Among the Cities,Alasdair Reid, Inside Out and Outside InJan Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal2020-08-0631 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast3: Stalled festivals, Alice Lyons and missing O's, kings and doorsSend us a textToday's episode begins with a look at the sadly postponed Strokestown Poetry Festival and celebrates the publication of the Strokestown Anthology. Our Toaster Challenge guest is Alice Lyons, author of the recently published Oona, and Peter Sirr chooses a poem by Francis Ponge.Toaster Challenge Choice: Linda Norton, Wite OutIntro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it...2020-07-3033 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast2: Short poems and SpiesSend us a textOn this morning's show a mix of poetry and espionage, and what it's like to qualify as a solicitor and give up law on the same day. Enda Wyley and Peter Sirr discuss collections of short poems such as Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems, edited by Simon Armitage and the newly published The Word Ark, a pocket-sized anthology of poems responding to our fellow creatures, great and small, published at a time when not only the animal kingdom but the world at large is beset by dangers...2020-07-2327 minBooks for BreakfastBooks for Breakfast1: Hamnet, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Pearse HutchinsonSend us a textIn this opening episode of Books for Breakfast Enda Wyley and Peter Sirr discuss Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell; author of the multiple prize winning The Narrow Land    Christine Dwyer Hickey takes on the Toaster Challenge (an uninterrupted 2 minutes to present a favourite book; today's choice is Apeirogon by Colum McCann) and Peter Sirr talks about the poetry of Pearse Hutchinson.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou...2020-07-1622 minMy Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 14: 'Top 5 Most Overrated/Underrated Films'The latest episode of Sirr's Movies. This week there wasn't anything we wanted to see, and we didn't care enough to do an Oscars recap so we decided to do an episode on our top 5 Most Overrated, and Top 5 Most Underrated films. I am joined today by my co-hosts Evan Todd-McCoy (@evantoddmccoy) and Sam Miller (@Sam_Jayne) Find the full list of our choices on SirrWaka.Com/SirrsMovies If you're reading this, send in your favorite animated movie to Sirrsmovies@Gmail.com to win a copy of a Black Panther Blu-ray! Official Podcast of SirrWaka.Com Send Feedback and comments...2019-03-042h 06My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 13: 'How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World'The latest episode of Sirr's Movies, reviewing "How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World". I am joined today by my co-hosts Evan Todd-McCoy (@evantoddmccoy)  and Sam Miller (@Sam_Jayne) . This week we start by discussing what we’ve been watching, and follow that up with a full review of Dean DeBlois' 'How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World' I dont have the timestamps right now, but you're not reading this anyway, are you? Email submissions to SIRRSMOVIES@GMAIL.COM Official Podcast of SirrWaka.Com Send Feedback and comments to  SirrsMovies@Gmail.com , Join the Sirrs Movies Facebook Group, and...2019-02-251h 44My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 12: 'Alita: Battle Angel'The latest episode of Sirr's Movies, reviewing "Alita: Battle Angel". I am joined today by my co-hosts Evan Todd-McCoy (@evantoddmccoy) . This week we start by discussing what we’ve been watching, and follow that up with a full review of Robert Rodriguez’s 'Alita: Battle Angel' Review - 42:02 Spoilers - 57:25 Official Podcast of SirrWaka.Com Send Feedback and comments to  SirrsMovies@Gmail.com , Join the Sirrs Movies Facebook Group, and follow @SirrsMovies on Twitter! Intro/Outro Music: "Murdock" by Xander www.xanderbeatz.online  --- Send in a voice...2019-02-171h 29My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 11: Velvet Buzzsaw/'The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part' The latest episode of Sirr's Movies, reviewing "Velvet Buzzsaw" and "The Lego movie 2". I am joined today by my co-hosts Evan Todd-McCoy (@evantoddmccoy) and Sam Jayne (@Sam_Jayne). To welcome our new co-host we have a special double episode where we discuss what we've seen over the past week and follow that up with 2 full reviews. First, Netflix's new thriller"Velvet Buzzsaw", directed by Dan Gilroy, followed by a very spirited full review of Mike Mitchell's "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part" Velvet Buzzsaw: Review - 27:53 Spoilers...2019-02-101h 59My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 10: Our Top 5 Go-To MoviesThe latest episode of Sirr's Movies. I am joined by co-host Evan Todd-McCoy ( @evantoddmccoy) This week we're taking a break from the normal format since the new releases were a little light. We thought we'd have some fun and discuss our favorite Go-To movies. Official Podcast of SirrWaka.Com  Send Feedback and comments to  SirrsMovies@Gmail.com , Join the 'Sirrs Movies' Facebook Group, and follow @SirrsMovies on Twitter! Intro/Outro Music: "Murdock" by Xander www.xanderbeatz.online  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mymoviefixpodcast/mes...2019-02-021h 01My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 9: Serenity  The latest episode of Sirr's Movies, reviewing "Serenity". I am joined by co-host Evan Todd-McCoy ( @evantoddmccoy) and we discuss what we've seen over the past week and follow that up with a spirited full review of Steven Knight's: Serenity Review - 37:04 Spoilers - 55:22 Official Podcast of SirrWaka.Com  Send Feedback and comments to  SirrsMovies@Gmail.com , Join the Sirrs Movies Facebook Group, or follow @SirrsMovies on Twitter! Intro/Outro Music: "Murdock" by Xander www.xanderbeatz.online  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spot...2019-01-281h 21My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 8: GLASS   The latest episode of Sirr's Movies, reviewing "GLASS". I am joined by co-host Evan Todd-McCoy ( @evantoddmccoy) and we discuss what we've seen over the past week and follow that up with a spirited full review of M. Night Shyamalan's : GLASS Review - 30:23 Spoilers - 57:24 Official Podcast of SirrWaka.Com  Send Feedback and comments to  SirrsMovies@Gmail.com , Join the Sirrs Movies Facebook Group, or follow @SirrsMovies on Twitter! I admit I was wrong about the deleted scene discussed in the episode. Nobody will read this but it still counts. ...2019-01-191h 50My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 7: The Favourite The latest episode of Sirr's Movies, reviewing "The Favourite". I am joined by co-host Evan Todd-McCoy ( @evantoddmccoy) and we discuss what we've seen over the past week and follow that up with a full review of Yorgos Lanthimos': "The Favourite" Review - 31:58 Spoilers - 47:24   Official Podcast of SirrWaka.Com  Send Feedback and comments to  SirrsMovies@Gmail.com , Join the Sirrs Movies Facebook Group, or follow @SirrsMovies on Twitter! Special prize if you can count how many times I said"You Know" this episode.... Intro/Outro Music: "Murd...2019-01-151h 21My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 6: 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'   The latest episode of 'Sirr's Movies' reviewing 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'. This week I am joined by co-host Evan Todd-McCoy ( @evantoddmccoy) and we discuss what we're looking forward to seeing in 2019 and following that up with a spoilers-included review of Netflix's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Official Podcast of SirrWaka.Com Send Feedback and comments to  SirrsMovies@Gmail.com , Join the Sirrs Movies Facebook Group, or follow @SirrsMovies on Twitter! Intro/Outro Music: "Murdock" by Xander www.xanderbeatz.online  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mymo...2019-01-071h 13My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 5: Best and Worst Movies of 2018 The latest episode of 'Sirr's Movies'. I am joined by my  co-host Evan Todd-McCoy (@evantoddmccoy)  in our first year-end wrap up where we discuss our picks for the years 10 best and 5 worst movies. Evan's  "Worst 10 Films of 2018" Official Podcast of SirrWaka.Com  Send Feedback and comments to  SirrsMovies@Gmail.com , Join the Sirrs Movies Facebook Group, or follow @SirrsMovies on Twitter! Intro/Outro Music: "Murdock" by Xander www.xanderbeatz.online  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mymoviefixpodcast/message2019-01-011h 01My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 4: Aquaman The latest episode of 'Sirr's Movies' reviewing 'Aquaman'. This week I am joined by co-host Evan Todd-McCoy( @evantoddmccoy) and we discuss what we've been watching followed by the full review and Spoilers  Official Podcast of SirrWaka.Com Send Feedback and comments to  SirrsMovies@Gmail.com , Join the Sirrs Movies Facebook Group, or follow @SirrsMovies on Twitter! Intro/Outro Music: "Murdock" by Xander www.xanderbeatz.online  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mymoviefixpodcast/message2019-01-011h 41My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 3: 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'The latest episode of 'Sirr's Movies' reviewing 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'. This week I am joined by my new co-host Evan Todd-McCoy and we discuss what we've been watching followed by the full review (27:22) and  Spoilers (41:12)  The Offical podcast of SirrWaka.com Send Feedback and comments to  SirrsMovies@Gmail.com , Join the Sirrs Movies Facebook Group, or follow @SirrsMovies on Twitter!  Intro/Outro Music: "Murdock" by Xander www.xanderbeatz.online --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mymoviefixpodcast/message2018-12-161h 12My Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 2: BodiedThe second episode of 'Sirr's Movies'. The final episode before Evan joined, reviewing 'Bodied' Directed by Joseph Kahn  What I Saw: "Goosebumps 2" - 1:24 "Bad Times at the El Royale" - 2:06  What I Want to See: "Creed 2" - 3:03 "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" - 3:24  Full Review: "Bodied" - 4:40  Spoilers: 10:16  Send Feedback and comments to  SirrsMovies@Gmail.com , Join the Sirrs Movies Facebook Group, or follow @SirrsMovies on Twitter!  Intro/Outro Music: "Murdock" by Xander www.xanderbeatz.online --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mymoviefixpodcast/message2018-11-1015 minMy Movie Fix PodcastMy Movie Fix PodcastEpisode 1: The Hate U GiveThe official first episode of 'Sirr's Movies'. This was a solo episode before co-hosts were added. Reviewing 'The Hate U Give' Directed by George Tillman Jr.  What i Saw- 1:45 Venom Maniac  What I Want to See- 6:15 Nobody's Fool Green Book  Review- 11:21  Spoilers- 20:03  The Official podcast of SirrWaka.com Send Feedback and comments to  SirrsMovies@Gmail.com , Join the Sirrs Movies Facebook Group, or follow @SirrsMovies on Twitter!  Intro/Outro Music: "Murdock" by Xander http://www.xanderbeatz.online --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mymoviefixpodcast/message2018-10-2428 min