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The Arts Council PodcastLiterature Review: Artists with Disabilities at the Intersection of Work and WelfareSection 6 of the 'Artists with Disabilities at the Intersection of Work and Welfare' Report: Literature Review.
VO Artist: Dorothy Grace Laity2025-05-1412 minThe Arts Council PodcastPolicy context: Artists with Disabilities at the Intersection of Work and WelfareSection 5 of the 'Artists with Disabilities at the Intersection of Work and Welfare' Report: Policy Context.
VO Artist: Dorothy Grace Laity2025-05-1412 minThe Arts Council PodcastRecommendations: Artists with Disabilities at the Intersection of Work and WelfareSection 4 of the 'Artists with Disabilities at the Intersection of Work and Welfare' Report: Recommendations.
VO Artist: Dorothy Grace Laity2025-05-1410 minThe Arts Council PodcastFindings: Artists with Disabilities at the Intersection of Work and WelfareSection 3 of the 'Artists with Disabilities at the Intersection of Work and Welfare' Report: Findings.
VO Artist: Dorothy Grace Laity2025-05-1416 minThe Arts Council PodcastBackground, Rationale & Methodology: Artists with Disabilities at the Intersection of Work & WelfareSection 2 of the 'Artists with Disabilities at the intersection of Work and Welfare' Report: Background, Rationale and Methodology.
VO Artist: Dorothy Grace Laity2025-05-1402 minThe Arts Council PodcastIntroduction: Artists with Disabilities at the Intersection of Work and WelfareIntroduction to the 'Artists with Disabilities at the Intersection of Work and Welfare' report 2025.
VO Artist: Dorothy Grace Laity2025-05-1400 min
The Arts Council PodcastLaureate na nÓg Patricia Forde inaugural LecturePatricia Forde, Laureate na nÓg 2023 - 2026, delivered her inaugural laureate lecture at Baboró 2024, inspired by the theme she has chosen for her laureate, “Making It Up As We Go Along”. Patricia discussed the importance of reading in a child’s creative development and the importance of immersive play in fostering the skills required to read and write creatively.2025-03-2048 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 35: ‘How to Build a Boat’ by Elaine FeeneyThe December Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Elaine Feeney about his book 'How to Build a Boat'.
“Elaine Feeney’s second novel, set in a small, fictional Irish town on the west coast, tells the story of Jamie, a boy who seeks to connect with his dead mother. ‘Feeney’s prose,’ The New York Times has written, ‘is both careful and relaxed — detailed in its description of place and character and of the effortful human urge to find order in the natural world.’” — Colm Tóibín
Learn more about the Art...2024-12-2550 min
Raidió na Life 106.4FMCúrsaí Cultúrtha leis an gComhairle EalaíonAisling Nic Artáin, Ceannasaí Gaeilge an Chomhairle Ealaíon ag breathnú ar ais ar na himeachtaí agus scéimeanna chultúrtha atá tacaithe ag an gComhairle i 2024.2024-12-1919 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 34: ‘Close to Home’ by Michael MageeThe November Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Michael Magee about his book 'Close to Home'.
“Michael Magee’s first novel deals with the Troubles as both legacy and aftermath. At its centre is Sean who has returned to Belfast. The book has been described by The Guardian as ‘a staggeringly humane and tender evocation of class, violence and the challenge of belonging in a world that seems designed to keep you watching from the sidelines.’”
— Colm Tóibín
Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Lau...2024-11-2841 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 33: 'The Alternatives' by Caoilinn HughesThe October Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Caoilinn Hughes about her novel ‘The Alternatives’.
“Caoilinn Hughes’s novel deals with the lives of four brilliant sisters, lives that have been deeply scarred by the death of their parents. As Hernan Diaz has written, this is ‘a tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing species… in a prose full of gorgeous surprises…glows with intelligence, compassion, and beauty.’” — Colm Tóibín
Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and...2024-10-3146 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 32: ‘Prophet Song’ by Paul Lynch“Paul Lynch’s novel, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize, is set in the near future in a real Dublin in which a totalitarian regime has come to power. ‘If there was ever a crucial book for our current times,’ The Guardian has written, ‘it’s Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song.’”
Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/2024-09-2647 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 31 'The Lonely Sea and Sky' by Dermot BolgerThe August Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Dermot Bolger about his novel 'The Lonely Sea and Sky'
“The novel tells the story of the rescue by a small Irish boat of 168
German sailors during World War II. The narrator is Jack Roche, a
14-year-old Wexford lad whose father has been killed at sea. Part
historical fiction, part coming-ofage narrative, this is a perceptive
and exciting novel about life at sea as a way of dramatizing human
relations at their most intense.” — Colm Tóibín
Learn more about the...2024-08-2945 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 30: 'The Coast Road' by Alan Murrin“Set in 1994, The Coast Road tells the story of two women— Izzy and Colette. Colette has left her husband and sons for a married man in Dublin. When she returns to her home in County Donegal, her husband, Shaun, a successful businessman, denies her access to her children. ‘The last great book I read,’ the actress Gillian Anderson has said. ‘It will no doubt be a bestseller.'"
Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/2024-07-2438 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 29: ‘Solace’ by Belinda McKeon -The June Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Belind McKeon about her novel 'Solace'
"In her compelling debut novel, Solace,’ Anna Fogarty wrote in The Irish Times in 2011, ‘Belinda McKeon succeeds in subtly reconfiguring and updating the archetypal story of a son’s quarrel with his father. In her hands, it becomes a profound and exacting conjuration with the pyscho-social shifts taking place in contemporary Ireland.”
Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-f...2024-06-2739 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 28: ‘Ordinary Human Failings’ by Megan NolanThe May Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Megan Nolan about her novel 'Ordinary Human Failings'.
"Megan Nolan’s novel tells the story of the Green family who move from Ireland to London in the early 1990s. 'Where Nolan really excels is in the delineation of complex, sometimes contradictory interior states, the water we all swim in and call "reality",' writes The Financial Times." - Colm Tóibín
Megan Nolan was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland and is currently based in London. Her essays and reviews have b...2024-05-3037 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 27: ‘Molly Fox’s Birthday’ by Deirdre MaddenThe April Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Deirdre Madden about her novel ‘Molly Fox’s Birthday’.
“It is the height of summer, and celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house in Dublin to a friend while she is away performing in New York. Set over a single midsummer’s day, Molly Fox’s Birthday is a mischievous, insightful novel about a turning point - a moment when past and future suddenly appear in a new light. – Colm Tóibín
Deirdre Madden is a novelist. She has published eigh...2024-04-2537 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 26 'The Bee Sting' by Paul MurrayThe March Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Paul Murray about his novel ‘The Bee Sting’
“Paul Murray’s novel is narrated by four members of the Barnes family, Dickie who runs a car showroom, his wife Imelda, and their children Cassie and PJ. The Guardian has written that Murray ‘is brilliant on fathers and sons, sibling rivalry, grief, selfsabotage and self-denial, as well as the terrible weakness humans have for magical thinking…’” — Colm Tóibín
Paul Murray was born in Dublin and is the author of four acclaimed novels...2024-03-2840 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 25: ‘Youth’ by Kevin CurranThe February Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Kevin Curran about his novel ‘Youth’
“Kevin Curran’s novel deals with the lives of four teenagers in Balbriggan, Ireland’s most diverse town. When the protagonists intersect, the connections they make will change the course of their lives. ‘Irish-English has always been wild,’ Roddy Doyle has written in The Irish Times. ‘Youth, at its liveliest, seems to be telling us that we’re only starting.’” — Colm Tóibín
Kevin Curran is from Balbriggan and has been a secondary-school teacher in his hometown for...2024-02-2846 min
RadioMoLIWriter Presents #7: Jan Carson: It's Not About YouRadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the final episode within this three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with poet and editor Sarah Hesketh, discussing the specificities of writing about dementia. They explore the process of finding balance between creative freedom and the responsibility of respect authors and artists carry in their endeavour to show the truth of the illness.Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her bo...2024-01-3136 minRadioMoLIWriter Presents #6: Jan Carson: What Words Had Once BeenRadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In this continuation of a three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with theatre maker and playwright Caoileann Curry-Thompson, discussing their own familial experiences with dementia and the effect the illness has had on their creative works. Carson and Curry-Thompson explore the stigma that surrounds dementia as well as the nuances of literary possibility with the illness. Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Bel...2024-01-3126 minRadioMoLIWriter Presents #5: Jan Carson: Writing DementiaRadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the first episode of a three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with Dr Jane Lugea of Queen’s University Belfast, exploring the complexities of writing from the perspective of a person with dementia, and how the use of language is key in depicting an accurate portrait of the illness. Carson and Lugea unpack the ethics of writing about and from the position of dementia patients, discussing the importance of representing live...2024-01-3139 min
Writer PresentsJan Carson: It's Not About YouRadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the final episode within this three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with poet and editor Sarah Hesketh, discussing the specificities of writing about dementia. They explore the process of finding balance between creative freedom and the responsibility of respect authors and artists carry in their endeavour to show the truth of the illness.Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her bo...2024-01-3136 minWriter PresentsJan Carson: What Words Had Once BeenRadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In this continuation of a three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with theatre maker and playwright Caoileann Curry-Thompson, discussing their own familial experiences with dementia and the effect the illness has had on their creative works. Carson and Curry-Thompson explore the stigma that surrounds dementia as well as the nuances of literary possibility with the illness. Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Bel...2024-01-3126 minWriter PresentsJan Carson: Writing DementiaRadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the first episode of a three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with Dr Jane Lugea of Queen’s University Belfast, exploring the complexities of writing from the perspective of a person with dementia, and how the use of language is key in depicting an accurate portrait of the illness. Carson and Lugea unpack the ethics of writing about and from the position of dementia patients, discussing the importance of representing live...2024-01-3139 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 24: 'Soldier Sailor' by Claire KilroyThe January Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Claire Kilroy about her novel ‘Soldier Sailor’
“Claire Kilroy’s first novel in more than a decade deals with the early days and nights of motherhood. ‘Soldier Sailor is a resonant and important book,’ Sarah Gilmartin has written in The Irish Times, ‘vital in all senses of the word, a flare sent up from the shores of early motherhood, a lesson in surviving the wilderness.’” — Colm Tóibín
Claire Kilroy is the author of five novels, All Summer (Faber, 2003), Tenderwire (Faber, 2006...2024-01-2537 min
Evolving HarpsBrídínEvolving Harps: BrídínBrídín is a contemporary folk singer, composer and harper. She began her musical journey at home in her musical household, and later under the tutorage of celebrated harper and teacher Gráinne Hambly. After studying music at UCC she pursued a musical career alongside her day job as a funeral director and embalmer. Brídín's musical style is rooted in traditional Irish music but also draws upon contemporary composition using loop pedal. Her debut album "Brídín" was released last year. SUGAR CLUB GIG T...2024-01-0922 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 23: 'This Plague of Souls' by Mike McCormackThe December Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Mike McCormack about his novel 'This Plague of Souls'.
“In the Irish Times preview of the best novels forthcoming in 2023, Martin Doyle writes: ‘The prospect of a new novel [by Mike McCormack] is one to savour. Part roman noir, part metaphysical thriller, This Plague of Souls deals with how we might mend the world – and is the story of a man who would let the world go to hell if he could keep his family together.” — Colm Tóibín
Mike McCormack...2023-12-2846 minThe Arts Council PodcastColm Tóibín’s Laureate for Irish Fiction Annual Lecture 2023On 3 November at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace Bellaghy, Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín delivered his second annual lecture entitled A Dream on Wings: Poetry and the Underworld. It featured poetry readings by Cathy Belton and musical performance by Martin Hayes.
Colm Tóibín’s lecture charts poetry written about the underworld and traces a line going from Ovid through to contemporary poets including Seamus Heaney and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
Colm Tóibín is the third Laureate for Irish Fiction and was awarded the honour by the Arts Council in early 2022. The Laureate for Irish Fiction promotes...2023-12-211h 10The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 22: 'The Amusements' by Aingela FlanneryThe November Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Aingeala Flannery about her book 'The Amusements'.
“Aingeala Flannery’s first collection of linked stories is set in the seaside town of Tramore. ‘The people in this book are not real but the town of Tramore is,’ Flannery has written. ‘It took up residence in my imagination when I was a child and has refused to leave.’ RTE has written that ‘The Amusements’ ‘weaves a gorgeous, empathetic story of a teenager yearning for freedom.” — Colm Tóibín
Aingeala Flannery’s first collection of linked...2023-11-3043 min
SoA SoundsThe SoA Advisory Clinic: Getting Started in Northern Ireland: opportunities, advice and what to expectIf you are a new or emerging writer in Northern Ireland seeking advice and guidance on getting started, this one’s for you. Join SoA Advisory Clinic hosts Johanna Clarke and Theo Jones as they bring you another chance to catch-up on a session originally delivered as part of the SOA@Home festival. Brought to you by the Society of Authors in Northern Ireland, Senior Policy and Liaison Manager Dr Hilary McCollum speaks to Derry-based writer Sue Divin, Damian Smyth from the Arts Council in Ireland and our very own Johanna Clarke. Not a member? Use code POD...2023-11-131h 31The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 21: 'My Father's House' by Joseph O'ConnorThe October Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Joseph O’Connor about his novel ‘My Father’s House’
“My Father’s House is set in Nazi occupied Rome in the middle of the Second World War. Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty who, using the Vatican as his headquarters, sets about smuggling thousands of Jews and Allied prisoners out of Italy to safety. The Financial Times writes that ‘the diverse ventriloquism of O’Connor’s novel evokes a city in peril with wonderful vitality.” — Colm Tóibín
Joseph O’Connor’s fiction is published...2023-10-2646 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 20: 'Dance Move' by Wendy ErskineThe September Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Wendy Erskine about her short story collection 'Dance Move'.
“The Guardian writes of Wendy Erskine’s collection of stories: ‘She identifies what is most fruitful about her characters’ predicaments – the emotional core, the most resonant ironies – and traces with rapt and infectious attention their doomed if valiant attempts to shimmy away from the real.’ The stories, the Dublin Review of Books writes, ‘are gloriously offbeat tales of people who live on the flip side and are out of step with those around them...2023-09-2845 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 19: 'White City' by Kevin PowerThe August Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Kevin Power about his novel ‘White City’
“Ben, the protagonist of White City, is, John Self writes in the Guardian, the ‘son of a disgraced Dublin banker, languishing in rehab and writing an account of his wrong turns as therapy.’ As Ben gets involved in a dodgy property deal in Serbia, Power creates a world of Irish people on the make with the hapless Ben at its centre. Ben, the Irish Times writes, ‘is Power’s unforgettable creation.” — Colm Tóibín
Kevin Power is t...2023-08-3047 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 18: 'Nothing Special' by Nicole FlatteryThe July Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Nicole Flattery about her short story collection ‘Nothing Special’
“Nothing Special is set at a very particular New York moment. It is 1966. Mae, the protagonist, lands a job as typist for the artist Andy Warhol who is embarking on an unconventional novel by taping the conversations of his associates and friend. Mae moves on the edges of Warhol’s world, attending the counterculture parties. The novel dramatizes her coming of-age in Warhol’s New York.” — Colm Tóibín
Nicole Flattery’s story c...2023-07-2745 minRadioMoLIWriter Presents #4: Sally HaydenRadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the fourth episode of Writer Presents, writer, journalist and photographer Sally Hayden speaks to Gulwali Passarlay, Suad Aldarra, Helon Habila, Jane Grogan and Seán Columb about the role of storytelling in shaping our understanding of migration.Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. She has worked with VICE, CNN International, the Financial Times Magazine, TIME, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, BBC, the Was...2023-07-201h 16RadioMoLIWriter Presents #3: Sarah Maria GriffinRadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the third episode of Writer Presents, writer and zine creator Sarah Maria Griffin looks at the importance of zines to her throughout her life and guides the listener through creating a zine of their own.Sarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin. She is the author of the novels Spare and Found Parts, and Other Words For Smoke. She also makes zines.Writer Presents is produced with the support of th...2023-07-2047 minWriter PresentsSally HaydenRadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the fourth episode of Writer Presents, writer, journalist and photographer Sally Hayden speaks to Gulwali Passarlay, Suad Aldarra, Helon Habila, Jane Grogan and Seán Columb about the role of storytelling in shaping our understanding of migration.Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. She has worked with VICE, CNN International, the Financial Times Magazine, TIME, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, BBC, the Was...2023-07-191h 16
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 15: ‘The Singularities’ by John BanvilleThe April Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer John Banville about his novel ‘The Singularities’
“In this brilliant and dreamy novel, John Banville gives life to the many characters who have peopled his fiction over fifty years. He allows them to meet each other, revisit old scenes not as ghosts or as revenants but as fictional protagonists with their own precise memories, their own pressing desires. There are some resonant evocations of place but all is bathed in a sense of pure aftermath.” — Colm Tóibín
John Banville is a...2023-07-1250 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 17: 'Iron Annie' by Luke CassidyThe June Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Luke Cassidy about his novel ‘Iron Annie.
“Iron Annie is written with astonishing energy and verve. It is set in the criminal underworld of Dundalk, but more important, it is written in a tone that is intriguing and unforgettable. It uses a living and contemporary language distilled by Cassidy into a radically original style, a style that establishes him, with this debut book, as one of the most exciting writers in Ireland now.” — Colm Tóibín
Luke Cassidy is a writer and...2023-06-2848 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 16: 'Haven' By Emma DonoghueThe May Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Emma Donoghue about her novel ‘Haven’
“Haven, Emma Donoghue’s fourteenth novel, is set on Skellig Michael in the year 600 when three Irishmen decide to establish a monastery on this extraordinary piece of bare rock. The Chicago Review of Books has written: ‘In classic Donoghue narrative style, it all unfolds in a confined space under cramped conditions ... convincingly conveyed by Donoghue’s raw descriptions and her exceptional skill with emotionally authentic dialogue.” — Colm Tóibín
Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an...2023-05-2541 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 14: 'Trouble' by Philip Ó CeallaighThe March Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Philip Ó Ceallaigh about his book 'Trouble'.
“Philip Ó Ceallaigh is a brilliant, uncompromising and ambitious writer who has long been resident in Bucharest. Of his collection of stories ‘Trouble’, the Los Angeles Review of Books wrote: ‘Ó Ceallaigh writes with such immediacy, such confessional intensity, that when the narrator leans in close and says, “Look — there lies trouble,” it is impossible to look away.” - Colm Tóibín
Philip Ó Ceallaigh has published over fifty short stories, most of them gathered in his three collections. T...2023-03-3045 minWriter PresentsSarah Maria GriffinRadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the third episode of Writer Presents, writer and zine creator Sarah Maria Griffin looks at the importance of zines to her throughout her life and guides the listener through creating a zine of their own.Sarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin. She is the author of the novels Spare and Found Parts, and Other Words For Smoke. She also makes zines.Writer Presents is produced with the support of th...2023-03-0647 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 13: 'Trespasses' by Louise KennedyThe February Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Louise Kennedy about her book 'Trespasses'.
The unforgettable protagonist of Louise Kennedy’s ‘Trespasses’ is 24-year-old Cushla Lavery, a Catholic schoolteacher living in 1975 in a small town outside Belfast. The novel narrates the story of her love affair with an older, married, Protestant barrister with the same wit and eye for detail as are on display in her book of stories ‘The End of the World is a Cul de Sac.’ - Colm Tóibín
Louise Kennedy grew up in Holywood, C...2023-02-2350 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club | Episode 12: 'A Girl is a Half-formed Thing' by Eimear McBrideThe January Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Eimear McBride about her novel 'A Girl is a Half-formed Thing'.
“Eimear McBride’s groundbreaking first novel uses a style that matches the conscious mind’s darting processes. It tells the story of a young woman in an Irish town in a time when the open religiosity is in conflict with changing sexual mores. In the novel, words and sentences themselves are under pressure as the events of the novel become more tense and dramatic and painful.” — Colm Tóibín
Eimear McBri...2023-01-2638 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club | Episode 11: Blank Pages and Other Stories by Bernard MacLavertyThe December Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Bernard MacLaverty about his short story collection 'Blank Pages and Other Stories'.
“MacLaverty offers a masterclass in how to create character, how to build scenes by accretion of detail, how to work with implication and suggestion, how to write indirectly and manages to create more energy and more expression by working in muted colours and plain textures.” – Colm Tóibín
Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast (14.9.42) and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four c...2022-12-2936 min
The Arts Council PodcastLaureate for Irish Fiction Annual Lecture 2022Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín delivered his first annual lecture on 6th November 2022 in Town Hall Theatre Galway. For those unable to join us at the event, we are delighted to be able to share a recording of this extraordinary evening.2022-12-201h 19
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 10: 'The Last September' by Elizabeth BowenThe November Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Tom McCarthy about Elizabeth Bowen’s novel 'The Last September'
The Laureate says “This is another novel set during the Irish War of Independence. Just as Martina Devlin’s book is about solitude and introspection, this centres on a house party, scenes filled with chatter and strange silences, things unmentioned and unmentionable. And in the background are the insurgents, the sense of impending doom.”
Thomas McCarthy was born in Co. Waterford in 1954 and educated at the local Convent of Mercy and at Uni...2022-11-3040 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Curiosity Series: Episode 6 - Michael O'Loughlin, Rosaleen McDonagh and Annemarie Ní ChurreáinWarning: This episode contains mild swearing.
The Curiosity Series is an Arts Council podcast commissioned as part of the Council’s 70th anniversary celebrations hosted by writer, comedian and podcaster Maeve Higgins.
In each episode, you’ll hear artists involved in music, dance, poetry, literature, visual arts and theatre in conversation with Maeve as they get curious about each other’s work, explore the integral role that creativity has played in their lives, and discuss the broader issues and themes that connect their art.
In our final episode of the series, Maeve is joined by three writers from three different genera...2022-11-0138 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 9: Edith by Martina DevlinThe October Art of Reading book club features Colm in conversation with writer Martina Devlin about her book Edith.
The Laureate says “Edith is an engrossing and sensitive portrait of the writer Edith Somerville during the War of Independence when her writing partner Violet Ross is dead and her own career as a writer not flourishing. It is a portrait of a sensitive, solitary figure in a time of turmoil, of a woman striking out as an artist in a time when there were many barriers”.
Martina Devlin has written 11 books, including the novels About Sisterland and The House Where It H...2022-10-2752 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Curiosity Series with Maeve Higgins: Episode 5 - John McLachlan and Brian LeydenThe Curiosity Series is an Arts Council podcast commissioned as part of the Council’s 70th anniversary celebrations hosted by writer, comedian and podcaster Maeve Higgins.
In each episode, you’ll hear artists involved in music, dance, poetry, literature, visual arts and theatre in conversation with Maeve as they get curious about each other’s work, explore the integral role that creativity has played in their lives, and discuss the broader issues and themes that connect their art.
In the penultimate episode of The Curiosity Series, Maeve Higgins speaks with writer Brian Leyden and composer John McLachlan about the writer Leland...2022-10-1728 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Curiosity Series with Maeve Higgins: Episode 4 - Jane O'Leary and Gwen O'DowdThe Curiosity Series is an Arts Council podcast commissioned as part of the Council’s 70th anniversary celebrations hosted by writer, comedian and podcaster Maeve Higgins.
In each episode, you’ll hear artists involved in music, dance, poetry, literature, visual arts and theatre in conversation with Maeve as they get curious about each other’s work, explore the integral role that creativity has played in their lives, and discuss the broader issues and themes that connect their art.
In episode four, composer Jane O’Leary and painter Gwen O’Dowd join Maeve to delve deeper into the inspirations and motivations behind the...2022-10-0331 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 8: The Ante Room by Kate O'BrienThe September Art of Reading book club features Colm in conversation with writer Una Mannion about The Ante-Room by Kate O'Brien.
The Laureate says “This novel is written with great intensity, being set over a time period of three days in which the focus is on the entire life of a single family, all the secrets and treacheries coming into the open. Time and character are dealt with in this book with sharp insight, masterful precision.”
Kate O’Brien was born in 1897 in Limerick. A graduate of UCD, she was an internationally acclaimed fiction writer. In her early career she worked...2022-09-2943 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Curiosity Series with Maeve Higgins: Episode 3 - Roger Doyle and Trevor KnightThe Curiosity Series is an Arts Council podcast commissioned as part of the Council’s 70th anniversary celebrations hosted by writer, comedian and podcaster Maeve Higgins.
In each episode, you’ll hear artists involved in music, dance, poetry, literature, visual arts and theatre in conversation with Maeve as they get curious about each other’s work, explore the integral role that creativity has played in their lives, and discuss the broader issues and themes that connect their art.
Episode three sees Maeve Higgins follow the musical journeys of composers and friends Roger Doyle and Trevor Knight. Roger and Trevor came to the...2022-09-1935 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Curiosity Series with Maeve Higgins: Episode 2 - Mia Gallagher and Cindy CummingsThe Curiosity Series is an Arts Council podcast commissioned as part of the Council’s 70th anniversary celebrations hosted by writer, comedian and podcaster Maeve Higgins.
In each episode, you’ll hear artists involved in music, dance, poetry, literature, visual arts and theatre in conversation with Maeve as they get curious about each other’s work, explore the integral role that creativity has played in their lives, and discuss the broader issues and themes that connect their art.
In episode two of The Curiosity Series, host Maeve Higgins speaks to writer Mia Gallagher and dance artist Cindy Cummings about the nature...2022-09-0530 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 7: The Barracks by John McGahernThe August Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with Professor Frank Shovlin about The Barracks by John McGahern.
“This bleak, unrelenting novel portrays a woman in the Irish midlands who has married a policeman and become a surrogate mother to his children in the time after his first wife’s death. Elizabeth, too, is facing her own death. Her character is drawn with great sympathy. The most intimate moments are handled with piercing sensitivity and truthfulness.” Colm Tóibín
John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and raised in Leitrim an...2022-08-2538 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Curiosity Series with Maeve Higgins: Episode 1 - Geraldine O'Reilly and Mary O'DonnellThe Curiosity Series is an Arts Council podcast commissioned as part of the Council’s 70th anniversary celebrations hosted by writer, comedian and podcaster Maeve Higgins.
In each episode, you’ll hear artists involved in music, dance, poetry, literature, visual arts and theatre in conversation with Maeve as they get curious about each other’s work, explore the integral role that creativity has played in their lives, and discuss the broader issues and themes that connect their art.
In episode one of The Curiosity Series, host Maeve Higgins is joined by visual artist and printmaker Geraldine O’Reilly and writer Mary O’D...2022-08-2229 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 6: Exciting Times by Naoise DolanThe July Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Naoise Dolan about her novel Exciting Times.
“This novel is a tour-de-force work about exile and the world of expats in Hong Kong. Seeking accommodation, looking for love, teaching English as a foreign language, dealing with foreigners, being Irish, calling home, are all dramatized with wit and emotional accuracy and a refusal to settle for easy narrative solutions.” Colm Tóibín, Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.
Read more about the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme here: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts...2022-07-2936 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 5: In the Middle of the Fields by Mary LavinThe June Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Sinéad Gleeson and writer and granddaughter of Mary Lavin, Alice Ryan, to discuss Lavin's short story, In the Middle of the Fields, from the collection of the same name.
Read more about the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme here: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction-2022-2024/2022-06-3038 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 4: Homesickness by Colin BarrettThe May Art of Reading book club features Colm in conversation with Colin Barrett on his short story collection 'Homesickness'2022-05-2641 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 3: The Pages by Hugo HamiltonThis is an ingeniously told story, narrated by an actual book, a novel by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth, offering an account of its picaresque travels to America and back to Europe, while in the background we learn of the life of Joseph Roth himself and the dark times he lived in.” Colm Tóibín, Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-20242022-04-2742 min
The Moore Institute PodcastAn Uneven Score: Gender Balance Investigation for Publicly Funded Composer Opportunities on the Island of Ireland (2004-2019)': Irish Studies SeminarSpeakers: Laura Watson and Michael Lydon
Respondents: Roisin Maher and Aileen Dillane
This seminar outlines an ongoing research project investigating the gender balance of publicly funded composer opportunities on the island of Ireland from 2004-2019. The Research Project is being conducted over two phases by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland (CMC) and Sounding the Feminists (STF) in partnership. Upon a successful completion of Phase One, the project’s Research Associate Dr Michael Lydon began Phase Two in December 2021. Phase Two of this project is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chom...2022-03-311h 18The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 2: Esther Waters by George MooreThe March Art of Reading book club features Colm in conversation with Adrian Frazier about the novel Esther Waters by George Moore.
‘In this novel, Moore works like a nineteenth century French painter in drawing a portrait of a spirited young women of reduced circumstances facing her destiny in an unforgiving world.’ Colm Tóibín2022-03-3139 minThe Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 1: Small Things Like These by Claire KeeganWelcome to The Art of Reading, a monthly book club hosted by Colm Tóibín, the Laureate for Irish Fiction, and shared on the last Thursday of every month.
The first Art of Reading book club features Colm in conversation with Claire Keegan about her latest work ‘Small Things Like These’.
Each month our Laureate will discuss a novel by an Irish writer, highlighting outstanding Irish writing and celebrating the reader and book clubs. The selected titles will include new work by contemporary Irish writers as well as novels from the past that the Laureate wishes to bring to a new...2022-02-2443 minRadioMoLIWriter Presents #2: Dermot BolgerRadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the second episode of Writer Presents, the poet, playwright and novelist Dermot Bolger looks at the life and enduring legacy of Herbert Simms (1898-1948) – the architect responsible for much of Dublin’s early twentieth-century social housing, whose home on St. Mobhi Road Bolger would pass on his pandemic lockdown walks.“I found it fascinating to imagine his life – he was a man who suffered greatly from the strain of his work,” says Bolger...2021-11-1056 minWriter PresentsDermot BolgerRadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the second episode of Writer Presents, the poet, playwright and novelist Dermot Bolger looks at the life and enduring legacy of Herbert Simms (1898-1948) – the architect responsible for much of Dublin’s early twentieth-century social housing, whose home on St. Mobhi Road Bolger would pass on his pandemic lockdown walks.“I found it fascinating to imagine his life – he was a man who suffered greatly from the strain of his work,” says Bolger...2021-11-1056 minRadioMoLIWriter Presents #1: Claire-Louise Bennett"Get on with what? Get on with getting a job and a house and a husband and all the rest of it and I just didn't want to. I wasn't interested – or able for any of that at all.... But I couldn't see any alternatives, I just couldn’t see any way around it, so I thought I’ve got to get out of here, and so I came to Ireland. So many Irish people have gone to England to get work and I came to Ireland to get away from it." – Claire-Louise BennettRadioMoL...2021-11-101h 13
The Arts Council PodcastSebastian Barry, Laureate for Irish Fiction, Final Lecture 2021Sebastian Barry gives his final lecture as Laureate for Irish Fiction. Introduction by Arts Council Chair, Kevin Rafter.2021-09-0854 minWriter PresentsClaire-Louise Bennett"Get on with what? Get on with getting a job and a house and a husband and all the rest of it and I just didn't want to. I wasn't interested – or able for any of that at all.... But I couldn't see any alternatives, I just couldn’t see any way around it, so I thought I’ve got to get out of here, and so I came to Ireland. So many Irish people have gone to England to get work and I came to Ireland to get away from it." – Claire-Louise BennettRadioMoL...2021-07-161h 12
The Arts Council PodcastSebastian Barry, "Still Life, with Donal" (Laureate For Irish Fiction Annual Lecture 2019)In late 1994 Donal McCann undertook to play the lead in The Steward of Christendom. The second Laureate lecture, called Still Life, with Donal is Sebastian Barry's account of the extraordinary experience of working with such a unique, challenging and veritably nuclear actor and human being.
Barry's first Laureate for Irish Fiction Lecture The Lives of Saints was delivered in Dublin in autumn 2018. It reflected on the people and writers who supported him along his writing journey, including his aunt Annie, Val Mulkerns, Benedict Kiely, Michael Hartnett, Leland Bardwell, Tom Murphy and Harold Pinter.
Sebastian Barry is the second Laureate for...2021-02-1751 min
The Arts Council PodcastSebastian Barry, "The Lives Of The Saints" (Laureate For Irish Fiction Annual Lecture 2018)On 9 September at the Gate Theatre Dublin, Laureate for Irish Fiction Sebastian Barry delivered his first annual lecture entitled The Lives of the Saints.
Speaking about the lecture, Sebastian Barry said, “In forty years of writing and living, inevitably and often by mere accident, a writer encounters other writers. This lecture is an account of some of the singular individuals met in this way over the years, many no longer with us, but who hold strong places in memory, and constitute a kind of private reference for how to endure as a writer and indeed how to write.”
Sebastian Barry is t...2021-02-1749 min
The Arts Council PodcastAnne Enright, "Maeve Brennan Goes Mad In America" (Laureate For Irish Fiction Annual Lecture 2016)Anne Enright delivered her first US lecture as Laureate for Irish Fiction at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House as part of the Laureate programme in April 2016.
Speaking prior to the lecture, Enright said, “When I flew to New York in February 2000 I thought my life could not get better: I was pregnant, I was bringing the proofs for my first New Yorker story in my bag, and I met Seamus Heaney on the plane. The next day I went to the offices of the magazine and paused in the ladies room to remember Maeve Brennan, and to consider the ru...2021-02-1753 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 19. Eimear McBrideIn this series, the Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry sits down with some of his favourite writers to ask: What the Hell/Heaven Are We Doing?
His on-going conversation about the mysteries of writing and the intricacies of the craft continues this week with award-winning Irish novelist Eimear McBride.
In this conversation, Eimear and Sebastian discuss the limits of language, what "home" feels like, misogyny, chaos and much more.
The Laureate for Irish Fiction is an initiative of the Arts Council in partnership with University College Dublin and New York University.2021-02-161h 05
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 18. Kevin BarryThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking big questions about the nature of writing itself.
Kevin is a multiple award-winning writer whose most recent book, Night Boat to Tangier, was published in 2019. Here, he sits down with Sebastian via video chat to puzzle out some of the deeper questions about the art of writing, including the influence of early family life on one's writing, lyricism in prose, and how and why a writer should have a good self-care routine.2021-02-161h 00
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 17. Danielle McLaughlinAward-winning short story author Danielle McLaughlin is Sebastian Barry's guest this week on What the Hell/Heaven Are We Doing?
This video series features the Laureate for Irish Fiction in conversation with a selection of fellow writers as they probe the mysteries of the writing craft and ask: What is writing? What is its purpose beyond pragmatic notions of academia and journalism?
In this conversation Danielle and Sebastian discuss obsession, anxiety, the lost knowledge of the Irish language, and more.2021-02-1630 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 16. Nicole FlatteryThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry's compelling series, What the Hell/Heaven Are We Doing? continues this week with a discussion about the nature of writing and the intricacies of the craft with prize-winning author Nicole Flattery.
Sebastian and Nicole discuss topics as wide-ranging as inclusivity in the publishing industry, Irish storytelling vs. Irish silence, and learning how to understand oneself through the act of writing.2021-02-1624 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 15. Thomas Kilroy 2Welcome back to What the Hell/Heaven Are We Doing?, the series where the Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, asks big questions of fellow writers about the nature of their shared craft.
What is the purpose of writing? Find out what author Tom Kilroy thinks in this episode.
Thomas Kilroy was born in Callan, Co Kilkenny in 1934. He served as play editor at the Abbey in 1977 and was appointed Director of Field Day Theatre Company in 1988. Kilroy was Professor of English at UCG and has published a number of academic essays and studies. In 1989, he resigned his professorship, to...2021-02-1635 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 14. Colm TóibínThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking big questions about the nature of writing itself.
What is its purpose? What should we make of its mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. He is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed and prolific writers. He has worked as a journalist, critic, essayist, academic and novelist. He established his journalism credentials in the 1980s as...2021-02-1624 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 13. Claire - Louise BennettThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire and went on to study Literature and Drama at the University of Roehampton in London, before settling in Galway. She has had her essays and short fiction published in a number of publications including The Irish Times, The White Review, The Penny Dreadful...2021-02-1626 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 12. Louise O'NeillThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing?
What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism?
In the latest conversation, he speaks with Louise O’Neill.
Louise O’Neill was born in West Cork, where she lives and works. Her first novel, Only Ever Yours, was published in 2014 is a satire about society's obsession with how women look and behave. It won several awards including the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2014. Her second novel, Asking For it (2015) is a heart-breaking account of a...2021-02-1622 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 11. Yan GeThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
Yan Ge was born in Sichuan in the People’s Republic of China, and currently lives in Dublin. She is the author of thirteen books, including six novels. She has received numerous awards, including the Maodun Literature Prize (Best Young Writer). She was named by People’s Literature magazine as o...2021-02-1629 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 10. Liz NugentThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
Liz Nugent was born in Dublin, where she lives and works. Before becoming a full-time writer she worked in Irish film, theatre and television. In 2006, her first short story for adults, Alice, was shortlisted for the Francis McManus Short Story Prize. Her three novels - Unravelling Oliver, Lying in...2021-02-1631 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 09. Gavin CorbettThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
Gavin Corbett was born in Co. Galway and grew up in Dublin, where he studied History at Trinity College. He has written three novels: Innocence (2003); This is the Way (2013), which won the 2013 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year award and was shortlisted for the Encore Prize, and most...2021-02-1630 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 08. Roddy DoyleThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
The Laureate for Irish Fiction is an initiative of the Arts Council in partnership with University College Dublin and New York University.
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin, where he works and lives. He is one of Ireland's most successful and prolific writers. His first three novels, the Barrystown...2021-02-1629 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 07. Claire KilroyThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
Claire Kilroy was born in Dublin, where she lives and works. She has written four novels, All Summer, Tenderwire, All Names Have Been Changed and The Devil I Know, which was described by The Guardian as “a satiric danse macabre of brio and linguistic virtuosity,” and by the New York...2021-02-1626 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 06. Rob DoyleThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
Rob Doyle was born in Dublin. His widely acclaimed first novel, Here Are the Young Men, was published in 2014. It was chosen as a book of the year by the Irish Times, Independent, Sunday Times and Sunday Business Post. His second book This is the Ritual was published in...2021-02-1617 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 05. Paul LynchThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
Paul Lynch was born in Limerick and grew up in Co Donegal. His debut novel Red Sky in Morning was published to critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic in 2013. He has since published two novels The Black Snow in 2014 and Grace in 2017. He has won the Kerry...2021-02-1616 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 04. Mia GallagherThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
Mia Gallagher was born in Dublin, where she lives and works. Her debut novel, HellFire, received the Irish Tatler Women of the Year Literature Award in 2007, while her award-winning short fiction has been widely published and anthologised. Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland is her second novel and Shift...2021-02-1618 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 03. Melatu Uche OkorieThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
Melatu Uche Okorie was born in Nigeria and moved to Ireland in 2006. It was during her eight and a half years living in the direct provision system that she began to write. This Hostel Life is her first book and she’s had works published in numerous anthologies. In 2009, sh...2021-02-1618 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 02. Sara BaumeThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
Sara Baume was born in Yorkshire. She won the 2014 Davy Byrne’s Short Story Award, and in 2015, the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, the Rooney Prize for Literature and an Irish Book Award for Best Newcomer. Her debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither was longlisted for the Guardian First Bo...2021-02-1624 min
The Arts Council PodcastWhat The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 01. John BoyneThe Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland.
John Boyne was born in Dublin where he lives and works. He has published eleven novels for adults, five for young readers and a collection of short stories. Perhaps best known for his 2006 multi-award-winning book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas which was a New York Times no.1 Bestseller, John...2021-02-1119 min
Dunamaise On AirA True Blue. Bill LawlorBroadcaster Ann Marie Kelly has produced this Podcast especially made for Dunamaise Arts Centre.
Following an interview with Mountmellick Singer/Dancer Bill Lawlor, on her award winning Open Door Radio show on Midlands 103, Ann Marie realised his story has universal appeal.
Bill has now become the inspiration for the first phase of the ‘Always Human’ Art Project created by Artistic Director Cabrini Cahill, commissioned by Dunamaise Arts Centre and funded by the Arts Council. Listen to Bill’s story here of being a Band Leader, a dance teacher, a manager, a referee and all that time t...2020-12-0721 minDunamaise On AirLeaves On Air Episode 4 Carlo GeblerEpisode 4: Tales We Tell Ourselves: Saturday 5thNovember, 11am
CARLO GÉBLER IN CONVERSATION WITH DERMOT BOLGER
Carlo Gébler was born in Dublin in 1954. His most recent books from New Island, include The Wing Orderly’s Tales– a collection of stories told by a prison orderly; The Projectionist– a biography of his father, Ernest Gébler, and The Innocent of Falkland Road, a novel set in the 1960s London of his childhood. His response to the ongoing pandemic has been to re-tell twenty-eight tales from Boccaccio’s Decameron, in a new book, Tales We Tell Ourselves, pu...2020-11-0742 minDunamaise On AirLeaves On Air Episode 3 Marianne LeeEpisode 3: A Quiet Tide: Friday 6thNovember, 11am
MARIANNE LEE IN CONVERSATION WITH DERMOT BOLGER
Marianne Lee grew up in Tullamore, Co. Offaly and now lives in Dublin with her husband. She has a degree in Visual Communications from the National College and Art and Design and an MPhil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin. She works as a designer and copywriter, and has published a selection of poetry and self-recorded an album. Her debut novel, ‘A Quiet Tide’, a fictionalised account of the life of Ellen Hutchins, Ireland’s first female botanist, who collected and dis...2020-11-0628 minDunamaise On AirLeaves On Air Episode 2 Anne GriffinEpisode 2: When All is Said: Thursday 5thNovember, 11am
ANNE GRIFFIN IN CONVERSATION WITH DERMOT BOLGER
Born in Dublin, Anne Griffin now lives in Mullingar. In 2019 her debut novel When All Is Said was an Irish No. 1 bestseller when published by Sceptre. It has now been published in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and is being translated into sixteen languages. Described by John Banville as “a rare jewel”, by Donal Ryan as “a hugely enjoyable, engrossing novel” and by Graham Norton as “beautifully observed, masterful storytelling”, When All is Saidwon the Newcomer of the Year Iri...2020-11-0539 min
Dunamaise On AirLeaves On Air Episode 1 Hilary Fannin
Episode 1: The Weight of Love: Wednesday 4thNovember, 11am
HILARY FANNIN IN CONVERSATION WITH DERMOT BOLGER
Hilary Fannin worked as an actor throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Her first play was staged at London’s Bush Theatre and since then she has written numerous stage and radio plays. She was joint writer-in-association at the Abbey Theatre for its centenary year, 2004. She is co-creator and mentor of a playwriting course run by Fighting Words in association with the Abbey Theatre. Her acclaimed memoir Hopscotch was published by Doubleday in 2015. She began writing forThe Irish...2020-11-0440 min
AbbeyTheatreThe Country Girls - Audio Described Programme Notes for ADP Saturday Matinee 6 April 2019Audio described introductory notes for The Country Girls are prepared and read by Bríd Ni Ghraugáin.
The audio described performance for The Country Girls is on Saturday Matinee 6 April 2019 2pm and will be audio described by Bríd Ni Ghraugáin and Máirín Harte.
Audio Described performances at the Abbey Theatre are provided by Arts & Disability Ireland with funding from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaion.2019-04-0412 min
CMCIrelandCross Currents: Garrett SholdiceGarrett Sholdice features in n Cross Currents, a three-part series exploring contemporary Irish composers and their music produced by Athena Media for RTÉ lyric fm in association with CMC - go to http://www.crosscurrents.ie/ for more information for more background information and full podcasts.
Garrett Sholdice is an Irish composer. He has studied with Donnacha Dennehy, Nicola LeFanu and William Brooks. In 2012 he completed a PhD in composition at the University of York under the supervision of William Brooks. More recently, he has received some private lessons from Kevin Volans. His music has been described as possessing an...2016-09-1604 min
UCDscholarcastScholarcast 44: Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in ThemIn this lecture Paula Meehan delivers the Ireland Chair of Poetry Lecture, 2014. The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust was set up in 1998 and is jointly held between Queen's University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.2014-06-051h 06UCDscholarcastScholarcast 44: Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in ThemIn this lecture Paula Meehan delivers the Ireland Chair of Poetry Lecture, 2014. The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust was set up in 1998 and is jointly held between Queen's University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.2014-06-0500 min