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The Dingle Lit PodcastEp 12: Wardens of Skellig Michael- Catherine Merrigan & Robert L. Harris
Life on Skellig Michael with Catherine Merrigan & Robert L. Harris, chaired by Deanna O’Connor
An Saol ar Sceilg Mhichíl – Catherine Merrigan agus Robert L. Harris, faoi chathaoirleacht Deanna O’Connor
Every year, guides are employed to live on the island during the summer season, to welcome tourists and show them around this UNESCO World Heritage site. It’s a tough but rewarding job.
Dingle Peninsula resident Catherine Merrigan has been travelling to work Skellig Michael for the last 20 years, spending every summer, except for during the pandemic in 2020, on the spe...2022-06-0229 min
The Dingle Lit PodcastEp 11: Madame Lazare (Winner, An Post Book Awards) agus an t-úrscéal GaeilgeAn bhliain seo chugainn, den chéad uair riamh, tabharfar aitheantas do leabhar Gaeilge mar chuid de Lá Domhanda na Leabhar 2022 - an t-úrscéal iontach Madame Lazare. Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin a scríobh, agus Barzaz, inphrionta nua de chuid Futa Fata, comhlacht a bhunaigh sé i 2005, a d’fhoilsigh. Ainnníodh Madame Lazare ag Gradaim Fhoilsitheoireachta Oireachtas na Gaeilge 2021 agus bhuaigh sé Leabhar na Bliana ag Gradaim An Post 2021. Labhróidh Tadhg le Cathal Póirtéir faoin scéal agus faoin bpróiseas ag an ócáid speisialta seo.
Sa bpodchraoladh...2022-06-0236 min
The Dingle Lit PodcastEp 10: I Spent Lockdown in 1846-Declan O‘Rourke & Deanna O‘ConnorDeclan O’Rourke, interviewed by Deanna O’Connor, talking about his literary debut The Pawnbroker’s Reward
Declan O’Rourke’s award-winning album, Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine, was released to critical acclaim in 2017. It illuminated an extraordinary series of eye-witness accounts, including the story of Pádraig and Cáit ua Buachalla. Four years on, in Declan’s meticulously researched literary debut, The Pawnbroker’s Reward, the story of the ua Buachalla family is woven into a powerful, multilayered work showing us the famine as it happened through the lens of a single town—Macroom, Co. Cork—and its envir...2022-05-1932 min
The Dingle Lit PodcastEp 9: Leabhar Gaeilge na Bliana: Comhrá le hEoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde‘Ní minic a tharlaíonn sé ach is iontach éachtach go dtarlaíonn sé go fóill, agus ar chor ar bith, cnuasach gearrscéalta a bhaineann an anáil díot as feabhas na scéalaíochta agus as úire an mhachnaimh’ - Pól Ó Muirí
Bígí linn agus glac páirt sa chomhrá seo idir an iriseoir agus craoltóir Sinéad Ní Uallacháin (RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, Beo Ar Éigean ar RTÉ 1, agus TG4), ó Bhaile an Éanaigh, agus an scríbhneoir iomráiteach Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde faoina thríú cnuasach gearrscéalta Cnámh, a bhuaigh g...2022-05-1232 min
The Dingle Lit PodcastEp 8: Magic & The Magician with Colm Tóibín interviewed by David Butler
Colm Tóibín talks about the life of Thomas Mann with David Butler.
Colm Tóibín ag plé shaol Thomas Mann in éineacht le David Butler
Colm Tóibín’s latest novel, The Magician, tells the story of a century through one life. Its central character Thomas Mann lives a life filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism. He would h...2022-05-0543 min
The Dingle Lit PodcastEP 7: Between Two with Diarmuid Ferriter
Between Two Hells with Diarmaid Ferriter
Idir Dhá Thine Bhealtaine le Diarmaid Ferriter
This episode was recorded live in an Diseart at the Dingle Literary Festival 2021.
Diarmaid Ferriter is a graduate of UCD, BA (1991), PhD (1996). He was Appointed Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD in 2008. Previously, Lecturer in Modern Irish History at UCD 1996-1998. Researcher and writer with Dictionary of Irish Biography 1998-1999. Senior lecturer in Irish History at St Patrick’s College, DCU, 1999-2008. Visiting Burns Library Scholar at Boston College 2008-2009. Main research interests: the social, political and cultural history of twentieth century Ireland.
Diarmai...2022-04-2843 min
The Dingle Lit PodcastEP6: Rian na nDaoine - Alex Hijmans, Victor Bayda agus Cathal PóirtéirComhrá, as Gaeilge, faoin tionchar atá ag áit, teanga, agus daoine ar a chéile.
Sa chomhrá seo idir Ísiltíreach (Alex Hijmans), Rúiseach (Victor Bayda) agus Éireannach (Cathal Poirtéir) féachfar go h-oscailte, tarrainteach ar an slí ina ndéanann siad go léir dianscrúdú ar an mbaint a bhíonn idir an duine agus an áit, ar thionchar áite ar an duine agus ar thionchar an duine ar áit. Léireoidh siad conas a stiúraigh a dturas pearsanta chun cur chun cinn na Gaeilge iad, Victor tríd an teagasc, pleanáil teanga agus obair sa...2022-04-2141 min
The Dingle Lit PodcastEp 5: Oedipus Rex & I, Antigone: Carlo Gébler & Sara Baume
Carlo Gébler and Sara Baume discuss the life and pre-life of Oedipus Rex, as written by his daughter Antigone
Carlo Gébler agus Sara Baume ag plé scéal shaol agus réamhshaol Oedipus Rex, mar a scríobh a iníon Antigone é
Episode 5: Live from Dingle Literary Festival 2021
Last year Carlo Gébler, Adjunct Professor in Creative Writing at the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre, interviewed his former student Sara Baume, upon the release of her non-fiction musings in Handiwork. The theme of the book was especially relevant during lockdown when, stuck at home, m...2022-04-1440 min
The Dingle Lit PodcastEp 3: Look! It‘s a Woman Writer: Éilís Ní Dhuihbne and Evelyn Conlon
Look! It’s a Woman Writer with Éilís Ní Dhuihbne and Evelyn Conlon chaired by Mia Colleran as they reflect on women writing in Ireland since the 1950’s
Féach! Scríbhneoir mná atá ann – Éilís Ní Dhuihbne agus Evelyn Conlon, faoi chathaoirleacht Mia Colleran, agus iad ag machnamh ar scríbhneoirí mná in Éirinn ó na 1950idí i leith
It's Episode 3 of The Dingle Lit Podcast and the first broadcast of our Live events.
Irish novelist and short story writer Éilís Ní Dhuibhne asked 21 writers who were born in mid-twentieth-century Ireland, North and South...2022-03-3132 min
The Dingle Lit PodcastEp 1: An Act of Love- Carol Drinkwater and Paula ShieldsAt this year’s Dingle Lit book festival Carol Drinkwater connected with audiences from her home in the South of France to discuss her fourth novel, An Act of Love, a sweeping and evocative love story about bravery and courage following a young woman forced to flee war-ravaged Poland during World War II, taking refuge in the French Alps. As the Nazis advance and the family are in peril, romance blossoms and difficult choices have to be made. Author Kate Mosse called the book, “A lovely novel. A moving story of love and friendship with a wonderful sense of plac...2022-03-1739 min
The Dingle Lit PodcastEp 4: Caitriona in Wunderland: Paula Shields speaks to Caitriona Lally
Caitriona Lally, author of Wunderland, discusses her writing with Paula Shields.
Caitriona Lally, údar Wunderland, ag labhairt faoina cuid scríbhneoireachta le Paula Shields.
Dublin writer Caitriona Lally’s first novel, Eggshells, was published in the US by Melville House (2017) and in the UK by Borough Press (2018). Eggshells, was shortlisted for the Newcomer of the Year Award at the 2015 Irish Book Awards and the Kate O’Brien Debut Novel Award. She is the 2018 winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the 2019 recipient of the Lannan Fiction Fellowship.
Much media att...2021-12-1632 min
The Dingle Lit PodcastEp 2: Places of Poetry with Paul Muldoon and Nicholas McLachlan
In the second episode of The Dingle Lit Podcast, Paul Muldoon in conversation with Nicholas McLachlan discussing the places that informed his life and poetry
Paul Muldoon i gcomhrá le Nicholas McLachlan, iad ag plé na n-áiteanna a chuir bonn eolais faoina shaol agus faoina chuid filíochta
Kerry is a special place to Pulitzer-prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon. During the summer, while he holidayed in the Kingdom, he spoke with local poet Nicholas McLachlan, an interview which took a rambling journey around the places that informed his life and poetry, from his love...2021-12-0239 min