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Emma Donoghue

Past/Present/Pride

Dr Paul D’Alton speaks with the author of Room, Akin, and Stir Fry.

Interview LGBTI+ Parenting Health

Colm Toibín

Past/Present/Pride

Dr Paul D’Alton talks to the three-time Booker Prize nominee.

Interview LGBTI+ Health Writing

Mary Dorcey

Past/Present/Pride

Dr Paul D’Alton hears from the poet and fiction writer, about learning to read and her relationship with her mother

Interview LGBTI+ Families Reading

Adiba Jaigirdar

Past/Present/Pride

Dr Paul D’Alton speaks to Young Adult writer born in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Interview LGBTI+ Migration Colonialism

Seán Hewitt

Past/Present/Pride

Dr Paul D’Alton speaks to the writer and poet on the eve of the publication of his new memoir.

Interview LGBTI+ Love Mental Health

Sonya Kelly

Past/Present/Pride

Dr Paul D’Alton speaks to the a playwright and writer for film and television.

Interview LGBTI+ Families Writing

Nuala O'Connor's Nora

Every Life is Many Days

The challenges of writing a historical figure as a fictional character.

Interview Families Biography Writing

Anna Vaught's Saving Lucia

Every Life is Many Days

On writing an imagined life for Lucia Joyce.

Interview Families Biography Mental Health

Frank McGuinness' The Woodcutter and His Family

Every Life is Many Days

On James Joyce as Ireland's long-lost playwright, and the "utterly heroic" Nora Barnacle.

Interview Biography Families Theatre

Mary Costello's The River Capture

Every Life is Many Days

On Joyce the teacher, and the mystery of consciousness.

Interview Biography Nature Education

Mary Morrissy's Penelope Unbound

Every Life is Many Days

The author discusses her upcoming novel.

Interview Biography Writing History

all these words

all these words is an immersive audio-visual experience of Samuel Beckett’s novel The Unnamable , ...

Interview Writing Theatre Storytelling

Eamon Maher: "Proustian Echoes"

The Irish Proust

Eamon Maher (Technological University of Dublin): “Proustian Echoes in the Work of John McGahern”. The ...

Interview International Writing Europe

Deirdre McMahon: "Proust Revisited"

The Irish Proust

Deirdre McMahon (University College Dublin): “Proust Revisited: The Legacy of Marcel Proust in Brendan Behan’s ...

Interview Writing International Europe

Richard Robinson: "Proustian Memory"

The Irish Proust

Richard Robinson (Swansea University), "'Real without Being Actual, Ideal without Being Abstract’: Proustian Memory and ...

Interview Writing International Europe

Barry McCrea, Keynote

The Irish Proust

Barry McCrea (University of Notre Dame): “Proust, Ireland, and the socio-economic language of the novel”. ...

Interview Writing International

What Is The Word Discussion

This discussion explores the inspiration, dramaturgy, and design of the exhibition as they relate to the different literary phases of Samuel Beckett’s life and career.

Interview Poetry Writing Biography

Na hAgallaimh Imram: Colin Ryan

IMRAM

Scríbhneoir ar leith é Colin Ryan atá lonnaithe in Melbourne agus an Ghaeilge roghnaithe aige mar mheán liteartha.

Interview Gaeilge Colonialism Poetry

Hold Open the Door: Nithy Kasa & Jean O'Brien

Hold Open the Door

On learning not to be strong, teaching creative writing, writing in English as a fourth language, and finding trusted readers.

Interview Poetry International Writing

Behind the Words

Spreading the Words

Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Sharon Arbuthnot tell Professor Margaret Kelleher about the making of the Spreading the Words series.

Interview Gaeilge Writing Language

Sensory Places and Spaces

To mark the first National Green Week, UCD's Ciaran Beatty, Tina Lowe and David McCormack join host Lily Cahill to discuss their thoughts on sensory places and spaces

Interview Environment Nature Playful

Lemn Sissay and the Story of Why

City of Books

Lemn Sissay speaks to Martina Devlin about mother and baby homes, the Black Lives Matter campaign and his experience in the British care system.

Interview Social Justice Families Journalism

Making a Museum for Everyone

Marking Global Accessibiliy Awareness Day, this discussion looks at MoLI's ambition to create an inclusive visitor experience.

Interview Inclusivity Education Health

Anne Enright on an Altered Ireland

City of Books

In this episode Anne Enright speaks to Martina Devlin about how Ireland has changed in recent years and how this has contributed to her writing.

Interview Politics Families Writing

Pushing Ink onto a Page

A Mind at Work

Roddy Doyle misses the sound of an electric typewriter, speaks of discovering the joy of reading, and why he doesn't work weekends.

Interview Writing Reading Families

Hold Open the Door: Paula Meehan

Hold Open the Door

In conversation with Kelly O'Brien and Margaret Kelleher, poet Paula Meehan reads a new poem and covers topics such as the value of creative workshops, cycles of poverty in north inner-city Dublin, and poetry as a means of protest.

Interview Poetry Dublin Social Justice