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Sally Hayden

Writer Presents
How storytelling shapes our understanding of migration.

Claire-Louise Bennett

Writer Presents
The author of Pond and Checkout 19 on the influence of Tove Ditlevsen, Ann Quin and Annie Ernaux.

Dermot Bolger

Writer Presents
The poet, playwright and novelist looks at the life and enduring legacy of architect Herbert Simms.

Sarah Maria Griffin

The Dublin writer on the importance of zines.

Dúlra (The Elements, Nature)

Spreading the Words
Hear how the natural word is perceived by Irish writers in the past and present.

Clábar (Mud)

Spreading the Words
Irish clábar lies behind Hiberno-English clabber and clauber, but for how long have we been saying ‘clabber to the knees’?

Gé (Goose)

Spreading the Words
The sure signs of winter included the sound of a barnacle goose.

Immram (Voyage)

Spreading the Words
The theme of immram, or voyage, is central to a number of poems by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.

Jan Carson

City of Books
Jan Carson on how her childhood in Northern Ireland informed The Raptures.

Ireland's Dark Tourism

The Dublin Gothic Podcast
In this episode of The Dublin Gothic Podcast, recorded live in front of an audience in MoLI’s Old Physics Theatre as part of First Fridays, Dr Katie Mishler speaks to Dr Gillian O’Brien about her book The Darkness Echoing: Exploring Ireland's Places of Famine, Death and Rebellion.

John Boyne

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books , writer John Boyne speaks to host Martina ...

Andrew Meehan

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books, writer Andrew Meehan speaks to host Martina Devlin about how it took him three books to realise he was writing love stories.

A Royal Affair

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books, host Martina Devlin speaks to Emily Hourican about her latest book The Other Guinness Girl, the third novel in her series about the Guinness family.

Sense of Beginning

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books , host Martina Devlin speaks to Cristín Leach ...

Sarah Moss

The Dublin Gothic Podcast
In this episode, Dr Katie Mishler sits down with novelist and UCD Professor of Creative ...

Hidden Truths in Reissued Classics

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books, host Martina Devlin speaks to Catherine Dunne and Lia Mills.

Now the Other: Alex Lawes

Now the Other Podcast
Now the Other is a podcast which focuses on artists, musicians and makers, and the ...

Breaking Point: Burned Out and Bottoming Out

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books, Martina Devlin talks to Edel Coffey about her ...

Making Music with Birds and Bugs

In this episode of City of Books, host Martina Devlin speaks to Professor David Rothenberg.

Now the Other: Dragana Jurišić

Now the Other Podcast
In this episode of Now the Other, host Luke Fallon speaks to artist Dragana Jurišić about the importance of passing down fairytales from generation to generation, working with Paula Meehan, and how photography is essentially writing using light.

Jan Carson: What Words Had Once Been

Writer Presents
The influence of a personal experience of dementia on creative work.

Jan Carson: Writing Dementia

Writer Presents
The complexities and ethics of writing from the perspective of people with dementia.

Jan Carson: It's Not About You

Writer Presents
Finding a balance between creative freedom and the responsibility of respect that authors and artists carry.

Learwife: Hatching and Hoping

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books, author JR Thorp talks to host Martina Devlin about her debut novel Learwife and the inspiration behind writing about a character who is only referenced twice in Shakespeare’s tragedy.

Hold Open the Door: Bebe Ashley, Emma Must and Sinéad Morrissey

Hold Open the Door
This episode features poets Bebe Ashley, Emma Must and Sinéad Morrissey in conversation about the influence they have had on one another, Belfast as a key theme in their work, and the importance of getting feedback.

Marching To Her Own Beat

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books, host Martina Devlin talks to Belfast playwright and ...

Hold Open the Door: Annemarie Ní Churreáin & Rory Duffy

This episode features Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Rory Duffy in conversation about topics such as the value of creative writing groups and rediscovering a creative path.

Now the Other: Laura Fitzgerald

Now the Other Podcast
Luke Fallon speaks to artist Laura Fitzgerald about discovering Beckett, her experience of homeschooling, and witnessing the miraculous at Dublin’s Old Royal Oak pub.

Love and Loss

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books , Martina Devlin talks about her novel Edith ...

Carlo Gébler on the Power of Greek Myths

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books Carlo Gébler speaks to host Martina Devlin about his latest novel I, Antigone and his reasoning for choosing Antigone as the narrator.

Big Top, Big Dreams: Sarah Webb

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books Sarah Webb speaks to host Martina Devlin about ...

The Road Less Travelled

City of Books
In this episode, host Martina Devlin speaks to Rosaleen McDonagh, whose extraordinary life story shows not only that almost any obstacle can be overcome, but also that it is no barrier to great achievements.

Paul Perry's Eden Gone Wrong

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books, host Martina Devlin speaks to Paul Perry about his new book The Garden and how it was informed by his own experiences working on an orchid farm in Florida for three years in the 1990s.

In Praise of Difficult Women

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books, host Martina Devlin speaks to Evelyn Conlon about her new short story collection Moving About the Place and the various characters in it.

Now the Other: Fatti Burke

Now the Other Podcast
In the first episode of Now the Other, host Luke Fallon speaks to illustrator Fatti Burke about her work and influence literature has had on her life.

Lisa McInerney's Riotous Revelations

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books, host Martina Devlin talks to Lisa McInerney about The Glorious Heresies trilogy, including the exciting third novel, The Rules Of Revelation, which was recently released.

Look! It's A Woman Writer!

City of Books
In this episode of City of Books, host Martina Devlin speaks to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and Lia Mills about Look! It's A Woman Writer! – a new collection of essays.

Nora Barnacle: Joyce's Muse

City of Books
Nuala O’Connor talks to Martina Devlin of City of Books about her new book Nora.

'What's Wrong with Dreaming?'

NovelTeens
E.R. Murray chats to Lily Cahill about exploration, empathy and asks, 'What's wrong with dreaming?'

Rónán Hession on Why Kindness is King

City of Books
'Kindness is king' Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul, tells Martina Devlin in the latest City of Books podcast.

John Banville Fades to Black

City of Books
John Banville tells City of Books presenter Martina Devlin why he's killed off his own ...

‘Flared in the Mind's Eye’

NovelTeens
Louise O'Neill chats to Lily Cahill about everything from the concept of a female antihero to harnessing the creative potential of TikTok.

Myth-Making Michael Collins

City of Books
Michael Collins is the the Irish Civil War's most famous casualty but there is a lot of “what-if-ery”about him, says Ireland’s best-known historian Diarmaid Ferriter, in conversation with host Martina Devlin.

The Psychology of Horror

The Dublin Gothic Podcast
Dr Noreen Giffney and Brian J. Showers join Dr Katie Mishler to discuss why we find comfort in fear.

‘Brain Fever’

The Dublin Review Podcast
Journalist and essayist Patrick Freyne reads ‘Brain Fever’, an essay he published in The Dublin Review.

Grá (Love)

Spreading the Words
Read by Caroline Lennon. An insight into the eighteenth-century poem made famous again by Doireann ...

Lus An Chromchinn (Daffodil)

Spreading the Words
Over the centuries, some beautiful and memorable names of flowers and plants have been recorded in Irish.

Gaoth (Wind)

Spreading the Words
From 'the Night of the Big Wind' to Flann O’Brien’s description of wind-watching – how the wind has shaped Irish life and literature.

Instances of the Number 63

City of Books
Louise O'Neill talks about feminism, kindness, isolation and writing across multiple genres to Martina Devlin, host of City of Books.

Cró (Enclosure)

Spreading the Words
From cró madra ‘a dog kennel’ to cró snáthaide ‘the eye of a needle’, this episode takes us on a journey through the many uses of a truly versatile word.

Craobh (Branch)

Spreading the Words
Find out why Douglas Hyde published verse under the pseudonym An Craoibhín Aoibhinn and why the All-Ireland Championship is referred to in Irish today as Craobh na hÉireann.

Crith Talún (Earthquake)

Spreading the Words
Medieval Irish chronicles and stories sometimes mention ‘the movement of the earth’, but was the north of Ireland actually struck twice by earthquakes in the early eighth century?

Amadán (Fool)

Spreading the Words
Unravelling the sinister history of amadán, the Modern Irish word for ‘fool’.

Leabharlann (Library)

Spreading the Words
Hear about how books were stored in medieval Irish libraries and about how we know of the existence of such places.

Gorm (Blue)

Spreading the Words
Read by Deirdre Lewis. How colour is described is determined by cultural, as well as ...

Cuing (Yoke)

Spreading the Words
The Irish are fond of referring to an ‘ould yoke’, but how were words for ‘yoke’ used in Old Irish?

Gloss/Clós/Glas

Spreading the Words
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s poem Gloss/Clós/Glas explores the sound and meaning of three interconnected English and Irish words. Her wonderfully creative word-play is celebrated in this special episode of Spreading the Words.

Ulcha (Beard)

Spreading the Words
Beards are status symbols in the world of early Irish literature. Such is their importance that Ulster hero Cú Chulainn created an imitation beard for himself of berry-juice or enchanted grass.

Dinnsheanchas (A Literature of Place)

Spreading the Words
Real space without and imaginative space within: how the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, rooted in the landscape, echoes the interests of medieval Ireland.

Fás aon oíche (Mushroom)

Spreading the Words
Ireland has a great biodiversity of fungi but how have the Irish referred to puffballs, stinkhorns and the like over the centuries?

Coll (Hazel tree)

Spreading the Words
Hazel trees have greatly benefited the people of Ireland since medieval times; hazel nuts have served as tasty, nutritional snacks and hazel rods have been used to construct houses and fences.

Damhán alla (Spider)

Spreading the Words
The Irish term for a spider has long been a source of puzzlement.

Tarbh (Bull)

Spreading the Words
In early Ireland, many activities were not permitted on a Sunday; but you could still bring a bull to a cow.

Cleas (Trick or Feat)

Spreading the Words
The early Irish hero Cú Chulainn was accomplished in an array of feats including the all-encompassing ‘body-feat’.

Duileasg (Dulse)

Spreading the Words
In his poetry, Seamus Heaney referred often to ‘dulse’, but how does this edible seaweed feature in medieval Irish law, literature and medicine?

Bog (Soft)

Spreading the Words
Some shared insights into the relationship between the Irish adjective bog ‘soft’ and the English noun meaning ‘bogland’.