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Mary Dorcey

Past/Present/Pride

Dr Paul D’Alton hears from the poet and fiction writer, about learning to r ...

Interview LGBTI+ Families Reading

Sonya Kelly

Past/Present/Pride

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

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 "utterl ...

Interview Biography Families Theatre

Jan Carson: What Words Had Once Been

Writer Presents

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

Podcast Families Health Mental Health

Big Top, Big Dreams: Sarah Webb

City of Books

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

Podcast Families Poverty Hope

A Poetic Licence Earned

City of Books

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin about a time when books were banned as well as how h ...

Podcast Poetry Writing Families

More Than One String to His Mandolin

City of Books

Louis de Bernièreson his life and career, from the success of Captain Core ...

Podcast Writing Families Fiction

Lemn Sissay and the Story of Why

City of Books

Lemn Sissay speaks to Martina Devlin about mother and baby homes, the Black ...

Interview Social Justice Families Journalism

Daughter

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Mary O'Donnell looks at a mother's anticipation of her daughter&# ...

Reading Women Families Poetry

Observance

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Anne Casey examines how relationship with those that have passed can inform ...

Reading Mortality Love Families

A Modern Dilemma

Joanna Trollope on the pressures on the 'sandwich generation' and ...

Podcast Women Working Class Families

Anne Enright on an Altered Ireland

City of Books

In this episode Anne Enright speaks to Martina Devlin about how Ireland has ...

Interview Politics Families Writing

Twine

Words Lightly Spoken

While clearing out space beneath the stairs of his mother’s house, Gerald D ...

Podcast Childhood Families Playful

Still

Words Lightly Spoken

Ailbhe Darcy ruminates on motherhood, childrearing and a smothering plant b ...

Poetry Women Poetry Families

The Painter on His Bike

Words Lightly Spoken

How did one throw-away comment spark inspiration for Enda Wyley?

Poetry Writing Families Poetry

Pushing Ink onto a Page

A Mind at Work

Roddy Doyle misses the sound of an electric typewriter, speaks of discoveri ...

Interview Writing Reading Families