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Dermot Bolger

The poet, playwright and novelist looks at the life and enduring legacy of ...

At Bridget's Well

Poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa Performance by Osaro Azams Music by Syn ...

Old Biddy Talk

Paula Meehan's poem performed by Ruth McCabe.

i mbolc

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe's poem performed by Caitríona Ennis.

Dúlra (The Elements, Nature)

Hear how the natural word is perceived by Irish writers in the past and pre ...

Immram (Voyage)

The theme of  immram,  or voyage, is central to a number of poems by Nuala ...

What Is The Word Discussion

This discussion explores the inspiration, dramaturgy, and design of the exh ...

Hold Open the Door: Annemarie Ní Churreáin & Rory Duffy

This episode features Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Rory Duffy in conversation ...

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

This episode features poets Bebe Ashley, Emma Must and Sinéad Morrissey in ...

'Women of the Atlantic Seaboard'

Breda Wall Ryan gives the 'everywoman' a backstory.

Na hAgallaimh Imram: Colin Ryan

Scríbhneoir ar leith é Colin Ryan atá lonnaithe in Melbourne agus an Ghaeil ...

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

On learning not to be strong, teaching creative writing, writing in English ...

Dinnsheanchas (A Literature of Place)

Real space without and imaginative space within: how the poetry of Nuala Ní ...

'Close to Magic'

Sarah Maria Griffin on portals, bad advice and how writing can free us.

A Poetic Licence Earned

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

The Diplomatic Arts

Ambassador Daniel Mulhall talks to Martina Devlin about how literature can ...

A Wet Summer's Evening

Joseph Woods evokes an all too familiar image, that of a rainy Irish summer ...

The Light Fantastic

Kate Dempsey takes whimsical look at an everyday occurrence in rural Irelan ...

The Inner Poet

Mark Roper talks about the voice that everyone has that instills doubt in t ...

Luna

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe explores the associations between the female body and t ...

Daughter

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

Dublin You Are

Stephen James Smith looks at how Dublin is a city made up of many different ...

The Lost Boys

Mary O'Malley's poem looks at how homelessness is an ever-present ...

The Darwin Vampires

Patrick Chapman's alternative take on the classic vampire legend.

'The Singer'

Medbh McGuckian looks at how being a poet requires making certain sacrifice ...

Haunted by the Ghost

In her first podcast interview since being named winner of the An Post Iri ...

Espero

Poet Erin Fornoff reflects on the plight of undocumented citizens.

The Gravity Wave

Peter Sirr on how the violent collisions of black holes in space translate ...

Filleadh ón Antartach

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh's poem tells a story of a man who travels to Ant ...

Back Up Quick They're Hippies

Lani O'Hanlon recalls a hairy situation as her parents mistakenly pull ...

Still

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

To the Management

Inspired by the 2,000-year-old Roman poet, Horace, John McAuliffe has found ...

Dorothy's Country

Ruth Carr channels the meditations of Dorothy Wordsworth (William Wordswort ...

While Bleeding

What can an old coat tell us about womanhood? Doireann Ní Ghríofa reads her ...

The Painter on His Bike

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

A Sonnet for Michael Viney

Words Lightly Spoken , a podcast about poetry from Ireland, is a Rockfinch ...

Our Lady of Cúm a' Chiste

Inspired by his two-year-old grandson, Paddy Bushe recalls a bygone Ireland ...

The Lyric Flow of Street

In this lecture, poet Micheal O'Siadhail, looks at how the poems in I ...

Women Poets in the City

Dr Lucy Collins explores some poems by women published in the last one hund ...

Exploring the Sea in the Work of Eavan Boland and W.B. Yeats

Jody Allen Randolph explores the 'landless inheritance' of two of ...

Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in them

Poet Paula Meehan delivered this lecture as Ireland's Professor of Poe ...

Old and Tough / As love

Moya Cannon reads her poem 'Pollen' in which she describes the po ...

Let No Love Poem Ever come to this Threshold

Eavan Boland's poem 'Quarantine' addresses the horrors of th ...

Hold Open the Door: Paula Meehan

In conversation with Kelly O'Brien and Margaret Kelleher, poet Paula M ...
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