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Colm Toibín

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

Sonya Kelly

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

Claire-Louise Bennett

The author of Pond and Checkout 19 on the influence of To ...

Sarah Maria Griffin

The Dublin writer on the importance of zines.

Nuala O'Connor's Nora

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

Jan Carson

Jan Carson on how her childhood in Northern Ireland informed The Raptur ...

all these words

all these words is an immersive audio-visual experience of Samuel Becke ...

Richard Robinson: "Proustian Memory"

Richard Robinson (Swansea University), "'Real without Being Act ...

Eamon Maher: "Proustian Echoes"

Eamon Maher (Technological University of Dublin): “Proustian Echoes in th ...

Deirdre McMahon: "Proust Revisited"

Deirdre McMahon (University College Dublin): “Proust Revisited: The Legac ...

Barry McCrea, Keynote

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

John Boyne

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

Andrew Meehan

In this episode of City of Books, writer Andrew Meehan speaks to host Marti ...

A Royal Affair

In this episode of City of Books, host Martina Devlin speaks to Emily Houri ...

Sense of Beginning

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

Sarah Moss

In this episode, Dr Katie Mishler sits down with novelist and UCD Profess ...

Breaking Point: Burned Out and Bottoming Out

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

Hold Open the Door: Annemarie Ní Churreáin & Rory Duffy

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

Making Music with Birds and Bugs

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

Jan Carson: Writing Dementia

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

Jan Carson: It's Not About You

Finding a balance between creative freedom and the responsibility of respec ...

Learwife: Hatching and Hoping

In this episode of City of Books, author JR Thorp talks to host Martina Dev ...

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

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

Marching To Her Own Beat

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

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

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

Now the Other: Laura Fitzgerald

Luke Fallon speaks to artist Laura Fitzgerald about discovering Beckett, he ...

Love and Loss

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

Carlo Gébler on the Power of Greek Myths

In this episode of City of Books Carlo Gébler speaks to host Martina Devlin ...

The Road Less Travelled

In this episode, host Martina Devlin speaks to Rosaleen McDonagh, whose ext ...

Paul Perry's Eden Gone Wrong

In this episode of City of Books, host Martina Devlin speaks to Paul Perry ...

Lisa McInerney's Riotous Revelations

In this episode of City of Books, host Martina Devlin talks to Lis ...

Look! It's A Woman Writer!

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

Nora Barnacle: Joyce's Muse

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

'What's Wrong with Dreaming?'

E.R. Murray chats to Lily Cahill about exploration, empathy and asks, ' ...

Rónán Hession on Why Kindness is King

'Kindness is king' Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Pa ...

John Banville Fades to Black

John Banville tells City of Books presenter Martina Devlin why he' ...

‘Flared in the Mind's Eye’

Louise O'Neill chats to Lily Cahill about everything from the concept ...

Behind the Words

Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Sharon Arbuthnot tell Professor Margaret Kelleher ab ...

‘Brain Fever’

Journalist and essayist Patrick Freyne reads ‘Brain Fever’, an essay he pub ...

Instances of the Number 63

Louise O'Neill talks about feminism, kindness, isolation and writing a ...

'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 Truth About Secrets and Lies

Writer Eoin McNamee talks about how his tendency to blend fact and fiction ...

More Than One String to His Mandolin

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

How My Film Won An Oscar

Emma Donoghue talks about working with director Lenny Abrahamson on the fil ...

Melatu Uche Okorie Reads Ian Shine And Jonathan Edwards

Melatu Uche Okorie joins Sally Rooney to read and discuss ‘Cute’, by Ian Sh ...

Emilie Pine Reads Julian Gough

Emilie Pine and Sally Rooney read and discuss Julian Gough’s essay, ‘How To ...

Evelyn Conlon Reads ‘The Park’

Evelyn Conlon reads and discusses ‘The Park’, her story about Pope John Pau ...

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 ...

'The Singer'

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

Anne Enright on an Altered Ireland

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

Life Lessons with Marian Keyes

Marian Keyes talks to Martina Devlin about everything from why she believes ...

The Painter on His Bike

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

On Pollution

Across two prescient articles from her Long Distance columns, Kate ...

Pushing Ink onto a Page

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

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

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

James Joyce, Treeless Hills and the Night of the Big Wind

Katherine O'Callaghan looks at the influence of forests on Joyce' ...

Lowering the Heart Rate

Anne Enright on how writing consumes her life, on moving beyond comprehensi ...

What Is The Word Discussion

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

All Strangers Here

The launch of an anthology of writing by Irish diplomats and their families ...

Louise O'Neill: After the Silence

In this episode of City of Books host Martina Devlin is joined by ...

Announcing Books and Their Makers

Books and their Makers is a new podcast series on RadioMoLI exploring the ...

Paul Lynch & Juliet Mabey

The Booker Prize-winner and his publisher in conversation with Prof. Margar ...
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