
Books for Breakfast
A podcast focussing on fiction and poetry hosted by poets and writers Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley. Also features the Toaster Challenge where guest writers are given the time it takes to make toast to talk about a book that has resonated with them.
Podcasting since 2020 • 77 episodes
Books for Breakfast
Latest Episodes
76: Pat Boran on Hedge School
Finding inspiration in the local and near at had, attentive to climate concern and global unrest, to home and homeless, belonging and welcome, concern and global and welcome – on today’s episode we talk to poet and publisher Pat Boran ab...
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75: Mary Morrissy's Twenty-Twenty Vision
‘A beautiful tapestry of late middle age reckoning’ – today we interview the writer Mary Morrissy about her new collection of short stories,
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74: John Banville and Doris Kareva
Was 1950s Dublin really a place of murder and intrigue? On today’s show we travel to the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation in Dublin’s Fenian Street to talk to nove...
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Fan Mail
Greatly enjoyed the Christine Dwyer Hickey episode. Realised that the perspective of a novelist my own age was refreshing after so many recent Irish novels -many excellent - by and about people born after 1980. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled… Andrew Deacon
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