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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,

March 20, 2025 • 43:16

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...

March 06, 2025 • 50:13

73: John Montague: A Poet's Life

How much do we need to know about a writer's life? How does the life impinge on the work? What is the human price of art? In this episode we talk to biographer Adrian Frazier about

February 20, 2025 • 56:25

72: Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter

In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleep...

February 06, 2025 • 57:47

71: Keith Payne builds a boat and translates Luisa Castro; 2024 highlights

On today’s show, the last of 2024, we talk to Keith Payne about his recent  boat building and poem writing project. Currachs and naomhógs are among the only sea craft built upside do...

December 31, 2024 • 1:06:45

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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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