Books for Breakfast (Ireland)
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.
Books for Breakfast (Ireland)
Latest Episodes
96: New Salmon poetry; Tess Barry interviewed
This year marks the 45th anniversary of Salmon Poetry now based in The Salmon Bookshop and Literary Centre, in Ennistymon, County Clare. We invited poet and critic Ciarán O’Rourke, whose own new collection,
95: Carlo Gebler talks to Virginia Evans about The Correspondent
Epistolary novels used to be all the rage Think Clarissa, think Dracula, think the more recent We need to talk about Kevin. Last year saw another smash hit epistolary novel,
94: Caitriona Lally on her memoir Home Economics
On today's show we travel down the road to Carlow University Pittsburgh's MFA in Creative Writing Program during its annual June residency at Trinity College, Dublin where we have been invited to interview novelist
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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