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Aug 2nd, 2019
As well as being a gifted writer, Ian Maleney is a very thoughtful and articulate speaker, which comes across in this conversation. Ian talks about a lot of the topics that he has that he expressed in his collection of essays, Minor Monuments, as well as many of the challenges that face a young artist in Ireland today....
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Jul 4th, 2019
In Hugo Hamilton’s fictional memoir, Dublin Palms, he explores themes of home and displacement and describes the difficulty of growing up in a multi-lingual home. Here he discusses those themes and describes the process of writing fictional memoir, which he says is like creating a ‘blurry self-portrait’. He also reads ...
Jun 18th, 2019
Anne Griffin’s debut novel, 'When All is Said' is rightly getting praise from authors, reviewers and the public for its depiction of Maurice Hannigan, a fictional character that you come to deeply know and relate to through reading the novel. Here, Anne speaks about how she got published, how she dealt with rejection a...
Guests
Jun 4th, 2019
‘I think what poetry needs most of all is music.’This episode of WriteStuff features Niall MacMonagle, who is incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about poetry. He is a teacher and collector of poetry, being responsible for some much loved anthologies, including the Lifelines series and Windharp. He has also crea...
May 2nd, 2019
Helen Cullen offers insights into how she wrote her first novel, The Lost Letters of William Woolf. After reading from the opening of the novel, Helen describes how she came to the premise of the novel and how she developed the characters. She also offers an honest portrayal of the anxiety felt at the different stages ...
Guests
Jan 28th, 2019
In 'Illuminate', Kerrie O’Brien has created a collection of poems that deals with a range of themes, yet is coherent in its style and beauty. Here she talks about ‘Illuminate’ and the work that went into creating it as well as reading two of the most loved poems from that collection. She also gives her take on the curr...
Jan 10th, 2019
‘I always think of the voices that don’t get amplified in society.’ Sorcha Fox is a multitalented performer, actor, writer, director and poet who has written a poetic sequence called Remember that invites her audience to remember their national past, which can invoke pride or often shame. Her words and performances a...
Dec 18th, 2018
‘Poetry is about addressing the limits of our perceptions.’Martin Dyar is a poet who manages to be both a respectful scholar of the traditions of poetry and a voice that is contemporary and mindful of the future of the form. In this interview, Martin discusses the role of the poet and offers many insights into a lif...
Nov 29th, 2018
In the Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow, Danny Denton has written a novel that really fits into the archive of Irish fictional writing while standing out as something unique in its delivery of an imaginative context of an alternative Ireland, with a plot that is exposed through various storytelling devices and charact...
Guests
Nov 13th, 2018
In this episode, Dr. Martina Carroll talks about the connection between writing and positive psychology. As a teacher, psychologist and writer, Martina has a lot to say about how writing can play a role in developing positive psychology.
Oct 30th, 2018
‘When I sit down to write, I’m pursuing an ideal of total freedom.’Rob Doyle talks here about his novel 'Here Are the Young Men', his story collection 'This is the Ritual', his forthcoming novel and an anthology of experimental Irish writing that he edited called 'The Other Irish Tradition'. He also talks about his i...
Oct 12th, 2018
‘Sometimes I think this person can’t write a letter, so I don’t have the confidence that they can write a book.’ Jo Unwin went from working in a bookshop to establishing a very prestigious literary agency. We speak here about how she went from acting to setting up her agency. Jo talks about the importance of agents t...
Oct 1st, 2018
Kit de Waal’s latest novel; The Trick to Time tells two love stories, both involving Mona, a woman who has suffered a lot and who comes up with a way of using dolls to provide healing to women who have suffered the loss of a child. We talk about this in this interview as well as her great first novel; My Name is Leon, ...
Sep 13th, 2018
This episode is a chat, a laugh and a song from Cork national treasure John Spillane. John tells us about his recent goings on, how his songwriting has changed through the years and he plays us a lovely version of Shanagolden as a tribute to Seán McCarthy.
Aug 28th, 2018
The always engaging Michael Harding reads from his latest book ‘On Tuesdays I’m a Buddhist’ and goes on to talk to Chris about the importance of storytelling and his experiences of therapy, both of which are central themes of the book. He details his journey through various religions and philosophies and his connection...
Aug 15th, 2018
Stephen James Smith is a poet with a voice that is unique yet distinctly Irish. He has written poems that epitomise being from Dublin, being from Ireland and being a son. He speaks about these poems in this conversation as well as the responsibility he feels when writing about his home, the financial struggles he faces...
Aug 8th, 2018
In this episode, Chris talks to Emilie Pine who has just released her collection of essays called Notes To Self. In Notes to Self, Emilie beautifully articulates some of her most difficult experiences, in doing so, she gives the reader the opportunity to confront those experiences and emotions that we might tend to sup...
Jul 27th, 2018
In this episode, Chris talks to the brilliant Eimear McBride. Eimear talks here about her two novels, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and The Lesser Bohemians as well as other projects she has been working on, including her work as the Inaugural Creative Fellow at The Samuel Beckett Research Centre. Eimear discusses adap...
Jul 17th, 2018
Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland’s most prominent writers. A prolific writer of plays, essays, articles, poetry and many much-loved novels. In this wide-reaching discussion, Colm talks to us about change in Ireland, writing his recent novels compared to his earlier work, common themes in his writing and his process. The i...
Guests
Jul 6th, 2018
This podcast features interviews with President Michael D. Higgins and Professor Geraldine Higgins at the opening of Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, a new exhibition featuring Heaney’s archives at the new Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre. President Higgins opened the exhibition and we feature excerpts from...
Jun 20th, 2018
This episode features an interview with and reading from Gary Cunningham. In ‘Joys of Joy’ and ‘Life After Joy’ Gary wrote about his experiences as a prisoner and life after imprisonment respectively. Gary has gone through a lot and has used writing as a way of eloquently expressing his story. This should be a sad stor...
Jun 8th, 2018
This is the first of a number episodes recorded at this year’s Listowel Writers’ Week. Through a writing career spanning 55 years, Margaret Drabble has written such novels as A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Red Queen, and the highly-acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby. She has also written biographies, screenplays an...
May 30th, 2018
Paul McNamara – Performance PoetThis episode features two performances and a chat with Paul McNamara. Paul has won a range of competitions for his performances and treated audiences at many festivals and events to his comedic and sincere poems that chronicle the misfortunes of a twenty-something Irish male. He delive...
May 16th, 2018
In the third episode of WriteStuff, Chris Fitzgerald interviews Kerry Neville. Kerry teaches creative writing at Georgia College and State University and was in Ireland to deliver workshops at the Frank McCourt Creative Writing Festival. Kerry’s first collection of fiction, Necessary Lies, received the G.S. Sharat Chan...
Apr 25th, 2018
In the second episode of WriteStuff, Chris Fitzgerald talks to Liz Nugent. Following on from the huge successes of her first two novels, Unravelling Oliver and Lying in Wait, Liz has just released Skin Deep. The novel tells the story of Cordelia and her relationships with various men as she moves from an Irish island t...
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