#34 Carlo Gébler on the Power of Greek Myths
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Famously, King Oedipus killed his father and married his mother. That's what everyone knows about the Greek myth. But Carlo Gébler sets out to humanise the story.
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#33 BIG TOP, BIG DREAMS - SARAH WEBB
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A chance meeting with a circus professor fired Sarah Webb’s imagination and led to her latest novel.
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#32 Myth-Making Michael Collins
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Michael Collins is the the Irish Civil War's most famous casualty but there is a lot of “what-if-ery”about him, says Ireland’s best-known historian Diarmaid Ferriter.
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#31 The Road Less Travelled
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Playwright Rosaleen McDonagh talks about her activism, disability campaigning, journey through adult education which led to a Phd, and weaving together Traveller and settled culture, forging an identity from them.
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#30 Paul Perry's Eden Gone Wrong
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A delicate, rare bloom which is “like the blood diamonds of the flower world” and fetches millions of euro is the subject of poet Paul Perry’s first solo novel.
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#29 In Praise of Difficult Women
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Violet Gibson, an Irishwoman who attempted to shoot Mussolini, is a character in Evelyn Conlon’s short story collection, Moving About The Place.
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#28 Lisa McInerney's Riotous Revelations
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From social change to gender change - all bases are covered in this wide-ranging conversation with one of Ireland's most sparkling writers.
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#27 Look! It's A Woman Writer!
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A new collection of essays which reflect on the perils and compulsions of authorship, the vagaries of success and failure - and what counts as either.
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#26 Nora Barnacle - Joyce's Muse
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At the age of 20, Nora Barnacle left everything she knew behind to share the adventure of a lifetime with James Joyce.
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#25 Rónán Hession on Why Kindness is King
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“One of the brilliant things about books is that you can buy a book by the very best writers and if it still costs a tenner – it doesn’t cost any more than bad writing,” says Rónán Hession.
info_outlineA chance meeting with a professor of circus fired children’s writer Sarah Webb’s imagination and led to her latest novel.
Sarah learned how Ireland had the second circus in the world in the late 1700s, with stunt riding, clowns, acrobats - and bee charming, or riding with a necklace of live bees.
Her novel, The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street (for eight to 12-year-olds), was the result. It blends tenement life in 1911 Dublin with circus life.
Presented and produced by Martina Devlin
More on the book here: https://obrien.ie/the-little-bee-charmer-of-henrietta-street