#25 Rónán Hession on Why Kindness is King“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.
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#24 John Banville Fades To BlackJohn Banville, who has killed off his own Benjamin Black pen name, is disturbed by explicit depictions of violence in popular culture.
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#23 Neil Jordan and the Runaway SlaveOscar-winning filmmaker Neil Jordan runs parallel careers as a director and novelist, and his latest book is his most cinematic.
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#22 Danielle McLaughlin Finding Herself“As someone prone to get lost in the darker currents of my own head I’ve found it healthier to get lost in a book,” says Danielle McLaughlin.
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#21 Louise O'Neill on Why She's a Warrior not a Princess“The number 63 has come up for me time and time again in very strange ways,” says writer Louise O’Neill. “I have put it in each of my books."
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#20 Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Poetic Licence EarnedPoet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin talks about a time when books were banned in Ireland.
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#19 Anne Enright on an Altered Ireland“I don’t know if Ireland is the same any more,” says Booker Prize winner and former Laureate for Irish Fiction Anne Enright.
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#18 Many Strings to de Bernières's MandolinLouis de Bernières is known worldwide as the author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin - but at nineteen, teaching in Colombia, he was known for something else. Dancing like a chicken.
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#17 Haunted By The GhostIn her first podcast interview since winning the An Post Irish Book of the Year award for 2020, Doireann Ní Ghríofa describes how she shares her life with a famous 18th century widow.
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#16 Eoin McNamee's Hidden HistoriesEoin McNamee blurs fact and fiction to produce art, whether exploring secret intelligence agencies or speculating on why Princess Diana died in a high speed car accident.
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#15 How Emma Donoghue Won an OscarWriter Emma Donoghue us how she wrote an Oscar-nominated script working with director Lenny Abrahamson on 'Room'.
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#14 The Diplomatic ArtsIreland's man in Washington, Ambassador Daniel Mulhall, talks us through the rhyme and reason of poetry - and how literature can act as a cultural bridge. He practises what he preaches by tweeting daily poems.
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#13 Lemn Sissay and the Story of Why Lemn Sissay shoots from the hip and speaks from the heart in this interview about mother and baby homes, the Black Lives Matter campaign and his experience in the British care system.
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#12 Richard Ford on Flouncing and FailureRichard Ford is listing his failures. He wanted to be a lawyer in the US Marines. Didn’t work out. He wanted to be “a lawyer, period”. Didn’t work out.
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#11 Liz Nugent's Dark MaterialsDoyenne of domestic noir Liz Nugent’s work has an army of fans including Graham Norton, who describes her latest hit Our Little Cruelties as part rollercoaster, part maze.
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#10 Colum McCann on Motorbikes and the Middle EastWriter Colum McCann talks about his hope that his book, Apeirogon, may contribute to peace. It fictionalises the true story of two fathers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who each lose a child in the conflict.
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#9 The Maamtrasna MurdersFive murders, three executions, one moving speech from the gallows... The Maamtrasna murders were sparked by a blood feud in 19th century Ireland. The trial caused an international sensation
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#8 Joanna Trollope on Fiction, Family and FeminismThree Fs have been a consistent part of international bestseller Joanna Trollope's life:
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#7 The Child's Eye from Marita Conlon-McKennaThe magic of storytelling, why famine stories continue to grip us and the powerful use of the child's voice in Tatty - the 2020 Dublin One City One Book choice. All this and more from Marita Conlon-McKenna, much-loved author of Under The Hawthorn Tree./episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/14121206
#6 South Dublin Noir Meets White Knuckle CrimeRTÉ Arts and Media Correspondent Sinéad Crowley, also a crime novelist, talks about books, her love of running, her passion for ghost stories and 'Tatty' - the 2020 Dublin One City One Book choice.
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#5 Why Prison Teaching Is My University - Carlo GéblerWriter Carlo Gébler, son of Edna O'Brien, talks about One City One Book choices in the second of four weekly City of Books podcast extras. On his mother's classic trilogy, The Country Girls, he says it stands the test of time because it “talks about the truth of human experience”./episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/13908785
#4 Sinéad Gleeson's Reading ChoicesWriter and editor Sinéad Gleeson talks Tatty – and more – in the first of four City of Books podcast extras. Weekly to coincide with Dublin’s One City One Book programme featuring the novel by Christine Dwyer Hickey.
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#3 Finance Minister and Christine Dwyer HickeyWe snoop along Paschal Donohoe’s bookshelves, in episode three.
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#2: Life Lessons with Marian KeyesIn this episode, the international bestseller talks about everything from why she believes in supporting other women, to why bulimia is possibly the cruellest addiction. Marian also talks about her latest novel Grown Ups.
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#1 Robert Ballagh on Beckett, Paisley and Prince PhilipIn this episode, artist Robert Ballagh discusses his autobiography A Reluctant Memoir, published by Head of Zeus
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City of Books TrailerMartina Devlin talks books with people who believe stories matter. And that you can never have too many books.
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