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Martina Devlin talks books with people who believe stories matter. And that you can never have too many books.

#19 Anne Enright on an Altered Ireland 01/14/2021

#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. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/17553458

#18 More Than One String To His Mandolin 12/28/2020

#18 More Than One String To His Mandolin Louis 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. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/17351627

#17 Haunted By The Ghost 12/11/2020

#17 Haunted By The Ghost In 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. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/17154434

#16 The Truth About Secrets and Lies 11/26/2020

#16 The Truth About Secrets and Lies Eoin 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. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/16959671

#15 How My Film Won an Oscar – Emma Donoghue 10/30/2020

#15 How My Film Won an Oscar – Emma Donoghue Writer Emma Donoghue us how she wrote an Oscar-nominated script working with director Lenny Abrahamson on 'Room'. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/16606274

#14 The Diplomatic Arts 09/18/2020

#14 The Diplomatic Arts Ireland'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. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/16054589

#13 Lemn Sissay and the Story of Why 08/28/2020

#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. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/15781292

#12 Richard Ford on Flouncing and Failure 07/10/2020

#12 Richard Ford on Flouncing and Failure Richard 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. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/15148979

#11 Liz Nugent's Dark Materials 06/19/2020

#11 Liz Nugent's Dark Materials Doyenne 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. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/14880599

#10 Colum McCann on Motorbikes, Motivation and Middle East 06/04/2020

#10 Colum McCann on Motorbikes, Motivation and Middle East Writer 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. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/14702561

#9 The Maamtrasna Murders 05/22/2020

#9 The Maamtrasna Murders Five 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 /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/14517881

#8 Joanna Trollope Opens Up On Fiction, Family and Feminism 05/08/2020

#8 Joanna Trollope Opens Up On Fiction, Family and Feminism Three Fs have been a consistent part of international bestseller Joanna Trollope's life: /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/14328851

#7 The Child's Eye from Marita Conlon-McKenna 04/23/2020

#7 The Child's Eye from Marita Conlon-McKenna The 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 Crime 04/16/2020

#6 South Dublin Noir Meets White Knuckle Crime RTÉ 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. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/14021018

#5 If You’re A Child You Know Where The Power Is 04/08/2020

#5 If You’re A Child You Know Where The Power Is Writer 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 Ships At A Distance Have Every Man's Wish On Board 04/03/2020

#4 Ships At A Distance Have Every Man's Wish On Board Writer 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. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/13818857

#3 One City One Book plus Finance Minister's Books at Bedtime 03/27/2020

#3 One City One Book plus Finance Minister's Books at Bedtime We snoop along Paschal Donohoe’s bookshelves, in episode three. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/13709570

#2: Life Lessons with Marian Keyes 02/14/2020

#2: Life Lessons with Marian Keyes In 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. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/13126664

#1: The Fine Art of Reading 01/21/2020

#1: The Fine Art of Reading In this episode, artist Robert Ballagh discusses his autobiography A Reluctant Memoir, published by Head of Zeus /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/12809459

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City of Books Trailer Martina Devlin talks books with people who believe stories matter. And that you can never have too many books. /episode/index/show/cityofbooks/id/12748853

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