RadioMoLI Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/radiomoli Broadcasting from the Museum of Literature Ireland, RadioMoLI is a digital radio station of Irish literature. Museum of Literature Ireland 94a5ced7-b9de-5754-b05f-37a33853a7ae yes Announcing Books & Their Makers en Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:10:22 +0000 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:12:12 +0000 http://radio.moli.ie https://img.transistorcdn.com/usru70n9bYHeCD9zyxHez6-lYhJkhMGp6TIGuXnHAuA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzIzNjUyLzE2MzMz/ODA5MDYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg RadioMoLI http://radio.moli.ie episodic Museum of Literature Ireland Broadcasting from the Museum of Literature Ireland, RadioMoLI is a digital radio station of Irish literature. Broadcasting from the Museum of Literature Ireland, RadioMoLI is a digital radio station of Irish literature.. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer MoLI No No Happy Ever After: Naoise Dolan Happy Ever After: Naoise Dolan full cf2e6f22-6016-44dd-be60-918e6145de25 https://share.transistor.fm/s/c5ae4c13 For centuries, romance fiction by Irish writers from Lady Morgan to Marian Keyes has told the story of characters in love. Yet romance remains a target for public condemnation and critical contempt, in part because these popular novels have been written largely by and for women. In summer 2025, the Museum of Literature Ireland launched the exhibition Happy Ever After: Falling in Love with Irish Romance Fiction to showcase the unique character of Irish romance fiction.

In this series of interviews, Prof. Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross) speaks with Irish writers who focus on romance in their fiction. The conversations reveal that the term “romance fiction” remains a vexed one. They also confirm that this genre, which promises the familiar satisfaction of a happy ending, valuably introduces – and sometimes forecasts – revolutionary personal and social changes. By featuring characters who overcome internal and external barriers to happiness, Irish romance fiction voices aspirations for personal fulfillment and a better society.

The second episode in a series, Prof. Paige Reynolds is joined by Naoise Dola, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple. Discussing queer love in Irish romance fiction, marriage as an influence in Irish culture and literature and much more, this expansive interview explores how themes of love shape representation in contemporary literature.

Produced with the support of the Edward Callahan Support Fund for Irish Studies and the J. D. Power Center for the Liberal Arts at the College of the Holy Cross; and the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow Digital.

Producer Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Sound Engineer Caterina Schembri

]]> For centuries, romance fiction by Irish writers from Lady Morgan to Marian Keyes has told the story of characters in love. Yet romance remains a target for public condemnation and critical contempt, in part because these popular novels have been written largely by and for women. In summer 2025, the Museum of Literature Ireland launched the exhibition Happy Ever After: Falling in Love with Irish Romance Fiction to showcase the unique character of Irish romance fiction.

In this series of interviews, Prof. Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross) speaks with Irish writers who focus on romance in their fiction. The conversations reveal that the term “romance fiction” remains a vexed one. They also confirm that this genre, which promises the familiar satisfaction of a happy ending, valuably introduces – and sometimes forecasts – revolutionary personal and social changes. By featuring characters who overcome internal and external barriers to happiness, Irish romance fiction voices aspirations for personal fulfillment and a better society.

The second episode in a series, Prof. Paige Reynolds is joined by Naoise Dola, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple. Discussing queer love in Irish romance fiction, marriage as an influence in Irish culture and literature and much more, this expansive interview explores how themes of love shape representation in contemporary literature.

Produced with the support of the Edward Callahan Support Fund for Irish Studies and the J. D. Power Center for the Liberal Arts at the College of the Holy Cross; and the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow Digital.

Producer Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Sound Engineer Caterina Schembri

]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:08:17 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3337 For centuries, romance fiction by Irish writers from Lady Morgan to Marian Keyes has told the story of characters in love. Yet romance remains a target for public condemnation and critical contempt, in part because these popular novels have been written largely by and for women. In summer 2025, the Museum of Literature Ireland launched the exhibition Happy Ever After: Falling in Love with Irish Romance Fiction to showcase the unique character of Irish romance fiction.

In this series of interviews, Prof. Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross) speaks with Irish writers who focus on romance in their fiction. The conversations reveal that the term “romance fiction” remains a vexed one. They also confirm that this genre, which promises the familiar satisfaction of a happy ending, valuably introduces – and sometimes forecasts – revolutionary personal and social changes. By featuring characters who overcome internal and external barriers to happiness, Irish romance fiction voices aspirations for personal fulfillment and a better society.

The second episode in a series, Prof. Paige Reynolds is joined by Naoise Dola, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple. Discussing queer love in Irish romance fiction, marriage as an influence in Irish culture and literature and much more, this expansive interview explores how themes of love shape representation in contemporary literature.

Produced with the support of the Edward Callahan Support Fund for Irish Studies and the J. D. Power Center for the Liberal Arts at the College of the Holy Cross; and the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow Digital.

Producer Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Sound Engineer Caterina Schembri

]]> books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No The Radical Act The Radical Act full da608060-0ae9-4c26-8de9-d3b6d59e2166 https://share.transistor.fm/s/006a68e0 MoLI’s award-winning learning programme reaches thousands of young people and adults every year, through onsite tours and workshops, online workshops to schools across the island, volunteer and work experience programmes, and through targeted work with communities. 


In this conversation, we take a look under the hood of the museum’s learning department to find out more about the intention and realities of making all of this happen. Jennie Ryan, Head of Learning and Community at MoLI, and Lily Cahill, the museum’s Learning Manager, join MoLI’s Benedict Schlepper-Connolly to discuss how learning and the museum’s mission are interconnected, bringing a lightness of touch to our learning programmes, the importance of people-centred learning, and how learning itself can be seen as a radical act.


MoLI’s learning programme is delivered with the support of many sponsors and partners, including Maples Group, AerCap, the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Dublin City Council, UNESCO City of Literature, ALL Funding and UCD All.

]]> MoLI’s award-winning learning programme reaches thousands of young people and adults every year, through onsite tours and workshops, online workshops to schools across the island, volunteer and work experience programmes, and through targeted work with communities. 


In this conversation, we take a look under the hood of the museum’s learning department to find out more about the intention and realities of making all of this happen. Jennie Ryan, Head of Learning and Community at MoLI, and Lily Cahill, the museum’s Learning Manager, join MoLI’s Benedict Schlepper-Connolly to discuss how learning and the museum’s mission are interconnected, bringing a lightness of touch to our learning programmes, the importance of people-centred learning, and how learning itself can be seen as a radical act.


MoLI’s learning programme is delivered with the support of many sponsors and partners, including Maples Group, AerCap, the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Dublin City Council, UNESCO City of Literature, ALL Funding and UCD All.

]]> Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:38:30 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3798 MoLI’s award-winning learning programme reaches thousands of young people and adults every year, through onsite tours and workshops, online workshops to schools across the island, volunteer and work experience programmes, and through targeted work with communities. 


In this conversation, we take a look under the hood of the museum’s learning department to find out more about the intention and realities of making all of this happen. Jennie Ryan, Head of Learning and Community at MoLI, and Lily Cahill, the museum’s Learning Manager, join MoLI’s Benedict Schlepper-Connolly to discuss how learning and the museum’s mission are interconnected, bringing a lightness of touch to our learning programmes, the importance of people-centred learning, and how learning itself can be seen as a radical act.


MoLI’s learning programme is delivered with the support of many sponsors and partners, including Maples Group, AerCap, the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Dublin City Council, UNESCO City of Literature, ALL Funding and UCD All.

]]> literature, education, learning, museum, interview No Happy Ever After: Marian Keyes Happy Ever After: Marian Keyes full e077c471-d147-4770-9e5d-a9478fdad217 https://share.transistor.fm/s/56a768a3 For centuries, romance fiction by Irish writers from Lady Morgan to Marian Keyes has told the story of characters in love. Yet romance remains a target for public condemnation and critical contempt, in part because these popular novels have been written largely by and for women. In summer 2025, the Museum of Literature Ireland launched the exhibition Happy Ever After: Falling in Love with Irish Romance Fiction to showcase the unique character of Irish romance fiction.

In this series of interviews, Prof. Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross) speaks with Irish writers who focus on romance in their fiction. The conversations reveal that the term “romance fiction” remains a vexed one. They also confirm that this genre, which promises the familiar satisfaction of a happy ending, valuably introduces – and sometimes forecasts – revolutionary personal and social changes. By featuring characters who overcome internal and external barriers to happiness, Irish romance fiction voices aspirations for personal fulfillment and a better society.

In the first episode of the series, we feature Irish writer Marian Keyes, an award-winning novelist and essayist, whose books have sold over 40 million copies worldwide and been translated into 36 languages. Her novels centered on the Walsh family, and its five sisters, recently has been adapted into a television series The Walsh Sisters. In this in-depth interview, Keyes and Reynolds discuss a range of topics from Keyes’ canny use of the flashback to her strategies for writing novels linked in a series.

]]> For centuries, romance fiction by Irish writers from Lady Morgan to Marian Keyes has told the story of characters in love. Yet romance remains a target for public condemnation and critical contempt, in part because these popular novels have been written largely by and for women. In summer 2025, the Museum of Literature Ireland launched the exhibition Happy Ever After: Falling in Love with Irish Romance Fiction to showcase the unique character of Irish romance fiction.

In this series of interviews, Prof. Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross) speaks with Irish writers who focus on romance in their fiction. The conversations reveal that the term “romance fiction” remains a vexed one. They also confirm that this genre, which promises the familiar satisfaction of a happy ending, valuably introduces – and sometimes forecasts – revolutionary personal and social changes. By featuring characters who overcome internal and external barriers to happiness, Irish romance fiction voices aspirations for personal fulfillment and a better society.

In the first episode of the series, we feature Irish writer Marian Keyes, an award-winning novelist and essayist, whose books have sold over 40 million copies worldwide and been translated into 36 languages. Her novels centered on the Walsh family, and its five sisters, recently has been adapted into a television series The Walsh Sisters. In this in-depth interview, Keyes and Reynolds discuss a range of topics from Keyes’ canny use of the flashback to her strategies for writing novels linked in a series.

]]> Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:31:35 +0100 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3927 For centuries, romance fiction by Irish writers from Lady Morgan to Marian Keyes has told the story of characters in love. Yet romance remains a target for public condemnation and critical contempt, in part because these popular novels have been written largely by and for women. In summer 2025, the Museum of Literature Ireland launched the exhibition Happy Ever After: Falling in Love with Irish Romance Fiction to showcase the unique character of Irish romance fiction.

In this series of interviews, Prof. Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross) speaks with Irish writers who focus on romance in their fiction. The conversations reveal that the term “romance fiction” remains a vexed one. They also confirm that this genre, which promises the familiar satisfaction of a happy ending, valuably introduces – and sometimes forecasts – revolutionary personal and social changes. By featuring characters who overcome internal and external barriers to happiness, Irish romance fiction voices aspirations for personal fulfillment and a better society.

In the first episode of the series, we feature Irish writer Marian Keyes, an award-winning novelist and essayist, whose books have sold over 40 million copies worldwide and been translated into 36 languages. Her novels centered on the Walsh family, and its five sisters, recently has been adapted into a television series The Walsh Sisters. In this in-depth interview, Keyes and Reynolds discuss a range of topics from Keyes’ canny use of the flashback to her strategies for writing novels linked in a series.

]]> books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No The Dedalus Lecture: Naoise Dolan The Dedalus Lecture: Naoise Dolan full ce367e91-853d-497c-a450-e881114c65ad https://share.transistor.fm/s/ac310603 The 2025 Dedalus Lecture, an annual lecture held at MoLI on Bloomsday, 16 June, was delivered by the novelist, essayist and critic Naoise Dolan. In her lecture, titled ‘The Exophonic Ulysses’, Dolan will wove insights about multilingualism with an understanding of Joyce as a linguist – his love of Italian, French and Latin, and his more fraught relationship with Irish, before offering a broader reflection on adventures in multilingual writing.2

Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. She studied at Trinity College, followed by a master's in Victorian literature at Oxford. She writes fiction, essays, criticism and features for publications including the London Review of Books, the Guardian and Vogue. Dolan’s debut novel Exciting Times was published by W&N in the UK and by Ecco in the US in 2020, and became a Sunday Times bestseller, widely translated and optioned for TV. She has been shortlisted and longlisted for several prizes, including the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Dolan’s second novel The Happy Couple was published in 2024.

]]> The 2025 Dedalus Lecture, an annual lecture held at MoLI on Bloomsday, 16 June, was delivered by the novelist, essayist and critic Naoise Dolan. In her lecture, titled ‘The Exophonic Ulysses’, Dolan will wove insights about multilingualism with an understanding of Joyce as a linguist – his love of Italian, French and Latin, and his more fraught relationship with Irish, before offering a broader reflection on adventures in multilingual writing.2

Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. She studied at Trinity College, followed by a master's in Victorian literature at Oxford. She writes fiction, essays, criticism and features for publications including the London Review of Books, the Guardian and Vogue. Dolan’s debut novel Exciting Times was published by W&N in the UK and by Ecco in the US in 2020, and became a Sunday Times bestseller, widely translated and optioned for TV. She has been shortlisted and longlisted for several prizes, including the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Dolan’s second novel The Happy Couple was published in 2024.

]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:28:14 +0100 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 2990 The 2025 Dedalus Lecture, an annual lecture held at MoLI on Bloomsday, 16 June, was delivered by the novelist, essayist and critic Naoise Dolan. In her lecture, titled ‘The Exophonic Ulysses’, Dolan will wove insights about multilingualism with an understanding of Joyce as a linguist – his love of Italian, French and Latin, and his more fraught relationship with Irish, before offering a broader reflection on adventures in multilingual writing.2

Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. She studied at Trinity College, followed by a master's in Victorian literature at Oxford. She writes fiction, essays, criticism and features for publications including the London Review of Books, the Guardian and Vogue. Dolan’s debut novel Exciting Times was published by W&N in the UK and by Ecco in the US in 2020, and became a Sunday Times bestseller, widely translated and optioned for TV. She has been shortlisted and longlisted for several prizes, including the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Dolan’s second novel The Happy Couple was published in 2024.

]]> books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Remembering Home Remembering Home full 452c7de8-b239-413e-a7b3-063926941778 https://share.transistor.fm/s/18670d07 Running at MoLI across the weekend of 7-9 June 2024, HOMESWEETHOME was a multidisciplinary festival circling the theme of home. 

Taking place across the museum’s exhibitions and historic house, and with programmes designed for all ages, the festival will explore new perspectives on the central question of ‘What is home?’ through talks, discussion, performances, music, workshops, food, and more.

In the festival’s opening event, titled Remembering Home, writer and documentary maker Manchán Magan led a conversation reflecting on memory and home, featuring poet Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, writer Melatu Uche Okorie and fiddle player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.

HOMESWEETHOME was presented as part of ULYSSES European Odyssey, an epic project across 18 cities producing artistic responses to social and cultural themes identified in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Find out more at ulysseseurope.eu

]]> Running at MoLI across the weekend of 7-9 June 2024, HOMESWEETHOME was a multidisciplinary festival circling the theme of home. 

Taking place across the museum’s exhibitions and historic house, and with programmes designed for all ages, the festival will explore new perspectives on the central question of ‘What is home?’ through talks, discussion, performances, music, workshops, food, and more.

In the festival’s opening event, titled Remembering Home, writer and documentary maker Manchán Magan led a conversation reflecting on memory and home, featuring poet Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, writer Melatu Uche Okorie and fiddle player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.

HOMESWEETHOME was presented as part of ULYSSES European Odyssey, an epic project across 18 cities producing artistic responses to social and cultural themes identified in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Find out more at ulysseseurope.eu

]]> Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:53:04 +0100 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 2963 Running at MoLI across the weekend of 7-9 June 2024, HOMESWEETHOME was a multidisciplinary festival circling the theme of home. 

Taking place across the museum’s exhibitions and historic house, and with programmes designed for all ages, the festival will explore new perspectives on the central question of ‘What is home?’ through talks, discussion, performances, music, workshops, food, and more.

In the festival’s opening event, titled Remembering Home, writer and documentary maker Manchán Magan led a conversation reflecting on memory and home, featuring poet Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, writer Melatu Uche Okorie and fiddle player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.

HOMESWEETHOME was presented as part of ULYSSES European Odyssey, an epic project across 18 cities producing artistic responses to social and cultural themes identified in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Find out more at ulysseseurope.eu

]]> books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Words on the Waves Words on the Waves full a9196a8d-8213-4919-b51e-51ee771e49f5 https://share.transistor.fm/s/243344aa The Museum of Literature Ireland celebrated the relaunch RadioMoLI with a special event held at the museum on 25 September 2025.

A vast and ever-growing digital archive for Irish literature, RadioMoLI features hundreds of audio recordings, video and images, all of which are free and accessible. First launched in February 2019 – several months before the museum opened its doors for the first time – the platform has been completely redesigned and rebuilt, to create an open and vital new home for literature on a national and international scale.

RadioMoLI will continue to grow its collection, combining in-house productions and live broadcasts with media from partners in the Irish literature community. A vast archive, the collection includes podcasts, lectures, readings, discussion, commissioned films, digital exhibitions and much more. Highlights include the MoLI-produced Writer Presents series, in-depth interviews with contemporary writers such as Anne Enright and Frank McGuinness, or the museum’s long-running Past/Present/Pride series.

To celebrate an exciting future for RadioMoLI, the museum hosted a rich evening of discussion, reading and song. Presented at the museum with both a live audience and streamed online, the event features musicians Julia Spanu (song) and Elsa Kelly (harp); writer Henrietta McKervey; and a panel discussion about the art of digital storytelling including Sinéad Clandillon (Head of Content, Ebow Digital), Jennifer Forde (producer of West Cork, Havana Helmet Club), Zoë Comyns (producer of The Prompt, Marconi and Me), David Douglas (MD, Ebow Digital) and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly (MoLI).

Words on the Waves was presented in partnership with Ebow Digital.

]]> The Museum of Literature Ireland celebrated the relaunch RadioMoLI with a special event held at the museum on 25 September 2025.

A vast and ever-growing digital archive for Irish literature, RadioMoLI features hundreds of audio recordings, video and images, all of which are free and accessible. First launched in February 2019 – several months before the museum opened its doors for the first time – the platform has been completely redesigned and rebuilt, to create an open and vital new home for literature on a national and international scale.

RadioMoLI will continue to grow its collection, combining in-house productions and live broadcasts with media from partners in the Irish literature community. A vast archive, the collection includes podcasts, lectures, readings, discussion, commissioned films, digital exhibitions and much more. Highlights include the MoLI-produced Writer Presents series, in-depth interviews with contemporary writers such as Anne Enright and Frank McGuinness, or the museum’s long-running Past/Present/Pride series.

To celebrate an exciting future for RadioMoLI, the museum hosted a rich evening of discussion, reading and song. Presented at the museum with both a live audience and streamed online, the event features musicians Julia Spanu (song) and Elsa Kelly (harp); writer Henrietta McKervey; and a panel discussion about the art of digital storytelling including Sinéad Clandillon (Head of Content, Ebow Digital), Jennifer Forde (producer of West Cork, Havana Helmet Club), Zoë Comyns (producer of The Prompt, Marconi and Me), David Douglas (MD, Ebow Digital) and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly (MoLI).

Words on the Waves was presented in partnership with Ebow Digital.

]]> Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:34:10 +0100 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 4160 The Museum of Literature Ireland celebrated the relaunch RadioMoLI with a special event held at the museum on 25 September 2025.

A vast and ever-growing digital archive for Irish literature, RadioMoLI features hundreds of audio recordings, video and images, all of which are free and accessible. First launched in February 2019 – several months before the museum opened its doors for the first time – the platform has been completely redesigned and rebuilt, to create an open and vital new home for literature on a national and international scale.

RadioMoLI will continue to grow its collection, combining in-house productions and live broadcasts with media from partners in the Irish literature community. A vast archive, the collection includes podcasts, lectures, readings, discussion, commissioned films, digital exhibitions and much more. Highlights include the MoLI-produced Writer Presents series, in-depth interviews with contemporary writers such as Anne Enright and Frank McGuinness, or the museum’s long-running Past/Present/Pride series.

To celebrate an exciting future for RadioMoLI, the museum hosted a rich evening of discussion, reading and song. Presented at the museum with both a live audience and streamed online, the event features musicians Julia Spanu (song) and Elsa Kelly (harp); writer Henrietta McKervey; and a panel discussion about the art of digital storytelling including Sinéad Clandillon (Head of Content, Ebow Digital), Jennifer Forde (producer of West Cork, Havana Helmet Club), Zoë Comyns (producer of The Prompt, Marconi and Me), David Douglas (MD, Ebow Digital) and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly (MoLI).

Words on the Waves was presented in partnership with Ebow Digital.

]]> books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Announcing Books & Their Makers Announcing Books & Their Makers trailer 4a0223ea-1a91-4a32-ba32-a01f471033b8 https://share.transistor.fm/s/2a9fc3ae Books and their Makers is a new podcast series on RadioMoLI exploring the stories behind the books we read. Featuring conversations with authors, editors, publishers, agents, and translators, and highlighting the many crucial behind-the-scenes activities and workers involved in bringing writing to publication. 


The series is presented by Dr Tim Groenland, School of English, Drama and Film, UCD, and supported by the project The Publishing Infrastructures of Contemporary Anglophone Literature, funded by Taighde Éireann / Research Ireland. 

MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the Digital Agency.

]]> Books and their Makers is a new podcast series on RadioMoLI exploring the stories behind the books we read. Featuring conversations with authors, editors, publishers, agents, and translators, and highlighting the many crucial behind-the-scenes activities and workers involved in bringing writing to publication. 


The series is presented by Dr Tim Groenland, School of English, Drama and Film, UCD, and supported by the project The Publishing Infrastructures of Contemporary Anglophone Literature, funded by Taighde Éireann / Research Ireland. 

MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the Digital Agency.

]]> Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:43:43 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 80 Books and their Makers is a new podcast series on RadioMoLI exploring the stories behind the books we read. Featuring conversations with authors, editors, publishers, agents, and translators, and highlighting the many crucial behind-the-scenes activities and workers involved in bringing writing to publication. 


The series is presented by Dr Tim Groenland, School of English, Drama and Film, UCD, and supported by the project The Publishing Infrastructures of Contemporary Anglophone Literature, funded by Taighde Éireann / Research Ireland. 

MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the Digital Agency.

]]> books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No The MoLI Christmas Ghost Story: A Visit from the Banshee The MoLI Christmas Ghost Story: A Visit from the Banshee full 5fbaecfb-2ae6-480a-b892-9e266307ad34 https://radio.moli.ie/r/a-visit-from-the-banshee The 2024 MoLI Christmas Ghost Story is a live recording from the launch of MoLI Edition’s new publication, A Visit from the Banshee, edited by Katie Mishler, and produced by the Museum of Literature Ireland in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics. Across the half-hour recording, you will hear extracts from three stories featured in the book, alongside live music and sound design by Seán Mac Erlaine. 


In Oein DeBhairduin’s story ‘Hungry Grass / Crōlušk sirk', performed by Nuala Hayes, a mother seeks to appease a sinister spirit by offering bread. In Melatu Uche Okorie’s story, “Guardians of the Land”, performed by Demi Isaac Oviawe, a young warrior, faces the ghostly Warriors Past of Ikenga in a trial of endurance. And in ‘Buille Luath an Luain agus Buille Déanach an tSathairn’ – a story collected by Peig Sayers, translated here by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, and performed by Nuala Hayes, a grieving farmer's son encounters a mysterious old woman who performs terrifying nightly rituals.


A visit from the banshee is available from the MoLI shop now. Visit moli.ie/banshee for details.


Producers Prof. Gerardine Meaney, Dr. Katie Mishler, Dr. Jenny Knell and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

Recording engineer Simon Cullen

Edit and mixing engineer Seán Mac Erlaine 

Series music Benedict Schlepper-Connolly


The MoLI Christmas Ghost Story is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 884951). 


This recording was produced in collaboration with UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and VICTEUR. VICTEUR: European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture uses big data to trace the rich and dynamic cultural impact of migration on the cultural identity of both migrant and host communities in the historical long-term. For more visit CCA dot UCD dot IE / VICTEUR


MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.

]]> The 2024 MoLI Christmas Ghost Story is a live recording from the launch of MoLI Edition’s new publication, A Visit from the Banshee, edited by Katie Mishler, and produced by the Museum of Literature Ireland in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics. Across the half-hour recording, you will hear extracts from three stories featured in the book, alongside live music and sound design by Seán Mac Erlaine. 


In Oein DeBhairduin’s story ‘Hungry Grass / Crōlušk sirk', performed by Nuala Hayes, a mother seeks to appease a sinister spirit by offering bread. In Melatu Uche Okorie’s story, “Guardians of the Land”, performed by Demi Isaac Oviawe, a young warrior, faces the ghostly Warriors Past of Ikenga in a trial of endurance. And in ‘Buille Luath an Luain agus Buille Déanach an tSathairn’ – a story collected by Peig Sayers, translated here by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, and performed by Nuala Hayes, a grieving farmer's son encounters a mysterious old woman who performs terrifying nightly rituals.


A visit from the banshee is available from the MoLI shop now. Visit moli.ie/banshee for details.


Producers Prof. Gerardine Meaney, Dr. Katie Mishler, Dr. Jenny Knell and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

Recording engineer Simon Cullen

Edit and mixing engineer Seán Mac Erlaine 

Series music Benedict Schlepper-Connolly


The MoLI Christmas Ghost Story is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 884951). 


This recording was produced in collaboration with UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and VICTEUR. VICTEUR: European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture uses big data to trace the rich and dynamic cultural impact of migration on the cultural identity of both migrant and host communities in the historical long-term. For more visit CCA dot UCD dot IE / VICTEUR


MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.

]]> Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:11:34 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 2038 The 2024 MoLI Christmas Ghost Story is a live recording from the launch of MoLI Edition’s new publication, A Visit from the Banshee, edited by Katie Mishler, and produced by the Museum of Literature Ireland in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics. Across the half-hour recording, you will hear extracts from three stories featured in the book, alongside live music and sound design by Seán Mac Erlaine. 


In Oein DeBhairduin’s story ‘Hungry Grass / Crōlušk sirk', performed by Nuala Hayes, a mother seeks to appease a sinister spirit by offering bread. In Melatu Uche Okorie’s story, “Guardians of the Land”, performed by Demi Isaac Oviawe, a young warrior, faces the ghostly Warriors Past of Ikenga in a trial of endurance. And in ‘Buille Luath an Luain agus Buille Déanach an tSathairn’ – a story collected by Peig Sayers, translated here by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, and performed by Nuala Hayes, a grieving farmer's son encounters a mysterious old woman who performs terrifying nightly rituals.


A visit from the banshee is available from the MoLI shop now. Visit moli.ie/banshee for details.


Producers Prof. Gerardine Meaney, Dr. Katie Mishler, Dr. Jenny Knell and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

Recording engineer Simon Cullen

Edit and mixing engineer Seán Mac Erlaine 

Series music Benedict Schlepper-Connolly


The MoLI Christmas Ghost Story is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 884951). 


This recording was produced in collaboration with UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and VICTEUR. VICTEUR: European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture uses big data to trace the rich and dynamic cultural impact of migration on the cultural identity of both migrant and host communities in the historical long-term. For more visit CCA dot UCD dot IE / VICTEUR


MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.

]]> literature, horror, ghost stories, Christmas, books, reading, Short stories, irish No Writer Presents #8: David Hayden Writer Presents #8: David Hayden full 43e122dc-d7ab-4861-aa71-a0a091ce3f66 https://share.transistor.fm/s/7b9f8e92 RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. This edition of Writer Presents, ‘Dublin We Were’, was written and is read by David Hayden.


David Hayden was born in Ireland and lives in England. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, Zoetrope All-Story, The Dublin Review, AGNI, New York Tyrant and The Georgia Review. He is the author of three collections of short stories Darker With the Lights On (Carcanet/Transit), Unstories and Six Cities, and a novel titled All Our Love.


Producers Benedict Schlepper-Connolly & Ian Dunphy
Recording Engineer Justin Brand at NRSIX Studio, Norwich
Additional Field Recordings Ian Dunphy
Edit and Mix Ian Dunphy
Series Music Benedict Schlepper-Connolly


This programme was created with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and the Display Europe Project of the European Cultural Foundation, funded by the European Union. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by ebow, the digital agency.​​

Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

]]> RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. This edition of Writer Presents, ‘Dublin We Were’, was written and is read by David Hayden.


David Hayden was born in Ireland and lives in England. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, Zoetrope All-Story, The Dublin Review, AGNI, New York Tyrant and The Georgia Review. He is the author of three collections of short stories Darker With the Lights On (Carcanet/Transit), Unstories and Six Cities, and a novel titled All Our Love.


Producers Benedict Schlepper-Connolly & Ian Dunphy
Recording Engineer Justin Brand at NRSIX Studio, Norwich
Additional Field Recordings Ian Dunphy
Edit and Mix Ian Dunphy
Series Music Benedict Schlepper-Connolly


This programme was created with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and the Display Europe Project of the European Cultural Foundation, funded by the European Union. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by ebow, the digital agency.​​

Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

]]> Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:17:22 +0100 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 1231 RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. This edition of Writer Presents, ‘Dublin We Were’, was written and is read by David Hayden.


David Hayden was born in Ireland and lives in England. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, Zoetrope All-Story, The Dublin Review, AGNI, New York Tyrant and The Georgia Review. He is the author of three collections of short stories Darker With the Lights On (Carcanet/Transit), Unstories and Six Cities, and a novel titled All Our Love.


Producers Benedict Schlepper-Connolly & Ian Dunphy
Recording Engineer Justin Brand at NRSIX Studio, Norwich
Additional Field Recordings Ian Dunphy
Edit and Mix Ian Dunphy
Series Music Benedict Schlepper-Connolly


This programme was created with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and the Display Europe Project of the European Cultural Foundation, funded by the European Union. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by ebow, the digital agency.​​

Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

]]> books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Writer Presents #7: Jan Carson: It's Not About You Writer Presents #7: Jan Carson: It's Not About You full 66afd80d-d468-4d73-8024-e8167b01fad0 https://radio.moli.ie/r/writer-presents-jan-carson3 RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the final episode within this three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with poet and editor Sarah Hesketh, discussing the specificities of writing about dementia. They explore the process of finding balance between creative freedom and the responsibility of respect authors and artists carry in their endeavour to show the truth of the illness.


Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears, Postcard Stories, The Fire Starters (EU Prize for Literature, 2019), The Raptures and Quickly, While They Still Have Horses. Carson has been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, the BBC National Short Story Prize and the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year Award, and in 2016 she won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Banshee, The Tangerine, Winter Papers and Harper’s Bazaar and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Carson specialises in arts engagement with older and people living with dementia and was part of an AHRC-funded research project at Queen’s University Belfast exploring the representation of Dementia in literature. jancarson.co.uk


Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.


Written and presented by Jan Carson.
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Recorded and mixed by Ian Dunphy
Series music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Series music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly & Nathan Sherman

]]> RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the final episode within this three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with poet and editor Sarah Hesketh, discussing the specificities of writing about dementia. They explore the process of finding balance between creative freedom and the responsibility of respect authors and artists carry in their endeavour to show the truth of the illness.


Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears, Postcard Stories, The Fire Starters (EU Prize for Literature, 2019), The Raptures and Quickly, While They Still Have Horses. Carson has been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, the BBC National Short Story Prize and the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year Award, and in 2016 she won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Banshee, The Tangerine, Winter Papers and Harper’s Bazaar and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Carson specialises in arts engagement with older and people living with dementia and was part of an AHRC-funded research project at Queen’s University Belfast exploring the representation of Dementia in literature. jancarson.co.uk


Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.


Written and presented by Jan Carson.
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Recorded and mixed by Ian Dunphy
Series music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Series music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly & Nathan Sherman

]]> Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:32:14 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 2170 RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the final episode within this three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with poet and editor Sarah Hesketh, discussing the specificities of writing about dementia. They explore the process of finding balance between creative freedom and the responsibility of respect authors and artists carry in their endeavour to show the truth of the illness.


Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears, Postcard Stories, The Fire Starters (EU Prize for Literature, 2019), The Raptures and Quickly, While They Still Have Horses. Carson has been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, the BBC National Short Story Prize and the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year Award, and in 2016 she won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Banshee, The Tangerine, Winter Papers and Harper’s Bazaar and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Carson specialises in arts engagement with older and people living with dementia and was part of an AHRC-funded research project at Queen’s University Belfast exploring the representation of Dementia in literature. jancarson.co.uk


Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.


Written and presented by Jan Carson.
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Recorded and mixed by Ian Dunphy
Series music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Series music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly & Nathan Sherman

]]> books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Writer Presents #6: Jan Carson: What Words Had Once Been Writer Presents #6: Jan Carson: What Words Had Once Been full ff34a394-8938-4117-bb43-ad7b93fef671 https://radio.moli.ie/r/writer-presents-jan-carson2 RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In this continuation of a three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with theatre maker and playwright Caoileann Curry-Thompson, discussing their own familial experiences with dementia and the effect the illness has had on their creative works. Carson and Curry-Thompson explore the stigma that surrounds dementia as well as the nuances of literary possibility with the illness. 


Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears, Postcard Stories, The Fire Starters (EU Prize for Literature, 2019), The Raptures and Quickly, While They Still Have Horses. Carson has been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, the BBC National Short Story Prize and the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year Award, and in 2016 she won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Banshee, The Tangerine, Winter Papers and Harper’s Bazaar and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Carson specialises in arts engagement with older and people living with dementia and was part of an AHRC-funded research project at Queen’s University Belfast exploring the representation of Dementia in literature. jancarson.co.uk


Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.


Written and presented by Jan Carson.
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Recorded and mixed by Ian Dunphy
Series music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Series music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly & Nathan Sherman

]]> RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In this continuation of a three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with theatre maker and playwright Caoileann Curry-Thompson, discussing their own familial experiences with dementia and the effect the illness has had on their creative works. Carson and Curry-Thompson explore the stigma that surrounds dementia as well as the nuances of literary possibility with the illness. 


Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears, Postcard Stories, The Fire Starters (EU Prize for Literature, 2019), The Raptures and Quickly, While They Still Have Horses. Carson has been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, the BBC National Short Story Prize and the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year Award, and in 2016 she won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Banshee, The Tangerine, Winter Papers and Harper’s Bazaar and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Carson specialises in arts engagement with older and people living with dementia and was part of an AHRC-funded research project at Queen’s University Belfast exploring the representation of Dementia in literature. jancarson.co.uk


Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.


Written and presented by Jan Carson.
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Recorded and mixed by Ian Dunphy
Series music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Series music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly & Nathan Sherman

]]> Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:30:43 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 1596 RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In this continuation of a three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with theatre maker and playwright Caoileann Curry-Thompson, discussing their own familial experiences with dementia and the effect the illness has had on their creative works. Carson and Curry-Thompson explore the stigma that surrounds dementia as well as the nuances of literary possibility with the illness. 


Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears, Postcard Stories, The Fire Starters (EU Prize for Literature, 2019), The Raptures and Quickly, While They Still Have Horses. Carson has been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, the BBC National Short Story Prize and the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year Award, and in 2016 she won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Banshee, The Tangerine, Winter Papers and Harper’s Bazaar and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Carson specialises in arts engagement with older and people living with dementia and was part of an AHRC-funded research project at Queen’s University Belfast exploring the representation of Dementia in literature. jancarson.co.uk


Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.


Written and presented by Jan Carson.
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Recorded and mixed by Ian Dunphy
Series music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Series music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly & Nathan Sherman

]]> books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Writer Presents #5: Jan Carson: Writing Dementia Writer Presents #5: Jan Carson: Writing Dementia full afef4583-b7a3-4adb-aa74-0c4758e96e87 https://radio.moli.ie/r/writer-presents-jan-carson1 RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the first episode of a three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with Dr Jane Lugea of Queen’s University Belfast, exploring the complexities of writing from the perspective of a person with dementia, and how the use of language is key in depicting an accurate portrait of the illness. Carson and Lugea unpack the ethics of writing about and from the position of dementia patients, discussing the importance of representing lived experience in text.


Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears, Postcard Stories, The Fire Starters (EU Prize for Literature, 2019), The Raptures and Quickly, While They Still Have Horses. Carson has been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, the BBC National Short Story Prize and the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year Award, and in 2016 she won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Banshee, The Tangerine, Winter Papers and Harper’s Bazaar and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Carson specialises in arts engagement with older and people living with dementia and was part of an AHRC-funded research project at Queen’s University Belfast exploring the representation of Dementia in literature. jancarson.co.uk


Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.


Written and presented by Jan Carson.
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Recorded and mixed by Ian Dunphy
Series music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Series music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly & Nathan Sherman

]]> RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the first episode of a three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with Dr Jane Lugea of Queen’s University Belfast, exploring the complexities of writing from the perspective of a person with dementia, and how the use of language is key in depicting an accurate portrait of the illness. Carson and Lugea unpack the ethics of writing about and from the position of dementia patients, discussing the importance of representing lived experience in text.


Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears, Postcard Stories, The Fire Starters (EU Prize for Literature, 2019), The Raptures and Quickly, While They Still Have Horses. Carson has been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, the BBC National Short Story Prize and the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year Award, and in 2016 she won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Banshee, The Tangerine, Winter Papers and Harper’s Bazaar and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Carson specialises in arts engagement with older and people living with dementia and was part of an AHRC-funded research project at Queen’s University Belfast exploring the representation of Dementia in literature. jancarson.co.uk


Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.


Written and presented by Jan Carson.
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Recorded and mixed by Ian Dunphy
Series music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Series music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly & Nathan Sherman

]]> Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:29:00 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 2386 RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the first episode of a three-part edition of Writer Presents, author Jan Carson speaks with Dr Jane Lugea of Queen’s University Belfast, exploring the complexities of writing from the perspective of a person with dementia, and how the use of language is key in depicting an accurate portrait of the illness. Carson and Lugea unpack the ethics of writing about and from the position of dementia patients, discussing the importance of representing lived experience in text.


Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears, Postcard Stories, The Fire Starters (EU Prize for Literature, 2019), The Raptures and Quickly, While They Still Have Horses. Carson has been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, the BBC National Short Story Prize and the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year Award, and in 2016 she won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Banshee, The Tangerine, Winter Papers and Harper’s Bazaar and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Carson specialises in arts engagement with older and people living with dementia and was part of an AHRC-funded research project at Queen’s University Belfast exploring the representation of Dementia in literature. jancarson.co.uk


Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.


Written and presented by Jan Carson.
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Recorded and mixed by Ian Dunphy
Series music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Series music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly & Nathan Sherman

]]> books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No The MoLI Christmas Ghost Story: Number Ninety The MoLI Christmas Ghost Story: Number Ninety full c8964e37-407c-4aa3-8333-ea2fea2c807c https://share.transistor.fm/s/b3b8d7fc MoLI, in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics, presents its fourth annual Christmas Ghost Story: ‘Number Ninety’ (1895) by Bithia May Croker, performed by Ned Dennehy.


For years, agents have attempted to secure a lease for Number Ninety, a desirable family mansion, at almost no cost. Long rumoured to be haunted, it has never found a long-term tenant.


Sceptic John Hollyoak sets out to prove that ghosts do not exist. He will spend the night in Number Ninety, with no soul but his dog for company. Will ghostly companions intrude upon his solitude, and will he live to tell the tale? 


Executive Producer   Professor Gerardine Meaney
Producers   Dr Katie Mishler & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Additional mixing, sound design & music   Seán Mac Erlaine
Series music   Benedict Schlepper-Connolly


This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 884951). This project is supported by Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics. To learn more about VICTEUR: European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture, please visit cca.ucd.ie/victeur. 

MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.

]]> MoLI, in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics, presents its fourth annual Christmas Ghost Story: ‘Number Ninety’ (1895) by Bithia May Croker, performed by Ned Dennehy.


For years, agents have attempted to secure a lease for Number Ninety, a desirable family mansion, at almost no cost. Long rumoured to be haunted, it has never found a long-term tenant.


Sceptic John Hollyoak sets out to prove that ghosts do not exist. He will spend the night in Number Ninety, with no soul but his dog for company. Will ghostly companions intrude upon his solitude, and will he live to tell the tale? 


Executive Producer   Professor Gerardine Meaney
Producers   Dr Katie Mishler & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Additional mixing, sound design & music   Seán Mac Erlaine
Series music   Benedict Schlepper-Connolly


This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 884951). This project is supported by Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics. To learn more about VICTEUR: European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture, please visit cca.ucd.ie/victeur. 

MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.

]]> Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:51:04 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 1685 MoLI, in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics, presents its fourth annual Christmas Ghost Story: ‘Number Ninety’ (1895) by Bithia May Croker, performed by Ned Dennehy.


For years, agents have attempted to secure a lease for Number Ninety, a desirable family mansion, at almost no cost. Long rumoured to be haunted, it has never found a long-term tenant.


Sceptic John Hollyoak sets out to prove that ghosts do not exist. He will spend the night in Number Ninety, with no soul but his dog for company. Will ghostly companions intrude upon his solitude, and will he live to tell the tale? 


Executive Producer   Professor Gerardine Meaney
Producers   Dr Katie Mishler & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Additional mixing, sound design & music   Seán Mac Erlaine
Series music   Benedict Schlepper-Connolly


This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 884951). This project is supported by Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics. To learn more about VICTEUR: European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture, please visit cca.ucd.ie/victeur. 

MoLI’s digital programme is supported by Ebow, the digital agency.

]]> horror, ghosts, gothic, book, literature, reading, Christmas, short story, Ireland No Writer Presents #4: Sally Hayden Writer Presents #4: Sally Hayden full ec00ff7b-3602-44ee-a3ca-3bed15a43aaa https://moli.ie/radio/writer-presents-sally-hayden RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the fourth episode of Writer Presents, writer, journalist and photographer Sally Hayden speaks to Gulwali Passarlay, Suad Aldarra, Helon Habila, Jane Grogan and Seán Columb about the role of storytelling in shaping our understanding of migration.

Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. She has worked with VICE, CNN International, the Financial Times Magazine, TIME, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, BBC, the Washington Post, the Irish Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, among many others. Sally has reported from many countries across the globe, including Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, DR Congo, Panama, Cambodia, Liberia, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Niger and Sierra Leone. Her writing has been translated into nine languages and she has appeared as a TV and radio guest. Sally has a law degree from University College Dublin and an MSc in International Politics from Trinity College, Dublin, where her thesis was on post-conflict societies and theories of civil war resolution. Her first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned was published in 2022.Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Researched and presented by Sally Hayden
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Edited and Mixed by Ian Dunphy
Music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Nathan Sherman

]]> RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the fourth episode of Writer Presents, writer, journalist and photographer Sally Hayden speaks to Gulwali Passarlay, Suad Aldarra, Helon Habila, Jane Grogan and Seán Columb about the role of storytelling in shaping our understanding of migration.

Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. She has worked with VICE, CNN International, the Financial Times Magazine, TIME, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, BBC, the Washington Post, the Irish Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, among many others. Sally has reported from many countries across the globe, including Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, DR Congo, Panama, Cambodia, Liberia, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Niger and Sierra Leone. Her writing has been translated into nine languages and she has appeared as a TV and radio guest. Sally has a law degree from University College Dublin and an MSc in International Politics from Trinity College, Dublin, where her thesis was on post-conflict societies and theories of civil war resolution. Her first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned was published in 2022.Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Researched and presented by Sally Hayden
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Edited and Mixed by Ian Dunphy
Music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Nathan Sherman

]]> Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:01:25 +0100 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 4573 RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the fourth episode of Writer Presents, writer, journalist and photographer Sally Hayden speaks to Gulwali Passarlay, Suad Aldarra, Helon Habila, Jane Grogan and Seán Columb about the role of storytelling in shaping our understanding of migration.

Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. She has worked with VICE, CNN International, the Financial Times Magazine, TIME, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, BBC, the Washington Post, the Irish Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, among many others. Sally has reported from many countries across the globe, including Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, DR Congo, Panama, Cambodia, Liberia, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Niger and Sierra Leone. Her writing has been translated into nine languages and she has appeared as a TV and radio guest. Sally has a law degree from University College Dublin and an MSc in International Politics from Trinity College, Dublin, where her thesis was on post-conflict societies and theories of civil war resolution. Her first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned was published in 2022.Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Researched and presented by Sally Hayden
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Edited and Mixed by Ian Dunphy
Music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Nathan Sherman

]]> books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Writer Presents #3: Sarah Maria Griffin Writer Presents #3: Sarah Maria Griffin full f806fd1f-04f1-436b-be67-6f952d97ad0a https://share.transistor.fm/s/e33069b2 RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the third episode of Writer Presents, writer and zine creator Sarah Maria Griffin looks at the importance of zines to her throughout her life and guides the listener through creating a zine of their own.

Sarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin. She is the author of the novels Spare and Found Parts, and Other Words For Smoke. She also makes zines.

Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Researched and presented by Sarah Maria Griffin
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Edited and Mixed by Ian Dunphy
Music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Nathan Sherman

]]> RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the third episode of Writer Presents, writer and zine creator Sarah Maria Griffin looks at the importance of zines to her throughout her life and guides the listener through creating a zine of their own.

Sarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin. She is the author of the novels Spare and Found Parts, and Other Words For Smoke. She also makes zines.

Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Researched and presented by Sarah Maria Griffin
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Edited and Mixed by Ian Dunphy
Music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Nathan Sherman

]]> Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:59:04 +0100 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 2853 RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the third episode of Writer Presents, writer and zine creator Sarah Maria Griffin looks at the importance of zines to her throughout her life and guides the listener through creating a zine of their own.

Sarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin. She is the author of the novels Spare and Found Parts, and Other Words For Smoke. She also makes zines.

Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Researched and presented by Sarah Maria Griffin
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Ian Dunphy
Edited and Mixed by Ian Dunphy
Music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Nathan Sherman

]]> books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No St Bridget’s Day Traditions on Inis Meáin St Bridget’s Day Traditions on Inis Meáin full 00304854-e1ee-4e2d-808a-afabc008124f https://moli.ie/radio/st-bridgets-day-traditions-on-inis-meain/ The Folklore Society of Ireland Annual Lecture 2023

This bi-lingual lecture, co-hosted by MoLI and An Cumann Le Béaloideas Éireann / The Folklore of Ireland Society, focused on St Brigid’s Day Traditions on Inis Meáin. The lecture was given by journalist and broadcaster Aedín Ní Thiarnaigh who has carried out extensive fieldwork and research on Inis Meáin on the celebration of St Brigid’s Day. Ní Thiarnaigh explored Inis Meáin’s unique landscape and its effect on the people and culture, as well as looking as traditions such as the Brídeog and rare variations on the St. Bridget’s Cross.

]]> The Folklore Society of Ireland Annual Lecture 2023

This bi-lingual lecture, co-hosted by MoLI and An Cumann Le Béaloideas Éireann / The Folklore of Ireland Society, focused on St Brigid’s Day Traditions on Inis Meáin. The lecture was given by journalist and broadcaster Aedín Ní Thiarnaigh who has carried out extensive fieldwork and research on Inis Meáin on the celebration of St Brigid’s Day. Ní Thiarnaigh explored Inis Meáin’s unique landscape and its effect on the people and culture, as well as looking as traditions such as the Brídeog and rare variations on the St. Bridget’s Cross.

]]> Wed, 05 Apr 2023 10:42:54 +0100 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 4466 The Folklore Society of Ireland Annual Lecture 2023

This bi-lingual lecture, co-hosted by MoLI and An Cumann Le Béaloideas Éireann / The Folklore of Ireland Society, focused on St Brigid’s Day Traditions on Inis Meáin. The lecture was given by journalist and broadcaster Aedín Ní Thiarnaigh who has carried out extensive fieldwork and research on Inis Meáin on the celebration of St Brigid’s Day. Ní Thiarnaigh explored Inis Meáin’s unique landscape and its effect on the people and culture, as well as looking as traditions such as the Brídeog and rare variations on the St. Bridget’s Cross.

]]> folklore, tradition No A George Moore Kaleidoscope A George Moore Kaleidoscope full 6307e610-97f8-4133-a0d1-45b9b7a696a2 https://share.transistor.fm/s/5c241146 To celebrate the unveiling of a George Moore bust at the museum, we were joined for an afternoon of panel discussions and presentations exploring the varied and multicoloured life of this most singular Irish writer through music, architecture, visual art and conversation. Guest speakers included Katherine McSharry (Acting Director, National Library of Ireland), Robert O’Byrne (writer and historian), Maeve Casserly (historian), Prof. Adrian Frazier (NUI Galway), Dr Mary Pierse, Prof. Harry White (UCD) and Kayla Kennedy (violinist)

Recorded in MoLI’s Old Physics Theatre, 25 November 2022.

]]> To celebrate the unveiling of a George Moore bust at the museum, we were joined for an afternoon of panel discussions and presentations exploring the varied and multicoloured life of this most singular Irish writer through music, architecture, visual art and conversation. Guest speakers included Katherine McSharry (Acting Director, National Library of Ireland), Robert O’Byrne (writer and historian), Maeve Casserly (historian), Prof. Adrian Frazier (NUI Galway), Dr Mary Pierse, Prof. Harry White (UCD) and Kayla Kennedy (violinist)

Recorded in MoLI’s Old Physics Theatre, 25 November 2022.

]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:25:43 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 10593 An afternoon of panel discussions and presentations exploring the varied and multicoloured life of this most singular Irish writer through music, architecture, visual art and conversation. An afternoon of panel discussions and presentations exploring the varied and multicoloured life of this most singular Irish writer through music, architecture, visual art and conversation. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No The Christmas Ghost Story: Hertford O'Donnell's Warning The Christmas Ghost Story: Hertford O'Donnell's Warning full 35774762-d3a6-4925-9e50-ebc8f49dc679 https://share.transistor.fm/s/5a75c675 MoLI presents the third annual MoLI Christmas Ghost Story: ‘Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning’ (1867) by Charlotte Riddell, performed by Kathy Rose O’Brien, in an edited and abridged form.

Surgeon Hertford O’Donnell is a rising star at Guy’s Hospital, London, known for his steady hand and unshakeable bravery. In his personal life, however, the eccentric and lonely Irishman has a less than sterling reputation. 

All alone on Christmas Eve, he receives an unexpected visit from Ireland. Estranged from his family for over twelve years, the O’Donnell banshee visits him in his Soho townhouse, bringing tidings of death and retribution for the past. 

Will Hertford O’Donnell survive the night, or does the banshee cry for him? 

Producers   Dr Katie Mishler, Ian Dunphy, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Sound   Ian Dunphy
Script   Dr Katie Mishler
Sound Design   Ian Dunphy & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Music   Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

This recording has been kindly supported by the European Research Council Victeur project, with thanks to Professor Gerardine Meaney, UCD School of English, Drama and Film and the INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics. Research for this recording is provided by Dr Katie Mishler, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame and Dr Maria Mulvaney, Lecturer, UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics. Visit ghostlyirishfictions.com for more about Dr Maria Mulvaney’s work on the Irish ghost story.

]]> MoLI presents the third annual MoLI Christmas Ghost Story: ‘Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning’ (1867) by Charlotte Riddell, performed by Kathy Rose O’Brien, in an edited and abridged form.

Surgeon Hertford O’Donnell is a rising star at Guy’s Hospital, London, known for his steady hand and unshakeable bravery. In his personal life, however, the eccentric and lonely Irishman has a less than sterling reputation. 

All alone on Christmas Eve, he receives an unexpected visit from Ireland. Estranged from his family for over twelve years, the O’Donnell banshee visits him in his Soho townhouse, bringing tidings of death and retribution for the past. 

Will Hertford O’Donnell survive the night, or does the banshee cry for him? 

Producers   Dr Katie Mishler, Ian Dunphy, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Sound   Ian Dunphy
Script   Dr Katie Mishler
Sound Design   Ian Dunphy & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Music   Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

This recording has been kindly supported by the European Research Council Victeur project, with thanks to Professor Gerardine Meaney, UCD School of English, Drama and Film and the INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics. Research for this recording is provided by Dr Katie Mishler, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame and Dr Maria Mulvaney, Lecturer, UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics. Visit ghostlyirishfictions.com for more about Dr Maria Mulvaney’s work on the Irish ghost story.

]]> Sat, 24 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 2026 All alone on Christmas Eve, he receives an unexpected visit from Ireland. Estranged from his family for over twelve years, the O’Donnell banshee visits him in his Soho townhouse, bringing tidings of death and retribution for the past. Will Hertford O’Donnell survive the night, or does the banshee cry for him? All alone on Christmas Eve, he receives an unexpected visit from Ireland. Estranged from his family for over twelve years, the O’Donnell banshee visits him in his Soho townhouse, bringing tidings of death and retribution for the past. Will Hertford O’ horror, ghost, literature, books, Ireland, short story No Past/Present/Pride #5: Sean Hewitt Past/Present/Pride #5: Sean Hewitt full 37959a12-a21f-4a0f-9408-cb13eb8b438f https://share.transistor.fm/s/293abb74 In the fifth episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton speaks to writer and poet Seán Hewitt, on the eve of the publication of his new memoir, All Down Darkness Wide. Seán Hewitt was born in 1990. His debut collection, Tongues of Fire, is published by Jonathan Cape. He is a book critic for The Irish Times and teaches Modern British & Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin. His debut collection, Tongues of Fire, won The Laurel Prize, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and a Dalkey Literary Award.

]]> In the fifth episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton speaks to writer and poet Seán Hewitt, on the eve of the publication of his new memoir, All Down Darkness Wide. Seán Hewitt was born in 1990. His debut collection, Tongues of Fire, is published by Jonathan Cape. He is a book critic for The Irish Times and teaches Modern British & Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin. His debut collection, Tongues of Fire, won The Laurel Prize, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and a Dalkey Literary Award.

]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:04:23 +0100 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 4743 Sean Hewitt joins Dr Paul D'Alton in this episode of Past/Present/Pride on the eve of the publication of his new memoir, All Down Darkness Wide. Sean Hewitt joins Dr Paul D'Alton in this episode of Past/Present/Pride on the eve of the publication of his new memoir, All Down Darkness Wide. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Every Life is Many Days: Nuala O’Connor’s Nora Every Life is Many Days: Nuala O’Connor’s Nora full a3f7e4b9-199a-43d6-a787-7f4d0b36bc54 https://moli.ie/radio/series/every-life-is-many-days/nuala-oconnors-nora/ Every Life is Many Days is a podcast about James Joyce and his family in the contemporary novel. Presented by Professor Anne Fogarty of the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD and Director of the UCD James Joyce Research Centre, the podcast looks at how the many gaps between Joyce the man and Joyce the writer have in recent years been movingly explored in a number of novels that think about his life in very different ways.

In this episode, writer Nuala O’Connor discusses her novel Nora, the challenges of writing a historical figure as a fictional character, and much more.

Nuala O’Connor was born in Dublin in 1970 and lives in County Galway. Her fifth novel NORA (Harper Perennial/New Island, 2021), about Nora Barnacle, wife and muse to James Joyce, was named as a Top Ten historical novel by the New York Times in 2021. Nuala is editor at flash fiction e-journal Splonk. nualaoconnor.com

]]> Every Life is Many Days is a podcast about James Joyce and his family in the contemporary novel. Presented by Professor Anne Fogarty of the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD and Director of the UCD James Joyce Research Centre, the podcast looks at how the many gaps between Joyce the man and Joyce the writer have in recent years been movingly explored in a number of novels that think about his life in very different ways.

In this episode, writer Nuala O’Connor discusses her novel Nora, the challenges of writing a historical figure as a fictional character, and much more.

Nuala O’Connor was born in Dublin in 1970 and lives in County Galway. Her fifth novel NORA (Harper Perennial/New Island, 2021), about Nora Barnacle, wife and muse to James Joyce, was named as a Top Ten historical novel by the New York Times in 2021. Nuala is editor at flash fiction e-journal Splonk. nualaoconnor.com

]]> Tue, 05 Apr 2022 16:34:44 +0100 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3710 In this episode, writer Nuala O'Connor discusses her novel Nora, the challenges of writing a historical figure as a fictional character, and much more. In this episode, writer Nuala O'Connor discusses her novel Nora, the challenges of writing a historical figure as a fictional character, and much more. books, literature, interview, joyce, biofiction No Every Life is Many Days: Anna Vaught's Saving Lucia Every Life is Many Days: Anna Vaught's Saving Lucia full ed072ad5-d68a-4074-8941-9a80699071a6 https://share.transistor.fm/s/cad19263 Every Life is Many Days is a podcast about James Joyce and his family in the contemporary novel. Presented by Professor Anne Fogarty of the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD and Director of the UCD James Joyce Research Centre, the podcast looks at how the many gaps between Joyce the man and Joyce the writer have in recent years been movingly explored in a number of novels that think about his life in very different ways.

2022 marks the centenary of the publication of Ulysses on the 2 February 1922 by Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Inevitably, much attention will centre on Ulyssesthis year, but the centenary also provides an opportunity to reconsider James Joyce’s legacy and to think about how we view him both as a person and as a literary icon. 

The series features the work of five authors who have woven Joyce and his family into their novels: Anna Vaught, Nuala O’Connor, Frank McGuinness, Mary Costello, and Mary Morrissey. In conversation with them, we will discuss many aspects of Joyce’s influence on the modern novel. We’ll examine the much mythologised, but often unremembered, aspects of the lives of his partner, Nora Barnacle, and Lucia Joyce and Georgio Joyce, Joyce’s son and daughter. This podcast explores why Joyce continues to act as such a lively source of inspiration for contemporary fiction writers.

Anna Vaught is a novelist, poet, essayist, short fiction writer, editor, proof-reader, copywriter and also a secondary English teacher, tutor, mentor to young people, mental health advocate, campaigner and mother of three. Her Saving Lucia (Bluemoose, 2020) intertwines the stories of Violet Gibson, the Irish aristocrat who shot Mussolini, Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce, Blanche, a patient of Charcot at the Salpetrière clinic in Paris, and Anna O, analysed and written about by Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud.  Anna’s reviews, features, short stories, creative nonfiction, poems and memoir pieces are widely published in journals, anthologies, and the press; she is also a monthly columnist for The Bookseller. She has written a new novel, The Zebra and Lord Jones, and a non-fiction book on gentle productivity in writing, The Alchemy. annavaughtwrites.com

]]> Every Life is Many Days is a podcast about James Joyce and his family in the contemporary novel. Presented by Professor Anne Fogarty of the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD and Director of the UCD James Joyce Research Centre, the podcast looks at how the many gaps between Joyce the man and Joyce the writer have in recent years been movingly explored in a number of novels that think about his life in very different ways.

2022 marks the centenary of the publication of Ulysses on the 2 February 1922 by Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Inevitably, much attention will centre on Ulyssesthis year, but the centenary also provides an opportunity to reconsider James Joyce’s legacy and to think about how we view him both as a person and as a literary icon. 

The series features the work of five authors who have woven Joyce and his family into their novels: Anna Vaught, Nuala O’Connor, Frank McGuinness, Mary Costello, and Mary Morrissey. In conversation with them, we will discuss many aspects of Joyce’s influence on the modern novel. We’ll examine the much mythologised, but often unremembered, aspects of the lives of his partner, Nora Barnacle, and Lucia Joyce and Georgio Joyce, Joyce’s son and daughter. This podcast explores why Joyce continues to act as such a lively source of inspiration for contemporary fiction writers.

Anna Vaught is a novelist, poet, essayist, short fiction writer, editor, proof-reader, copywriter and also a secondary English teacher, tutor, mentor to young people, mental health advocate, campaigner and mother of three. Her Saving Lucia (Bluemoose, 2020) intertwines the stories of Violet Gibson, the Irish aristocrat who shot Mussolini, Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce, Blanche, a patient of Charcot at the Salpetrière clinic in Paris, and Anna O, analysed and written about by Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud.  Anna’s reviews, features, short stories, creative nonfiction, poems and memoir pieces are widely published in journals, anthologies, and the press; she is also a monthly columnist for The Bookseller. She has written a new novel, The Zebra and Lord Jones, and a non-fiction book on gentle productivity in writing, The Alchemy. annavaughtwrites.com

]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:00:56 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 2634 Anna Vaught speaks to Professor Anne Fogarty on imagining a life for Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. Anna Vaught speaks to Professor Anne Fogarty on imagining a life for Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No The Christmas Ghost Story: The Demon Lover The Christmas Ghost Story: The Demon Lover full 6738594d-309f-4b26-8624-41631aff339c https://share.transistor.fm/s/51d774d3 MoLI continues its annual Christmas Ghost Story tradition with Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Demon Lover’ (1945), performed in its entirety by Derbhle Crotty.

Mrs Kathleen Drover returns to her dusty, abandoned Kensington home to gather some of her family’s forgotten belongings. Set in London during World War II, the city is eerily vacant, as families like her own have been evacuated to the countryside to escape the bombings of the Blitz. Nevertheless, Kathleen experiences the distinct and unsettling feeling of being watched. When she discovers a mysterious letter from her former lover, a soldier killed in World War I, memories of their brief courtship and his cold, controlling manner overwhelm her.

Is the letter a cruel joke? Could it be a fabrication of Kathleen’s imagination? Or more frighteningly, are the ghosts of her past reckoning upon the present? In this chilling and uncanny tale, Bowen demonstrates her mastery of the ghost story form.

Funding for this recording is supported by Professor Gerardine Meaney and the European Research Council advanced grant, VICTEUR: European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture. Research is supported by Dr Katie Mishler and the Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Enterprise Partnership Fellowship grant Mapping Gothic Dublin, in association with MoLI and the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics. 

Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Ltd, London, on behalf of the Literary Executors of the Estate of Elizabeth Bowen. Copyright © Elizabeth Bowen.

Producers   Dr Katie Mishler, Ian Dunphy, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Sound   Ian Dunphy
Music   Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

]]> MoLI continues its annual Christmas Ghost Story tradition with Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Demon Lover’ (1945), performed in its entirety by Derbhle Crotty.

Mrs Kathleen Drover returns to her dusty, abandoned Kensington home to gather some of her family’s forgotten belongings. Set in London during World War II, the city is eerily vacant, as families like her own have been evacuated to the countryside to escape the bombings of the Blitz. Nevertheless, Kathleen experiences the distinct and unsettling feeling of being watched. When she discovers a mysterious letter from her former lover, a soldier killed in World War I, memories of their brief courtship and his cold, controlling manner overwhelm her.

Is the letter a cruel joke? Could it be a fabrication of Kathleen’s imagination? Or more frighteningly, are the ghosts of her past reckoning upon the present? In this chilling and uncanny tale, Bowen demonstrates her mastery of the ghost story form.

Funding for this recording is supported by Professor Gerardine Meaney and the European Research Council advanced grant, VICTEUR: European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture. Research is supported by Dr Katie Mishler and the Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Enterprise Partnership Fellowship grant Mapping Gothic Dublin, in association with MoLI and the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics. 

Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Ltd, London, on behalf of the Literary Executors of the Estate of Elizabeth Bowen. Copyright © Elizabeth Bowen.

Producers   Dr Katie Mishler, Ian Dunphy, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Sound   Ian Dunphy
Music   Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

]]> Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:09:11 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 1458 MoLI continues its annual Christmas Ghost Story tradition with Elizabeth Bowen’s 'The Demon Lover' (1945), performed in its entirety by Derbhle Crotty. MoLI continues its annual Christmas Ghost Story tradition with Elizabeth Bowen’s 'The Demon Lover' (1945), performed in its entirety by Derbhle Crotty. ghost story, Elisabeth Bowen, fiction, literature No Launch of All Strangers Here Launch of All Strangers Here full eff27762-c578-43cf-8fca-f1eb1576ace3 https://share.transistor.fm/s/e6838fa9 Thu, 18 Nov 2021 21:46:48 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 2861 A new anthology from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Arlen House, All Strangers Here explores the interrelationships between diplomacy, creativity, and language across poetry and prose published by Irish diplomats and their families over the past century. Part of a wider programme marking the centenary of the Irish Foreign Service, it features many remarkable writers, amongst them: Eavan Boland and Maeve Brennan, both daughters of Ambassadors; poets Valentin Iremonger and Denis Devlin; and Conor Cruise O’Brien and Máire Mhac an tSaoí, one of the State’s first female diplomats. For this launch event on 18 November 2021, Rick O’Shea was joined by co-editor Angela Byrne, contributors Richard Ryan and Siobhán Campbell, and the Department’s former Secretary General, Niall Burgess, who initiated the project, to celebrate the volume’s launch and discuss the arts of diplomacy and writing. Presented by MoLI in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs. A new anthology from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Arlen House, All Strangers Here explores the interrelationships between diplomacy, creativity, and language across poetry and prose published by Irish diplomats and their families over the past ce books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Writer Presents #2: Dermot Bolger Writer Presents #2: Dermot Bolger full 7e3cb501-9215-429c-a5df-40d100c2365b https://share.transistor.fm/s/6e58e5bf RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the second episode of Writer Presents, the poet, playwright and novelist Dermot Bolger looks at the life and enduring legacy of Herbert Simms (1898-1948) – the architect responsible for much of Dublin’s early twentieth-century social housing, whose home on St. Mobhi Road Bolger would pass on his pandemic lockdown walks.

“I found it fascinating to imagine his life – he was a man who suffered greatly from the strain of his work,” says Bolger. Through conversation with with three geographers – Dr Ruth McManus, Dr Joe Brady and Mary Broe, the writer pieces together the remarkable and tragic story of Simms’ efforts to improve the lives of many Dubliners. Broe, having grown up in Pearse House also sheds a poignant light on the lived experience of Simms’ designs. The programme ends with a powerful reading of Bolgers’ poem about Herbert Simms, ‘The Corporation Housing Architect’.

Born in Dublin in 1959, the poet, playwright and novelist Dermot Bolger worked as a factory hand, library assistant and small press publisher before becoming a full time writer in 1984. Bolger is the author of fourteen novels, as well as numerous plays and collections of poetry. He lives in Dublin.

Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Researched and presented by Dermot Bolger
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Additional Production by Ian Dunphy
Edited and Mixed by Ian Dunphy
Music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Nathan Sherman

]]> RadioMoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the second episode of Writer Presents, the poet, playwright and novelist Dermot Bolger looks at the life and enduring legacy of Herbert Simms (1898-1948) – the architect responsible for much of Dublin’s early twentieth-century social housing, whose home on St. Mobhi Road Bolger would pass on his pandemic lockdown walks.

“I found it fascinating to imagine his life – he was a man who suffered greatly from the strain of his work,” says Bolger. Through conversation with with three geographers – Dr Ruth McManus, Dr Joe Brady and Mary Broe, the writer pieces together the remarkable and tragic story of Simms’ efforts to improve the lives of many Dubliners. Broe, having grown up in Pearse House also sheds a poignant light on the lived experience of Simms’ designs. The programme ends with a powerful reading of Bolgers’ poem about Herbert Simms, ‘The Corporation Housing Architect’.

Born in Dublin in 1959, the poet, playwright and novelist Dermot Bolger worked as a factory hand, library assistant and small press publisher before becoming a full time writer in 1984. Bolger is the author of fourteen novels, as well as numerous plays and collections of poetry. He lives in Dublin.

Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Researched and presented by Dermot Bolger
Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Additional Production by Ian Dunphy
Edited and Mixed by Ian Dunphy
Music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Nathan Sherman

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:45:58 +0000 RadioMoLI RadioMoLI 3407 Dermot Bolger looks at the life and enduring legacy of Herbert Simms (1898-1948) – the architect responsible for much of Dublin’s early twentieth-century social housing. Dermot Bolger looks at the life and enduring legacy of Herbert Simms (1898-1948) – the architect responsible for much of Dublin’s early twentieth-century social housing. poetry, architecture, interview, dublin, housing No Dublin Gothic #3: Daughters of Dracula Dublin Gothic #3: Daughters of Dracula full 8e008573-7be5-42b7-8647-e2587605c408 https://share.transistor.fm/s/e3b845e8 Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland’s urban gothic writing.

Vampires, ghosts, and the undead have an enduring cultural legacy. These uncanny figures inform, or perhaps infect, depictions of the body, maternity, and sexuality in contemporary Irish women’s writing. This panel discussion, recorded live in MoLI’s Old Physics Theatre, led by Dr Katie Mishler and featuring Sarah Davis-Goff, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and Sophie White, uncovers how the gothic monstrosities of Bram Stoker and others continue to be a powerful metaphor for social anxieties, marginalisation, and historical erasure. 

Sarah Davis-Goff is co-founder of Tramp Press, which publishes the Recovered Voices series, re-publishing a lost Irish classic once a year, with a bent towards speculative fiction. In 2019 her own novel Last Ones Left Alive was published in the UK and Ireland by Tinder Press, and in the US by Flatiron. Last Ones Left Alive was nominated for the Edinburgh First Book Prize and the Not-The-Booker Prize, shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Kate O’Brien Award, and won the Chrysalis Award. She lives in Dublin. 

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a poet and essayist. Her prose début A Ghost in the Throat was awarded the James Tait Back Prize for Biography, and described as “powerful” (New York Times), and “captivatingly original” (The Guardian). Doireann is also author of six critically-acclaimed books of poetry, each a deepening exploration of birth, death, desire, and domesticity.  

Sophie White is a writer and podcaster from Dublin. Her first book, a memoir-cookbook work, Recipes for a Nervous Breakdown (Gill 2016) was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Her second book and first novel, the bestselling, Filter This (Hachette, 2019) was also shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Her third book, Unfiltered (Hachette, 2020) was described by Marian Keyes as ‘such fun – gas, clever stuff’. Her fourth book and second work of non-fiction is the bestselling essay collection, Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows published by Tramp Press in 2021.

Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin’s urban history and the development of Ireland’s literary gothic tradition. 

The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler’s postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.

Producers Ian Dunphy & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Sound Ian Dunphy
Music CAPE

]]> Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland’s urban gothic writing.

Vampires, ghosts, and the undead have an enduring cultural legacy. These uncanny figures inform, or perhaps infect, depictions of the body, maternity, and sexuality in contemporary Irish women’s writing. This panel discussion, recorded live in MoLI’s Old Physics Theatre, led by Dr Katie Mishler and featuring Sarah Davis-Goff, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and Sophie White, uncovers how the gothic monstrosities of Bram Stoker and others continue to be a powerful metaphor for social anxieties, marginalisation, and historical erasure. 

Sarah Davis-Goff is co-founder of Tramp Press, which publishes the Recovered Voices series, re-publishing a lost Irish classic once a year, with a bent towards speculative fiction. In 2019 her own novel Last Ones Left Alive was published in the UK and Ireland by Tinder Press, and in the US by Flatiron. Last Ones Left Alive was nominated for the Edinburgh First Book Prize and the Not-The-Booker Prize, shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Kate O’Brien Award, and won the Chrysalis Award. She lives in Dublin. 

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a poet and essayist. Her prose début A Ghost in the Throat was awarded the James Tait Back Prize for Biography, and described as “powerful” (New York Times), and “captivatingly original” (The Guardian). Doireann is also author of six critically-acclaimed books of poetry, each a deepening exploration of birth, death, desire, and domesticity.  

Sophie White is a writer and podcaster from Dublin. Her first book, a memoir-cookbook work, Recipes for a Nervous Breakdown (Gill 2016) was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Her second book and first novel, the bestselling, Filter This (Hachette, 2019) was also shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Her third book, Unfiltered (Hachette, 2020) was described by Marian Keyes as ‘such fun – gas, clever stuff’. Her fourth book and second work of non-fiction is the bestselling essay collection, Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows published by Tramp Press in 2021.

Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin’s urban history and the development of Ireland’s literary gothic tradition. 

The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler’s postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.

Producers Ian Dunphy & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Sound Ian Dunphy
Music CAPE

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:56:44 +0000 RadioMoLI RadioMoLI 3055 Vampires, ghosts, and the undead have an enduring cultural legacy. These uncanny figures inform, or perhaps infect, depictions of the body, maternity, and sexuality in contemporary Irish women’s writing. This panel discussion, recorded live in MoLI's Old Physics Theatre, led by Dr Katie Mishler and featuring Sarah Davis-Goff, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and Sophie White, uncovers how the gothic monstrosities of Bram Stoker and others continue to be a powerful metaphor for social anxieties, marginalisation, and historical erasure. Vampires, ghosts, and the undead have an enduring cultural legacy. These uncanny figures inform, or perhaps infect, depictions of the body, maternity, and sexuality in contemporary Irish women’s writing. This panel discussion, recorded live in MoLI's Old horror, literature, vampire, ireland, books, fiction No Dublin Gothic #2: Charles Maturin in Marsh's Library Dublin Gothic #2: Charles Maturin in Marsh's Library full 5d30be68-851f-4c6d-9abf-cc283797b420 https://share.transistor.fm/s/1b93722b What do dancing curates, and headless mummies, and dog-eared sixteenth-century manuscripts about sexual deviancy have in common? In this episode, Dr Katie Mishler speaks with Dr Tina Morin, senior lecturer in English at University of Limerick, and Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library in Dublin, about Charles Maturin’s gothic masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) and Marsh's Library's new exhibition, Ragged, livid & on fire: The Wanderings of Melmoth at 200. The panel discuss Maturin's visits to Marsh's Library, imagine what he may have read there and shed light on some bizarre finds within the walls of the library.

Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin’s urban history and the development of Ireland’s literary gothic tradition. 

The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler’s postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.

Producers Ian Dunphy, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Graciela Hartung Morcillo
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]]> What do dancing curates, and headless mummies, and dog-eared sixteenth-century manuscripts about sexual deviancy have in common? In this episode, Dr Katie Mishler speaks with Dr Tina Morin, senior lecturer in English at University of Limerick, and Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library in Dublin, about Charles Maturin’s gothic masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) and Marsh's Library's new exhibition, Ragged, livid & on fire: The Wanderings of Melmoth at 200. The panel discuss Maturin's visits to Marsh's Library, imagine what he may have read there and shed light on some bizarre finds within the walls of the library.

Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin’s urban history and the development of Ireland’s literary gothic tradition. 

The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler’s postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.

Producers Ian Dunphy, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Graciela Hartung Morcillo
Sound Ian Dunphy
Music CAPE

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:56:36 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3124 Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland’s urban gothic writing. What do dancing curates, and headless mummies, and dog-eared sixteenth-century manuscripts about sexual deviancy have in common? In this episode, Dr Katie Mishler speaks with Dr Tina Morin, senior lecturer in English at University of Limerick, and Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library in Dublin, about Charles Maturin’s gothic masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) and Marsh’s Library’s new exhibition, Ragged, livid & on fire: The Wanderings of Melmoth at 200. The panel discuss Maturin’s visits to Marsh’s Library, imagine what he may have read there and shed light on some bizarre finds within the walls of the library. Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin’s urban history and the development of Ireland’s literary gothic tradition. The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler’s postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship. Producers: Ian Dunphy, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Graciela Hartung Morcillo Sound: Ian Dunphy Music: CAPE Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series lookin books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Chris Haughton in conversation Chris Haughton in conversation full dd3d4db4-a617-43d2-b5f0-e3a7f4bf4116 https://share.transistor.fm/s/86be62e5 Chris Haughton, whose work is the subject of our temporary exhibition, Purple Squirrel, is a picturebook writer and illustrator. Haughton, who often among the very first Irish writers encountered by young children, has written and illustrated six books: A Bit Lost, Oh No, George!, Shh! We Have a Plan, Goodnight Everyone, Don’t Worry, Little Crab and Maybe. For this conversation, recorded in MoLI’s colourful Learning Room in July 2021, Haughton is joined by MoLI’s Director – Simon O’Connor – as well as Zoe Brady, who is part of our team here at MoLI. Zoe holds a MPhil in Children’s Literature and was involved in the research process behind the exhibition.

]]> Chris Haughton, whose work is the subject of our temporary exhibition, Purple Squirrel, is a picturebook writer and illustrator. Haughton, who often among the very first Irish writers encountered by young children, has written and illustrated six books: A Bit Lost, Oh No, George!, Shh! We Have a Plan, Goodnight Everyone, Don’t Worry, Little Crab and Maybe. For this conversation, recorded in MoLI’s colourful Learning Room in July 2021, Haughton is joined by MoLI’s Director – Simon O’Connor – as well as Zoe Brady, who is part of our team here at MoLI. Zoe holds a MPhil in Children’s Literature and was involved in the research process behind the exhibition.

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:45:49 +0000 Benedict Schlepper-Connolly Benedict Schlepper-Connolly 2285 Chris Haughton sits down with Simon O'Connor and Zoe Brady to discuss his work and creative process. Chris Haughton sits down with Simon O'Connor and Zoe Brady to discuss his work and creative process. Books, Illustration, Interview, Children, Art No Launch of A History of Irish Women's Poetry Launch of A History of Irish Women's Poetry full a588c507-cb61-4171-b98f-e31360406aa6 https://share.transistor.fm/s/dc4d977d Join MoLI, in partnership with the Embassy and Consulates General of Ireland in the UK, for the online launch of A History of Irish Women's Poetry, a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women's poetry from earliest times to the present day, in both English and Irish. The book reads Irish women's poetry through many prisms – mythology, gender, history, the nation – and most importantly through close readings of the poetry itself.

The event features the book's editors, Ailbhe Darcy and David Wheatley, in conversation with Professor Sarah Prescott, as well as readings from poets Ciara Ní É and Rachael Hegarty.

]]> Join MoLI, in partnership with the Embassy and Consulates General of Ireland in the UK, for the online launch of A History of Irish Women's Poetry, a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women's poetry from earliest times to the present day, in both English and Irish. The book reads Irish women's poetry through many prisms – mythology, gender, history, the nation – and most importantly through close readings of the poetry itself.

The event features the book's editors, Ailbhe Darcy and David Wheatley, in conversation with Professor Sarah Prescott, as well as readings from poets Ciara Ní É and Rachael Hegarty.

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:45:42 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3537 Join MoLI, in partnership with the Consulate General of Ireland, Cardiff, for the online launch of A History of Irish Women's Poetry. Join MoLI, in partnership with the Consulate General of Ireland, Cardiff, for the online launch of A History of Irish Women's Poetry. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Writer Presents #1: Claire-Louise Bennett Writer Presents #1: Claire-Louise Bennett full e3ad359c-c485-4461-a0fa-6c6374aaf12d https://share.transistor.fm/s/f4a9ffb1 "Get on with what? Get on with getting a job and a house and a husband and all the rest of it and I just didn't want to. I wasn't interested – or able for any of that at all.... But I couldn't see any alternatives, I just couldn’t see any way around it, so I thought I’ve got to get out of here, and so I came to Ireland. So many Irish people have gone to England to get work and I came to Ireland to get away from it." – Claire-Louise Bennett


RadioMoLI's Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the first episode of Writer Presents, Claire-Louise Bennett looks at three writers that have inspired her own work: Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen, English writer Ann Quin, and French writer Annie Ernaux. 


Through interviews with novelist Dorthe Nors, writer and critic Jennifer Hodgson, literary agent Laurence Laluyaux and novelist Deborah Levy, Bennett teases out some of the challenges faced by these three writers, while reflecting on her own experiences as a woman and a writer from a working-class background. This episode of Writer Presents features a rare recording of Ann Quin reading her own work, and an extract of Bennett's new novel, Checkout 19.


"Reading their books gave me the courage to spend time with all those conflicting feelings that being reacquainted with my long-lost, working-class self, stirred up, and has provided me with the intellectual space to properly think through the relationship between class and writing and womanhood," says Bennett about Ditlvesen, Quin and Ernaux.


Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire and studied literature and drama at the University of Roehampton, before moving to Ireland where she worked in and studied theatre for several years. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize and went on to complete her debut book, Pond, which was published by The Stinging Fly in Ireland, Fitzcarraldo Editions (in the UK) in 2015, and by Riverhead (in the United States) in 2016. Pond was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2016. Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel, Checkout 19 will be published by Jonathan Cape in August 2021.


Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.


Written and presented by Claire-Louise Bennett

Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

Additional Production by Laura Harvey-Graham, Katie Mishler and Ian Dunphy

Edited and Mixed by Ian Dunphy and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

Music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

Music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Nathan Sherman

]]> "Get on with what? Get on with getting a job and a house and a husband and all the rest of it and I just didn't want to. I wasn't interested – or able for any of that at all.... But I couldn't see any alternatives, I just couldn’t see any way around it, so I thought I’ve got to get out of here, and so I came to Ireland. So many Irish people have gone to England to get work and I came to Ireland to get away from it." – Claire-Louise Bennett


RadioMoLI's Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focussing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the first episode of Writer Presents, Claire-Louise Bennett looks at three writers that have inspired her own work: Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen, English writer Ann Quin, and French writer Annie Ernaux. 


Through interviews with novelist Dorthe Nors, writer and critic Jennifer Hodgson, literary agent Laurence Laluyaux and novelist Deborah Levy, Bennett teases out some of the challenges faced by these three writers, while reflecting on her own experiences as a woman and a writer from a working-class background. This episode of Writer Presents features a rare recording of Ann Quin reading her own work, and an extract of Bennett's new novel, Checkout 19.


"Reading their books gave me the courage to spend time with all those conflicting feelings that being reacquainted with my long-lost, working-class self, stirred up, and has provided me with the intellectual space to properly think through the relationship between class and writing and womanhood," says Bennett about Ditlvesen, Quin and Ernaux.


Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire and studied literature and drama at the University of Roehampton, before moving to Ireland where she worked in and studied theatre for several years. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize and went on to complete her debut book, Pond, which was published by The Stinging Fly in Ireland, Fitzcarraldo Editions (in the UK) in 2015, and by Riverhead (in the United States) in 2016. Pond was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2016. Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel, Checkout 19 will be published by Jonathan Cape in August 2021.


Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.


Written and presented by Claire-Louise Bennett

Produced by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

Additional Production by Laura Harvey-Graham, Katie Mishler and Ian Dunphy

Edited and Mixed by Ian Dunphy and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

Music composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

Music performed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Nathan Sherman

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:45:36 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 4431 In the first episode of Writer Presents, Claire-Louise Bennett looks at three writers that have inspired her own work: Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen, English writer Ann Quin, and French writer Annie Ernaux. In the first episode of Writer Presents, Claire-Louise Bennett looks at three writers that have inspired her own work: Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen, English writer Ann Quin, and French writer Annie Ernaux. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Dublin Gothic #1: The Psychology of Horror Dublin Gothic #1: The Psychology of Horror full 39716d23-cf18-4894-b486-d7ead0d9efa3 https://share.transistor.fm/s/b98bcf7d Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland’s urban gothic writing.

In this episode, Dr Katie Mishler interviews horror aficionados and experts Dr Noreen Giffney and Brian J. Showers about the psychology of horror, the lasting impact of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s ghostly terrors, and why we find comfort in experiencing fear. 

Listen to Sheridan Le Fanu’s The Familiar here.

Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin’s urban history and the development of Ireland’s literary gothic tradition. 

The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler’s postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.

Producers Ian Dunphy & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Sound Ian Dunphy
Music CAPE

]]> Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland’s urban gothic writing.

In this episode, Dr Katie Mishler interviews horror aficionados and experts Dr Noreen Giffney and Brian J. Showers about the psychology of horror, the lasting impact of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s ghostly terrors, and why we find comfort in experiencing fear. 

Listen to Sheridan Le Fanu’s The Familiar here.

Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin’s urban history and the development of Ireland’s literary gothic tradition. 

The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler’s postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.

Producers Ian Dunphy & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
Sound Ian Dunphy
Music CAPE

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:45:29 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 2777 Dr Katie Mishler talks to Dr Noreen Giffney and Brian J. Showers about why we find comfort in experiencing fear. Dr Katie Mishler talks to Dr Noreen Giffney and Brian J. Showers about why we find comfort in experiencing fear. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Past/Present/Pride #4: Adiba Jaigirdar Past/Present/Pride #4: Adiba Jaigirdar full 3ca16235-97e6-4d8e-ac71-582d9c505195 https://share.transistor.fm/s/9a2c5075 In the fourth episode of Past/Present/Pride – a series of conversations that celebrates LGBTQ+ writers – psychologist Dr Paul D'Alton speaks to writer Adiba Jaigirdar. Adiba Jaigirdar was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and has been living in Dublin from the age of ten. She has a BA in English and History from University College Dublin, and an MA in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent. She is the author of The Henna Wars, which was named a best book of the year by Kirkus, and was a semi-finalist for Best Young Adult Fiction in the Goodreads Choice Awards. Her sophomore novel, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating  was released earlier this year.

Past/Present/Pride is a collaboration between MoLI and UCD’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme. Over the last number of years UCD has made an explicit commitment to promoting an inclusive community where people identifying as LGBTQ+ feel safe, valued and provided equal opportunity.

]]> In the fourth episode of Past/Present/Pride – a series of conversations that celebrates LGBTQ+ writers – psychologist Dr Paul D'Alton speaks to writer Adiba Jaigirdar. Adiba Jaigirdar was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and has been living in Dublin from the age of ten. She has a BA in English and History from University College Dublin, and an MA in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent. She is the author of The Henna Wars, which was named a best book of the year by Kirkus, and was a semi-finalist for Best Young Adult Fiction in the Goodreads Choice Awards. Her sophomore novel, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating  was released earlier this year.

Past/Present/Pride is a collaboration between MoLI and UCD’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme. Over the last number of years UCD has made an explicit commitment to promoting an inclusive community where people identifying as LGBTQ+ feel safe, valued and provided equal opportunity.

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:45:20 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 2520 Hear writer Adiba Jaigirdar in conversation with psychologist Dr Paul D'Alton in the next episode of Past/Present/Pride, a series of conversations that celebrates LGBTQ+ writers. Hear writer Adiba Jaigirdar in conversation with psychologist Dr Paul D'Alton in the next episode of Past/Present/Pride, a series of conversations that celebrates LGBTQ+ writers. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Past/Present/Pride #3: Mary Dorcey Past/Present/Pride #3: Mary Dorcey full 2d92b52a-97d6-45de-a534-bd2fdcd4c6af https://share.transistor.fm/s/c679bb6b In the third episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton hears from Mary Dorcey, poet and fiction writer, about learning to read, coming out, her relationship with her mother, and her experience of an oppressive 1970s Ireland. Mary Dorcey has been publishing poetry since her first collection Kindling in 1982. Her poetry has appeared on the Junior Certificate curriculum in Ireland, the O Level curriculum in the UK, and in the BBC anthology A Hundred Favourite Poems of Childhood, and in 1990 she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature. Dorcey’s work explores the deep complications and joys of love and relationships. Her poems have been recognised for their touching descriptions of homosexual love and her frank and honest exploration of the relationship between mother and daughter. She is a member of Aosdána and now lives in Wicklow.

Past/Present/Pride is a series of conversations that celebrates LGBTI+ writers. Hosted by psychologist Dr Paul D’Alton, Past/Present/Pride reflects on the work of writers that have witnessed significant social change for members of the LGBTI+ communities in Ireland & beyond. Past/Present/Pride is a collaboration between MoLI and UCD’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme.

]]> In the third episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton hears from Mary Dorcey, poet and fiction writer, about learning to read, coming out, her relationship with her mother, and her experience of an oppressive 1970s Ireland. Mary Dorcey has been publishing poetry since her first collection Kindling in 1982. Her poetry has appeared on the Junior Certificate curriculum in Ireland, the O Level curriculum in the UK, and in the BBC anthology A Hundred Favourite Poems of Childhood, and in 1990 she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature. Dorcey’s work explores the deep complications and joys of love and relationships. Her poems have been recognised for their touching descriptions of homosexual love and her frank and honest exploration of the relationship between mother and daughter. She is a member of Aosdána and now lives in Wicklow.

Past/Present/Pride is a series of conversations that celebrates LGBTI+ writers. Hosted by psychologist Dr Paul D’Alton, Past/Present/Pride reflects on the work of writers that have witnessed significant social change for members of the LGBTI+ communities in Ireland & beyond. Past/Present/Pride is a collaboration between MoLI and UCD’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme.

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:45:10 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3739 In the third episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton hears from Mary Dorcey, poet and fiction writer, about learning to read, coming out, her relationship with her mother, and her experience of an oppressive 1970s Ireland. Mary Dorcey has been publishing poetry since her first collection Kindling in 1982. Her poetry has appeared on the … Continued In the third episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton hears from Mary Dorcey, poet and fiction writer, about learning to read, coming out, her relationship with her mother, and her experience of an oppressive 1970s Ireland. Mary Dorcey has been publ books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Past/Present/Pride #2: Colm Tóibín Past/Present/Pride #2: Colm Tóibín full 51f8290b-3614-4f32-87fb-6043cab5a969 https://share.transistor.fm/s/1b19e42e In the second episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton talks to Colm Tóibín, celebrated Irish writer and three-time Booker Prize nominee. Tóibín’s work across journalism, non-fiction, short story, drama, and novel is known for its exploration of the inner world of fully realised characters, their flawed inter-relations with those around them, and their struggle to find identity torn between divided worlds. In this hour of conversation, Tóibín discusses topics ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic, his experience with cancer, the role of the novelist in today’s world, and recent forays into the world of poetry.

Past/Present/Pride is a series of conversations that celebrates LGBTI+ writers. Hosted by psychologist Dr Paul D’Alton, Past/Present/Pride reflects on the work of writers that have witnessed significant social change for members of the LGBTI+ communities in Ireland & beyond. Past/Present/Pride is a collaboration between MoLI and UCD’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme.

]]> In the second episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton talks to Colm Tóibín, celebrated Irish writer and three-time Booker Prize nominee. Tóibín’s work across journalism, non-fiction, short story, drama, and novel is known for its exploration of the inner world of fully realised characters, their flawed inter-relations with those around them, and their struggle to find identity torn between divided worlds. In this hour of conversation, Tóibín discusses topics ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic, his experience with cancer, the role of the novelist in today’s world, and recent forays into the world of poetry.

Past/Present/Pride is a series of conversations that celebrates LGBTI+ writers. Hosted by psychologist Dr Paul D’Alton, Past/Present/Pride reflects on the work of writers that have witnessed significant social change for members of the LGBTI+ communities in Ireland & beyond. Past/Present/Pride is a collaboration between MoLI and UCD’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme.

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:44:53 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 4016 In the second episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton talks to Colm Tóibín, celebrated Irish writer and three-time Booker Prize nominee. Tóibín’s work across journalism, non-fiction, short story, drama, and novel is known for its exploration of the inner world of fully realised characters, their flawed inter-relations with those around them, and their struggle to … Continued In the second episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton talks to Colm Tóibín, celebrated Irish writer and three-time Booker Prize nominee. Tóibín’s work across journalism, non-fiction, short story, drama, and novel is known for its exploration of the books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Past/Present/Pride #1: Emma Donaghue Past/Present/Pride #1: Emma Donaghue full 5eaa1579-54d5-431e-ba3d-53719f1430ea https://share.transistor.fm/s/32666d7f In the first episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton speaks with Emma Donoghue, author of over twelve novels, including Room, Akin, and Stir Fry. Across a rich hour of conversation, Donoghue, born in Dublin in 1969, touches on subjects as diverse as same-sex parenting, the tension between safety and freedom, coming out to her mother, and the power of fiction. Donoghue’s new novel, The Pull of the Stars (Pan Macmillan) is set in a Dublin hospital in 1918 during the height of the Spanish flu pandemic.

Past/Present/Pride is a series of conversations that celebrates LGBTI+ writers. Hosted by psychologist Dr Paul D’Alton, Past/Present/Pride reflects on the work of writers that have witnessed significant social change for members of the LGBTI+ communities in Ireland & beyond. Past/Present/Pride is a collaboration between MoLI and UCD’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme.

]]> In the first episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton speaks with Emma Donoghue, author of over twelve novels, including Room, Akin, and Stir Fry. Across a rich hour of conversation, Donoghue, born in Dublin in 1969, touches on subjects as diverse as same-sex parenting, the tension between safety and freedom, coming out to her mother, and the power of fiction. Donoghue’s new novel, The Pull of the Stars (Pan Macmillan) is set in a Dublin hospital in 1918 during the height of the Spanish flu pandemic.

Past/Present/Pride is a series of conversations that celebrates LGBTI+ writers. Hosted by psychologist Dr Paul D’Alton, Past/Present/Pride reflects on the work of writers that have witnessed significant social change for members of the LGBTI+ communities in Ireland & beyond. Past/Present/Pride is a collaboration between MoLI and UCD’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme.

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:44:24 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3498 In the first episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton speaks with Emma Donoghue, author of over twelve novels, including Room, Akin, and Stir Fry. Across a rich hour of conversation, Donoghue, born in Dublin in 1969, touches on subjects as diverse as same-sex parenting, the tension between safety and freedom, coming out to her mother, and the power of … Continued In the first episode of Past/Present/Pride, Dr Paul D’Alton speaks with Emma Donoghue, author of over twelve novels, including Room, Akin, and Stir Fry. Across a rich hour of conversation, Donoghue, born in Dublin in 1969, touches on subjects as diverse a books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Ireland's Generation X? / Claire Kilroy Ireland's Generation X? / Claire Kilroy full b82ecc78-cece-4338-8b12-146274fd8437 https://share.transistor.fm/s/3f1230f5 Presented by MoLI in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

]]> Presented by MoLI in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:43:42 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3024 “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. An American term describing American lives, the moniker perhaps fails to accurately represent the experience of those who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s in Ireland. This series invites artists and writers who grew up in an Ireland shaped by the Troubles, social justice movements, EU membership, the Peace Process, and the Celtic Tiger, to share their work and reflect on the social and cultural influences at home and abroad. Claire Kilroy is the author of four novels, All Summer, (Faber & Faber, 2003), Tenderwire, (Faber & Faber, 2006), All Names Have Been Changed, (Faber & Faber, 2009), and The Devil I Know (Faber & Faber, 2012), which was described by The Guardian as “a satiric danse macabre of brio and linguistic virtuosity,” and by the New York Times as “savagely comic... and great fun.” Claire has been shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year three times, and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2004. She is currently working on Darling, a novel about motherhood, and was an inaugural recipient in 2019 of the Markievicz Award. She lives in Dublin. Barry McCrea is a novelist and a scholar of comparative literature. His novel, The First Verse, won a number of awards, including the Ferro-Grumley Prize for fiction. His most recent academic book, Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe, was awarded the René Wellek prize for the best book of 2016 by the American Comparative Literature Association. He holds the Keough Family Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he splits his teaching between its campuses in the US and Europe. He is finishing a new novel which follows the life of a Dublin suburban cul-de-sac from 1982 to the present. “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Ireland's Generation X? / Mark O'Halloran Ireland's Generation X? / Mark O'Halloran full 7d09f136-bd42-4e26-bcaf-2767c7fc9944 https://share.transistor.fm/s/53971073 Presented by MoLI in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

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]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:43:23 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 2770 “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. An American term describing American lives, the moniker perhaps fails to accurately represent the experience of those who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s in Ireland. This series invites artists and writers who grew up in an Ireland shaped by the Troubles, social justice movements, EU membership, the Peace Process, and the Celtic Tiger, to share their work and reflect on the social and cultural influences at home and abroad. Mark O’Halloran is an Irish writer and actor from Ennis, County Clare. His work includes the films Adam & Paul, Garage, Prosperity, Dublin Oldschool and, most recently Rialto, which premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. O’Halloran has been nominated for numerous awards including a European Film Award, Irish Film and Television Awards, Irish Theatre Awards and the London Evening Standard award for Best Screenplay. He is currently in the process of adapting Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends for television. Barry McCrea is a novelist and a scholar of comparative literature. His novel, The First Verse, won a number of awards, including the Ferro-Grumley Prize for fiction. His most recent academic book, Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe, was awarded the René Wellek prize for the best book of 2016 by the American Comparative Literature Association. He holds the Keough Family Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he splits his teaching between its campuses in the US and Europe. He is finishing a new novel which follows the life of a Dublin suburban cul-de-sac from 1982 to the present. “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Ireland's Generation X? / Caitriona Lally Ireland's Generation X? / Caitriona Lally full f6e1c067-a81c-46b5-89d9-846ab1f311b4 https://share.transistor.fm/s/0bde69a6 Presented by MoLI in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

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]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:42:59 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3548 “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. An American term describing American lives, the moniker perhaps fails to accurately represent the experience of those who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s in Ireland. This series invites artists and writers who grew up in an Ireland shaped by the Troubles, social justice movements, EU membership, the Peace Process, and the Celtic Tiger, to share their work and reflect on the social and cultural influences at home and abroad. Caitriona Lally’s debut novel, Eggshells, was shortlisted for the Newcomer of the Year Award at the 2015 Irish Book Awards and the Kate O’Brien Debut Novel Award. She is the 2018 winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the 2019 recipient of the Lannan Fiction Fellowship. Her second novel will be published by New Island in 2021. Barry McCrea is a novelist and a scholar of comparative literature. His novel, The First Verse, won a number of awards, including the Ferro-Grumley Prize for fiction. His most recent academic book, Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe, was awarded the René Wellek prize for the best book of 2016 by the American Comparative Literature Association. He holds the Keough Family Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he splits his teaching between its campuses in the US and Europe. He is finishing a new novel which follows the life of a Dublin suburban cul-de-sac from 1982 to the present. “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Ireland's Generation X? / Nick Laird Ireland's Generation X? / Nick Laird full 45d492a7-f254-4c1c-946e-9ae4205ec827 https://share.transistor.fm/s/3b292d73 Presented by MoLI in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

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]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:42:26 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3620 “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. An American term describing American lives, the moniker perhaps fails to accurately represent the experience of those who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s in Ireland. This series invites artists and writers who grew up in an Ireland shaped by the Troubles, social justice movements, EU membership, the Peace Process, and the Celtic Tiger, to share their work and reflect on the social and cultural influences at home and abroad. Born in Tyrone in 1975, Nick Laird is a poet, novelist, screenwriter and former lawyer. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Betty Trask Prize, the Somerset Maugham award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and a Guggenheim fellowship. His last collection, Feel Free, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot award and the Derek Walcott Prize. He is the Seamus Heaney Chair of Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast and a Writer-in-Residence at New York University. Barry McCrea is a novelist and a scholar of comparative literature. His novel, The First Verse, won a number of awards, including the Ferro-Grumley Prize for fiction. His most recent academic book, Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe, was awarded the René Wellek prize for the best book of 2016 by the American Comparative Literature Association. He holds the Keough Family Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he splits his teaching between its campuses in the US and Europe. He is finishing a new novel which follows the life of a Dublin suburban cul-de-sac from 1982 to the present. “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Ireland's Generation X? / Paul Murray Ireland's Generation X? / Paul Murray full 26757893-13cd-4e1b-89aa-e95dbb5c5884 https://share.transistor.fm/s/3822ad45 Presented by MoLI in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

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]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:41:23 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3579 “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. An American term describing American lives, the moniker perhaps fails to accurately represent the experience of those who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s in Ireland. This series invites artists and writers who grew up in an Ireland shaped by the Troubles, social justice movements, EU membership, the Peace Process, and the Celtic Tiger, to share their work and reflect on the social and cultural influences at home and abroad. Paul Murray was born in Dublin in 1975. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin and took a master's degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. A former bookseller, Murray lives in Dublin. His first novel, An Evening of Long Goodbyes, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize, and nominated for The Kerry Irish Fiction Award. Paul's second novel is Skippy Dies, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize as well as shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. It was also shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Book Award. His debut feature film Metal Heart was released in Ireland last year, and he currently has two projects in development with BBC Comedy. Barry McCrea is a novelist and a scholar of comparative literature. His novel, The First Verse, won a number of awards, including the Ferro-Grumley Prize for fiction. His most recent academic book, Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe, was awarded the René Wellek prize for the best book of 2016 by the American Comparative Literature Association. He holds the Keough Family Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he splits his teaching between its campuses in the US and Europe. He is finishing a new novel which follows the life of a Dublin suburban cul-de-sac from 1982 to the present. “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Ireland's Generation X? / Ian Lynch (Lankum) Ireland's Generation X? / Ian Lynch (Lankum) full be71e36a-f7f3-41fa-9040-1c648bae3e9b https://share.transistor.fm/s/88758aae Presented by MoLI in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

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]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:40:26 +0000 Museum of Literature Ireland Museum of Literature Ireland 3371 “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. An American term describing American lives, the moniker perhaps fails to accurately represent the experience of those who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s in Ireland. This series invites artists and writers who grew up in an Ireland shaped by the Troubles, social justice movements, EU membership, the Peace Process, and the Celtic Tiger, to share their work and reflect on the social and cultural influences at home and abroad. Ian Lynch is a musician, singer, songwriter and founding member of the band Lankum, with whom he has spent the last 18 years touring and recording with. He started the podcast Fire Draw Near a year ago and he has spent lockdown researching and making episodes for that, as well as a 3-part documentary on the history of the song The Wild Rover. He has an MLitt in Irish Folklore and has lectured on traditional music and song in UCD. He swims in the sea whenever he can and plays a lot of Dungeons and Dragons. Barry McCrea is a novelist and a scholar of comparative literature. His novel, The First Verse, won a number of awards, including the Ferro-Grumley Prize for fiction. His most recent academic book, Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe, was awarded the René Wellek prize for the best book of 2016 by the American Comparative Literature Association. He holds the Keough Family Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he splits his teaching between its campuses in the US and Europe. He is finishing a new novel which follows the life of a Dublin suburban cul-de-sac from 1982 to the present. “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No Ireland's Generation X? / Belinda McKeon Ireland's Generation X? / Belinda McKeon full c5cd489f-79f9-4914-8565-6bd2e8c5f937 https://share.transistor.fm/s/1f7c0e68 Presented by MoLI in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

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]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:39:37 +0000 RadioMoLI RadioMoLI 3311 “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. An American term describing American lives, the moniker perhaps fails to accurately represent the experience of those who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s in Ireland. This series invites artists and writers who grew up in an Ireland shaped by the Troubles, social justice movements, EU membership, the Peace Process, and the Celtic Tiger, to share their work and reflect on the social and cultural influences at home and abroad Belinda McKeon is the author of the novels Solace and Tender, which won and were nominated for awards including the Irish Book of the Year 2011 and the Encore Prize 2016. Her short fiction has been published in several anthologies and journals, most recently Granta and Being Various: Faber New Irish Stories. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Rutgers University, where she has taught fiction since 2015. She has an MFA from Columbia University. She lives in upstate New York. Barry McCrea is a novelist and scholar of modern European, Latin American, and Irish literature. He most recent book is Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe (Yale University Press, 2015), which won the American Comparative Literature Association’s René Wellek prize for the best book of 2016. He is the author of The First Verse, a novel, winner of a number of awards including the 2006 Ferro-Grumley prize for fiction and a Barnes and Noble "Discover" prize, and of In the Company of Strangers: Narrative and Family in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce and Proust (Columbia University Press, 2011), which won the Yale Heyman Prize for scholarship in the humanities. Professor McCrea holds has a BA in Romance languages from Trinity College Dublin, and a PhD in comparative literature from Princeton. He is Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English, Irish Language and Literature, and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. Before joining Notre Dame, he taught comparative literature at Yale University, where he was appointed full professor in 2012. “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. books, literature, reading, poetry, novels, writer No