Episodes
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The Little Red Balloon
A reading of 'The Little Red Balloon', the winning entry in the 15-18 category of the Children's Short Story competition, by 17-year-old Emma Broderick, of Muckross Park College, Dublin.
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Darran Anderson, author of Inventory
Books Editor Martin Doyle talks to Darran Anderson about his memoir of growing up in Troubles-torn Derry, Inventory: A River, A City, A Family. They discuss the book's themes of family, history and memory, its inspiration found in the ideas of Georges Perec, and how it relates to his previous…
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The best crime fiction of 2019
Welcome to The Irish Times Books Podcast. In this latest episode, Martin Doyle talk to The Irish Times’s two regular crime fiction reviewers, Declan Burke and Declan Hughes, both acclaimed crime writers themselves, about their favourite crime fiction of 2019. So get your pen and paper ready to…
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Remembering Maeve Binchy - with Henrietta McKervey and Gordon Snell
On the eve of this weekend’s Echoes festival in Dalkey, celebrating Maeve Binchy and Irish writing, its programmer, author Henrietta McKervey, and Maeve’s widower, Gordon Snell, join me to talk about the thinking behind the festival and the many ways in which Maeve’s memory is being kept alive.…
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Danielle McLaughlin - A Partial List of the Saved
It has been some year for Danielle McLaughlin. On Thursday, she won the 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, whose £30,000 (€33,500) prize money makes it the world’s richest for a short story. Last March, she was awarded the $165,000 (€150,000) Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. The…
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Anthony Farrell, founder of The Lilliput Press
Antony Farrell, of Lilliput Press, which this year celebrates its 35th anniversary, discusses his career in publishing, the history of the press and the “genius” authors with whom he has worked over the years, including Hubert Butler – “he was a secular saint to me” – Tim Robinson, John Moriarty...
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Mick Herron, author of the Slough House series
Welcome to the latest Irish Times Books Podcast, an interview with Mick Herron, the author of the Slough House series of spy novels. Herron is originally from a working-class background in Newcastle but went on to study English at Oxford, where he still lives. Described as the John le Carré of…
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Joseph O'Connor - Shadowplay
Author Joseph O'Connor talks to Martin Doyle about his new novel Shadowplay, a complicated love affair featuring Dracula creator Bram Stoker, the first Irish writer he fell for. They also talk about his career from Cowboys & Indians to Star of the Sea, and his next project - a novel based on Hugh...
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Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan
Welcome to The Irish Times Books Podcast, which this week features my interview with Sarah Crossan, Ireland’s Laureate na nÓg. Crossan is one of Ireland’s most successful Young Adult writers, having won the Carnegie Medal in 2016 for her verse novel, One, and been shortlisted twice, for The…
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Writing for Children - with Shane Hegarty, Author of Boot & The Darkmouth Series
Laura Slattery interviews children's author Shane Hegarty about what it means to write for children, with their surprisingly strong taste for peril and horror, and how his own kids's brutal honesty helps him to create his books. Shane's books for children include the Darkmouth series, which has...
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Sinéad Gleeson and Sarah Davis-Goff
April’s Irish Times Books Podcast features interviews with Sinéad Gleeson about her acclaimed collection of personal essays, Constellations, and Sarah Davis-Goff, co-founder of Tramp Press, about her own first novel, Last Ones Left Alive, a dystopian novel set in the west of Ireland in the near...
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Kevin Breathnach - Tunnel Vision
Martin Doyle talks to young author Kevin Breathnach about his acclaimed debut collection of essays, Tunnel Vision, which mixes art history with remarkably candid accounts of his own life. Plus: In the five decades since their inception, the Hennessy New Irish Writing Awards have helped to launch...
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Lisa Harding - Harvesting
Laura Slattery talks to Lisa Harding, author of Harvesting.
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Helen Cullen - The Lost Letters of William Woolf
Books Editor Martin Doyle talks to Helen Cullen about her novel The Lost Letters of William Woolf. Recorded at the Waterford Writers Festival.
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Paul Lynch
Grace, the third novel by Irish author Paul Lynch, was the winner of this year’s Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. In this month’s Irish Times Book Club podcast, recorded at the Irish Writers Centre in Parnell Square in Dublin, Lynch tells us how he came to write the story of a young girl as…
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Kit de Waal - The Trick to Time
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal is May’s Irish Times Book Club choice. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction even before it was published in late March, it is a tragic Birmingham Irish love story set against the backdrop of the IRA bombings that devastated the city in 1974. Kit spoke to...
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Sinéad Gleeson - The Long Gaze Back
This month's guest is Sinéad Gleeson, one of Ireland's leading arts journalists. She is a former presenter of the book show on RTE radio and the editor of three anthologies of Irish short stories. Next year Picador will publish a collection of Sinéad's own essays, provisionally titled...
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June Caldwell - Room Little Darker
This episode features a conversation between Irish Times Books Editor Martin Doyle and June Caldwell, author of Room Little Darker, at the Mountains to Sea festival in Dun Laoghaire last month. As ever, the podcast recording was preceded by a series of articles about Room Little Darker on...
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Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends
Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney’s critically acclaimed first novel, has picked up deserved word-of-mouth momentum since it was published earlier this year. In this month’s Irish Times Book Club podcast, recorded live at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin, Rooney explains how it came into...
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Adrian McKinty - Rain Dogs
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty is October’s Irish Times Book Club pick. The Edgar Award-winning thriller is the fifth in the Carrickfergus-born author’s Sean Duffy series about a Catholic RUC man set in Troubles-era Northern Ireland. McKinty spoke with Irish Times Books Editor Martin Doyle in...
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Neil Hegarty - Inch Levels
Why do so many readers tell writer Neil Hegarty that he captured their own family dynamic in his debut novel Inch Levels? Perhaps the burial of past traumas was so common an enterprise in Ireland among a certain generation, it meant many of the next generation grew up absorbing the bleak effects…
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Shane Connaughton - Married Quarters
This month's novel is Married Quarters by Shane Connaughton. Books Editor Martin Doyle interviewed him at the West Cork Literary Festival.
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Jennifer Johnston
Welcome to the Irish Times Book Club podcast for June 2017. If this is your first time listening, you might be wondering how this works. Each month we run a series of articles on irishtimes.com on a chosen author. And at the end of each month we hold a public interview with that author at The…
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Booker Special - David Grossman and Jessica Cohen
This week the Man Booker International Prize, awarded for fiction translated in English, was won by David Grossman and his translator Jessica Cohen for his novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar. They both spoke to Irish Times Literary Correspondent Eileen Battersby.
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EM Reapy - Red Dirt
Laura Slattery interviews EM Reapy about her novel Red Dirt at The Irish Writer's Centre. www.irishwriterscentre.ie www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-book-club
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Conor O'Callaghan - Nothing on Earth
Eileen Battersby interviews Conor O'Callaghan about his novel Nothing on Earth at The Irish Writer's Centre. https://irishwriterscentre.ie http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-book-club
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International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist
Irish Times literary correspondent Eileen Battersby joins Martin Doyle for a discussion about the shortlist of nominees for the International Dublin Literary Award, of which Anne Enright is the only Irish writer.
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Michael Collins
Michael Collins, the Man Booker and International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted author, who last year ran a marathon a day for a month to raise awareness of Canada’s Irish Famine victims, talks to Irish Times Books Editor Martin Doyle about his career spanning Ireland and Rust Belt America....
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A look at the Man Booker International Prize longlist with Eileen Battersby
Eileen Battersby talks to Martin Doyle about the works included on the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for fiction in English translation, and some of the notable omissions.
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Mia Gallagher - Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland
Visitors are reminded that they are about to enter the Wunderkammer, a floating chamber where normal spacetime conventions no longer apply… Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland has been described by Claire Kilroy as a book about how we process trauma and by Rosemary Jenkinson as less of an...
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Remembering Maeve Brennan
To celebrate the centenary of the birth of author and New Yorker magazine staff writer Maeve Brennan, whose work went largely unnoticed here until after her death, Irish Times books editor Martin Doyle and journalist Patrick Freyne talked to her biographer Angela Bourke.
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Anakana Schofield - Martin John
Anakana Schofield talks to Laura Slattery about Martin John, "a novel about compulsion, poverty and sexual deviance".
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Mike McCormack - Solar Bones
Welcome to the Irish Times Book Club podcast, recorded earlier this month in association with the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin’s Parnell Square. This month’s title is Solar Bones by Mike McCormack, currently shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. It is 20 years since McCormack’s debut collection...
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Lucy Caldwell
This month's book club features Lucy Caldwell, author of Multitudes, in conversation with Laura Slattery.
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Paul McVeigh - The Good Son
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Joanna Walsh
Joanna Walsh, author of Vertigo, talks to Laura Slattery in the Irish Writers’ Centre about how she writes, her distinctive take on the short story, women writers and erotica
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Henrietta McKervey
Henrietta McKervey reads an extract from her second novel, The Heart of Everything, and discusses with Martin Doyle, assistant literary editor of The Irish Times, its themes of memory and its loss, family relationships and dementia .
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Rob Doyle
Rob Doyle discusses his collection of inter-linked fictions, This is the Ritual, his follow-up to his successful debut, Here are the Young Men, with Laura Slattery, co-host of the Irish Times Book Club podcast, in front of a live audience at the Irish Writers Centre, Dublin. The wide-ranging...
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Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies
The Glorious Heresies author Lisa McInerney talks to Martin Doyle
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Gavin McCrea - Mrs Engels
Mrs Engels author Gavin McCrea talks to Laura Slattery.
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Thomas Morris- We Don't Know What We're Doing by
Thomas Morris- We Don't Know What We're Doing by by The Irish Times Books Podcast
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Danielle McLaughlin - Dinosaurs on Other Planets
Author Danielle McLaughlin meets The Irish Times Book Club
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Caitriona Lally on Eggshells
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The Poets Chair Podcast
Dublin Books Festival 2015 - Harry Clifton, Michael Longley and Paula Meehan in conversation with Arminta Wallace
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The Book Club Podcast - Louise O'Neill
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Joseph O'Connor
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Christine Dwyer Hickey - The Lives of Women
The Book Club: Christine Dwyer Hickey discusses The Lives of Women with Laura Slattery in the Irish Times studio
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Books - Eoin McNamee - Blue is the Night
MArtin Doyle interviews Eoin McNamee for The Irish Times Book Club
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Books in Bars - Alexander McCall Smith
Award-winning author Alexander McCall Smith joins Gary Quinn on a whiskey tasting in The Palace Bar in Dublin
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Mary Costello - Academy Street
Mary Costello joins Gary Quinn in studio to discuss her latest book Academy Street with book club readers Orna Mulcahy and Lorcan Collins
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