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Books for Breakfast (Ireland) — 91 episodes

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90: Cathy Galvin and John F. Deane

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89: Hugo Hamilton, Conversation with the Sea

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88: Christmas Special

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87: More Poetry Reviews; interview with Mark Granier

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86: İlhan Sami Çomak, Ferdia Mac Anna on Liadan Ní Chuinn

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85: Enda Wyley, IMRAM 2025, Ger Reidy

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84: New Poetry Collections Reviewed

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83: Colm Tóibín, A Ship in Full Sail

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82: Henrietta McKervey on new fiction titles

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81: Mary O'Donnell, Walking Ghosts

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80: Sarah Moss on Ripeness

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79: Mall Life: Karin-Lin Greenberg

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78: Richard Blanco; Poetry at Strokestown

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77: Mary O’Donnell on new fiction and poetry

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76: Pat Boran on Hedge School

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75: Mary Morrissy's Twenty-Twenty Vision

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74: John Banville and Doris Kareva

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73: John Montague: A Poet's Life

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72: Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter

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71: Keith Payne builds a boat and translates Luisa Castro; 2024 highlights

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70: Books of the Year with Adam Wyeth and Henrietta McKervey

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69: The Amergin Step, An Exploration in the Imagination of Iveragh

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68: Oksana Makysmchuk, Still City: Diary of an Invasion

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67: IMRAM festival, Kelly Michels' American Anthem

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66: Mícheál McCann and Katie Donovan

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65: Christine Dwyer Hickey, Alba de Cespedes, Catullus

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64: Summer journals, Tessa Hadley, Noel Monahan

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63: Neil Astley on Soul Feast and more

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62: Strokestown International Poetry Festival

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61: Paul Muldoon on his new book; Strokestown shortlisted poets

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6O: Mary Costello on Barcelona

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59: Victoria Kennefick on Egg/Shell

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58: Fleur Adcock, Kerry Hardie and Aoife Lyall

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57: Remembering Philip Casey

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56: Summer is icumen in; TCD Writer Fellow James Harpur

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55: Injury Time; A New Basho

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54: New Year's Eve 2022 Special

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53: Interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

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52: IMRAM 2022; Mark Roper's Beyond Stillness

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51: Judith Mok: The State of Dark

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50: Love poems for today: a new anthology from Dedalus

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49: Critic at Large: Kevin Power's The Written World

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48: Two Salmon Poets; Trump Rant

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47: Leland Bardwell at 100

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46: Colm Tóibín talks about Vinegar Hill

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45: Wendy Erskine; Ukrainian poetry

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44: Paul Lynch's The Black Snow; John McAuliffe on his Selected Poems and Wong May

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43: Gabriel Byne: on Walking with Ghosts

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42 : Poetry, Memory and the Party: Thomas McCarthy Tells All

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41: Thomas Kinsella 1928-2021; breakfast highlights of 2021

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40: Claire Keegan on Small Things Like These

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39: New poetry from Eleanor Hooker, Amanda Bell

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38: Imram 2021; Alannah Hopkin on A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins

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37: Short story special with John MacKenna and Madeleine D'Arcy

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36: Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Éilis Ní Dhuibhne and Catherine Dunne

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35: 30 Years of the Irish Writers Centre; Kent Haruf

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34: New books; Lucia Berlin; Iain Crichton Smith

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33: Intimate City: Dublin essays, Aoife Lyall on Mother Nature; A Line Made by Walking

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32: Sinéad O'Connor's Rememberings, Victoria Kennefick, Sharon Olds

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31: Louise Kennedy, Penelope Shuttle, Denise Levertov

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30: Evelyn Conlon, The Examined Life, Grace Paley

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29: Moya Cannon's Collected, The Best Address in Town, Nan Shepherd

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28: Philip Ó Ceallaigh's Trouble; in Prague with Justin Quinn; Edith Templeton

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27: A Gap in the Clouds: James Hadley and Nell Regan; haiku and senryu from Grant Caldwell; Hamsun's Hunger

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26: Mountains to Sea podcast audio edition with Laura McKenna and Conor O'Callaghan

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25: Apocalypse now; Una Mannion on A Crooked Tree; stories from the end of the world

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24: Shirley Hazzard; Poetry and Money; Leeanne Quinn; the last of the Soviets

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23: 40 Years of Salmon Poetry; Bachelard's images; Cathy Belton

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22: New and recent poetry; Michael O'Loughlin's Liberty Hall; in search of lost gods

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21: Fiction for 2021; Berryman's letters; African American poetry

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20: Christmas Special: Paula Meehan, Tara Bergin, Pessoa's disquiet, Dublin's 20th century buildings, new poems.

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19: IMRAM's magical films; forging Dracula with Henrietta McKervey

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18: Poems for Winter; Kathleen MacMahon, Helen Garner.

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17: Fuggedaboutit: dictionaries and languages; on the wild side with Seán Lysaght and Dara McAnulty

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16: Hilary Mantel: Giants and Ghosts; Books for Younger Readers

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15: Shirts for books; Kerry Hardie; The Radetzky March

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14: Derek Mahon, Louise Glück, The Great Hunger; Neil Hegarty

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13: The latest Ferrante; Mary O’Donnell; the poem that wouldn’t go away

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12: The other Elizabeth Taylor; Sarah Bannan; Lee Harwood

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11: Owen Roe: An actor calls; 32 Words for Field

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10: Zadie Smith; Caitriona Lally: Driving on Eggshells; Michael Hartnett

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9: Death and Nightingales; Joe Woods; Kathleen Jamie's Scots accent of the mind

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8: Birdcage Walk; Olivia O'Leary; A Legendary Dinner

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7: What You Don't Want to Know; Adam Wyeth; Coming Close to Charles Simic

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6: Country Pursuits, Marianne Lee's A Quiet Tide, Poetry from Sweden

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5: The Art of Seeing, Short Stories, Poetry and Place

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4: Cities, languages, elegies; Philip Davison

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3: Stalled festivals, Alice Lyons and missing O's, kings and doors

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2: Short poems and Spies

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1: Hamnet, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Pearse Hutchinson