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Books for Breakfast (Ireland) — 99 episodes
At the Villa Celeste with Elizabeth Wassell Montague
97: Billy Ramsell channels Alberto Cenas
96: New Salmon poetry; Tess Barry interviewed
95: Carlo Gebler talks to Virginia Evans about The Correspondent
94: Caitriona Lally on her memoir Home Economics
93: Poetry Ireland launch; Sean Borodale interviewed
92: New poetry collections; Strokestown Poetry Festival
91: Mary Costello, A Beautiful Loan
90: Cathy Galvin and John F. Deane
89: Hugo Hamilton, Conversation with the Sea
88: Christmas Special
87: More Poetry Reviews; interview with Mark Granier
86: İlhan Sami Çomak, Ferdia Mac Anna on Liadan Ní Chuinn
85: Enda Wyley, IMRAM 2025, Ger Reidy
84: New Poetry Collections Reviewed
83: Colm Tóibín, A Ship in Full Sail
82: Henrietta McKervey on new fiction titles
81: Mary O'Donnell, Walking Ghosts
80: Sarah Moss on Ripeness
79: Mall Life: Karin-Lin Greenberg
78: Richard Blanco; Poetry at Strokestown
77: Mary O’Donnell on new fiction and poetry
76: Pat Boran on Hedge School
75: Mary Morrissy's Twenty-Twenty Vision
74: John Banville and Doris Kareva
73: John Montague: A Poet's Life
72: Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter
71: Keith Payne builds a boat and translates Luisa Castro; 2024 highlights
70: Books of the Year with Adam Wyeth and Henrietta McKervey
69: The Amergin Step, An Exploration in the Imagination of Iveragh
68: Oksana Makysmchuk, Still City: Diary of an Invasion
67: IMRAM festival, Kelly Michels' American Anthem
66: Mícheál McCann and Katie Donovan
65: Christine Dwyer Hickey, Alba de Cespedes, Catullus
64: Summer journals, Tessa Hadley, Noel Monahan
63: Neil Astley on Soul Feast and more
62: Strokestown International Poetry Festival
61: Paul Muldoon on his new book; Strokestown shortlisted poets
6O: Mary Costello on Barcelona
59: Victoria Kennefick on Egg/Shell
58: Fleur Adcock, Kerry Hardie and Aoife Lyall
57: Remembering Philip Casey
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56: Summer is icumen in; TCD Writer Fellow James Harpur
55: Injury Time; A New Basho
54: New Year's Eve 2022 Special
53: Interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
52: IMRAM 2022; Mark Roper's Beyond Stillness
51: Judith Mok: The State of Dark
50: Love poems for today: a new anthology from Dedalus
49: Critic at Large: Kevin Power's The Written World
48: Two Salmon Poets; Trump Rant
47: Leland Bardwell at 100
46: Colm Tóibín talks about Vinegar Hill
45: Wendy Erskine; Ukrainian poetry
44: Paul Lynch's The Black Snow; John McAuliffe on his Selected Poems and Wong May
43: Gabriel Byne: on Walking with Ghosts
42 : Poetry, Memory and the Party: Thomas McCarthy Tells All
41: Thomas Kinsella 1928-2021; breakfast highlights of 2021
40: Claire Keegan on Small Things Like These
39: New poetry from Eleanor Hooker, Amanda Bell
38: Imram 2021; Alannah Hopkin on A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins
37: Short story special with John MacKenna and Madeleine D'Arcy
36: Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Éilis Ní Dhuibhne and Catherine Dunne
35: 30 Years of the Irish Writers Centre; Kent Haruf
34: New books; Lucia Berlin; Iain Crichton Smith
33: Intimate City: Dublin essays, Aoife Lyall on Mother Nature; A Line Made by Walking
32: Sinéad O'Connor's Rememberings, Victoria Kennefick, Sharon Olds
31: Louise Kennedy, Penelope Shuttle, Denise Levertov
30: Evelyn Conlon, The Examined Life, Grace Paley
29: Moya Cannon's Collected, The Best Address in Town, Nan Shepherd
28: Philip Ó Ceallaigh's Trouble; in Prague with Justin Quinn; Edith Templeton
27: A Gap in the Clouds: James Hadley and Nell Regan; haiku and senryu from Grant Caldwell; Hamsun's Hunger
26: Mountains to Sea podcast audio edition with Laura McKenna and Conor O'Callaghan
25: Apocalypse now; Una Mannion on A Crooked Tree; stories from the end of the world
24: Shirley Hazzard; Poetry and Money; Leeanne Quinn; the last of the Soviets
23: 40 Years of Salmon Poetry; Bachelard's images; Cathy Belton
22: New and recent poetry; Michael O'Loughlin's Liberty Hall; in search of lost gods
21: Fiction for 2021; Berryman's letters; African American poetry
20: Christmas Special: Paula Meehan, Tara Bergin, Pessoa's disquiet, Dublin's 20th century buildings, new poems.
19: IMRAM's magical films; forging Dracula with Henrietta McKervey
18: Poems for Winter; Kathleen MacMahon, Helen Garner.
17: Fuggedaboutit: dictionaries and languages; on the wild side with Seán Lysaght and Dara McAnulty
16: Hilary Mantel: Giants and Ghosts; Books for Younger Readers
15: Shirts for books; Kerry Hardie; The Radetzky March
14: Derek Mahon, Louise Glück, The Great Hunger; Neil Hegarty
13: The latest Ferrante; Mary O’Donnell; the poem that wouldn’t go away
12: The other Elizabeth Taylor; Sarah Bannan; Lee Harwood
11: Owen Roe: An actor calls; 32 Words for Field
10: Zadie Smith; Caitriona Lally: Driving on Eggshells; Michael Hartnett
9: Death and Nightingales; Joe Woods; Kathleen Jamie's Scots accent of the mind
8: Birdcage Walk; Olivia O'Leary; A Legendary Dinner
7: What You Don't Want to Know; Adam Wyeth; Coming Close to Charles Simic
6: Country Pursuits, Marianne Lee's A Quiet Tide, Poetry from Sweden
5: The Art of Seeing, Short Stories, Poetry and Place
4: Cities, languages, elegies; Philip Davison
3: Stalled festivals, Alice Lyons and missing O's, kings and doors
2: Short poems and Spies
1: Hamnet, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Pearse Hutchinson