Podcast appearances and mentions of dave lordan

A review of 'The Mandalorian' a new Star Wars story streaming on Disney+, online Creative Writing classes with writer Dave Lordan, Which Hollywood stars may have inspired the characters in Anne Enright's new novel 'Actress'? and Glenn Patterson discusses his latest novel 'Where are we now?'

In this episode Poet and Short-Story Writer Colm Keegan discusses mental health, the education system and his work in schools with Karina Murray of Aunua. Colm Keegan is a co-founder of the Inklinks Project, a creative writing initiative for young writers. He teaches creative writing in secondary schools across Ireland. He has been shortlisted four times for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, for both poetry and fiction and won the All Ireland Poetry Slam in 2010. His debut collection, Don't Go There, was released in 2012 to critical acclaim. His ideal workshop session would be on poetry, beginning with a talk on the power and importance of one's own voice “Sometimes you meet poets with soul, sometimes with experience, sometimes with talent. But you seldom meet a poet with all three. Colm Keegan is one such poet.” – Dave Lordan

Dave Lordan staggers into Gatsby's "niteclub" in West Cork in search of a girl, and straight into an encounter with hell, in the sweaty and heart-thumping finale of this six-part podcast memoir. 

In this episode, you'll hear Richie's story. About picking mushies over Inchydoney Bay in 1993, about how he spent a summer on building sites in London, about how he later ended up in prison, and about how he died. This is the fifth episode in a six-episode podcast memoir by Dave Lordan, centred on a party in a bedsit in Dunmanway, West Cork in 1993, five teenagers who gathered there, and what became of each. Only one – Lordan – is left on this Earth in 2018. Catch new episodes of The Dead Friends each Wednesday from 26 September to 31 October 2018.

In this episode you'll hear about how a bully gave The Orange his nickname, and how he grew into it and embraced it at university, when he was warrior-tall and strong as a heifer, with a ginger crown and a love of ecstasy and mushrooms. And you'll learn how he dropped out and hit the road, and how the music ended for him. This is the fourth episode in a six-episode podcast memoir by Dave Lordan, centred on a party in a bedsit in Dunmanway, West Cork in 1993, five teenagers who gathered there, and what became of each. Only one – Lordan – is left on this Earth in 2018. Catch new episodes of The Dead Friends each Wednesday from 26 September to 31 October 2018.

In this episode you'll hear about faeries, the Virgin Mary's appearance in Inchydoney, "wrecking", how Dan McCarthy, as I will call him, had tresses and a goatee that made him look like a pirate or a musketeer, and how he died. This is the third episode in a six-episode podcast memoir by Dave Lordan, centred on a party in a bedsit in Dunmanway, West Cork in 1993, five teenagers who gathered there, and what became of each. Only one – Lordan – is left on this Earth in 2018. Catch new episodes of The Dead Friends each Wednesday from 26 September to 31 October 2018.

In this episode you'll learn what happened to Chill Out Timmy, hear about the trials and tribulations of a Curehead love affair, and encounter the curse of Edmund Spenser. This is the second episode in a six-episode podcast memoir by Dave Lordan, centred on a party in a bedsit in Dunmanway, West Cork in 1993, five teenagers who gathered there, and what became of each. Only one – Lordan – is left on this Earth in 2018. Catch new episodes of The Dead Friends each Wednesday from 26 September to 31 October 2018.

Five teenagers gather at a party in a bedsit in Dunmanway, West Cork during mushroom season in 1993. Only one – Dave Lordan – is left on this Earth in 2018. The other four youngsters have tragically passed. In this six-episode podcast memoir, Lordan will delve into each of the four dead friends' lives, and each of their deaths, in turn – before ending with a demon-haunted climax in Gatsby’s "niteclub". We'll be releasing a new episode of The Dead Friends each Wednesday from 26 September to 31 October 2018.

Episode 2 features Dave Lordan performing 'Love Commands The Neighbourhood', his experience of living in a housing estate in Co. Wicklow and the attempt to cleanse his hatred and aggression towards the area.

This week, it’s all about the demon drink. On Easter Monday last, we took part in the nationwide Criunniu Na Casca event with a series of Banters in Dublin Castle. Here, we’re joined by Tara Flynn (actress, comedian and writer), Dave Lordan (writer, poet and dramatist) and Derek O’Connor (RTE.ie Culture editor) to talk about the part which drink plays in Irish culture, what the depiction of alcohol tell is about ourselves and if the relationship between drink and the arts inform and influence a dependency culture when it comes to sponsorship and funding.

From January 1847 Irish people desperately trying to flee the famine began to leave the island in huge numbers. 220,000 left in that year alone and by 1853 more than one in six people who had lived in Ireland in 1845 had emigrated. While we know a lot about where they went and the horrendous conditions they faced, we know less about the lives they left behind. This show tells that story through the words of these Irish emigrants.Research for this show took me into the archives of the National Library of Ireland. After sifting through what hundreds of letters from Famine emigrants this podcast publishes several for the first time since the 1840s. These never before heard accounts give a unique insight into the lives of Irish people in 1847 as they prepared to leave Ireland forever. Their stories are far more complex and all too often more tragic than we imagine. This is only possible through the support of patrons - previously I would not have been able to devote the necessary time to one episode. If you want to become a patron today and get bonus content check out patreon.com/irishpodcast.Thanks to Clare Ryan, Jamie Goldrick, Thom McDermott and Dave Lordan who narrate the letters.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Author Dave Lordan reads his story, ‘Our Private Estate’, from the online edition of Granta 135: New Irish Writing.