Podcasts about Dermot Bolger

Bittersweet love stories, eye-catching cover art and home thoughts from abroad, with Feargal Ó Dubhghaill, Molly Furey, Joe Kearney, Margaret Galvin, Dermot Bolger, Lani O'Hanlon and Yvonne Cullen

Send us a textOn today's show, the last of 2024, we talk to Keith Payne about his recent  boat building and poem writing project. Currachs and naomhógs are among the only sea craft built upside down, and the expertise dates back generations. Keith learned all of this and a. lot more when he found himself working on a Dunfanaghy currach over 16 weeks. He was Cork City Library eco-poet in residence from 2022 to 2023 when he was drawn to the work of Meitheal Mara. He learned about carpenters' marks and pigtails and how to row with Naomhóga Chorcaí. His latest work, Building the Boat, records his experiences with Meitheal Mara in verse, and it has just been published by Badly Made Books. He also talks to us about Whales and Whales, his recent translations of a powerful Galician poet, Luisa Castro. The second half of today's show is a look back at some highlights from our podcast in 2024, with contributions from Michael Agustin, Dermot Bolger, Kerry Hardie, Aoife Lyall, Victoria Kennefick, Mary Costello, Paul Muldoon, Neil Astley, Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin, Noel Monahan and Christine Dwyer Hickey.This episode is supported by a Project Award from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry' from The Hare's Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.Support the show

On The Last Word, writer Dermot Bolger discussed his favourite books, TV, music and other cultural influences.He also spoke his latest novel, Hide Away.To catch the full conversation, press the 'play' button on this page.

Poet, playwright and novelist Dermot Bolger talks about his new book Hide Away his fifteenth novel, a story set behind the walls of Grangegorman in the 1940s that deals with Ireland's past, the secrets of the nation and the ghosts of history that stalk our lives

The August Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Dermot Bolger about his novel 'The Lonely Sea and Sky' “The novel tells the story of the rescue by a small Irish boat of 168 German sailors during World War II. The narrator is Jack Roche, a 14-year-old Wexford lad whose father has been killed at sea. Part historical fiction, part coming-ofage narrative, this is a perceptive and exciting novel about life at sea as a way of dramatizing human relations at their most intense.” — Colm Tóibín Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/

Saints and prayers, crowning glory and a Shakespearean starling, with Elizabeth Oxley, Moya Cannon, Dermot Bolger, Pat Boran, Rosaleen McDonagh and Conall Hamill

We're back with a show dedicated to a book commemorating the life and achievement of a fondly remembered writer: Distant Summers: Remembering Philip Casey, Writer, Fabulist, Friend, edited by Eamonn Wall, Katie Donovan and Michael Considine, Arlen House, 2024. We feature contributions by Katie Donovan, Dermot Bolger and Michael O'Loughlin, and Michael Agustin reading his poem from the book.We also cover the recently announced winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and readings of poems by the two Irish shortlisted poets, Jane Clarke and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Jason Allen-Paisant,  this year's winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, full video hereIntro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry' from The Hare's Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it. Incidental music Wanderlust by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckleyMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comArtwork by Freya SirrTo subscribe to Books for Breakfast go to your podcast provider of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google etc) and search for the podcast then hit subscribe or follow, or simply click the appropriate button above. Support the show

Ghostly encounters, poetic presences, and a recalcitrant car, with Gerald Dawe, Mia Döring, Brian Leyden, Catherine Foley, Dermot Bolger, James Harpur and Lani O'Hanlon

Morning Coffee was a finalist in the 2023 Zebbie Awards for best radio drama script

Did you learn much about yourself in Lockdown times? Dermot Bolger (poet, publisher, playwright and more besides) discovered some of the incredible people who lived in his locality in times gone by. These included the radical Grace Gifford Plunkett, architect Herbert Simms and the writer Patricia Lynch. In Other People's Lives, Dermot honours these people and captures a moment in time beautifully. Available from: https://www.newisland.ie/poetry-drama/other-peoples-lives

A stranger from the past drives into the yard of on an elderly couple. Is this seemingly benign intrusion the action of a man seeking to make atonement?

The glory days of advertising, a fjord in Mayo and a maypole in Finglas, with Liz Houchin, Pat Dunne, Phlip Judge, Dermot Bolger, Rachael Hegarty, John F Deane and Catherine Foley.

Face blindness and body work, sun, stars, and seeing infinity in a grain of sand, with Dermot Bolger, William Wall, Mary O'Donnell, Rita Ann Higgins, Lani O'Hanlon and John F Deane

On todays's show we talk to Judith Mok, whose memoir The State of Dark has just been published by Lilliput. Judith Mok was born in the Netherlands, to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. She trained as a classical singer and travelled the world performing as a soloist, and has also  fiction and poetry. For the last twenty years she has been based in Ireland, where she works as a voice coach with classical singers and  international pop stars. The State of Dark is a memoir and detective story. Like many children of Holocaust survivors, she was raised with the emotional trauma of having no other family members, while her parents tried to rebuild their lives in postwar Europe. Despite the constant and occasionally intrusive presence of the past – Anne Frank's father Otto makes an emotional visit to her father to hand over some letters – she had little concrete information about the hundreds of members of her family who died. All the same, the Holocaust and its consequences continued to haunt her life.Some praise received by The State of Dark:‘The State of Dark is a privilege to read. With luminous prose, Judith Mok shines a light into the darkness of her family's past. It is an extraordinary feat of storytelling to be able to write about inconceivable tragedies with such warmth and humanity.' LOUISE NEALON‘Possibly the most powerful book to be published in Ireland this year … unforgettable' DERMOT BOLGER, SUNDAY BUSINESS POSTIntro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry' from The Hare's Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.Artwork by Freya SirrTo subscribe to Books for Breakfast go to your podcast provider of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google etc) and search for the podcast then hit subscribe or follow, or simply click the appropriate button above. Support the show

The Venice Suite by Dermot Bolger - a voyage through loss - performed by John Kavanagh

Victoria Kennefick's debut poetry collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2022 and was awarded the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year 2022. Most recently, it has been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. In 2021, it was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Book Award. It was a book of the year in The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Telegraph, The Sunday Independent and The White Review. Her pamphlet, White Whale (Southword Editions, 2015), won the Munster Literature Centre's Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition and the Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet. Victoria is the current poet-in-residence at the Yeats Society Sligo.This week's Southword poem is 'My Eyes' by Dermot Bolger, which appears in issue 41. You can buy single issues, subscribe, or find out how to submit to Southword here.

Soap bubbles and speech therapy, a couch collector, a Kurdish boy in Ballyshannon, and Mother's Day labours of love, with Margaret Galvin, Dermot Bolger, Olive Travers, Denise Blake, Joe Whelan and Rachael Hegarty

Welcome to Episode 6 of Belong Bí Ann. What is it about books and libraries we love so much? Authors Dermot Bolger and Liz Nugent explore their relationship with books and libraries, and why they are so important to us. Belong | Bí Ann Artists Podcast is hosted by Sorcha Keane and is a collaboration between Dublin City Libraries and axisBallymun and funded by the Dormant Accounts Fund.

The silence of the salt desert, the Mullers of Kilmore Quay, the wine of the Rubiayat and the genius of Jack B Yeats – A M Cousins, Dermot Bolger, Mary O'Donnell, Lani O'Hanlon and Niall McArdle

stranger from the past drives into the yard of on an elderly couple. Is this seemingly benign intrusion the action of a man seeking to make atonement and bring justice, or wreak havoc on the lives of the couple?"

Writer Dermot Bolger, director Eithne Hand and actors Donncha Crowley, Helen Roche and Tatianna Ouliankina sepak about their work on Dermot's play Morning Coffee.

Writer Dermot Bolger, director Eithne Hand and actors Donncha Crowley, Helen Roche and Tatianna Ouliankina sepak about their work on Dermot's play Morning Coffee.

The audio play of Last Orders at the Dockside by Dermot Bolger Last Orders at the Dockside follows the death of an elderly docker, as his friends gather in the local pub, The Dockside, to celebrate his life. Over the course of an evening awash with songs, sharp Dublin wit and tales of life on the Docks, hidden tensions expose fault lines in their complex relationships. Last Orders at the Dockside premiered at the Abbey Theatre in September 2019, directed by Graham McLaren. This audio version of Dermot Bolger's original text was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland, and features the original Abbey Theatre cast. Cast: Éabha Brady, Anthony Brophy, Juliette Crosbie, George Murphy, Stephen Jones, Aidan Kelly, Lisa Lambe, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Terry O'Neill and Jimmy Smallhorne Musicians: Bill Bergin, Mike Brookfield, Aindrias de Staic and Wayne Sheehy

The audio play of Last Orders at the Dockside by Dermot Bolger Last Orders at the Dockside follows the death of an elderly docker, as his friends gather in the local pub, The Dockside, to celebrate his life. Over the course of an evening awash with songs, sharp Dublin wit and tales of life on the Docks, hidden tensions expose fault lines in their complex relationships. Last Orders at the Dockside premiered at the Abbey Theatre in September 2019, directed by Graham McLaren. This audio version of Dermot Bolger's original text was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland, and features the original Abbey Theatre cast. Cast: Éabha Brady, Anthony Brophy, Juliette Crosbie, George Murphy, Stephen Jones, Aidan Kelly, Lisa Lambe, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Terry O'Neill and Jimmy Smallhorne Musicians: Bill Bergin, Mike Brookfield, Aindrias de Staic and Wayne Sheehy

In a special tribute to mark the 150th birthday of painter Jack B. Years, Dermot Bolger reads 'Fairground Ponies' inspired by Yeats' final sketch.

On this week's programme, the bicycle as GAA freedom machine -- and in the writings of celebrated travel writer Dervla Murphy, who celebrates her 89th birthday this weekend. Also, Vaclav Havel's liking for toast and Patrick Kavanagh's Drumcondra haunts with Dermot Bolger, Barbara Scully, Frank Kavanagh, Hannah Kiely, Colin Regan and Vincent Woods

On this programme: Conquering a stammer; Saluting Angela Lansbury at 95; Running away from home -- and reconsidering; Wexford's Halloween customs involving cabbage -- and How the world responded to the death of Terence MacSwiney... with Chris McHallem, Mary Wall, Dermot Bolger, AM Cousins, Lourdes Mackey, and Vincent Woods

On this programme: Conquering a stammer; Saluting Angela Lansbury at 95; Running away from home -- and reconsidering; Wexford's Halloween customs involving cabbage -- and How the world responded to the death of Terence MacSwiney... with Chris McHallem, Mary Wall, Dermot Bolger, AM Cousins, Lourdes Mackey, and Vincent Woods

On this programme: Conquering a stammer; Saluting Angela Lansbury at 95; Running away from home -- and reconsidering; Wexford's Halloween customs involving cabbage -- and How the world responded to the death of Terence MacSwiney... with Chris McHallem, Mary Wall, Dermot Bolger, AM Cousins, Lourdes Mackey, and Vincent Woods

On this programme: Conquering a stammer; Saluting Angela Lansbury at 95; Running away from home -- and reconsidering; Wexford's Halloween customs involving cabbage -- and How the world responded to the death of Terence MacSwiney... with Chris McHallem, Mary Wall, Dermot Bolger, AM Cousins, Lourdes Mackey, and Vincent Woods

Edel Coffey discusses Daphne du Maurier’s, Rebecca, Secrets Never Told is the first short story collection by Dermot Bolger, a writer so prolific in poetry, plays and novels that it’s hard to believe he could have a debut, Chris Wasser reviews The Undoing, a new six-part drama from David E Kelley with Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman.

This week a selection from Sunday Miscellany Live programmes at the Red Line Book Festival, recorded in the Civic Theatre in Tallaght in 2016 and 2017 broadcast to mark this year’s Red Line Book Festival which is taking place entirely online; with scripts by Dermot Bolger, Eileen Casey, Marita Conlon-McKenna, Rosaleen McDonagh and Declan Hughes

This week a selection from Sunday Miscellany Live programmes at the Red Line Book Festival, recorded in the Civic Theatre in Tallaght in 2016 and 2017 broadcast to mark this year’s Red Line Book Festival which is taking place entirely online; with scripts by Dermot Bolger, Eileen Casey, Marita Conlon-McKenna, Rosaleen McDonagh and Declan Hughes

Award-winning writer John Banville; writer and editor of literary magazine A Public Space Yiyun Li; celebrated poet, playwright, novelist and publisher Dermot Bolger; and short story writer Danielle McLaughlin joined Roy Foster to remember the late, great William Trevor at ILFDublin 2018. ILFDublin is an initiative of Dublin City Council, kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

This week, Dermot Bolger reads his poem Frost All Over

Bill Whelan on composing Riverdance as it celebrates 25 years, Moya Brennan talks about her enduring success, and writer Dermot Bolger discusses his new play for the Abbey Theatre.

This week, poet Dermot Bolger reads While We Sleep

Joanna McNicholas meets fishermen on Achill Island - Francis O’Donnell of the Irish Fish Producers Organ on suspension of herring fishing in the Celtic Sea. Francis Kelly coastal rowing in Dingle & singer Lisa Lambe's Fiddler’s Green from the Abbey Theatre’s prod. of a new play by Dermot Bolger 'Last Orders at The Dockside'.

Ruth Maguire who died at Carlingford Lough is remembered by her sister Rachel. Sinead Gleeson on her new memoir. Dermot Bolger & Macdara Yeates celebrate the lives, stories & music of the greats of Irish traditional music in their collaboration "My Father's Kind" & Flo McSweeney on her first solo album, "Picture in a Frame".

Inside Books is a fortnightly programme presented by Breda Brown. This episode features Dermot Bolger

Live from Dublin, Seamus Heaney's wife and daughter, Marie and Catherine Heaney, talk to the writer Sinéad Gleeson about 100 Poems, a selection of the poet's work chosen by his family. The book runs the gamut of Heaney's writing life, yet is a personal collection, with poems of love for his wife, children and grandchildren, his parents and relatives. A favourite of Seamus Heaney's poems is The Rain Stick which ends with the words, "Listen now again." That's the title of a new exhibition which draws on the huge archive which Heaney donated to the National Library of Ireland in 2011. Curator Geraldine Higgins leads Sinéad through the manuscripts, unpublished pieces, diary entries, notebooks and letters that trace the development of the Nobel Laureate's career. The permanent exhibition continues at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre on College Green, Dublin. Jesse Jones threw a spotlight on feminism and women's issues with her work Tremble Tremble when she represented Ireland at the 57th Venice Biennale last year. The film and performance artist talks about creating the multi-media installation which re-imagines feminist history and law. Dermot Bolger's stage version of James Joyce's Ulysses is currently playing at Dublin's Abbey Theatre. The novelist, playwright and poet reflects on the daunting task of putting the greatest modernist work in the world on the stage.Presenter: Sinéad Gleeson Producer: Julian May.

The Abbey Theatre's James Hickson invites Dermot Bolger and Ferdia MacAnna to discuss that unbreakable book by James Joyce, the challenges of condensing that expansive odyssey for the stage and the humanity, forgiveness and humour present in the novel that matures with you on every visit. Recorded on the Abbey Stage on Bloomsday 16 June 2018. Talks Facilitator: James Hickson. Editor: Lisa Farrelly Edited for time duration and sound quality. EP11/2018

In the fourth episode of Season 2, host Panti Bliss is joined by musician and singer Julie Feeney, author and writer Shane Hegarty, former rock radio DJ Jenny Huston and writer Dermot Bolger. www.pantisocracy.ie for more

Panti Bliss performs her monologue 'Life's Little Nudges' for Episode 4 of the second season of Pantisocracy. Pantisocracy, the cabaret of conversations, is back on air with a new Summer season of shows. Each show opens with a personal monologue by Ireland's Queen Panti Bliss and in this episode she explores how life's little nudges, people or events, can change us and our lives. In this episode, host Panti Bliss is joined by singer Julie Feeney, writer and author Shane Hegarty, former rock radio DJ Jenny Huston and writer Dermot Bolger.

Raymond Keane most recently appeared in Game Of Thrones for HBO and in Ulysses in The Abbey Theatre adapted by Dermot Bolger. He is a founder and Artistic Director of Barabbas. He devised and/or acted in much of their early work such as Come Down From The Mountain John Clown, John Clown, Half Eight Mass […] La entrada Episode 81 – Raymond Keane se publicó primero en Headstuff.

Playwright Dermot Bolger discusses the virtual impossible task of adapting Ulysses for the stage with fellow writer Peter Sheridan. Recorded at The James Joyce Centre and broadcast with their kind permission on 10 October 2017. Sound operator and editor Lisa Farrelly. With thanks to Marty Gilroy & Mark Traynor at The Joyce Centre

The Conspiracy (Phoneme Media) When leftist revolutionary Sergio's sniper shot misses the President of Venezuela, he's thrown into a sudden tailspin. As he attempts to escape the increasingly militarized regime, he winds up taking residence in a bohemian beachside commune, where he keeps a low profile until Lourdes, his former comrade, the object of his desire, and his possible betrayer, turns up one evening. Pursued by their former trainer in guerrilla warfare on the orders of the newly appointed Minister of the Interior, the two team up with unlikely partners to hatch a new plan for their survival. This poetic thriller, the second in Phoneme Media's City of Asylum imprint, challenges the origin myth of South America's radical left, resulting in its author's exile from Venezuela. Praise for The Conspiracy  "A rare voice from Venezuela. In this fever dream of a novel shot through with dark humor, Centeno grapples with the fallout from generations of violence and corruption." —Natasha Wimmer, translator of Roberto Bolaño'sThe Savage Detectives and 2666 "His fleshy, psychologically penetrating work is one of the great undiscovered literary experiences of Latin America." —Aurelio Major, co-founding editor of Granta en Español "The alleyways and hideaways of Israel Centeno's Venezuela are as real and visceral as the streets of Pasolini's Rome." —Dermot Bolger, author of The Journey Home Israel Centeno was born in Venezuela in 1958. He has published 14 books, primarily novels but short story and poetry collections as well. He is regarded as on of the most important Venezuelan literary figures of the last fifty years. He has won the Federico García Lorca Award in Spain and the National Council of Culture Award in Venezuela. Since 2011 he has lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and two daughters, as an exiled writer-in-residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh.

With guests Julie Feeney, Dermot Bolger, Jenny Huston and Shane Hegarty.

Walking the Road by Dermot Bolger is a dramatic, imaginative exploration of the life of Meath poet Francis Ledwidge

This week we hear from poet and playwright Dermot Bolger and actors Peter Hanly and Sam Mc Govern as they discuss Dermot’s play Walking The Road – a dramatic imaginative exploration of the life of Meath poet Francis Ledwidge. Walking The Road by Dermot Bolger is next week’s Drama On One

The Venice Suite; A Voyage Through Loss by Dermot Bolger In Memory of Bernie, 3rd July 1958-26th May 2010

Ray Yeates on his role as Eoin  in Dermot Bolger’s The Parting Glass; Mike Farragher disccuses Icewagon FLU, Damien McGinty and The Glee Project, and Seamus Kelleher; Druid Theatre’s Garry Hynes on directing The Silver Tassie.  Tune of the week from Icewagon Flu!

This is the final podcast in the second series of Talking Books, a programme run by the Arts Office of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in conjunction with the County Library Service. Throughout 2009, writer-in-residence Dermot Bolger conducted a series of conversations focused on the business of writing. Dermot's guest in this final programme is the poet Paul Durcan, who recently published a retrospective collection of his poetry spanning 40 years. The podcast was recorded in Deansgrange Libary on the 17th of November 2009. There were some technical problems with microphones on the day and, regrettably, this is reflected in the sound quality in parts of this recording. We hope that this will not unduly affect your enjoyment of the programme.

This is the final podcast in the second series of Talking Books, a programme run by the Arts Office of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in conjunction with the County Library Service. Throughout 2009, writer-in-residence Dermot Bolger conducted a series of conversations focused on the business of writing. Dermot's guest in this final programme is the poet Paul Durcan, who recently published a retrospective collection of his poetry spanning 40 years. The podcast was recorded in Deansgrange Libary on the 17th of November 2009. There were some technical problems with microphones on the day and, regrettably, this is reflected in the sound quality in parts of this recording. We hope that this will not unduly affect your enjoyment of the programme.

This is the second podcast in the second series of Talking Books, hosted by writer-in-residence Dermot Bolger. Dermot is joined by the writer Carlo Gébler. The podcast was recorded in Deansgrange Libary on the 3rd of November 2009.

This is the second podcast in the second series of Talking Books, hosted by writer-in-residence Dermot Bolger. Dermot is joined by the writer Carlo Gébler. The podcast was recorded in Deansgrange Libary on the 3rd of November 2009.

This is the first podcast in the second series of Talking Books, hosted by writer-in-residence Dermot Bolger. Dermot is joined by literary agent Faith O'Grady, editorial manager with New Island Books Deirdre O'Neill and novelist and editor Anthony Glavin. The podcast was recorded at Deansgrange Library on the 15th of Oct 2009.

This is the first podcast in the second series of Talking Books, hosted by writer-in-residence Dermot Bolger. Dermot is joined by literary agent Faith O'Grady, editorial manager with New Island Books Deirdre O'Neill and novelist and editor Anthony Glavin. The podcast was recorded at Deansgrange Library on the 15th of Oct 2009.

This is the final podcast in the first series of Talking Books, hosted by writer-in-residence Dermot Bolger. Dermot is joined by fellow writers John Boyne (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas), Deirdre Purcell (Falling for a Dancer) and Claire Kilroy (Tenderwire) for a conversation about the business of writing. The podcast was recorded at Deansgrange Library on the 9th of July 2009. Series 2 of Talking Books is already underway, and the first of those podcasts will be published here next week.

This is the final podcast in the first series of Talking Books, hosted by writer-in-residence Dermot Bolger. Dermot is joined by fellow writers John Boyne (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas), Deirdre Purcell (Falling for a Dancer) and Claire Kilroy (Tenderwire) for a conversation about the business of writing. The podcast was recorded at Deansgrange Library on the 9th of July 2009. Series 2 of Talking Books is already underway, and the first of those podcasts will be published here next week.

This is the second discussion in the 'Talking Books' series presented by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown novelist-in-residence Dermot Bolger. In this episode, the Belfast writer and Beirut hostage Brian Keenan discusses his work with Dermot before an audience at Deansgrange Library. The podcast was recorded on the 14th of May 2009.

This is the second discussion in the 'Talking Books' series presented by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown novelist-in-residence Dermot Bolger. In this episode, the Belfast writer and Beirut hostage Brian Keenan discusses his work with Dermot before an audience at Deansgrange Library. The podcast was recorded on the 14th of May 2009.

'Talking Books' is a series of intimate public conversations by novelist, playwright and poet Dermot Bolger with leading Irish writers about the art of writing and the everyday practices, routines and difficulties involved with creating a sustained piece of literature. Broadening out to include questions and comments from the audience, these evenings are intended to be enjoyed by emerging writers and by anyone interested in contemporary Irish writing. In this, the first of three podcasts, Dermot talks to Gerard Donovan, the author of "Schopenhauer's Telescope" and "Julius Winsome". It was recorded before an audience at Deansgrange Library on the 16th April 2009.

'Talking Books' is a series of intimate public conversations by novelist, playwright and poet Dermot Bolger with leading Irish writers about the art of writing and the everyday practices, routines and difficulties involved with creating a sustained piece of literature. Broadening out to include questions and comments from the audience, these evenings are intended to be enjoyed by emerging writers and by anyone interested in contemporary Irish writing. In this, the first of three podcasts, Dermot talks to Gerard Donovan, the author of "Schopenhauer's Telescope" and "Julius Winsome". It was recorded before an audience at Deansgrange Library on the 16th April 2009.

from "New Dubliners"