Podcast appearances and mentions of martin dyar

Siobhán Brosnan is a student of the Kerry College digital journalism, podcasting and radio course in association with Radio Kerry. She has made this feature about the prison writing competition organised by Listowel Writers’ Week which was started by the late Brendan Kennelly in 1979. She speaks to arts officer with the Prison Service, Tom Shortt, with Martin Dyar who was the curator of the 2024 Writers’ Week Festival, and to former prisoner Pat Sheehy whose life was transformed by the competition.

Claire Keegan's novel Small Things Like These, is set in 1985, where we meet Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant in New Ross - Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing is Poetry Ireland's new anthology by Martin Dyar - We review new music by Norwegian electronic duo Royksopp, and Weyes Blood.

Charles Dickens: My Life. Derwin Hope talks to Seán about his new biography on Dickens which is published by Clink Street, Roisin Dwyer of the National Concert Hall on music in a time of crisis, poet Martin Dyar & Peter Murphy reviews Richard Ford's new collection of short stories 'Sorry For Your Trouble'.

Martin Dyar reads his poem Burke’s Goddess in this episode of Words Lightly Spoken, a podcast of poetry from Ireland, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. The poem is the title poem from his forthcoming second collection, published by Arlen House.

Part of our student summit in New York, these are excerpts of a discussion between poet Martin Dyar and business leader Adrian Jones. The conversation is introduced by WIP's Executive Director, Bryan Patten, and was recorded at Glucksman Ireland House in NYU on June 26 2019. Construction works started on the road outside towards the end, impacting on the audio quality

 ‘Poetry is about addressing the limits of our perceptions.’ Martin Dyar is a poet who manages to be both a respectful scholar of the traditions of poetry and a voice that is contemporary and mindful of the future of the form. In this interview, Martin discusses the role of the poet and offers many insights into a life dedicated to the study and creation of poetry as well as reading three of his compositions.

Sheelagh Dempsey has details of the best live concert and festivals including the Galway Arts Festival, the 39th Cork Folk Festival and a tour of a new work from poet Martin Dyar and composer Ryan Molloy, ‘Buaine Na Gaoithe’.

Listen back to authors Danielle McLaughlin and Roisín O'Donnell reading from their collections and discussing their creative writing process. Recorded in the Central Library on 7 April 2017 as part of their Contemporary Irish Literature Series which took place during March and April 2017. Danielle’s debut collection of short stories Dinosaurs On Other Planets, was published in Ireland in 2015 by The Stinging Fly Press and in the UK, US & Canada by John Murray and Random House in 2016. She has won various awards for her short fiction, including the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition, The Merriman Short Story Competition in memory of Maeve Binchy, and the Dromineer Literary Festival Short Story Competition. Roisín’s debut short story collection Wild Quiet was published in 2016 by New Island Books. It was listed as one of The Irish Times' Favourite Books of 2016 and shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award 2017. Roisín’s short stories appear in Young Irelanders (2015), and in the award-winning anthologies of Irish women's writing The Long Gaze Back (2015) and The Glass Shore (2016). The Contemporary Irish Literature Series also featured award winning writers Donal Ryan, Martin Dyar and Sara Baume http://www.dublincity.ie/recommended-tags/podcasts

Booker-nominated novelist Donal Ryan and Patrick Kavanagh Award-winning poet Martin Dyar visited the Central Library on 2 March 2017 for a special evening of collaborative and interactive explorations of their work. Donal and Martin read from their own works and read excerpts from each others work in a special call and response format. The two writers discuss their writing process and the centrality of rural Ireland to their work, before answering questions from the audience. Part of the Contemporary Irish Literature Series in the Central Library.