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Irish columnist and novelist

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Best podcasts about Martina Devlin

Latest podcast episodes about Martina Devlin

Inside Books
Inside Books Episode 115 Martina Devlin

Inside Books

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 37:59


Inside Books is a regular popular author interview podcast presented by Breda Brown. In this episode Breda is in conversation with Martina Devlin, the award-winning novelist and journalist with 12 books published.

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RTÉ - Sunday with Miriam
Martina Devlin

RTÉ - Sunday with Miriam

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2024 18:51


Chat with the author about her new novel ‘Charlotte: A Novel' (about Charlotte Brontë, told from the perspective of Mary Bell, the Irish woman who met Charlotte when she and her husband - and Mary's cousin - Arthur Bell Nicholas came to Ireland on honeymoon)

The BelTel
The witch trials of Islandmagee

The BelTel

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2023 22:05


Islandmagee is a quiet civil parish on the east coast of Northern Ireland. But in 1711, a newcomer to the area begins to have fits, regurgitates pins and buttons, and suddenly dies. In the weeks following her death, eight woman and one man are found guilty of witchcraft at a local Courthouse – one man is executed. It was the last witchcraft trial in Ireland. Olivia Peden speaks to Dr Andrew Sneddon of Ulster University, and Martina Devlin, the author of “The House where it happened” about this mysterious event.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Highlights from The Hard Shoulder
Omagh: 'It was a miracle' - Woman survived bombing while pregnant

Highlights from The Hard Shoulder

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2023 16:35


25 years ago in August of 1998, four months after the Good Friday Agreement was signed the Real IRA detonated a car bomb in Omagh. In doing so they claimed the lives of 29 men, women and children, among them a mother heavily pregnant with twins and shattered the thin veil of peace. Kieran was joined by novelist and newspaper columnist Martina Devlin and Omagh bombing survivor, Nicola Emery to discuss...

Dublin City Public Libraries' Podcasts
City of Books #10 Colum McCann on Motorbikes, Motivation and Middle East

Dublin City Public Libraries' Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2023 48:39


Writer Colum McCann talks about his hope that his book, Apeirogon, may contribute to peace. It fictionalises the true story of two fathers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who each lose a child in the conflict. Elsewhere in the interview, Colum says he can't write poetry but is drawn to it, and talks about writers he has known including Frank McCourt and Benedict Kiely. He also reads from his novel. Produced and presented by author and journalist Martina Devlin. Music by Daragh Dukes. :: Apeirogon is published by Bloomsbury https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/apeirogon-9781526607874/

Trinity Long Room Hub
Behind the Headlines | REWRITES: Necessity or travesty?

Trinity Long Room Hub

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2023 54:57


Recorded April 5, 2023 Panelists: Dr Jane Suzanne Carroll (TCD), Dr David Kenny (TCD), Dr Martina Devlin, and Dr Nicholas Johnson (TCD). With the recent news that publishers Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company have decided to rewrite potentially sensitive or offensive elements of the popular children's books, our Behind the Headlines panel considers whether languages, images, and texts should be altered to suit the times, and what else is ‘subject to change'?  While some may argue that rewriting books amounts to a threat to literary expression—a throwback to ‘book banning' or even censorship—others will point to the fact that works of fiction are being adapted all the time, based on the norms of the moment. And children's books are not the only texts that are under revision; we expand our discussion to constitutional law and to the world of theatre as our panel considers how we can protect the integrity of a text throughout the ages.

City of Books
#48 FAITH. HOPE AND HUMOUR

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2022 39:53


The Raptures is Jan Carson's most autobiographical novel, dealing with a child raised in an evangelical Christian community in 1990s Northern Ireland – which mirrors her own background. In her book, a class of children from the same village fall prey to a mysterious and deadly epidemic. Only one pupil seems to be avoiding the effects of the disease: Hannah, a girl from a born-again Christian background. “There is a lot of me in this book and for that reason it was both very easy to write because I know this world very well, there wasn't a lot of research to do, but quite difficult to write – to go to the hard places,” Jan tells podcast host Martina Devlin. “It's very easy to pastiche this world. It's much more difficult to have a nuanced look at it.” She was sheltered from the Troubles, but in hindsight wishes she'd known more about what was happening around her. In her books, Jan gives readers a strong sense of the Ulster Protestant experience, especially for those from the ‘born again' community. “I grew up absolutely immersed in the King James Bible,” she says. “That is not a bad literary document to be immersed in as a writer. It's got everything from poetry and prophecy to magical realism and beautiful, beautiful language. I'm very glad for those things.” More here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/437833/the-raptures-by-carson-jan/9780857525758

The Arts Council Podcast
The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 10: 'The Last September' by Elizabeth Bowen

The Arts Council Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2022 40:28


The November Art of Reading book club features Colm in conversation with writer Tom McCarthy about Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Last September. The Laureate says “This is another novel set during the Irish War of Independence. Just as Martina Devlin's book is about solitude and introspection, this centres on a house party, scenes filled with chatter and strange silences, things unmentioned and unmentionable. And in the background are the insurgents, the sense of impending doom.” Thomas McCarthy was born in Co. Waterford in 1954 and educated at the local Convent of Mercy and at University College Cork. He was a Fellow of the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa in 1978/79. He worked for many years at Cork City Libraries, mainly working in the Lending Section of Cork Central Library before he withdrew to write fulltime in 2014. He has won many awards for his poetry, including The Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, the O'Shaughnessy Prize and the American-Ireland Funds Annual Literary Award. His tenth collection of poems, Prophecy,was published by Carcanet Press in 2019. A former Editor of Poetry Ireland Review and The Cork Review,his latest book, Memory, Poetry and the Party: Journals 1974-2014, is published by The Gallery Press, Ireland. Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899. An only child of Anglo-Irish descent, she was educated in England and spent her summers at Bowen's Court in County Cork. She was a short-story writer, novelist and essayist. Her first book, a collection of stories entitled Encounters, was published in 1923 with the help of Rose Macaulay of the Bloomsbury Group. The Hotel (1927) was her first novel. Her most highly regarded and well-known novels, The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1948), were set in London between the World Wars and during the Blitz. Her novel The Last September (1929) recounts the history of Bowen's Court and is set during the events that preceded Irish independence. She was awarded the CBE in 1948 and received an honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1948 and from Oxford University in 1956. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. She died in 1973.

Burning Books Ireland
19: Martina Devlin

Burning Books Ireland

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2022 49:47


Martina Devlin talks about Benedict Kiely, Mary Shelley and a woman who turns into a fox as she tells Ruth McKee which books she would save if her house was on fire. Martina Devlin is an award winning journalist and author. Her latest novel Edith, based on the life of Edith Somerville, is out now with Lilliput Press. 

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The Arts Council Podcast
The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 9: Edith by Martina Devlin

The Arts Council Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2022 52:15


The October Art of Reading book club features Colm in conversation with writer Martina Devlin about her book Edith. The Laureate says “Edith is an engrossing and sensitive portrait of the writer Edith Somerville during the War of Independence when her writing partner Violet Ross is dead and her own career as a writer not flourishing. It is a portrait of a sensitive, solitary figure in a time of turmoil, of a woman striking out as an artist in a time when there were many barriers”. Martina Devlin has written 11 books, including the novels About Sisterland and The House Where It Happened, and the short story collection Truth & Dare. Her latest book Edith: A Novel – about the writer Edith Somerville – will be published by the Lilliput Press in May. Prizes include the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Prize and a Hennessy Literary Award. She writes a weekly current affairs column for the Irish Independent and has been named National Newspapers of Ireland commentator of the year. Martina is the first holder of a PhD in literary practice from Trinity College Dublin, where she is currently an adjunct lecturer in Irish literature. She presents the City of Books podcast, sponsored by the Arts Council and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and the Museum of Literature Ireland. Read more about the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme here: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/

Highlights from Lunchtime Live
Is sending 'Thank You' cards a dying art?

Highlights from Lunchtime Live

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2022 16:21


Apparently, 'Thank You' notes are becoming a thing of the past. Do you still write thank you notes, or is a quick and handy text ‘thanks' the way to go? Adrian Kennedy was joined by author, Martina Devlin, etiquette expert, Tina Koumarianos and author, Sheila O'Flanagan to discuss...

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Brendan O'Connor
Salman Rushdie Attack

Brendan O'Connor

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2022 10:50


As Salman Rushie remains on a ventilator in hospital after a viscous attack on Friday, Martina Devlin, Writer and Irish independent Columnist, remembers her interview with him in the 90's while he was forced into hiding for his safety.

RTÉ - Drivetime
Bonfires and Effigies

RTÉ - Drivetime

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2022 13:00


Moore Holmes, Loyalist and Member of Advocacy Group "Let's Talk Loyalism" & Martina Devlin, Writer and Irish Independent Columnist

City of Books
#41 LOVE AND LOSS

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 49:23


As Somerville and Ross they were a dynamic literary partnership. When Ross died, Edith Somerville convinced herself they could continue to collaborate on books - by communicating beyond the grave through spiritualism. Martina Devlin talks about her novel Edith, set in 1921-22 against a backdrop of civil unrest leading to Irish independence. It follows Edith's attempts to save both home – Drishane House – and literary career. She is interviewed by fellow novelist Nuala O'Connor. Edith: A Novel by Martina Devlin is published by The Lilliput Press. More here: https://www.lilliputpress.ie/product/edith-by-martina-devlin

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Books for Breakfast
47: Leland Bardwell at 100

Books for Breakfast

Play Episode Play 60 sec Highlight Listen Later Apr 28, 2022 47:34


Today's show is a bit special. We're very happy to feature My Name Suspended in Air: Leland Bardwell at 100, published by Lepus Print, to coincide with Poetry Day Ireland 2022.  Leland was a remarkable poet, and indeed fiction writer, and this book is a selection of her poems chosen by Irish women poets and writers:  Eva Bourke, Jackie Bardwell, Mary Branley, Siobhan Campbell, Jane Clarke, Evelyn Conlon, Monica Corish, Enda Coyle-Greene, Martina Devlin, Katie Donovan, Anna Dunn, Fionnuala Gallagher, Peggie Gallagher, Tess Gallagher, Olivia Goodwillie, Eithne Hand, Libby Hart, Rita Ann Riggings, Alannah Hopkin, Ann Joyce, Alice Lyons, Una Mannion, Joan McBreen, Molly McCloskey, Paula Meehan, Patsy J. Murphy, Kate Newmann, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Annemarie Ni Churreain, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Mary O'Donnell, Mary O'Malley, Enda Wyley. We'll be in conversation with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Brian Leyden, and poems will be read by Libby Hart, Molly McCloskey, Mary O'Donnell and Anna Dunn.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.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 (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/books4breakfast)

City of Books
#34 Carlo Gébler on the Power of Greek Myths

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2021 47:26


Famously, King Oedipus killed his father and married his mother. That's what everyone knows about the Greek myth. But Carlo Gébler sets out to humanise the story. He talks about his novel I Antigone set in the seventh century BC, and why Antigone is his narrator: because she had "skin in the game" as both daughter and sister to Oedipus. He says the story remains compelling thousands of years later because it is a family tragedy. For more on Carlo Gébler's novel: https://www.newisland.ie/fiction/i-antigone Presented and produced by Martina Devlin

City of Books
#32 Myth-Making Michael Collins

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2021 62:06


Michael Collins is the most famous casualty of the Irish Civil War but there is a lot of “what-if-ery”about him, says Ireland's best-known historian. “Some “vey fanciful” claims are about the kind of leader he would have become if he had survived, according to Diarmaid Ferriter. He says: “We have to be careful of investing too much in the idea of the lost leader because Collins shared many of the limitations and the prejudices, as well as the considerable abilities, of his generation.” Professor Ferriter notes that Michael Collins was “a serious celebrity” at the time of his death in 1922. He dismisses conspiracy theories about his shooting at Béal na Bláth in Co Cork as “far-fetched”. Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War by Diarmaid Ferriter is published by Profile Books. More here: https://profilebooks.com/work/between-two-hells/ Podcast presented and produced by Martina Devlin

City of Books
#27 Look! It's A Woman Writer!

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2021 44:00


A new collection of essays which reflect on the perils and compulsions of authorship, the vagaries of success and failure - and what counts as either. Twenty-one contributors tell it like it really was. All of them came of age when equality legislation was being enacted in Ireland – often due to their activism. Look! It's A Woman Writer is edited by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and published by Arlen House. More information here: http://arlenhouse.blogspot.com Produced and presented by Martina Devlin

City of Books
#26 Nora Barnacle - Joyce's Muse

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2021 57:52


At the age of 20, three months after meeting James Joyce, Nora Barnacle left everything she knew behind to share the adventure of a lifetime with him. She was a maid in a Dublin hotel when they met, and he was a clever and ambitious young man who wanted to be a writer. In 1904, they shipped out for mainland Europe, at times living a hand-to-mouth existence, at other times eating in the best restaurants. But through it all, Nora stuck by Joyce, who made her his muse and immortalised her as Molly Bloom in Ulysses. Nuala O’Connor, who brings Nora vividly to life in her novel of the same name, discusses the famous literary couple. Nora: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce by Nuala O’Connor is published by New Island: https://www.newisland.ie/fiction/nora Produced and presented by Martina Devlin

City of Books
#20 A Poetic Licence Earned

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2021 41:47


Poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin talks about a time when books were banned in Ireland. And how her mother, distinguished children's writer Eilís Dillon, had a cupboard of them which she handed out to the family. “It was, of course, nonsensical that they were banned," says Eiléan. “You had to go out and get them quickly when they were first published." Eiléan was recently named winner of China’s prestigious 1573 International Poetry Award. Produced and presented by Martina Devlin. Music by Daragh Dukes. Eiléan's Collected Poems spanning more than half a century available from the Gallery Press website here: https://www.gallerypress.com/authors/m-to-n/eilean-ni-chuilleanain/

City of Books
#19 ANNE ENRIGHT ON AN ALTERED IRELAND

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2021 48:16


“I don’t know if Ireland is the same any more,” says Booker Prize winner and former Laureate for Irish Fiction Anne Enright. Previously hidden things have become “knowable, newly sayable” in the last 30 years and this has contributed to an altered Ireland. “That process by which things become known has been one of the great engines of my own writing over the last three decades” and has been “creatively fruitful,” says Anne, whose latest novel is Actress. Among other themes, the book deals with Hollywood’s casting couch regime and chimes with the Me Too movement. City of Books is funded by the Arts Council and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and the Museum of Literature Ireland, MOLI. Produced and presented by Martina Devlin. Music by Daragh Dukes. For more on Actress: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1009089/anne-enright.html

City of Books
#18 More Than One String To His Mandolin

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2020 48:57


Louis de Bernières may be known worldwide as the author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - but at nineteen, teaching in Colombia, he was known for something else. Dancing like a chicken. He talks to City of Books about how "we raised a lot of dust, raised a lot of fun" during that life-changing period in South America. It taught him to read Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who influenced his work. For more on his latest novel, The Autumn of the Ace: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1117235/the-autumn-of-the-ace/9781787301337.html City of Books is produced and presented by Martina Devlin.

City of Books
#16 The Truth About Secrets and Lies

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2020 44:32


Writer Eoin McNamee blurs fact and fiction to produce art, whether exploring the activities of secret intelligence agencies or speculating on why Princess Diana died in a high speed car accident. His 17 novels are gritty and poetic – beautifully written noir – and have earned him a Booker nomination. But they sometimes attract criticism for being near the knuckle, although he sees that as their function, he tells podcast host Martina Devlin. He also writes episodes for Valhalla, the Vikings spinoff for Netflix. His most recent novel, The Vogue, is set in Northern Ireland where a corpse is dug up, and other secrets uncovered along with it. “Writing should be transgressive," he says. The Vogue is published by Faber. More info here: https://www.faber.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/index/order/date_of_publication/dir/desc/q/Eoin+McNamee/ City of Books is funded by the Arts Council and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and the Museum of Literature Ireland

City of Books
#14 The Diplomatic Arts

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 53:37


Ireland's man in Washington, Ambassador Daniel Mulhall, talks us through the rhyme and reason of poetry - and how literature can act as a cultural bridge. He practises what he preaches by tweeting daily poems. Also in this episode, Professor Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin discusses who's in the shakeup for a valued and valuable award: the Dublin International Literature Prize worth €100,000. Produced and presented by Martina Devlin. Music by Daragh Dukes

City of Books
#13 Lemn Sissay and the Story of Why

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2020 39:33


Lemn Sissay shoots from the hip and speaks from the heart in this interview about mother and baby homes, the Black Lives Matter campaign and his experience in the British care system.   “My name was changed, I was treated as property,” the poet and playwright Lemn tells City of Books presenter Martina Devlin. Lemn was born in a mother and baby home in England to an Ethiopian mother, fostered out and returned to care at the age of 12 - as he tells in his powerful memoir My Name Is Why. But poetry gave him a sense of belonging in a world he couldn't fathom. More info: www.lemnsissay.com

City of Books
#12 Richard Ford on Flouncing and Failure

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2020 47:36


Richard Ford is listing his failures. He wanted to be a lawyer in the US Marines. That didn’t work out. He wanted to be "a lawyer, period”. That didn’t work out. He became a writer – that certainly counts as a success for the Pulitzer Prize winner. Even so, between novels and short story collections he sometimes thought he was through with fiction and imagined doing other jobs. But he kept going, he tells Martina Devlin in the City of Books podcast for Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. And that’s been the case for half a century. Although when he’s between books, he claims to “flounce” around finding reasons not to work. Sorry For Your Trouble is his latest book, a short story collection published by Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sorry-for-your-trouble-9781526620026/ Produced+presented by Martina Devlin with music by Daragh Dukes

City of Books
#11 Liz Nugent's Dark Materials

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2020 47:08


Doyenne of domestic noir Liz Nugent’s work has an army of fans including Graham Norton, who describes her latest hit Our Little Cruelties as part rollercoaster, part maze. Here, Liz talks about coping with pain stemming from a childhood brain haemorrhage, and overcoming challenges large and small – such as typing all her work one-handed: “Shakespeare wrote all his plays one-handed with a feather,” she says. She also reveals the identity of her favourite fictional antihero (clue: he’s sexy but mean). Produced and presented by Martina Devlin with music by Daragh Dukes. More about Liz’s books here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/77895/liz-nugent.html

City of Books
#10 Colum McCann on Motorbikes, Motivation and Middle East

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2020 48:39


Writer Colum McCann talks about his hope that his book, Apeirogon, may contribute to peace. It fictionalises the true story of two fathers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who each lose a child in the conflict. Elsewhere in the interview, Colum says he can’t write poetry but is drawn to it, and talks about writers he has known including Frank McCourt and Benedict Kiely. He also reads from his novel. Produced and presented by author and journalist Martina Devlin. Music by Daragh Dukes. :: Apeirogon is published by Bloomsbury https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/apeirogon-9781526607874/

Dublin City Public Libraries' Podcasts
Portraits of Women Writers, Activists and Artists in Early 20th Century

Dublin City Public Libraries' Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2020 54:49


Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode, Jessica Fahy, examines the choices made in the portrayal of significant women from Irish history by leading artists of the day, and how these images may still inform our opinions today. The remarkable women featured in Jessica's talk include Countess Markievicz, Eva Gore Booth, Maud Gonne, Grace Plunkett and Sarah Cecilia Harrison. Image: Self-portrait by Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1889) courtesy of The Hugh Lane, where you can see many of the artists and portraits mentioned in the talk. Recorded at The LexIcon on 23 April 2018, with thanks to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Libraries for making the audio available to us. If you’re interested in podcasts and learning more about the literature and history of Dublin and Ireland, we recommend the Dublin Festival of History and the new City of Books podcast with Martina Devlin. Our theme tune is Dream of the forest (jazzy mix) by articom (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. dig.ccmixter.org/files/articom/61177

ILF Dublin Podcast
Yiyun Li in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

ILF Dublin Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2020 72:01


Yiyun Li in conversation with Martina Devlin at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 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.

Dublin City Public Libraries' Podcasts
Letters of Distinction: Somerville and Ross

Dublin City Public Libraries' Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2020 63:50


Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode novelist and journalist Martina Devlin discusses the fascinating letters from Somerville and Ross n the early 1900s. Edith Somerville and her second cousin Violet Martin may have been Victorian women, but their flair, business expertise and ambition were ultra-modern. From their light-hearted Irish R.M. series of stories to darker novels including the classic The Real Charlotte, their skills as the Somerville and Ross writing duo were wide-ranging. Their talents extended to their correspondence, and the voices of these irrepressible, talented Women of Letters emerges in their dispatches to Lady Gregory, their literary agent, James Pinker – and to each other. Recorded at the National Library of Ireland on 30 April 2018. Our theme tune is Dream of the forest (jazzy mix) by articom (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/articom/61177 Featured image is from page 159 of 'Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. By the authors of “An Irish Cousin” [i.e. Edith Œ. Somerville and “Martin Ross,” i.e. Violet Martin]. Illustrated by W. W. Russell, from sketches by Edith Œ. Somerville. Image courtesy of British Library https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11303649384

City of Books
City of Books Trailer

City of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2020 0:31


Martina Devlin talks books with people who believe stories matter. And that you can never have too many books.  A monthly podcast supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature in association with the Museum of Literature Ireland (MOLI).   Subscribe now!

The Books That Made Me
Episode Eleven - Martina Devlin

The Books That Made Me

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2019 63:55


Martina Devlin is an award-winning columnist, journalist and author. She's written ten books, from non-fiction to novels. Her most recent book "Truth & Dare" is a collection of short stories featuring Ireland's most inspiring and trail-blazing women. Books mentioned in this episode are listed below. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie/ Dick & Dora - Happy Venture Series/ The House Where It Happened - Martina Devlin/ The Ship of Dreams - Gareth Russell/ Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood/ Good Behaviour - Molly Keane/ The Real Charlotte - Sommervile and Ross/ The Big House of Inver - Edith Somervile/ We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live - Joan Didion/ Shadowland - Joseph O'Connor

RTÉ - Saturday with Cormac O hEadhra
Brexit - Davos - Venezuela

RTÉ - Saturday with Cormac O hEadhra

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2019 48:38


Cormac was joined in studio by Neale Richmond, Fine Gael Senator, Thomas Byrne, Fianna Fáil TD for Meath East, Paul Murphy, Solidarity TD for Dublin South-West, Martina Devlin, Author & Columnist with the Irish Independent and Jill Kerby, Personal Finance Expert.

Good Morning Scotland: The Weekend Edition
Good Morning Scotland: The Weekend Edition 03/04 November, 2018

Good Morning Scotland: The Weekend Edition

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2018 51:18


This edition contains: As the US goes to the polls in the mid-terms, Chris Carman, Stevenson Professor of Citizenship at the University of Glasgow, analyses the vote's mechanics and the permutations of their possible results. After the Republic of Ireland voted in a referendum to decriminalise blasphemy, writer and broadcaster Martina Devlin reflects in the Reporter's Notebook on the profound changes which have taken place in Ireland in recent decades. Mike Leigh's depiction of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre hit big screen this week. Shirin Hirsch, historian with the People's History Museum in Manchester, discusses why this event is so important to British democratic development and why this pivotal moment is not better known. In the Long Interview, Bill Whiteford speaks to Ayesha Hazarika, a former special adviser to Harriet Harman and Ed Milliband and who is now a political commentator and stand-up comedian.

Róisín Meets...
Martina Devlin, Journalist & Author

Róisín Meets...

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2018 32:42


With her 10th book, Martina Devlin salutes the trailblazing women who drove change in Ireland. 'Truth and Dare' tells the stories of incredible Irish women including Countess Markievicz, Anna Parnell and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington. On this week's podcast Martina talks to Róisín Ingle about the book, about the peculiarity of writing personal testimony and about her early journalism career on London's Fleet Street, and an assignment that saw her dispatched to Parkhurst prison to interview the notorious criminal Reggie Kray.

RTÉ - Sunday with Miriam
Kerry Babies

RTÉ - Sunday with Miriam

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2018 41:14


This week news broke that gardai were on Valentia Island due to the ongoing review of the 35 year old Kerry Babies case. Writer and journalist Martina Devlin, journalist Anne Lucey and academic Tom inglis join Miriam in studio to look back at the tragedy

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The Women's Podcast
Ep 242 Anna Parnell / The Irish Women who Helped Frederick Douglass

The Women's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2018 72:35


On today's show, Róisín hears about Anna Parnell, pioneering Irish feminist, founder of the Ladies Land League and younger sister of Irish Nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell. Anna has long since been written out of Irish history, but Lucy Keaveney has been working hard to reverse that. She talks to Róisín about Anna and about her commemoration at Ilfracombe in England this weekend. Lucy is joined by journalist Martina Devlin who has written about Anna in her new book Truth and Dare, a collection of short stories about some of Ireland's trailblazing women. Later in the show, historian professor Christine Kinealy speaks about the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who toured Ireland in 1845, and the women who helped him while he was here. Also today: Hannah Gadsby at the Emmy's and Christine Blasey Ford. Produced by Róisín Ingle and Jennifer Ryan

Dublin City Public Libraries' Podcasts
Commemorating 1916: Looking back

Dublin City Public Libraries' Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2017 57:45


Dublin Festival of History 2016 panel with Martina Devlin, Diarmaid Ferriter, Patsy McGarry, Ronan McGreevy, Margaret O’Callaghan and moderator Sarah Carey. Despite the many dire warnings of the risks involved in the 1916 commemorations, the general consensus confirmed that Ireland had not only conducted them with dignity and gravitas but had also succeeded in igniting a public mood of pride and confidence as people streamed onto the streets to remember Ireland’s journey towards self-determination. How can we sustain the positive tone in future commemorations? Will Civil War politics provoke division and old enmities? A panel of distinguished experts examines the key issues. Martina Devlin is a novelist and columnist for the Irish Independent. Diarmaid Ferriter is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD. Patsy McGarry is Religious Affairs correspondent with The Irish Times. Ronan McGreevy is a news reporter with The Irish Times. He is the editor of Was it for This? Reflections on the Easter Rising. Margaret O’Callaghan is a senior lecturer at Queen’s University, Belfast School of History. Sarah Carey is a columnist and broadcaster. Recorded at Printworks, Dublin Castle on 23 September 2016.

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Library
Library Voices: Sebastian Faulks

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Library

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2010


The first of two events from the DLR Library Voices series which were part of the programme for the Mountains to Sea DLR Book Festival in September. This podcast is published simultaneously in the DLR Library Podcast and the Mountains to Sea Festival Podcast. Sebastian Faulks is interviewed by Martina Devlin and reads from his latest novel, A Week in December. This podcast was recorded at the Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire on September 12, 2009.

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Library
Library Voices: Sebastian Faulks

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Library

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2010


The first of two events from the DLR Library Voices series which were part of the programme for the Mountains to Sea DLR Book Festival in September. This podcast is published simultaneously in the DLR Library Podcast and the Mountains to Sea Festival Podcast. Sebastian Faulks is interviewed by Martina Devlin and reads from his latest novel, A Week in December. This podcast was recorded at the Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire on September 12, 2009.