The Book Show – S2 #4
SUBURBIA AND WRITING Encircling Worlds: Imagining Irish Suburbia was a recent conference, held at Carlow College and VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, where a number of writers and artists came…
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The Book Show – S2 #3
The Tools of Historical Fiction On this week’s show Sinead visits Marsh’s Library with Eibhear Walshe (The Diary of Mary Travers) to discuss the inspiration for this historical novel. The Diary…
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The Book Show – S2 #2
Sinead talks to Tana French, author of The Secret Place and Megan Abbot author of The Fever. Both these novels centre on schools: The Secret Place focuses on a school in South Dublin…
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THE BOOK SHOW GUESTS
Over the past couple of years we’ve had some wonderful guests on the show – They’ve included: David Cronenberg, Roddy Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, Clive James, Peter Carey, Megan…
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The Book Show – S2 #1
David Cronenberg is an acclaimed filmmaker with more than 20 movies to his name. Even though he always thought he’d be a writer, his ambitions were sidelined by his movie…
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