Homecomings and departures, a friend for all seasons and tributes to Derek Mahon, Michael Hartnett and more, with Donal Hayes, Grace Wells, Joe Whelan, Mary O’Donnell, Mike MacDomhnaill, Beth Kilkenny and Mary O’Malley
Nov 9
Starry Skies and Student Rites-of-Passage
The art of persuasion, the pity of war and the sanctuary of home, with tributes to the late, great Conor Gearty and Sister Stanislaus Kennedy; the writers are Gerry Stembridge, Kathy Donaghy, Tess Hughes, John O’Donnell, Eileen Battersby and Rachael Hegarty
36m 55s
Nov 2
Ghosts, Goldcrests and a Lost Manuscript
A prayer for Rudolf Valentino, fleeting memories and a snowy night of opera in St Petersburg, with Georg Grote, Louise Kennedy, Beth Kilkenny, Justin MacCarthy, Roslyn Dee and John F Deane
40m 32s
Oct 26
A Last Briquette and a Magic Mountain
Silver sparks, a bog for a pillow and the ‘deserts of the midlands’… A ‘Writing the Bog’ special programme, part 2, in collaboration with the Bog Bothy project by the Irish Architectural Foundation and 12th Field, with writers Adam Trodd, Anne Gately Mercier, Kevin McDermott, Mar ... Show More
35m 51s