Books for Breakfast

65 - 64: Summer journals, Tessa Hadley, Noel Monahan

A podcast focussing on fiction and poetry hosted by poets and writers Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley. Also features the Toaster Challenge where guest writers are given the time it takes to make toast to talk about a book that has resonated with them.

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65 - 64: Summer journals, Tessa Hadley, Noel Monahan

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55 - 55: Injury Time; A New Basho

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54 - 54: New Year's Eve 2022 Special

Sat, 31 Dec 2022
53 - 53: Interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

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52 - 52: IMRAM 2022; Mark Roper's Beyond Stillness

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51 - 51: Judith Mok: The State of Dark

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50 - 50: Love poems for today: a new anthology from Dedalus

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49 - 49: Critic at Large: Kevin Power's The Written World

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48 - 48: Two Salmon Poets; Trump Rant

Thu, 12 May 2022
47 - 47: Leland Bardwell at 100

Thu, 28 Apr 2022
46 - 46: Colm Tóibín talks about Vinegar Hill

Thu, 07 Apr 2022
45 - 45: Wendy Erskine; Ukrainian poetry

Thu, 24 Mar 2022
44 - 44: Paul Lynch's The Black Snow; John McAuliffe on his Selected Poems and Wong May

Thu, 10 Mar 2022
43 - 43: Gabriel Byne: on Walking with Ghosts

Thu, 24 Feb 2022
42 - 42 : Poetry, Memory and the Party: Thomas McCarthy Tells All

Thu, 10 Feb 2022
41 - 41: Thomas Kinsella 1928-2021; breakfast highlights of 2021

Fri, 24 Dec 2021
40 - 40: Claire Keegan on Small Things Like These

Thu, 09 Dec 2021
39 - 39: New poetry from Eleanor Hooker, Amanda Bell

Thu, 25 Nov 2021
38 - 38: Imram 2021; Alannah Hopkin on A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins

Thu, 11 Nov 2021
37 - 37: Short story special with John MacKenna and Madeleine D'Arcy

Thu, 28 Oct 2021
36 - 36: Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Éilis Ní Dhuibhne and Catherine Dunne

Thu, 14 Oct 2021
35 - 35: 30 Years of the Irish Writers Centre; Kent Haruf

Thu, 30 Sep 2021
34 - 34: New books; Lucia Berlin; Iain Crichton Smith

Thu, 16 Sep 2021
33 - 33: Intimate City: Dublin essays, Aoife Lyall on Mother Nature; A Line Made by Walking

Thu, 08 Jul 2021
32 - 32: Sinéad O'Connor's Rememberings, Victoria Kennefick, Sharon Olds

Thu, 24 Jun 2021
31 - 31: Louise Kennedy, Penelope Shuttle, Denise Levertov

Thu, 10 Jun 2021
30 - 30: Evelyn Conlon, The Examined Life, Grace Paley

Thu, 27 May 2021
29 - 29: Moya Cannon's Collected, The Best Address in Town, Nan Shepherd

Thu, 13 May 2021
28 - 28: Philip Ó Ceallaigh's Trouble; in Prague with Justin Quinn; Edith Templeton

Thu, 29 Apr 2021
27 - 27: A Gap in the Clouds: James Hadley and Nell Regan; haiku and senryu from Grant Caldwell; Hamsun's Hunger

Thu, 15 Apr 2021
26 - 26: Mountains to Sea podcast audio edition with Laura McKenna and Conor O'Callaghan

Thu, 01 Apr 2021
25 - 25: Apocalypse now; Una Mannion on A Crooked Tree; stories from the end of the world

Thu, 18 Mar 2021
24 - 24: Shirley Hazzard; Poetry and Money; Leeanne Quinn; the last of the Soviets

Thu, 04 Mar 2021
23 - 23: 40 Years of Salmon Poetry; Bachelard's images; Cathy Belton

Thu, 18 Feb 2021
22 - 22: New and recent poetry; Michael O'Loughlin's Liberty Hall; in search of lost gods

Thu, 04 Feb 2021
21 - 21: Fiction for 2021; Berryman's letters; African American poetry

Thu, 21 Jan 2021
20 - 20: Christmas Special: Paula Meehan, Tara Bergin, Pessoa's disquiet, Dublin's 20th century buildings, new poems.

Thu, 17 Dec 2020
19 - 19: IMRAM's magical films; forging Dracula with Henrietta McKervey

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18 - 18: Poems for Winter; Kathleen MacMahon, Helen Garner.

Thu, 19 Nov 2020
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16 - 16: Hilary Mantel: Giants and Ghosts; Books for Younger Readers

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