ILFDublin Podcast

Portals - Episode 6: Rodaan Al Galidi with Caelainn Hogan

May 29, 2020 07:45 - 54 minutes - 125 MB

Hosted by Caelainn Hogan, Portals is a special podcast series from ILFDublin that takes listeners beyond their radius, through conversations with a half-dozen writers based across the globe, all of whom were scheduled to read at ILFDublin 2020, prior to its postponement. In this episode, speaking from The Netherlands, Iraqi-Dutch writer Rodaan Al Galidi discusses his book 'Two Blankets, Three Sheets', an inspiring tale of survival, a close-up view into the hidden world of refugees and human ...

Portals - Episode 5: Géraldine Schwarz with Caelainn Hogan

May 27, 2020 08:00 - 52 minutes - 120 MB

Hosted by Caelainn Hogan, Portals is a special podcast series from ILFDublin that takes listeners beyond their radius, through conversations with a half-dozen writers based across the globe, all of whom were scheduled to read at ILFDublin 2020, prior to its postponement. In this episode, Franco-German writer Géraldine Schwarz speaks from Germany about her award-winning book, 'Those Who Forget', a riveting account of her German and French grandparents’ lives during World War II, an in-depth h...

Portals - Episode 4: David Peace with Caelainn Hogan

May 25, 2020 08:00 - 56 minutes - 129 MB

Hosted by Caelainn Hogan, Portals is a special podcast series from ILFDublin that takes listeners beyond their radius, through conversations with a half-dozen writers based across the globe, all of whom were scheduled to read at ILFDublin 2020, prior to its postponement. In this episode, speaking from Japan, English writer David Peace chats about his latest book 'Patient X' and looks ahead to the publication of the final part of his Tokyo Trilogy in 2021. You can order his books from our fes...

Portals - Episode 3: Esther Safran Foer with Caelainn Hogan

May 22, 2020 08:00 - 51 minutes - 117 MB

Hosted by Caelainn Hogan, Portals is a special podcast series from ILFDublin that takes listeners beyond their radius, through conversations with a half-dozen writers based across the globe, all of whom were scheduled to read at ILFDublin 2020, prior to its postponement. In this episode, speaking from Washington D.C., Esther Saftan Foer discusses her book 'I Want You to Know We're Still Here about her search for knowledge about her half-sister and family killed in the Holocaust. You can orde...

Portals - Episode 2: Fernanda Melchor with Caelainn Hogan

May 20, 2020 08:00 - 53 minutes - 123 MB

Hosted by Caelainn Hogan, Portals is a special podcast series from ILFDublin that takes listeners beyond their radius, through conversations with a half-dozen writers based across the globe, all of whom were scheduled to read at ILFDublin 2020, prior to its postponement. In this episode, Mexican writer Fernanda Melchor discusses her International Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, 'Hurricane Season', a formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons and a masterpiece of contemporary Latin American...

Portals - Episode 1: Joshua Yaffa with Caelainn Hogan

May 18, 2020 07:47 - 54 minutes - 71.8 MB

Hosted by Caelainn Hogan, Portals is a special podcast series from ILFDublin that takes listeners beyond their radius, through conversations with a half-dozen writers based across the globe, all of whom were scheduled to read at ILFDublin 2020, prior to its postponement. In this first episode, The New Yorker's Moscow correspondent Joshua Yaffa lifts the lid on Putin's Russia, discussing his book 'Between Two Fires'. You can order a copy of the book through our festival bookseller, The Gutter...

Michael Ondaatje in Conversation with Anne Enright - ILFDublin Podcast

May 08, 2020 19:03 - 1 hour - 116 MB

As part of ILFDublin 2018, Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor and filmmaker Michael Ondaatje joined Anne Enright in conversation at Liberty Hall. 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.

Faber New Poets: Sophie Collins, Zaffar Kunial, Hannah Sullivan - ILFDublin Podcast

April 30, 2020 08:30 - 1 hour - 117 MB

As part of ILFDublin 2019, we were delighted to welcome Sophie Collins, Zaffar Kunial and Hannah Sullivan, three exciting new voices in poetry. The event was presented in association with Faber & Faber for their 90th anniversary, and kindly supported by Poetry Ireland. 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.

Richard Dawkins in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

April 29, 2020 10:32 - 1 hour - 78.7 MB

As part of ILFDublin 2017, ethnologist, evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins joined Shane Bergin in conversation. 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.

'Why Write?' with Susie Orbach - ILFDublin Podcast

April 24, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 78.8 MB

As part of ILFDublin 2018, renowned writer, psychotherapist and feminist thinker Susie Orbach is joined in discussion by novelist and playwright, Gillian Slovo and Danielle Mclaughlin, author of Dinosaurs On Other Planets. 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.

Celebrating William Trevor - ILFDublin Podcast

April 22, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes - 77.9 MB

Award-winning writer John Banville; writer and editor of literary magazine A Public Space Yiyun Li; celebrated poet, playwright, novelist and publisher Dermot Bolger; and short story writer Danielle McLaughlin joined Roy Foster to remember the late, great William Trevor at ILFDublin 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.

Yiyun Li in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

April 20, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MB

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.

Caitlin Moran in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

April 17, 2020 09:13 - 1 hour - 111 MB

Caitlin Moran in conversation with Róisín Ingle at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, as part of a special International Literature Festival Dublin Off The Page event in September 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.

Joseph O'Connor in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

April 15, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 81.6 MB

Joseph O'Connor in conversation with Olivia O'Leary at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 2019. 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.

Seamus Heaney 70th Birthday Celebration - ILFDublin Podcast

April 13, 2020 12:30 - 1 hour - 80.8 MB

Seamus Heaney celebrated his 70th birthday with a special event at the National Concert Hall, as part of the 2009 Dublin Writers Festival. The event is introduced by journalist and broadcaster Olivia O'Leary.

Tana French in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

April 10, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 84.7 MB

Tana French in conversation with Anna Carey at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 2019. 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.

Paul Mason in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

April 08, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 89.4 MB

Paul Mason in conversation with Vincent Browne at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 2019. 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.

Tracey Thorn & Sinéad Gleeson - ILFDublin Podcast

April 06, 2020 08:30 - 1 hour - 82.3 MB

Tracey Thorn and Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with Jim Carroll at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 2019. 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.

Paul Muldoon: Ninety Years of Faber and Faber - ILFDublin Podcast

April 03, 2020 08:00 - 48 minutes - 56.7 MB

Recorded at Smock Alley Theatre as part of ILFDublin 2019, Paul Muldoon reads poems by some of the greats from Faber and Faber’s illustrious history, to mark their 90th anniversary, as well as previewing poems from his collection, Frolic and Detour. 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.

Don't Touch My Hair: Emma Dabiri & Reni Eddo-Lodge - ILFDublin Podcast

April 01, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 73.3 MB

Emma Dabiri in conversation with Reni Eddo-Lodge at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 2019. 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.

Peter Carey in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

March 30, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 92 MB

Peter Carey in conversation with Joseph O'Connor at the Peppercanister Church, Dublin, as part of a special International Literature Festival Dublin Off The Page event in January 2018. The Festival returns Autumn 2020. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Elizabeth Gilbert in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

March 27, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 75.5 MB

Elizabeth Gilbert in conversation with Anna Carey at the O'Reilly Theatre, Dublin, as part of a special International Literature Festival Dublin Off The Page event in June 2019. The Festival returns Autumn 2020. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Bret Easton Ellis in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

March 25, 2020 13:52 - 1 hour - 64.4 MB

Bret Easton Ellis in conversation with Nadine O'Regan at the O'Reilly Theatre, Dublin, as part of a special International Literature Festival Dublin Off The Page event in April 2019. The Festival returns Autumn 2020. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Takin' The Mic at ILFDublin 2019 - ILFDublin Podcast

March 23, 2020 15:24 - 1 hour - 139 MB

A special ILFDublin edition of the Irish Writers Centre's 'Takin' The Mic', hosted by Marcus Mac Conghail and recorded at Smock Alley Theatre at ILFDublin 2019.

R J Palacio in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

March 19, 2020 13:41 - 1 hour - 79.4 MB

RJ Palacio in conversation with Elaina Ryan at O'Reilly Theatre, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 2019. 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.

Erling Kagge in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

March 18, 2020 13:34 - 1 hour - 81.1 MB

Erling Kagge in conversation with Manchán Magan at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 2019. 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.

Naomi Klein: Off The Page at ILFDublin

December 11, 2019 17:59 - 1 hour - 91.4 MB

Naomi Klein in conversation with Lorna Gold at the National Stadium, Dublin, as part of a special International Literature Festival Dublin Off The Page event. The Festival returns Autumn 2020. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

March 12, 2019 23:09 - 1 hour - 175 MB

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson at the Convention Centre Dublin, as part of the 2018 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 17th - 26th 2019. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Rachel Kushner in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

October 03, 2018 22:37 - 1 hour - 176 MB

Rachel Kushner in conversation with Rob Doyle at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of the 2018 International Literature Festival Dublin. The festival returns May 2019. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Richard Ford in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

April 09, 2018 00:09 - 1 hour - 141 MB

Richard Ford in conversation with Brendan Barrington at The Pillar Room, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Jo Nesbø in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

March 20, 2018 23:38 - 59 minutes - 135 MB

Jo Nesbø in conversation with Hugh Linehan at the RDS Concert Hall, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Colm Tóibín in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

March 01, 2018 20:15 - 1 hour - 164 MB

Colm Tóibín in conversation with Sinéad Crowley at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Rebecca Solnit In Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

February 01, 2018 12:44 - 57 minutes - 131 MB

Rebecca Solnit in conversation with John Hutchinson at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of the 2013 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Arundhati Roy In Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

January 08, 2018 13:11 - 1 hour - 155 MB

Arundhati Roy in conversation with Selina Guinness at the RDS Concert Hall, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Elizabeth Strout In Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

December 11, 2017 12:24 - 1 hour - 153 MB

Elizabeth Strout in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson at the O'Reilly Theatre, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Werner Herzog In Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

November 16, 2017 14:50 - 1 hour - 99 MB

Werner Herzog in conversation with Carlo Gebler at the National Concert Hall, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

John Boyne and Paul Harding In Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

March 07, 2017 23:12 - 1 hour - 61.3 MB

Having been mentored by Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping, Gilead) at the famous Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, Paul Harding became the first debut novelist in over a decade to win the Pulitzer Prize, for his 2010 novel Tinkers, ‘a beautiful, moving and elegiac lament on the human condition’ (The Times). John Boyne found international fame with his 2006 novel for younger readers The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. It won two Irish Book Awards, topped the New York Times Bestseller lis...

Sofi Oksanen In Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

March 04, 2017 20:15 - 1 hour - 65.7 MB

Sofi Oksanen has long been celebrated in her native Finland. But it was her bestselling novel Purge, a dazzling tale of two generations of Estonia women grappling with Soviet occupation and the sudden freedoms of the 1990s, that shot her to international fame. She talks to award-winning Soviet historian Anne Applebaum about When the Doves Disappeared, a novel that tells the gripping story of two cousins – principled freedom fighter Roland and slippery Edgar – whose paths cross in the 1960s, w...

Reimagining Austen: Jo Baker and Joanna Trollope - ILF Dublin Podcast

February 21, 2017 12:36 - 1 hour - 60.9 MB

“Jane Austen’s story and Joanna Trollope’s voice make the perfect marriage.” Sophie Kinsella “Baker not only creates a richly imagined story of her own but recasts Austen’s novel in a startlingly fresh light.” The Guardian Chairperson: Edel Coffey In recent years Jane Austen’s work has inspired a host of new novels, from PD James’ Death Comes to Pemberley to Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. But what are the pitfalls of adapting classics for the modern age? Should you ex...

Translating Ireland with Sebastian Barry, Anne Enright and Hugo Hamilton - ILF Dublin Podcast

February 16, 2017 09:32 - 1 hour - 94.8 MB

‘Translating Ireland’ brings together three leading Irish novelists to share their experiences of being translated, read excerpts from their work, and to talk about the translations that have most inspired them. In novels like A Long, Long Way (Ein Langer, Langer Weg in German, trans. Hans-Christian Oeser), Sebastian Barry has shone a light into the dark corners of Irish life, focusing on the ordinary people whose lives are neglected, forgotten or written out of history. Booker Prize-winner A...

Chris Kraus in Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

January 20, 2017 19:24 - 1 hour - 59 MB

Autobiography? Fiction? Essay? When I Love Dick was published in the US back in 1997, readers weren’t sure what to make of it. But over the last 20 years the ‘novel’, like Kraus herself, has acquired an army of devoted fans. For one thing, it’s very funny. I Love Dick tells the story of ‘Chris’, a ‘failed’ video artist who falls for, and writes a series of love letters to, her husband’s friend Dick (based on real-life cultural theorist Dick Hebdige). In the wake of the (long overdue) UK...

Marcus Du Sautoy in Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

January 19, 2017 23:25 - 1 hour - 62.2 MB

The trumpet-playing surfer Marcus du Sautoy might be ‘the world’s least likely maths professor’ (The Guardian), but over the last decade he has done more than any mathematician before him to transform public attitudes to maths. Through books, TV series, radio programmes and public lectures, Du Sautoy’s infectious enthusiasm, coupled with a rare ability to explain complex ideas, has opened our minds to the mystery and beauty of numbers. His latest book, What We Cannot Know, explores the li...

Maeve Brennan: A Celebration - ILF Dublin Podcast

January 06, 2017 01:19 - 1 hour - 68.4 MB

Maeve Brennan’s short stories have long been admired by writers and cherished by readers. Born in Dublin in 1917, she became a staff writer at the New Yorker, and brought her formidable powers of perception and scathing wit to stories of childhood, marriage, longing and exile before dying in obscurity in the early nineties. Now a new edition of her celebrated Dublin stories, The Springs of Affection, aims to bring her to a wider readership. Join us as publisher Declan Meade talks to broad...

Lionel Shriver in Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

December 31, 2016 18:07 - 1 hour - 73.4 MB

Since We Need to Talk About Kevin, her dazzling novel about the mother of a high school murderer, won the Orange Prize in 2005 and catapulted her to international fame, Lionel Shriver has continued her fearless exploration of some of the biggest questions of our time. From illness in So Much for That to love in The Post-Birthday World and terrorism in The New Republic, Shriver skewers her targets with wit, style and intelligence. Her bold new novel, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047, is no e...

Jon Ronson in Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

December 15, 2016 14:41 - 1 hour - 73.9 MB

Jon Ronson in conversation with Irish journalist Shane Hegarty, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 2011. -- Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter whose works include the best-selling The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and The Psychopath Test (2011). Ronson has published nine books and his work has appeared in British publications such as The Guardian, City Life and Time Out. He has made several BBC Television documentary films and...

Oliver Jeffers in Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

December 08, 2016 15:09 - 1 hour - 70.9 MB

Join ILFDublin for a whistle-stop tour around the world of Oliver Jeffers, interviewed here by Margaret Anne Suggs. -- Northern Irish artist Oliver Jeffers' picture books have been translated into over 30 languages. He won an Emmy in 2010 for his collaborative work with MacPremo, with whom he co-directed the U2 video 'Ordinary Love' in 2013.

Margaretta D'Arcy in Conversation with Jim Sheridan - ILF Dublin Podcast

November 29, 2016 15:31 - 1 hour - 85 MB

Performer, writer, director and political activist, Margaretta D'arcy is a tireless and inspirational figure. She worked in theatre from the age of fifteen, first as an actress and then as an accomplished playwright, but it is perhaps as an activist that she is best known. Over the years her activism has taken many forms, from anti-nuclear campaigns to the H-Block protests in Armagh (an experience that inspired her book Tell Them Everything). Now, in the wake of her latest campaign (against...

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