ILFDublin Podcast

Elizabeth Gilbert in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:00:22 GMT

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.

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Bret Easton Ellis in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:52:20 GMT

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.

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Takin' The Mic at ILFDublin 2019 - ILFDublin Podcast

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:24:53 GMT

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.

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R J Palacio in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:41:27 GMT

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.

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Erling Kagge in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:34:04 GMT

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.

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Naomi Klein: Off The Page at ILFDublin

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:59:19 GMT

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 May 15th - 24th 2020. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Tue, 12 Mar 2019 23:09:57 GMT

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.

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Rachel Kushner in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 22:37:05 GMT

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.

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Richard Ford in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:09:41 GMT

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.

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Jo Nesbø in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 23:38:41 GMT

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.

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Colm Tóibín in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:15:33 GMT

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.

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Rebecca Solnit In Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:44:14 GMT

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.

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Arundhati Roy In Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:11:33 GMT

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.

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Elizabeth Strout In Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:24:07 GMT

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.

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Werner Herzog In Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:50:50 GMT

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.

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John Boyne and Paul Harding In Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 23:12:57 GMT

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 list and was made into an award-winning Miramax film. His ninth novel (his seventh for adults) is The Absolutist, a tender and poignant story of two young privates during the Great War whose lives are briefly but intensely intertwined.Chairperson: Niall MacMonagle

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Sofi Oksanen In Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

Sat, 04 Mar 2017 20:15:03 GMT

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, when Edgar is a communist apparatchik desperate to conceal his past.

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

Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:36:22 GMT

“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 expect your readers to know the originals, and what happens when you change the point of view? Jo Baker certainly does: Longbourn reimagines the story of Pride and Prejudice from the servants’ point of view. Sarah is a housemaid at Longbourn House, where the servants are ruled with an iron fist by Mrs Hill, but the arrival of a new footman turns the Bennet household upside down. Joanne Trollope is one of the UK’s best-loved and most successful authors. Her Sense & Sensibility is the first novel in the Austen Project: a publishing venture designed to bring Austen’s work to a new generation, and Trollope brings the story of the Dashwood sisters bang up to date, complete with drugs, depression and internet trolls.

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

Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:32:30 GMT

‘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 Anne Enright is celebrated for her capacity to explore serious issues with compassion and wry humour in works like The Forgotten Waltz (La Valse Oubliée in French, trans. Isabelle Reinharez). Hugo Hamilton is the bestselling author of seven novels and two memoirs, including The Speckled People (Sproetenkoppen in Dutch, trans. Miebeth Van Horn), a memoir of his German-Irish childhood that won a clutch of European awards.

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Chris Kraus in Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:24:48 GMT

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 publication, Chris Kraus comes to Dublin to discuss her startlingly original take on femininity, desire and the epistolary novel in the company of journalist and broadcaster Una Mullally.

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Marcus Du Sautoy in Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

Thu, 19 Jan 2017 23:25:16 GMT

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 limits of human knowledge, asking whether, despite the extraordinary scientific advances of the last few decades, some things will remain forever out of reach.

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Maeve Brennan: A Celebration - ILF Dublin Podcast

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 01:19:07 GMT

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 broadcaster and critic, Sinéad Gleeson, and Brennan’s biographer, Angela Bourke, about her troubled life; and actress Caitriona Ní Mhurchú reads extracts from the work of one of the forgotten greats of twentieth-century Irish fiction.Presented in association with The Stinging Fly.

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Lionel Shriver in Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

Sat, 31 Dec 2016 18:07:51 GMT

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 exception, charting the disintegration of one affluent family as financial crisis engulfs an America of the near future. The event is chaired by writer Cathy Rentzenbrink.

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Jon Ronson in Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:41:21 GMT

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 two documentary series for Channel 4.

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Oliver Jeffers in Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:09:49 GMT

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.

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

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:31:15 GMT

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 the use of Shannon Airport by US military planes), Ireland’s ‘Guantanamo Granny’ reflects on her extraordinary life in the company of Jim Sheridan, the acclaimed director of 'My Left Foot' and 'In The Name of the Father'.

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Naomi Klein in Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:04:13 GMT

Writer Naomi Klein in conversation with Aine Lawlor, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin.

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Irvine Welsh in Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast

Tue, 17 May 2016 18:01:30 GMT

Irvine Welsh in conversation at #ILFDublin in 2015.

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Suzanne O'Sullivan in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast

Tue, 17 May 2016 14:46:29 GMT

Suzanne O'Sullivan in conversation at International Literature Festival Dublin, 2015.

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#OffThePage: Every Day Sexism With Laura Bates

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:14:37 GMT

Join Sinead Gleeson in conversation with Laura Bates from Every Day Sexism, Dearbhail McDonald, writer and editor, and Jenny Dunne of Hollaback! as they discuss writing, activism and sexism. The talk originally took place Friday 23 May 2014, at Smock Alley Theatre. Music is by Geppetto, featuring vocals from Louise Gaffney of Come On Live Long.

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