Joe Collins has the 6th class of ‘North Bay Educate Together’ school in studio to review their Book Club choice, ‘ A Monster Calls’. Also in studio American poet Bill Dorris talks about his life and poetry.
Morgan O Reilly chats to Amy from the Irish Writer’s Centre about everything literary happening in Dublin (2 mins 15 secs). Will Govan of the Moth Magazine, a literature and art magazine based in Cavan, tells Morgan about the highly regarded publication that…
Ahead of her visit to Minnesota to be presented with the O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the University of St Thomas in the city of St Paul, Northside Dublin poet Paula Meehan used the Near FM studio facility to chat live to Minnesota…
Morgan O Reilly welcomes Vanessa O’Loughlin back to show to discuss www.writing.ie, the Inkwell Group and ILF Dublin. Edel from Milk and Cookies Stories also returns to the show but this time she tells us about Slam Sunday, a monthly slam poetry…
The Film and TV Show 26th March interviews Tadhg O’Sullivan, director of The Great Wall. We speak to actress Orla Brady at the premiere of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival and we review the new Irish feature, I Used To Live…
The Film and TV Show 19th March interviews Treasa O’Brien, director of Eat Your Children. We speak to director of photography PJ Dillon at the Silk Road Film Festival and we review the new Dreamworks animation, Home.
In a wonderfully varied and comprehensive show, producer\presenter Joe Collins, features ‘Letters from the Front’, an exhibition being featured by Fingal Council, interviews acclaimed author ‘Sara Webb’, talks to Vanessa O’ Loughlin about the ‘Date with an Agent’ initiative and the stars…
Morgan o Reilly talks to Colm Kearns of The RuntZine about his literary open-mic night, endless rain, in Dun Laoghaoire. He also chats to Stephen Murray about Inspireland, a slam poetry workshop initiative working with teenagers up an down the country. He’ll…
On Thursday 5th March, Laureate na nÓg, Eoin Colfer will bring 5 storytellers and 300 schoolchildren on a MAGICAL STEAM TRAIN JOURNEY along the beautiful north Dublin coast as part of the Laureate na nÓg’s, ‘ONCE UPON A PLACE’ programme for young…
Morgan O Reilly visits Fighting Words, a creative writing centre in Dublin’s north inner-city, to meet the Irish dramatists of the future who are soon to be staged at the Peacock Theatre. Jean Hanney (2 mins 32 secs), Robyn Gill (8 mins 20…
Michael Sharp discusses Colm Toibin’s novel ‘Nora Webster’ and Joe Collins interviews Gerry Cooley about ‘ The Ghost of Christmas Past’ and Louise Hall talks about her Medjugorje experiences.