Morgan O Reilly chats to the 3 men (Fionn Rogan, Andrew Kavanagh and Dylan Joyce-Ahearn) behind Cave Writings, one of Dublin’s newest and most innovative open mic nights (1 min 58 secs). In this week’s visiting writer slot, Morgan welcomes poet Tiziana…
Near FM attended the Block T 5th Birthday celebrations in the Tivoli Grounds on Saturday July 4th. Legendary Irish house DJ Aoife Ni Canna presents a programme featuring interviews and music with Block T Managing Director Laura Garbataviciute-Dovn and Programme Director Grace…
Morgan O Reilly welcomes Shannon and Oran of the Flying South Open-Mic night to the studio. Flying South is a monthly open mic devoted to airing all kinds of issues themed around mental health (2 mins). This week’s visiting writer is Daniel Wade,…
Morgan O Reilly welcomes fellow Near Co-Op volunteer to the show, Alan Weldon, to discuss the upcoming radio series Living Archives (2 mins 25 secs). Geraldine Gaughran of the Hay Literary Festival in Kells Co. Meath gives us all the news about…
Morgan O Reilly welcomes Sandra D’Arcy to the show to chat about her role as founder and co-producer of the inaugural Howth Midsummer Literary Arts Festival (1 min 40 secs). Books Upstairs of D’Olier street’s general manager Louisa came on to describe…
Morgan O Reilly chats to Near FM’s very own Inaki Irigoien about his upcoming series, Poetic Lives; a Near FM exclusive which biographically documents the lives of 6 very different migrants from the homelands to Ireland, all through the medium of poetry (1…
Novels, Plays and Schooldays is a new 9 part radio series produced by Near FM with financial support from The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. The series looks at the novels and plays that form part of the Junior and Leaving Certificate English…
Novels, Plays and Schooldays is a new 9 part radio series produced by Nearfm with financial support from The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. The series looks at the novels and plays that form part of the Junior and Leaving Certificate English syllabus…
In this weeks show Roisin Ni Ghairbhi discusses her biography of William Pearse, brother of Patrick, and the ’16 lives’ series, biographies of the lives of those executed after Easter 1916. Bob Johnson talks about the ‘Gutter Bookshop’ latest award and the…