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Writer’s Block 31st July 2015

admin August 4, 2015

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…

Writer’s Block 3rd July 2015

admin July 6, 2015

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,…

Writer’s Block 19th June 2015

admin June 21, 2015

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…

Writer’s Block 5th June 2015

admin June 7, 2015

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…

Writer’s Block 22/5/15

admin May 27, 2015

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…

Writer’s Block 24th April 2015

admin April 27, 2015

Morgan O Reilly welcomes Liz Kelly, director of Age and Opportunity’s Bealtaine festival, to the show to discuss the festival and all of its events around the country (3 mins 5 secs) Writer, editor and teacher, Claire Hennessy joins Morgan to discuss…

Writer’s Block 10th April 2015

admin April 15, 2015

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…

Writer’s Block 27th February 2015

admin March 1, 2015

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…

Writer’s Block 13th February 2015

admin February 15, 2015

Morgan O Reilly talks to Nicole Rourke of Big Smoke Writing Factory (3 mins 20 secs), Dave Lordan of Bogman’s Cannon about the Irish People’s Poetry Prize 2015 (14 mins 30 secs) and Mia Gallagher joins him in studio to talk about…

Writer’s Block 30th January

admin February 3, 2015

Morgan O Reilly chats to Amy from the Irish Writers’ Centre, Edel from Milk and Cookies Stories and Dublin born bilingual poet, Declan Collinge.

Writer’s Block 16th January 2015

admin January 18, 2015

Morgan O Reilly talks to Anna Boner of Poetry Ireland, Julien Clancy of The Moth and his in-studio guest, aspiring film maker, Thomas Maher.