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Northside Today : Kate Nicholas

gabor May 16, 2023

Kate Nicholas, an author and broadcaster, joins Mary Oyediran to talk about her moving journey of faith and cancer survival through her books, blog and media work. www.katenicholas.co.uk 1st broadcast on: 12/05/23

Lifeline: Giving a gift that will last a lifetime

admin November 30, 2022

Michael Sullivan speaks with Aoife Roantree, Chair of Bookselling Ireland about supporting your local bookshop and giving a gift that will last a lifetime. www.booksellers.org.uk/booksellingireland

Lifeline – St Kevin’s Student Podcast Episode 3

George Mulcahy September 26, 2022

On this edition of the St. Kevin’s Student Podcast series presenters Karl Mooney, Scott Curran and Paul Smith are joined by student Christopher Carroll where they chat about his love for writing and discuss the creative process behind his writing.

International Writers Network – 01/02/2022

admin February 8, 2022

We are joined this evening by two amazing creative Writers/ Facilitators from Books beyond boundaries NI. Take time to listen to their fascinating writing journey. Let’s celebrate their achievements and pure determination to write for a greater purpose. Don’t miss it! Special…

History Books for Christmas

admin December 17, 2019

Cormac Moore, Historian in Residence, Dublin City Libraries, North Central Area, talks to Noel McGuinness about history books that will make good presents this Christmas. Broadcast: 13/12/2019

Julianne Mooney, Programme Director of the Dublin Book Festival chats to Cover to Cover about the 2017 line-up

admin November 2, 2017

Now in its 11th year, Dublin Book Festival is one of the country’s largest book festivals. It celebrates Irish writers and Irish publishing, across a whole range of genres, from politics to literary fiction, business, illustration and children’s literature, to poetry and…

The Arts Show: 2fm DJ and author Ciara King discussing her first book ‘Ciara’s Diary 1999 – 2002: ‘Sense and Shiftability’.

admin October 25, 2017

Ciara King is one half of the presenting duo behind 2fm’s ‘Chris and Ciara’. Her teenage high jinx and shenanigans growing up in Connemara were the inspiration for her hilarious first book ‘Ciara’s Diary 1999 – 2002: Sense and Shiftability’ published by…

Bookworm with Maurice Newman

admin August 11, 2016

Maurice talks about the detectives that we all know and love, from Sherlock Holmes to Robert Langdon. He also gives some tips on how to write your very own bestseller. Music is from Paris in the 1930s.

Bookworm – How We Discover The Books That We Love

admin July 11, 2016

Maurice Newman discusses the ways that we come come to literature. He talks about CS Lewis, Enid Blyton, Richmal Crompton, Roald Dahl, and Kenneth Graham and the influence they had on successive generations of children and what those children, now growen up,…

Bookworm: The Compass Lines Project

admin March 7, 2016

Maurice Newman talks to Christodoulos Makris and Karl Whitney about this exciting writers’ project, and a great deal more of interest to aspiring authors. Compass Lines is a writers’ exchange project aiming to establish links between writers and communities in the North…