{"id":25640,"date":"2018-03-08T16:49:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=25640"},"modified":"2018-06-27T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T22:03:10","slug":"%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8bsinead-gleeson-editor-of-the-long-gaze-back-talks-to-norma-burke-about-the-anthologys-selection-for-one-city-one-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=25640","title":{"rendered":"\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bSinead Gleeson, editor of The Long Gaze Back talks to Norma Burke about the anthology&#8217;s selection for One City, One Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Sinead-Ger-Holland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25641\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Sinead-Ger-Holland-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Sinead-Ger-Holland-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Sinead-Ger-Holland.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dublin: One City, One Book is an award winning initiative by Dublin City Council to promote reading and books to everyone in the city. It&#8217;s led by Dublin City Libraries and and every April they choose a book and encourage people to read it through a programme of mostly free events across the year. This year that book is an anthology of Irish women writers called The Long Gaze Back which is published by New Island Books and features short stories from the 18th century up to today.<\/p>\n<p>The editor of the anthology is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sineadgleeson.com\/\">Sinead Gleeson<\/a> who is a writer, editor and freelance broadcaster. Her essays have appeared in Granta, Banshee, Winter Papers and Gorse among others. Her short story &#8216;Counting Bridges&#8217; was longlisted at the 2016 Irish Book Awards and she has a short story in the forthcoming Repeal the 8th anthology edited by Una Mullally. She is the editor of three anthologies including The Long Gaze Back. Her collection of essays Constellations will be published in Spring<\/p>\n<p>Norma Burke chatted to Sinead Gleeson at the launch at Dublin City Library.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on all of the amazing events they are running you can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dublinonecityonebook.ie\">www.dublinonecityonebook.ie<\/a> and also join in the conversation on Twitter under #1city1book.<\/p>\n<p>Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerhollandphotography.com\/\">Ger Holland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2551\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SineadGleesonNST08-03-18.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2551','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SineadGleesonNST08-03-18.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SineadGleesonNST08-03-18.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=25640-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SineadGleesonNST08-03-18.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"SineadGleesonNST08-03-18.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 12:37 &#8212; 17.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin: One City, One Book is an award winning initiative by Dublin City Council to promote reading and books to everyone in the city. It&#8217;s led by Dublin City Libraries and and every April they choose a book and encourage people to read it through a programme of mostly free events across the year. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2552\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SineadGleesonNST08-03-18.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2552','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SineadGleesonNST08-03-18.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SineadGleesonNST08-03-18.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=25640-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SineadGleesonNST08-03-18.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"SineadGleesonNST08-03-18.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 12:37 &#8212; 17.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[10351,10349,10350],"class_list":["post-25640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-arts-show-arts-2","tag-readwomen","tag-sinead-gleeson","tag-the-long-gaze-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25650,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25640\/revisions\/25650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}