Cassie McCullagh

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5,048 appearances 31 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2018 last heard 6d ago

Cassie McCullagh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Bookshelf · New Fiction: Donal Ryan, Emma Cline, Max Easton and Sebastian Barry · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

But all the while there are these very clearly described incidents and some beautiful descriptions. voice-verified

One of them is where Theo and Hawley take him take Jack out on his first hunting experience, where they line up the rifle with a deer in its sights and they allow him to to pull the trigger, so it's his first kill. voice-verified

There's this amazing bit of description. voice-verified

And the deer falls. voice-verified

Not a beat of her heart between Jack's finger tightening on the trigger and her departure from her summer morning, the early end of her last day on Earth, and then skipping forward. voice-verified

And the deer lies dead on the mountainside. voice-verified

Jack stands by her body while his uncles prepare to rope her slender legs, and in the still round blackness of the deer's beautiful eye he can see all the pain in the world, all the sorrow so close to him, so close that he could touch it if only he could touch it. voice-verified

Yes, the eternal theme of Irish literature, I guess. voice-verified

And also um the way there's been this major disruption in Irish cultural life by the intrusion of colonialism. voice-verified

So all that's going on. voice-verified

What we're not sure of is why Tomash is so messed up by what happened in voice-verified

In Czechoslovakia, I wondered where was the cause of the pain in this novel? voice-verified

We don't know for a long time. voice-verified

But we do find out in the end and the resolution is clear. voice-verified

This is ABC Radio National's The Bookshelf, on air, on ABC Listen, or however you get your podcasts. voice-verified

I'm Cassie McCullough. voice-verified

With me is Kate Evans and our guests today. voice-verified

Wow. voice-verified

Novelist Madeline Grey, novelist Hannah Kent, and musician Tim Rogers. voice-verified

Hello. voice-verified

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