Jan Carson

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829 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 May

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The Women's Podcast · Jan Carson on the Troubles, trauma and faith · 14 May 2026 podcast

I think, you know, there's still a lot of things about this society up here that I find frustrating and difficult.

But I get to nip over to Berlin or New York or whatever every so often and come back and

freshly able to appreciate how lovely it is to like tonight is Michal McCann the poet's book launch and to be able to walk into a room and go there's like 65 people here that I could have a really good conversation with any of them that is a blessing yeah brilliant well listen Jan it's been absolute it's been a blessing talking to you to use the old blessings quite a lovely spiritual word I think the Lord is after you oh shit oh stop

The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Jan Carson Reimagines A Plan To Drain Lough Neagh In Latest Novel · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

Thank you for having me, Matt.

Yeah, so this is a strange novel.

It's a kind of an alternative history with a little bit of magic thrown in.

So I need to take the listeners back to 1958 when Terence O'Neill, who would go on to become the prime minister of Northern Ireland.

He was finance minister at this point and O'Neill was known for his kind of madcap ideas.

And in 58, he proposed that Lough Neagh should be drained and turned into the seventh county of Northern Ireland.

which is laughable, but he wanted to build a commuter town in the middle of the Loch to serve dairy in Belfast.

Drain it?

Yeah.

There's a lot of water there.

There's a lot of water.

And I don't know if you've noticed, but it rains quite a lot in the north as well.

So even if you could drain it, it would keep filling up again.

Now, I'm saying that and we're laughing at the idea, but the Loch Nye was actually drained three times before this point.

So the Victorians put in a number of drainage schemes to increase the land around the edge.

So they didn't completely drain it, but they wanted some more farmland.

So in 1880, there was a thing called the Shepherd Scheme that actually significantly drained part of the edge of the Loch.

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