The Irish Times Books Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Little Red Balloon
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of 'The Little Red Balloon', the winning entry in the 15-18 category of the Children's Short Story competition, by 17-year-old Emma Broderic...
Darran Anderson, author of Inventory
08 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Books Editor Martin Doyle talks to Darran Anderson about his memoir of growing up in Troubles-torn Derry, Inventory: A River, A City, A Family. They ...
The best crime fiction of 2019
16 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Irish Times Books Podcast. In this latest episode, Martin Doyle talk to The Irish Times’s two regular crime fiction reviewers, Declan...
Remembering Maeve Binchy - with Henrietta McKervey and Gordon Snell
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On the eve of this weekend’s Echoes festival in Dalkey, celebrating Maeve Binchy and Irish writing, its programmer, author Henrietta McKervey, and M...
Danielle McLaughlin - A Partial List of the Saved
14 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It has been some year for Danielle McLaughlin. On Thursday, she won the 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, whose £30,000 (€33,500) prize ...
Anthony Farrell, founder of The Lilliput Press
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Antony Farrell, of Lilliput Press, which this year celebrates its 35th anniversary, discusses his career in publishing, the history of the press and t...
Mick Herron, author of the Slough House series
06 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the latest Irish Times Books Podcast, an interview with Mick Herron, the author of the Slough House series of spy novels. Herron is origin...
Joseph O'Connor - Shadowplay
08 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Author Joseph O'Connor talks to Martin Doyle about his new novel Shadowplay, a complicated love affair featuring Dracula creator Bram Stoker, the firs...
Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan
25 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Irish Times Books Podcast, which this week features my interview with Sarah Crossan, Ireland’s Laureate na nÓg. Crossan is one of I...
Writing for Children - with Shane Hegarty, Author of Boot & The Darkmouth Series
11 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Slattery interviews children's author Shane Hegarty about what it means to write for children, with their surprisingly strong taste for peril an...
Sinéad Gleeson and Sarah Davis-Goff
13 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
April’s Irish Times Books Podcast features interviews with Sinéad Gleeson about her acclaimed collection of personal essays, Constellations, and Sa...
Kevin Breathnach - Tunnel Vision
16 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Doyle talks to young author Kevin Breathnach about his acclaimed debut collection of essays, Tunnel Vision, which mixes art history with remark...
Lisa Harding - Harvesting
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Slattery talks to Lisa Harding, author of Harvesting.
Helen Cullen - The Lost Letters of William Woolf
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Books Editor Martin Doyle talks to Helen Cullen about her novel The Lost Letters of William Woolf. Recorded at the Waterford Writers Festival.
Paul Lynch
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Grace, the third novel by Irish author Paul Lynch, was the winner of this year’s Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. In this month’s Irish Times ...
Kit de Waal - The Trick to Time
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal is May’s Irish Times Book Club choice. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction even before it was published ...
Sinéad Gleeson - The Long Gaze Back
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This month's guest is Sinéad Gleeson, one of Ireland's leading arts journalists. She is a former presenter of the book show on RTE radio and the ed...
June Caldwell - Room Little Darker
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation between Irish Times Books Editor Martin Doyle and June Caldwell, author of Room Little Darker, at the Mountains t...
Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney’s critically acclaimed first novel, has picked up deserved word-of-mouth momentum since it was published ea...
Adrian McKinty - Rain Dogs
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty is October’s Irish Times Book Club pick. The Edgar Award-winning thriller is the fifth in the Carrickfergus-born author’...
Neil Hegarty - Inch Levels
29 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Why do so many readers tell writer Neil Hegarty that he captured their own family dynamic in his debut novel Inch Levels? Perhaps the burial of past...
Shane Connaughton - Married Quarters
31 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This month's novel is Married Quarters by Shane Connaughton. Books Editor Martin Doyle interviewed him at the West Cork Literary Festival.
Jennifer Johnston
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Irish Times Book Club podcast for June 2017. If this is your first time listening, you might be wondering how this works. Each month ...
Booker Special - David Grossman and Jessica Cohen
16 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week the Man Booker International Prize, awarded for fiction translated in English, was won by David Grossman and his translator Jessica Cohen fo...
EM Reapy - Red Dirt
31 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Slattery interviews EM Reapy about her novel Red Dirt at The Irish Writer's Centre. www.irishwriterscentre.ie www.irishtimes.com/culture/books...
Conor O'Callaghan - Nothing on Earth
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Eileen Battersby interviews Conor O'Callaghan about his novel Nothing on Earth at The Irish Writer's Centre. https://irishwriterscentre.ie http://ww...
International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist
11 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Irish Times literary correspondent Eileen Battersby joins Martin Doyle for a discussion about the shortlist of nominees for the International Dublin L...
Michael Collins
31 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Collins, the Man Booker and International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted author, who last year ran a marathon a day for a month to raise aw...
A look at the Man Booker International Prize longlist with Eileen Battersby
15 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Eileen Battersby talks to Martin Doyle about the works included on the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for fiction in English translation, and som...
Mia Gallagher - Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland
27 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Visitors are reminded that they are about to enter the Wunderkammer, a floating chamber where normal spacetime conventions no longer apply… Beautif...
Remembering Maeve Brennan
31 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the centenary of the birth of author and New Yorker magazine staff writer Maeve Brennan, whose work went largely unnoticed here until aft...
Anakana Schofield - Martin John
29 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Anakana Schofield talks to Laura Slattery about Martin John, "a novel about compulsion, poverty and sexual deviance".
Mike McCormack - Solar Bones
30 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Irish Times Book Club podcast, recorded earlier this month in association with the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin’s Parnell Square. T...
Lucy Caldwell
29 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This month's book club features Lucy Caldwell, author of Multitudes, in conversation with Laura Slattery.
Paul McVeigh - The Good Son
21 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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Joanna Walsh
30 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Joanna Walsh, author of Vertigo, talks to Laura Slattery in the Irish Writers’ Centre about how she writes, her distinctive take on the short story...
Henrietta McKervey
31 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Henrietta McKervey reads an extract from her second novel, The Heart of Everything, and discusses with Martin Doyle, assistant literary editor of The ...
Rob Doyle
29 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Doyle discusses his collection of inter-linked fictions, This is the Ritual, his follow-up to his successful debut, Here are the Young Men, with L...
Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies
30 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Glorious Heresies author Lisa McInerney talks to Martin Doyle
Gavin McCrea - Mrs Engels
29 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Mrs Engels author Gavin McCrea talks to Laura Slattery.
Thomas Morris- We Don't Know What We're Doing by
01 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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Danielle McLaughlin - Dinosaurs on Other Planets
23 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Author Danielle McLaughlin meets The Irish Times Book Club
Caitriona Lally on Eggshells
20 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Caitriona Lally on Eggshells by The Irish Times Books Podcast
The Poets Chair Podcast
19 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dublin Books Festival 2015 - Harry Clifton, Michael Longley and Paula Meehan in conversation with Arminta Wallace
The Book Club Podcast - Louise O'Neill
15 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The Book Club Podcast - Louise O'Neill by The Irish Times Books Podcast
Joseph O'Connor
09 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph O'Connor by The Irish Times Books Podcast
Christine Dwyer Hickey - The Lives of Women
05 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The Book Club: Christine Dwyer Hickey discusses The Lives of Women with Laura Slattery in the Irish Times studio
Books - Eoin McNamee - Blue is the Night
02 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
MArtin Doyle interviews Eoin McNamee for The Irish Times Book Club
Books in Bars - Alexander McCall Smith
26 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning author Alexander McCall Smith joins Gary Quinn on a whiskey tasting in The Palace Bar in Dublin
Mary Costello - Academy Street
19 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Costello joins Gary Quinn in studio to discuss her latest book Academy Street with book club readers Orna Mulcahy and Lorcan Collins
Litfest at Ballymaloe
11 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Quinn meets writers John Wilson and Caroline Hennessy ahead of the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival
Colin Barrett - Young Skins
01 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Short story writer Colin Barrett meets The Irish Times Book Club
Audrey Magee - The Undertaking
17 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Audrey Magee discusses her novel The Undertaking with The Irish Times Book Club
Nuala Ní Chonchúir - Closet of Savage Mementos
13 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Author Nuala Ní Chonchuir joins Irish Times Book Club readers in studio to discuss her latest book The Closet of Savage Mementos
John Boyne - History of Loneliness
02 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of The Irish Times Bookclub best selling author John Boyne discusses his novel A History of Loneliness. He is joined in studio by book...
Michael Harding - Hanging with the Elephant
20 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The Book Club: The first edition of the Book Club brings Michael Harding together with three readers: Jo Homewood, Jacinta Wright and Hans Zomer to di...