Hazy summer days from West Kerry to Beirut, and saluting the pioneering Yeats sisters, with Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, Eunan McKinney, Mae Leonard, Alexander McMaster, Angela Keogh, Mariam Tell and Vincent Woods
Coat checks and cityscapes in New York City; preparing for a family wedding; and reflections on wearing wigs. With Gary Coyle, Neil Hegarty, Cathy Power, John Tuomey, Julie Feeny and Lauren Green
How we see ourselves, and others, and what constitutes home; a selection from the Belfast Books Festival in 2023 and 2004 with Wendy Erskine, John Toal, Neil Hegarty, Marie Howe and Paul McVeigh
The mud of Glastonbury and the elegance of the Monet garden, a St John’s Eve bonfire and the bravery of Irishman Graham Dale, with Conall Hamill, Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, John Toal, Maeve Edwards, Joe Rooney and Antonia Gunko Karelina
Solstice meditations, a Sydney nightwalk and a visit to Joyce’s Nighttown, with Colin Regan, Kieran FitzGerald, Grace Wells, Fran O’Rourke, Katrina Bruna and Christian O’Reilly
Live from the Belfast Book Festival 2024, at the Crescent Arts Centre, with Ways of Seeing. Writers: Jan Carson, Lucy Caldwell, Glenn Patterson, Emily Byers-Ferrian and Maria McManus, with music from Scott Flanigan, Sinéad McKenna & Micky Fearon and Trú
Exam jitters and poetry grinds for teenagers, the heyday of the Irish Press newspaper, and silage-making with a reluctant farm horse, with Alexander McMaster, Denis McClean, Rachael Hegarty, Lani O’Hanlon, Leo Cullen and Catherine Foley
Campervan travels with an intrepid German grandmother, a loaf of heavenly batch bread, and the Heysel Stadium Disaster remembered, with Alexander McMaster, Maeve Edwards, Michael Hamell, Elizabeth Oxley and Vincent Woods
Leaving home and a kind of homecoming; Eurovision memories and a tribute to a beloved brother, with Gráinne Quinlan, William Wall, Fabian McGrath, Joan Shiels, Eileen Heron and Hugo Hamilton.
Post-war wanderings and pilgrimages of the heart, a Rembrandt double-portrait and a poem for Béaltaine, with Denis Tuohy, Clare O’Dea, Barbara Leahy, Kerry Neville, Alan Cook and Lani O’Hanlon
Encounters with wildlife, labour struggles in Italy and remarkable island architecture, with Michael Cullen, William Wall, Nollaig Rowan, Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, Kevin Connolly and Moya Cannon
Shakespeare’s seven ages of man, Jane Austen’s sense and sensibility, pilgrimages of the heart -- and a flickering candle, with Daniel Mulhall, Roslyn Dee, John Toal, Eileen Battersby, John MacKenna and AM Cousins
Easter miracles and a newly risen Notre-Dame; natty hats and singing in public, with Fachtna Ó Drisceoil, Aidan Mathews, Roslyn Dee, Olivia O’Leary, Maria Moynihan and James Harpur
Stirrings of spring and a stubborn donkey, Easter in Beirut and meeting Samuel Beckett, with Kate O’Shaughnessy, Louise Kennedy, Peter Cunningham, Joe Kearney, Jenny Beale and John F Deane
Dentists’ drills, dry stone walls and debtors’ prison, and the Great Gatsby at 100, with Tim Carey, Rebecca Hunter, Brian Crowley, Jessica Freed, Frank Kavanagh and Roslyn Dee
Handwritten letters and mother-daughter rites of passage, a search for identity, and the delightful landscapes of Ireland’s South West, with Barbara Scully, Jamie O’Connell, Brian Daly, James Harpur, Joanne Hynes, Cónal Creedon and Amenazeb Khan
Car troubles, revolutionary whispers and a tribute to a hero of Dublin city, with John Toal, Catherine Foley, Rosaleen McDonagh, Kathleen Murphy, Justin MacCarthy, Paula Meehan and Durgham Mushtaha
Saint Patrick’s hidden holy well, a White House welcome, an encounter with musical genius and a “grand stretch” in the evenings, with Liz Nugent, Daniel Muhall, Karen J McDonnell, Georg Grote, Anne Delaney and Rachael Hegarty
Canine clutter and a feline warrior, a friendship forged in music and a century-old literary scandal, with writers Philip Judge, Alexis MacIsaac, Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, Margaret Galvin, Lourdes Mackey and Amanda Bell
Oscar night fever and Jaws at 50, placenames of Waterford and saluting Ronnie Delany at 90, with John O’Donnell, Zoë Devlin, Val O’Donnell, Niall McArdle and Catherine Foley
Ghost signs of Dublin, Wexford tales, and climbing Carrauntuohil, with Jamie O’Connell, Margaret Galvin, John MacKenna, AM Cousins, Aoife Barry and Billy Roche
Ministering angels and mutiny at sea, a devastating fire in a Dublin market, and a poem for the late Ivor Browne, with Antonia Hart, Eddie Vallely, William Wall, Rebecca Hunter, Joe Kearney and Lani O’Hanlon
Bittersweet love stories, eye-catching cover art and home thoughts from abroad, with Feargal Ó Dubhghaill, Molly Furey, Joe Kearney, Margaret Galvin, Dermot Bolger, Lani O'Hanlon and Yvonne Cullen
Slip-sliding resolutions, sleepy sheep and saluting the darkness even as winter turns to spring, with Conall Hamill, Beth Kilkenny, Kevin Gildea, Karl O’Neill, Mae Leonard and Neil Hegarty
Sailing to Antarctica, a few sticks of furniture and the life of O’Reilly in Australia, with Hugh Weldon, Margaret Galvin, Mary Dowey, Beth Kilkenny, Daniel Mulhall and Amanda Bell
From Cherbourg to Belmullet to Western Vancouver: friendship, poetry and voyages of the heart, with Mattie Brennan, Peter Cunningham, Cathy Sweeney, Grace Wilentz, Michael Gallagher and Aidan Mathews
Silk Road meditations, dreamy prophecies and the hard winter of 1947, with Emer O’Kelly, Eileen Casey, John MacKenna, Alexander McMaster, Lani O’Hanlon and Denis Tuohy
Diplomatic travels and inner journeys, from Leitrim to Lourdes, from Ontario to Togo and Nauru – meeting a Daniel O’Donnell fan along the way… a New Year Miscellany with Joe Hayes, Pat Boran, Nuala O’Connor, Angela Keogh, Niall McArdle and Mary O’Malley
A friendly spy, Joyce’s favourite music, and remembering the Dead at Christmastime… with archive from and tributes to some much loved writers we lost this year. With Kevin Mc Dermott, Justin Kilcullen, Conor Hanratty, Judith Mok, Emer O’Kelly, Catherine Foley and Gerald Dawe
Christmas food, seasonal gifting and contemplation and a Dublin legend, with John Toal, Donal Fallon, Maggie Armstrong, Margaret Galvin, John F Deane and James Harpur
