Category: in conversation
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Interview – Paper Visual Art
At a time when the Irish cultural scene is alive and kicking with predominantly literary journals, PVA is an initiative which has carved out a very special place of its own. With its origins as an art journal, it has since evolved into a space where contributions on visual art, contemporary culture and literature sit…
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Interview – —Love, says Bloom curated by Nuala O’Connor
—Love, says Bloom, is a new exhibition at MoLI (Museum of Literature Ireland), celebrating the love at the heart of the Joyce family. Irish writer James Joyce, his wife Nora Barnacle, and their children Giorgio and Lucia faced many hardships in their life together, but also shared a deep love and devotion to each other.…
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Interview – One Dublin One Book 2022 – Nora by Nuala O’Connor
One Dublin One Book is an annual initiative, celebrating reading for pleasure, which encourages everyone to read the same book during the month of April. A Dublin City Council initiative, led by Dublin City Libraries, the chosen book is traditionally a book connected in some way with the capital city and, to complement this synchronised…
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Interview – Write by the Sea Literary Festival 2021
The autumn festival season is kicking off all around Ireland, and if there is one festival that writers – both established and aspiring – don’t want to miss, it’s Write by the Sea. Based in the picturesque and intimate seaside village of Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, Write by the Sea is a festival which delves…
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Interview – Jack Smyth – Book Cover Designer
These days, you don’t even have to take a book off the shelves to enjoy the experience of being in a bookshop. Book covers have become artworks in their own rights, and browsing a well laid out bookshop isn’t unlike being at an exhibition of sorts. The show in question contains everything from bold, colourful…
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Interview – Ellen Hutchins Festival 2021
Aside from being one of the most beautiful parts of Ireland, Bantry Bay (West Cork) and surrounding area is famous for something else that, more than likely, not enough people know about – it was home to Ellen Hutchins (1785 – 1815), Ireland’s first female botanist, and a significant contributor to her particular field of…
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Interview – Burning Books Podcast by Books Ireland
Books Ireland is our national hub for all things literature, covering the literary scene from pretty much every angle possible: news, interviews, features, reviews, Irish book charts, events listings, First Flash (a roundup of books published in the current month) and, most recently, a series entitled Backlist Beauties, giving books a well deserved return to…
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Interview – Tolka Journal
A journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction. There is a new literary journal on the scene in Ireland and, since the launch of its inaugural issue at the end of May, the internet has been buzzing. Tolka is a new biannual literary journal, seeking to give a platform without parameters to non-fiction writing. The founding editors…
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Interview – Here & Now, International Literature Festival Dublin 2021
One of Ireland’s most important literary events is now well under way, and this year’s programme clearly has people very excited. The festival got off to a cracking start, with Valeria Luiselli confirmed as this year’s recipient of the prestigious Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction…
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Interview – Vibes & Scribes, Raring to Reopen
If there is a business that knows how to keep our heads, hearts and hands happy, it’s the very vibrant Vibes & Scribes in Cork City. The business started as a small bookshop, founded by Joan Lucey, then diversified into arts and crafts, before expanding further into fabric, wool, yarn, haberdashery and upholstery supplies. This…
The Resting Willow 