WriteStuff

As well as being a gifted writer, Ian Maleney is a very thoughtful and articulate speaker, which comes across in this conversation with WriteStuff. Ian talks about a lot of the topics that he has that he expressed in his collection of…

On the latest episode of WriteStuff Chris chats to Hugo Hamilton. In Hugo's fictional memoir, Dublin Palms, he explores themes of home and displacement and describes the difficulty of growing up in a multi-lingual home. Here he discusses…

The debut novel from Anne Griffin, When All is Said is rightly getting praise from authors, reviewers and the public for its depiction of Maurice Hannigan, a fictional character that you come to deeply know and relate to through reading the…

‘I think what poetry needs most of all is music.’ This episode of WriteStuff features Niall MacMonagle, who is incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about poetry. He is a teacher and collector of poetry, being responsible for some much…

Helen Cullen joins us on WriteStuff to offer insights into how she wrote her first novel, The Lost Letters of William Wolfe. After reading from the opening of the novel, Helen describes how she came to the premise of the novel and how she…

In Illuminate, Kerrie O’Brien has created a collection of poems that deals with a range of themes, yet is coherent in its style and beauty. Here, on WriteStuff, she talks about Illuminate and the work that went into creating it as well as…

‘I always think of the voices that don’t get amplified in society.’ Sorcha Fox is a multitalented performer, actor, writer, director and poet who has written a poetic sequence called Remember that invites her audience to remember their…

‘Poetry is about addressing the limits of our perceptions.’ Martin Dyar is a poet who manages to be both a respectful scholar of the traditions of poetry and a voice that is contemporary and mindful of the future of the form. In this…

In the Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow, Danny Denton has written a novel that really fits into the archive of Irish fictional writing while standing out as something unique in its delivery of an imaginative context of an alternative …

In this episode of WriteStuff, Dr. Martina Carroll talks about the connection between writing and positive psychology. As a teacher, psychologist and writer, Martina has a lot to say about how writing can play a role in developing positive…