Interview

Conversation with Liam McNulty about his book James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist, a critical biography of the great Irish socialist revolutionary, out from Merlin Press. Tunes: Frank Harte - James Connolly Liam Weldon - James Connolly

Roxanna Nic Liam reads a excerpts from Tunnel of Toads, a novel I have written which is due to be published by Marrowbone Books in a few weeks. Tunes: Radie Peat - Cailín deas cruite na mBó / When I Was a Young Girl Pinch & Shackleton - Cracks in the Pleasuredome Burial & Four Tet - Moth Mícheál Keating & Brendan McInerney - It's Still There

Further Reading Broué, Pierre. The German Revolution 1917 - 1923. Haymarket Books, 2005. Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition. Verso, 2015. ——, Stalin: A Political Biography. Vintage Books, 1960. FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2008. International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald, ‘Manifesto’. Marxists.org, 1915....

Interview with Sam Slote of Trinity College Dublin, co-author with Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner of Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses, available from Oxford University Press.

Strategic aims and outline of what I hope to achieve

'Good American writers know their job has something to do with interrogating the spiritual poverty of the nation'. Tunes Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - Bob Dylan The Big Stick - Minutemen Hallelujah I'm a Bum - Barbara Dane Works Cited / Further Reading Curtis, Adam. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. BBC, 2011. Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso, 2018. ——. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. Verso, 2018. ——,...

A transmission previously broadcast on Dublin Digital Radio with Tom Roseingrave speaking on the publication of the Frustrated Writer's Group zine (Volume 1), with recorded contributions from the zine's contributors: Clíodhna Breathnach, Emily Featherman, Baxter King-Epping, Molly May O'Leary, Carina nic Giolla Phádraig, Katy Finnegan, Cian Booth and Sophia Malaika. Music from Kool A.D., Liam Ó Maonlaí, Ice Spice, Rosalía & Rauw Alejandro, MIKE and Moodyman.

A conversation with Joe Cleary about his book Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland, a collection of essays engaging with Irish culture from the time of the literary revival, through the Free State and postwar periods to the Celtic Tiger. Joe Cleary is a professor of English in Yale University, where he teaches on modernism, Irish, postcolonial and world literatures. More recently he has published Modernism, Empire, World Literature (2021) and The Irish Expatriate Novel...

A conversation with Odrán de Bhaldraithe about his new book Neglect in the North of Ireland, which will be available to order here on Thursday the 22nd of July. Odrán also has a Substack, which you can read here.

A conversation with Sinéad Kennedy about the history of Irish feminism, the campaign to repeal the eighth amendment from the Irish constitution, and the distinct ways in which the politics of liberation in Ireland have been inflected by Ireland's unique position within the world system. This episode was inspired to a large extent by Dr Camilla FitzSimons' book Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights, which is available here from Pluto Press. An episode of Pluto Press'...

An interview with Conor McCarthy about the life and work of the Palestinian literary critic and activist Edward Said.  Conor McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer at Maynooth University. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said,  Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969 - 1992. He has also edited The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly 1893 - 1916.  I blog at https://aonchiallach.github.io

An interview with the historians Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh & Kerron Ó'Luain about the Irish Civil War, originally broadcast on Nervous State. Leabhar Ó'Luain: https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2019/rathcoole-and-the-united-irish-rebellions/ Blag Mac Bloscaidh: https://blosc.wordpress.com Nervous State: https://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/resident/nervous-state