I met with Katie in The Tara Building to chat and learn about Bee's and Wasps and other pollinators that are intrinsic to an eco systems health.

Katie graduated from Wheaton College (USA) with a B.A. in Environmental Science, Biology concentration in 2015. From 2014-2017, she traveled around the United States to work with native insect pollinators as a research assistant and community outreach facilitator on five different conservation-focused research projects. She has worked most closely with Yellow-Faced Bumblebees (Bombus vosnesenskii) and Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus), but has participated in a number of general native pollinator and plant surveys as well. In 2016, while working at Archbold Biological Station in Florida, USA, she conducted an independent study entitled, “The multi-scaled habitat preferences of the Blue Calamintha Bee.” Katie is currently an Irish Research Council funded PhD student in the Stanley Ecology Lab at University College Dublin studying the importance of wild and managed pollinators to Irish natural capital. Her main research interests include, pollinator diversity effects on the pollination of native plants and crops. Interactions between managed and wild pollinators and native pollinator conservation

With Being Earnest, I hope to create a space away from the noise of everyday life and distraction. I hope to offer a place, to listen, to share, to be engaged and hopefully inspired.
Each week I'll be joined by sound people doing great things to have honest and genuine chats.
I hope you enjoy Being Earnest.
Thanks for Listening.
Many more thanks go to the following people:
Photography: Caitríona Muireann
Music: Chef Brian- LATASHÁ/YouTube Audio Library
Special Thanks to Jen Butler
Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat agus Grá Mór

With Being Earnest, I hope to create a space away from the noise of everyday life and distraction. I hope to offer a place, to listen, to share, to be engaged and hopefully inspired.
Each week I'll be joined by sound people doing great things to have honest and genuine chats.
I hope you enjoy Being Earnest.
Thanks for Listening.
Many more thanks go to the following people:
Photography: Caitríona Muireann
Music: Chef Brian- LATASHÁ/YouTube Audio Library
Special Thanks to Jen Butler
Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat agus Grá Mór

With Being Earnest, I hope to create a space away from the noise of everyday life and distraction. I hope to offer a place, to listen, to share, to be engaged and hopefully inspired.
Each week I'll be joined by sound people doing great things to have honest and genuine chats.
I hope you enjoy Being Earnest.
Thanks for Listening.
Many more thanks go to the following people:
Photography: Caitríona Muireann
Music: Chef Brian- LATASHÁ/YouTube Audio Library
Special Thanks to Jen Butler
Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat agus Grá Mór

I sit down to chat with the writer, Louise Omer at the Tara Building. Louise has previously worked with the Gaurdian and is currently working on her forthcoming book, Holy Women.

Louise Omer was a pentecostal preacher and faithful wife. But when her marriage crumbled, so did her beliefs. Haunted by questions about what it means to be female in a religion that worships a male God, she left behind a church and home to ask women around the world: how can we exist in patriarchal religion? And can a woman be holy?

https://www.louiseomer.com/

With Being Earnest, I hope to create a space away from the noise of everyday life and distraction. I hope to offer a place, to listen, to share, to be engaged and hopefully inspired.
Each week I'll be joined by sound people doing great things to have honest and genuine chats.
I hope you enjoy Being Earnest.
Thanks for Listening.
Many more thanks go to the following people:
Photography: Caitríona Muireann
Music: Chef Brian- LATASHÁ/YouTube Audio Library
Special Thanks to Jen Butler
Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat agus Grá Mór

I sit down with Jim Crickard on the rooftop of the Tara Building before his Therapy Sessions gig, as part of the First Fortnight Festival. We chat about poetry, Panti Bliss, First Fortnight Festival, Drag and Poetry and plenty of other great things.

Jim Crickard’s poetry is camp and entertaining work with a sassy social-political edge. His work explores themes such as culture, sexuality and identity. In 2019 he was selected by Poetry Ireland for the inaugural Versify series, and performed to a sold out show at Dublin Fringe Festival. He came second in the 2019 All Ireland Poetry Slam Final. In 2018, he won the Cuirt Spoken Word Platform and was awarded a slot to perform at Electric Picnic. In January, 2020 he will be performing in Cork and Dublin with the First Fortnight festival alongside acclaimed poet, Stephen James Smith. He was shortlisted for the 2018 O'Bheal International Five Words Competition, and has work published in Automatic Pilot, A New Ulster, and Contemporary Poetry. He can be found on Facebook.

With Being Earnest, I hope to create a space away from the noise of everyday life and distraction. I hope to offer a place, to listen, to share, to be engaged and hopefully inspired.
Each week I'll be joined by sound people doing great things to have honest and genuine chats.
I hope you enjoy Being Earnest.
Thanks for Listening.
Many more thanks go to the following people:
Photography: Caitríona Muireann
Music: Chef Brian- LATASHÁ/YouTube Audio Library
Special Thanks to Jen Butler
Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat agus Grá Mór

In this podcast, I chat about the Poetry Reading Challenge that I have begun. The challenge is to read one hundred poetry books this year, with the aim of gaining a deeper insight into the craft, itself. On these monthly episodes, I will be reading poems from the particular poets work that I have read in the previous months.

In January, I read collections from Seamus Heaney, Paula Meehan, John Sheahan, Anis Mojgani, Andrea Gibson, Eavan Boland and Ocean Voung.

This podcast is a relaxed listen for all the poetry heads and non-poetry heads, alike. Poetry is cool, promise.

I sit down with Sarah at the Tara Building to chat about her experience with Acting, Writing, Theatre and Spoken Word. We then move into chatting about feminism, consent, sexual experiences and empowering female conversations surrounding that.

Sun Bear, Sarah's one-person-show will be on in Smock Alley as part of the Scene & Heard Festival on the 18th and 19th of February.

Tickets are available here: https://smockalley.ticketsolve.com/shows/873612032

Sarah Richardson is a spoken word poet from London, currently living in Dublin. She came to Dublin in September 2016 to study at The Gaiety School of Acting. Having never performed at any open mic’s or shared her work before, she started performing her poetry at the Circle Sessions in May 2017 and Ireland has really been the catalyst for her work. Since then she has performed across Ireland as a featured artist at many events, tours and festivals such as KnockanStockan, All Together Now Festival, EP and many more. She has also won a number of slam poetry competitions including Dublin’s Slam Sunday, The Inter-Varisty Slam 2018, The Leinster Heat of the All Ireland Slam and came 2nd in the All Ireland Final. Sarah’s work also expands into theatre, with her first show GirlPlay, which combined spoken word and theatre, premiering at Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. GirlPlay is now heading for a tour in 2020 including runs in Dublin, Galway and London. Sarah is currently working on her second show, a one-woman piece that has been programmed in this years Scene and Heard festival. As well as writing spoken word and theatre, Sarah is the resident sex columnist at Hot Press. 

With Being Earnest, I hope to create a space away from the noise of everyday life and distraction. I hope to offer a place, to listen, to share, to be engaged and hopefully inspired.
Each week I'll be joined by sound people doing great things to have honest and genuine chats.
I hope you enjoy Being Earnest.
Thanks for Listening.
Many more thanks go to the following people:
Photography: Caitríona Muireann
Music: Chef Brian- LATASHÁ/YouTube Audio Library
Special Thanks to Jen Butler
Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat agus Grá Mór

I sit down with Hannah at the Tara Building to chat about her research in LGBT Theatre in Dublin and The Project Arts Centre respectively. We chat her journey through photography, sculpture and writing that led to her research today and what it meant to be part of the LGBT community through the last few decades in Ireland until the Marriage Referendum in 2015.

Her upcoming exhibition at The Project Art Centre will feature archived material from Alternative Miss Ireland.

Hannah is a Researcher, Historian, Sculpture, Photographer and Writer. Her thesis 'Foul, Filthy, Stinking Muck' looks at the role The Project Art Centre had during the activist movements of the 70s, 80s and 90s. It highlights notable contemporary theatre works that have addressed LGBTQ issues and demonstrates how Project continues to play a role in platforming LGBTQ works. 

With Being Earnest, I hope to create a space away from the noise of everyday life and distraction. I hope to offer a place, to listen, to share, to be engaged and hopefully inspired.
Each week I'll be joined by sound people doing great things to have honest and genuine chats.
I hope you enjoy Being Earnest.
Thanks for Listening.
Many more thanks go to the following people:
Photography: Caitríona Muireann
Music: Chef Brian- LATASHÁ/YouTube Audio Library
Special Thanks to Jen Butler
Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat agus Grá Mór

I sit down with Kate at the Tara Building and we chat about how we met through the publishing of Durty Words and her Publishing House Durty Books, the importance of Social Spaces, friendship and Community. We also chat about her recent exhibitions and the occupying of a TSB Bank in Cork City.

Kate O' Shea is an artist with a social practice which includes printmaking, arts practice based research, the production of social spaces and publishing. From setting up a social space in the south west of Ireland in 2009 to co-producing SPARE ROOM Art Architecture Activism with Eve Olney in Cork in 2019, Kate's collaborative practice is based on building spaces of solidarity and dialogue in order to explore alternatives to the social relations of capitalism.

In 2018 she published the book Durty Words with graphic designer Victoria Brunetta. With 134 contributors from all over the world, this is the first book of their publishing house: Durty Books. Kate has just completed an MA by Research in Printmaking as a space for solidarity and dialogue at Limerick School of Art and Design. Kate is currently working with Dawn Weleski to develop The People's Kitchen in Cork, Ireland which is being supported by Arts Council Ireland, managed by CREATE. Kate regularly exhibits nationally and internationally.

With Being Earnest, I hope to create a space away from the noise of everyday life and distraction. I hope to offer a place, to listen, to share, to be engaged and hopefully inspired.
Each week I'll be joined by sound people doing great things to have honest and genuine chats.
I hope you enjoy Being Earnest.
Thanks for Listening.
Many more thanks go to the following people:

Location: The Tara Building
Photography: Caitríona Muireann
Music: Chef Brian- LATASHÁ/YouTube Audio Library
Equipment: Colm Ó Raghallaigh
Special Thanks to Jen Butler
Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat agus Grá Mór

I sit down with Kasey, in the International Bar before her weekly open-mic night Ealain to chat about self publishing her debut book Conversations With Myself

Kasey Shelley is a writer and poet from Clondalkin in Dublin. She is a regular on the spoken word scene and has appeared in several publications such as Flare, A New Ulster and Harness magazine. She is also in two anthologies; Selfies & Portraits and Mustang Bally. In fiction she enjoys both reading and writing horror or thrillers. In her first year performing she was voted Circle Sessions' poet of the year 2017. She worked with Cursed Murphy as part of Seed To Stage 2018. She performed at Electric Picnic 2019. She is fresh off the launch of her debut collection of poetry Conversations With Myself which is now available on Amazon. Her Instagram is @KaseyScribbles

With Being Earnest, I hope to create a space away from the noise of everyday life and distraction. I hope to offer a place, to listen, to share, to be engaged and hopefully inspired.
Each week I'll be joined by sound people doing great things to have honest and genuine chats.
I hope you enjoy Being Earnest.
Thanks for Listening.
Many more thanks go to the following people:
Photography: Caitríona Muireann
Music: Chef Brian- LATASHÁ/YouTube Audio Library
Equipment: Colm Ó Raghallaigh
Special Thanks to Jen Butler
Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat agus Grá Mór