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Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson.

Join Nuala O’Connor and Lia Mills for an evening of discussion and readings. Nuala reads from Shut your mouth Helene and Lia reads from The Crossing before discussing flash fiction, historical fiction, the tyranny of plot, choosing which format to tell your story.

Recorded at Tallaght Library on 11 April 2018. Thanks to our colleagues in South Dublin Library for making the audio available to us.

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Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson.

In this episode of the DCLA podcast, author Kathleen Hill gives an introduction to the life and work of Maeve Brennan, and how Ranelagh and New York helped inform the themes of exile and loss that run through her writing. Maeve Brennan was born in Dublin in 1917. She grew up in Ranelagh, her family left Ireland to live in Washington D.C. when Maeve was 17.

Kathleen reads from Brennan's novella The Visitor, and short stories 'Stories of Africa' and 'The Poor Men and Women' both published in Springs of Affection.

Introduction by jazz singer, composer and lyricist Emilie Conway who wrote "You Won't Forget Me" - A Celebration of Maeve Brennan in Words & Music.

Recorded at Ranelagh Arts Centre on 15 April 2018.

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Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson.

In this episode, Jessica Fahy, explores the fascinating connection between Irish women artists and the advent of modernism in Ireland from the early 20th century to the 1970s. Like their writer contemporaries, these women have been underestimated and undervalued, despite their massive contribution to the advent of modern art in Ireland.

Recorded at DLR LexIcon on 9 April 2018, with thanks to Marian Keyes Dún-Laoghaire Rathdown Libraries for making the audio available to us.

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Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson.

In this episode of the DCLA podcast, authors Susan Stairs, Nuala O’Connor and Eimear Ryan read and discuss their short stories in The Long Gaze Back. Chaired by Sinéad Gleeson.

Recorded at Cabra Library on 23 April 2018.

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Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson.

In this episode, art historian Jessica Fahy looks at portraits of Irish women authors featured in the Collections of Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane.

Recorded at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane on 15 April 2018.

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Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson.

In this episode of the DCLA podcast, The Long Gaze Back authors Bernie McGill, Lia Mills and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne talk with Sinéad Gleeson about the anthology, their work, and being a female author in Ireland today.

Recorded at Blanchardstown Library on 12 April 2018, with thanks to Fingal Libraries for making this audio available to us.

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Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson.

In this episode, Looking Forward, Gazing Back, writers June Caldwell and Sinéad Gleeson and theatre maker and campaigner Lian Bell of #WakingTheFeminists, movement discuss the practices, processes and contexts of Irish women’s writing today. Chaired by Garrett Fagan.

Recorded at the National Library of Ireland on 21 April 2018, thanks to National Library of Ireland for making this audio available to us.

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Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson.

In this episode musician Eileen Gogan responds to stories from The Long Gaze Back and talks to the book’s editor Sinéad Gleeson. Eileen is accompanied by musician Ed McGinley.

For rights reasons you will only hear clips from Eileen’s songs, to hear more, including her new album Under Moving Skies, visit https://eileengoganandtheinstructions.bandcamp.com/

Recorded at Walkinstown Library on 9 April 2018.

Apologies, for the poor sound quality in the first 2 minutes. It does improve and it was a super event, so stick with it and you’re in for a treat!

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Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson.

In this the second of a two part episode, "Selected Shorts", we hear a discussion with authors Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, Lia Mills, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Anne Devlin, chaired by Catherine Dunne. If you haven’t already, we suggest listening to part one first, where you will hear actors Rose Henderson, Susie Lamb, Katie O'Kelly and Geraldine Plunkett perform readings by these four authors.

Recorded at the New Theatre on Saturday 7 April 2018.

This interesting discussion examines whether the short story is a naturally introspective and self-reflective genre, and questions whether the form, described by Mary Lavin's as an "owl in flight", or "a slide under the microscope", has opened up or altered under the influence of television, poetry and film.

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Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson.

In the first of a two part episode, "Selected Shorts", we hear actors Rose Henderson, Susie Lamb, Katie O'Kelly and Geraldine Plunkett perform readings from The Long Gaze Back – stories by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Lia Mills, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Anne Devlin. The second part will feature a discussion with the authors, chaired by Catherine Dunne.

Sit back and enjoy the following stories from The Long Gaze Back:

Eilis Ní Dhuibhne’s ‘The Coast of Wales’ read by Rose Henderson

Lia Mills’ ‘The Crossing’ read by Susie Lamb

Christine Dwyer Hickey’s ‘The Cat and The Mouse’ read by Katie O'Kelly

Anne Devlin’s ‘Winter Journey (The Apparitions)’ read by Geraldine Plunkett

Recorded at the New Theatre on Saturday 7 April 2018.

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