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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 writers and editors talk about anthologies and gender balance, and read from their very favourite short stories. Featuring Sinéad Gleeson, Alan Hayes, Rob Doyle, Eimear Ryan and Philip St John. Chaired by Lia Mills with music by Ciara Sidine, accompanied by Conor Brady. Ciara’s daughters Ava and Romy also feature.

For rights reasons you will only hear clips from Ciara’s songs, to hear more visit www.ciarasidine.com

Recorded at Farmleigh House on 6 April 2018

The Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson read by Philip St John

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Robbins read by Lia Mills

San Francisco by Amy Hempel read by Eimear Ryan

Zidane's Melancholy by Jean-Philippe Toussaint read by Rob Doyle

People Like that are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk by Lorrie Moore read by Sinéad Gleeson

Alan Hayes reads Butcher Bird by Geraldine Mills; The New Wife by Órfhlaith Foyle; Staying Thin for Daddy by Deirdre Brennan; I, Caroline by Nuala O'Connor

Finest Flower, Watching the Dark, Trouble Come Find Me and Little Bird Song by Ciara Sidine

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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 Lisa Coen, Louise Kennedy and Kathleen McMahon discuss the forgotten writings of Charlotte Riddell, Norah Hoult and Mary Lavin, chaired by Sinéad Gleeson. With dramatised readings by actor Ger Ryan.

Recorded at Pearse Street Library on 19 April 2018.

Our theme tune is Dream of the forest (jazzy mix) by articom (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/articom/61177

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 novelist and journalist Martina Devlin discusses the fascinating letters from Somerville and Ross n the early 1900s.

Edith Somerville and her second cousin Violet Martin may have been Victorian women, but their flair, business expertise and ambition were ultra-modern. From their light-hearted Irish R.M. series of stories to darker novels including the classic The Real Charlotte, their skills as the Somerville and Ross writing duo were wide-ranging.

Their talents extended to their correspondence, and the voices of these irrepressible, talented Women of Letters emerges in their dispatches to Lady Gregory, their literary agent, James Pinker – and to each other.

Recorded at the National Library of Ireland on 30 April 2018.

Our theme tune is Dream of the forest (jazzy mix) by articom (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/articom/61177

Featured image is from page 159 of 'Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. By the authors of “An Irish Cousin” [i.e. Edith Œ. Somerville and “Martin Ross,” i.e. Violet Martin]. Illustrated by W. W. Russell, from sketches by Edith Œ. Somerville. Image courtesy of British Library https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11303649384

Welcome to the Dublin City Libraries and Archives podcast. Our new season looks back at Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, where we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This wonderful anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. While the events planned for this year’s Dublin: One City, One Book are postponed, we encourage you to enjoy this year's choice Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey, available electronically on Libraries Ireland’s BorrowBox app, and in libraries and bookshops when they reopen, and to listen back on this podcast.

In this 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 – followed by a discussion with the authors, chaired by Catherine Dunne.

Recorded at the New Theatre on Saturday 7 April 2018.

A talk by Cormac Moore looking at the history of this local Fairview business as it celebrates 100 years in business in 2017.

Started by Elias Edge (Senior) who was born in 1872 the history of this neighborhood hardware shop is also the history of the area. Cormac brings that history to life as he discusses the floods, bombings, escaped lions and further floods which shaped Fairview over the last 100 years.

If you want to learn more you might like to check out the following:

The bombing of Dublin's North Strand by Kevin C. Kearns. http://bit.ly/2sdpU7p

Fortune's wheel : The life and legacy of the Fairview lion tamer. A dvd directed by Joe Lee http://bit.ly/2knnnUO

You can also find historic photographs of Fairview on our digital repository and images of the North Strand Bombing on our online gallery: http://bit.ly/2Lt4mg8

Recorded at the 2017 Dublin Festival of History. http://dublinfestivalofhistory.ie

Cormac is part of the Historian in Residence team (Dublin City Council) for the North Central Area. https://twitter.com/DubHistorians

Additional research by Beverly Edge.

In “Women’s Voices 1914-1918” we read from some archival sources from Dublin City Library and Archive to highlight four Irish women whose lives were impacted by the First World War in very different ways.

The four women featured are Anna Haslam, Nora Guilfoyle, Monica Roberts and Maeve Cavanagh.

Part of a new exhibition by Dublin City Archives entitled “Doing their bit” Irish Women and the First World War. On display at Dublin City Library and Archive until the end of April 2018.

Dr Brian Hanley, author and historian looks at Communism in Ireland during the period 1917-1937

Part of a series of lunchtime talks at Dublin City Hall curated by Francis Devine and organised by Dublin City Library & Archive, to commemorate the Russian Revolution of 1917. Courtesy of History.com

Recorded at Dublin City Hall on 17 October 2017.

Donal Fallon, Historian-in-Residence, Dublin City Council looks at the Irish response to the Russian Revolution.

Part of a series of lunchtime talks at Dublin City Hall curated by Francis Devine to commemorate the Russian Revolution of 1917. Courtesy of History.com

Series curated by Francis Devine. Organised by Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street Dublin 2

Recorded at Dublin City Hall on 10 October 2017.

The Conniving House tavern, long since forgotten, opened in 1725. On the water not far from where Sandymount Green is now, it is the cultural and geographical starting point for this lecture on the lively interaction of poetic and musical cultures in eighteenth-century Dublin. The only verbal account that we have of that venue comes from Life of John Buncle, esq. by Thomas Amory, who heard there the famous Larry Grogan playing the pipes while Jack Lattin, ‘the most agreeable of companions’, played matchlessly on the fiddle. Other writers of the period, such as Laurence Whyte and Charles Coffey, recorded an energetic native musical culture. This lecture explores a fascinating moment in the history of Dublin’s poetical and musical cultures, one which yields several compelling instances of cross-cultural connivance.

The 21st Annual Sir John T. Gilbert Lecture, was given by Dr Michael Griffin, University of Limerick at the Dublin City Library and Archive on Wednesday, 24 January 2018.

Cathy Scuffil, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, looks at the history of William Spence Engineering Works Cork Street established in 1856.

Recorded on the 24 November 2017 at Dublin City Library and Archive as part of Explore Your Archive 2017.