In this episode of The Dublin Review Podcast, Aingeala Flannery talks to Rory Gleeson about an essay he wrote called The chase, which appears in NUMBER 85, the WINTER 2021-2022 issue of the Review. Rory Gleeson is from Dublin. He is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. His debut novel Rockadoon Shore was published in 2017. He was the 2019 Burgess Writing Fellow at The University of Manchester, and was a recipient of a Literature Bursary from Arts Council Ireland in 2020.

CONVERSATIONS is an annual event where we invite contributors to the magazine to discuss their work. The theme for Conversations 2021 is Beginnings. Due to the Covid pandemic, this year’s event takes the form of a special edition Dublin Review podcast in which Aingeala Flannery is joined by four recent contributors to the magazine.

Brian Dillon is a writer, critic and essayist from Dublin. He has published seven books, including Essayism, Suppose A Sentence, and In The Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction in 2005. Brian lives in London and has been contributing non-fiction to The Dublin Review since 2003.

Tim MacGabhann is from County Kilkenny, but has been living in Mexico since 2013. He is a journalist, short story writer, poet and novelist. His debut novel Call Him Mine was published in 2019. The follow up How to be Nowhere came out in 2020. Tim has been contributing to The Dublin Review since 2019.

Chetna Maroo is a short story writer and novelist, whose fiction debut Western Lane will be published in Spring 2023. She began contributing to The Dublin Review in 2020, when her short story ‘Shoreline’ appeared in Number 79 of the magazine.

Ayşegül Savaş is a novelist, short story writer and essayist who grew up in London, Copenhagen and Istanbul. Her debut novel, Walking on the Ceiling, was published in 2019. Her second novel, White on White will be published in early 2022. She has been contributing to The Dublin Review since 2019.

In this episode of The Dublin Review Podcast, Aingeala Flannery talks to Eimear Ryan about a short story she wrote called 'The arborist', which was published in the Summer 2016 issue of The Dublin Review. Eimear Ryan is from County Tipperary. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Winter Papers and The Stinging Fly. She is co-founder of the literary journal Banshee and its publishing imprint, Banshee Press. Eimear’s debut novel Holding Her Breath was published by Penguin Sandycove earlier this year. She is the 2021 Writer in Residence at University College Cork. Eimear has been contributing to The Dublin Review since 2014.

In this episode of The Dublin Review Podcast, Aingeala Flannery talks to Lia Mills about an essay she wrote called Boarders, which appeared in NUMBER 21, the WINTER 2005 issue of The Dublin Review. Lia Mills is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist from Dublin. Her first novel Another Alice was published in 1996. She has since published two other novels: Nothing Simple (2005) and Fallen (2014). In 2006, Lia wrote a journal piece called The crab for The Dublin Review about being diagnosed and treated for oral cancer, she went on to write a memoir on the subject called In Your Face. Lia has been contributing to The Dublin Review since 2005.

In this episode of The Dublin Review Podcast, Aingeala Flannery talks to Niamh Campbell about a story she wrote called Flesh Light, which was published in NUMBER 68, the Autumn 2017 issue of the Review. Niamh Campbell is from Dublin. She was awarded a Next Generation literary bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland, and annual literature bursaries in 2018 and 2019. She was the winner of the 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award for her story Love Many, which was originally published in The Dublin Review. Her debut novel This Happy was published last year (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). This year, 2021, she is the Arts Council Writer in Residence at University College Dublin.

In this episode of The Dublin Review Podcast, Aingeala Flannery talks to Mark O’Connell about an essay he wrote called Self Portrait in Five Fears, which appeared in The Dublin Review NUMBER 52 | AUTUMN 2013. Mark O’Connell is a writer from Kilkenny. His non-fiction debut To Be A Machine won the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2019. His second book Notes From An Apocalypse was published by Granta in 2020. He has been contributing to The Dublin Review since 2012.

In this episode of The Dublin Review Podcast, Aingeala Flannery talks to Sarah Gilmartin about her story Bring it home, which was published in NUMBER 81, the Winter 2020 issue of The Dublin Review.  Sarah Gilmartin is a writer from Limerick. Her stories have been listed for the Seán Ó Faoláin, New Irish Writing, and Francis MacManus Awards. She received a Literary Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland in both 2020 and 2021. Her debut novel Dinner Party will be published by Pushkin Press in September 2021. This podcast was recorded in May 2021. 

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of The Dublin Review, its annual Conversations event took the form of a special live broadcast on RTÉ Radio One's flagship arts programme Arena on Tuesday 24 November, 2020.  The show featured the Review's editor Brendan Barrington, along with contributors Anne Enright, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Colm Tóibín, and Sarah Gilmartin in conversation with Seán Rocks. You can listen back to the show here, with thanks to RTÉ Radio One and Arena.

In this episode of The Dublin Review Podcast, Aingeala Flannery talks to Doireann Ní Ghríofa about an essay she wrote called The Dissection Room, which first appeared in NUMBER 73, the WINTER 2018 issue of The Dublin Review. Doireann writes in English and Irish, she has published six collections of poetry. In 2016, she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. She is a member of Aosdána. In August 2020, Tramp Press published her debut collection of prose called A Ghost in the Throat.

In this episode of the Dublin Review Podcast, we're talking to journalist and essayist Patrick Freyne, who reads Brain Fever, an essay he published in The Dublin Review  NUMBER 74 | SPRING 2019. He tells Aingeala Flannery what inspired him to write the piece.