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Interview with Colm Tóibín out now ..

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83: Colm Tóibín, A Ship in Full Sail - Books for Breakfast
In this episode we invite Colm Tóibín to the breakfast table to discuss his new book A Ship in Full Sail: The Laureate Lectures and Other Writings. The book collects the blogs he wrote during his term...
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September 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Out now, we talk to Sarah Moss about her latest novel and discover what her Toaster Challenge choice is. Coffee time!
80: Sarah Moss on Ripeness - Books for Breakfast
On this episode we drop in to the Carlow University Pittsburgh MFA summer programme in Trinity College, Dublin to interview Sarah Moss about her latest novel, Ripeness. 'Tender and rueful . . . S...
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June 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Mary O'Donnell reviews Mary O'Malley, Patrick Holloway, Eilish Martin and a new anthology og young poets edited by Leanne Quinne for Dedalus Press: Poetry from Ireland. Lots of coffee needed ...
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77: Mary O’Donnell on new fiction and poetry - Books for Breakfast
On this episode we talk to poet novelist and critic Mary O’Donnell about Mary O’Malley’s The Shark Nursery, Patrick Holloway’s The Language of Remembering,  ! All’ ARME /? by Eilish Martin a...
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April 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Out now: Pat Boran on his latest collection, Hedge School
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76: Pat Boran on Hedge School - Books for Breakfast
Finding inspiration in the local and near at had, attentive to climate concern and global unrest, to home and homeless, belonging and welcome, concern and global and welcome – on today’s episode we ta...
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April 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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A clip from tomorrow's interview with Pat Boran
April 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Join us as we talk to John Banville and Doris Kareva at the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation.
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74: John Banville and Doris Kareva - Books for Breakfast
Was 1950s Dublin really a place of murder and intrigue? On today’s show we travel to the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation  in Dublin’s Fenian Street to talk to novelist John B...
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March 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Out on Thursday, 2 writers recorded in the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation
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March 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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We talk to Adrian Frazier about John Montague's life and work.
73: John Montague: A Poet's Life - Books for Breakfast
How much do we need to know about a writer's life? How does the life impinge on the work? What is the human price of art? In this episode we talk to biographer Adrian Frazier about John Montague: A Po...
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February 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Our interview with Andrew Miller about his latest novel The Land in Winter is out now
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72: Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter - Books for Breakfast
In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out ...
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February 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Back on Thursday with an interview with Andrew Miller about his excellent new novel The Land in Winter ...
February 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone! Here’s our last episode of the year, including some highlights from 2024.

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71: Keith Payne builds a boat and translates Luisa Castro; 2024 highlights - Books for Breakfast
On today’s show, the last of 2024, we talk to Keith Payne about his recent  boat building and poem writing project. Currachs and naomhógs are among the only sea craft built upside down, and the e...
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December 31, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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Out today…
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70: Books of the Year with Adam Wyeth and Henrietta McKervey - Books for Breakfast
Join us for a lively discussion of some of the best books published this year. At the breakfast table to discuss their poetry and fiction choices are poet Adam Wyeth and novelist Henrietta McKervey. P...
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December 19, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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We talk to Oksana Maksymchuk whose Still City: Diary of an Invasion, published by Carcanet Press, came out this year. Oksana is also translator and co editor of Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine. We caught up with Oksana at Books Upstairs in Dublin.
68: Oksana Makysmchuk, Still City: Diary of an Invasion - Books for Breakfast
As we write it is 1002 days since the fullscale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, but over ten years since Putin first seized Crimea and sponsored insurrection in the Donbas. And even longer that he has ...
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November 21, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Latest episode of Books for Breakfast, featuring an interview with Christine Dwyer Hickey whose new novel Our London Lives is published today
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65: Christine Dwyer Hickey, Alba de Cespedes, Catullus - Books for Breakfast
We're back from the summer break and in conversation with Christine Dwyer Hickey, who was the subject of our very first Books for Breakfast podcast. This time around we're talking to her about her lat...
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September 5, 2024 at 10:13 AM