Notice that I am experimenting with Divshare, the embedding system is a lot easier than with podcastpeople.com, the site I have stored most previous audio on.

He staged a big giveaway of images at the close of his exhibition and I asked him to explain to me the thinking behind his approach.

Moochin

The hubbub in the background is her friends drinking champagne to mark her prize and graduation, which neatly coincide.

Her introduction acknowledges the inspiration of Sinead Morrissey.

County Down poet Grainne Tobin read from her new collection The Nervous Flyer’s Companion at the Down Arts Centre as part of a sequence of readings organised by Write Down!

Garrett is from Donegal and to someone who knows the area, Ballydog bears a striking resemblance the fishing port of Killybegs.

What prompted Garrett to write for young people?

The Belfast actor Derek Halligan says you can’t always pitch it right for a job interview.

Muldoon went on to do a very strange presentation in which he first reflected on the use of fish images in sexually themed Irish poems and then delivered an account of how his sister had been sexually exploited by a catholic priest. From there he called on the Irish government to stand up to the bishops and announce that the days of Canon Law in Ireland were over.
I interviewed him afterwards for the Sunday Sequence programme. That interview was broadcast in reduced form, as these always are, but here is the full exchange.

The novelist Sheena Wilkinson read from her forthcoming book Taking Flight, at a Write! Down reading session in the Downpatrick Arts Centre on Sunday February 28.