Podcaster in Residence - Episode 9 - The Reader - Adrian Crowley
Adrian Crowley This is the final episode in this podcast series The Reader with Zoë Comyns Podcaster in Residence at The National Library In each episode of this series a guest imagines a fictional ...
26 Jun 36min
Podcaster in Residence - Episode 8 - The Reader - Clara Kumagai
In this penultimate episode of The Reader Podcaster in Residence Zoë Comyns chats to writer Clara Kumagai about botanical drawings of Manitoban plants, snakes and ecological crisis. Clara Kumagai i...
26 Jun 41min
Podcaster in Residence - Episode 7 - The Natural History of Cage Birds - Adrian Duncan
In this episode Zoë has delved into the NLI collection to find a book that brings together a number of interests for writer Adrian Duncan: engineering, Victorian tables, the natural world and a link t...
5 Mar 31min
Podcaster in Residence - Episode 6 - An Cailín Bán - Nuala O'Connor
In this episode Zoë Comyns’ guest is writer Nuala O’Connor – they discuss writing historical fiction and specifically the case of An Cailín Bán – Ellen Hanley. An Cailín Bán/The Colleen Bawn was 15-y...
11 Feb 32min
Podcaster in Residence - Episode 5 - The Meteorites - Niamh O'Brien
In this episode Zoë Comyns and Niamh O’Brien discuss an article by EM Lindsay in a 1968 edition of the Irish Astronomical Journal which describes The Limerick Meteorites that fell in 1813 in the count...
12 Jan 31min
Podcaster in Residence - Episode 4 - Jan Carson
Jan Carson joins Podcaster in Residence Zoë Comyns to talk about photography and how images can open the door to fiction . Jan discusses her multitasking approach to reading, her grandmother’s photogr...
9 Des 202532min
Podcaster in Residence - Episode 3 - Brian Cleary
Unearthing Bram Stoker's lost short story Gibbet Hill at The National Library In this episode of The Reader Podcaster in Residence Zoë Comyns speaks to Brian Cleary. Cleary, who had taken time off fro...
29 Okt 202521min
