Ep 40: Returning To Campus After Lockdown
In this (celebratory!) episode of The Nerve, Dr Jenny O’Connor is joined in studio by second year student Anthony Finn and third year students Aoife Manville and Katie Chance, who have returned to the...
7 Okt 202137min
Ep 39: Write by the Sea Festival with Lucy Moore
Welcome back to the first episode of The Nerve for the new semester. In this episode, Dr Jenny O’Connor speaks to Lucy Moore of the Write by the Sea Festival which normally takes place in Kilmore Quay...
15 Sep 202126min
Ep 38: Tomm Moore of Cartoon Saloon
In this episode of the podcast, Jenny speaks to Tomm Moore of Kilkenny-based animation studio Cartoon Saloon. Its most recent film, Wolfwalkers, is currently nominated for the 2021 Academy Awards for ...
15 Apr 202129min
Ep 37: Joanne McCarthy of The Waxed Lemon
In this episode, Jenny is joined by Joanne McCarthy, one of the co-founders of literary magazine, The Waxed Lemon. Joanne discusses the responses to the latest edition’s call for submission, offers ad...
25 Mars 202125min
Ep 36: John Patrick McHugh
In this episode of the podcast, Jenny chats to writer John Patrick McHugh, whose recent collection of short stories, Pure Gold, has received rave reviews from The Irish Times and Vanity Fair. Prior to...
11 Mars 202133min
Ep 35: Bernie McGill
Bernie McGill’s novel The Watch House was nominated in 2019 for the Ireland/European Prize for Literature and Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes nominated The Butterfly Cabinet as his novel of the ...
23 Feb 202144min
Ep 34: Royal Irish Academy Librarian, Barbara McCormack
In this season of episodes, Jenny conducts one-to-one interviews with people who are important to the Arts in Ireland in one way or another. This first episode features Barbara McCormack, the Academy ...
12 Feb 202126min
Ep 33: Christmas Recommendations
Ho ho ho! Five of the regular podcast hosts from WIT got together to record a joint episode recommending some books, TV programmes, films, podcasts and tech that you (or a loved one) might enjoy over ...
16 Dec 202042min
