Words in the Air

This episode of the Irish Writers Centre literary podcast brings to you the audio from our 4th Climate Writing Session this year, supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and features Climate Fiction writers Caoilinn Hughes speaking to Roz Dineen and is moderated by Irish Writers Centre Programming and Communicatior Coordinator, Ezra Maloney. This was recorded on 12 August 2026.

This episode of the Irish Writers Centre literary podcast features an interview with novelist, Rosemary Hennigan, by podcaster, journalist and chair of the Board of the Irish Writers Centre, Breda Brown.

This episode of the Irish Writers Centre literary podcast is called An Island of Many Nations and features Cauvery Madhavan, Melatu Uche Okorie, Amy Abdullah Barry, Nandi Jola, Rafael Mendes, Suad Aldarra, Ciara Ni E and Gustav Parker Hibbett taking about their writing journey and reading extracts from their novels and poetry collections and celebrates the diversity of voices on the island today....

This epsiode of the Irish Writers Centre literary podcast features writers Katherine O'Donnell and Rosamund Taylor talking about their recent books as part of Pride Month 2026. We hope you enjoy.

This month's episode of the literary podcast from the Irish Writers Centre features the first of our Climate Writing Session for 2026. The conversation (recorded as part of our April Climate Writing webinar) features Cassia Gaiden Gilmartin, editor of Channel magazine and Aoife Hammond, from Queer Sheds in County Clare. It is hosted by the Programming and Communications Co-Ordinator of the Iri...

This month's episode of the literary podast from the Irish Writers Centre features Booker Prize winning novelist, John Banville in conversation with his friend, writer and filmmaker, Neil Jordan. This frank conversaton on literaure and legacy was recorded in 2025 as part of Dublin, One City, Many Stories, the video series produced in association with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and shot b...

The second episode of the Irish Writers Centre's literary podcast, Words in the Air, features Aoife Barry chatting to writers Kevin Curran, Olivia Fitzsimons, Victoria Kennefick and Emmet Kirwan. This Writers Roundtable conversation includes all aspects of the writers journey, from first steps, to early publications, finding your community and the the continuing call of creation. Recorded in J...

This first episode of the Irish Writers Centre's literary podcast, Words in the Air, features Professor Joseph O'Connor talks to Madeleine Keane about growing up in Dun Laoghaire and how the coastline inspired his early writing. Recorded in May 2025, at the DLR Lexicon Library and The James Joyce Tower Museum Sandycove, Dublin as part of the video series, Dublin, One City, Many Stories. Yo...