Point Of View

This interview is with author Lisa Harding, focusing on her new novel 'The Wildlings', set for release at the end of April 2025. The book is described as dark academia, packed with themes of cruelty, control, and the complex dynamics of friendships. Set in a Trinity College-inspired environment, 'The Wildlings' is projected to be a summer hit. The conversation covers Harding's...

Victoria Kennefick  grew up in Cork and lives in Kerry. Her debut collection,  Eat or We Both Starve  (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, and the Butler Literary Prize. She was the UCD/Arts...

Carlo Gebler has written many novels, along with short stories, plays, memoirs, essays, reviews, biographies and works of narrative history.  As the son of the grande dame of Irish letters Edna O Brien and the writer Ernest Gebler , Carlo has  impeccable literary pedigree, as a lecturer in Trinity College Dublin he has opened the windows of wonder to a legion of students by imparting his knowledge...

On this episode of Point of View I talk to Mia Levitin,a London based cultural and literary critic and the author of The Future of Seduction, which looks at the multifaceted ways in which phones and tech have changed romance, Mia reads beautifully from the introductory chapter to give a flavour of the book. She also talks about All Fours by Miranda July, and the changing and empowering depiction o...

Liz Nugent is a writer of award-winning psychological suspense novels Unravelling Oliver (2014) , Lying in Wait (2016), Skin Deep (2018), [Our] Little Cruelties (2020) and Strange Sally Diamond (2023). All five books topped the Irish bestsellers list and Liz has won multiple literary awards. We chat about her first foray into publishing as a child in the comic Bunty, Liz recounts great anecdotes f...

I was so excited to talk to Rachel Cusk this week about her new book Parade , just published by Faber, a novel that surges past the limits of identity, character and plot to render insights about art family, morality and gender, I've been a devotee of Rachel's since 1994 when I devoured Saving Agnes in one sitting ,  and knew I'd found a singular new female writer. Rachel Cusk is the a...

On this episode I talk to Hilda Burke about her career in integrated psychotherapy, her book The Phone Addiction Workbook, how apps becoming "sticky" became lures for our attention, and how we are now mined as data by Big Tech ...

n this episode of Point of View I have the great privilege of talking to Irish writer Nuala O'Connor, who is a prolific novelist, short story writer and poet, her latest and sixth novel 'Seaborne,' based on the life of 18th-century Irish pirate Anne Bonny, about whom much fake, fictional, fantastical stuff was written which gave Nuala  a lot of freedom to invent.'  Nuala has a tale...

In this episode of Point of View, Jennifer Egan eloquently discusses her work and her process, she is the master of Point of View in the novel, transending conventional methods of story telling, serialising story telling, and using devices in the novel to show multiple points of view, a chat that ranges from the Sopranos to Emily Dickinson, a must listen for all lovers of fiction of all genres....

In this episode Daragh talks about his acting career, which took him from Limerick to London, Los Angeles and Yalta, the making of Withnail and I and working with Marlon Brando in West Cork...

On this week's episode of Point of View with me Anne O Neill, I talk to Daragh O Malley the  Irish actor, director, and producer. O'Malley is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Patrick Harper in the series Sharpe (1993–2009) starring with Sean Bean although O'Malley has appeared in a number of other films, major television shows, and stage productions throughout his career in the...

Caroline Magennis joins me to discuss her new book Harpy:A Manifesto for Childfree Women, she is so refreshingly honest and humourous in her discussion on this devisive subject . Vogue magazine's rave review..'Amid a flood of sensationalist headlines about declining birth rates, Caroline Magennis's Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women (Icon Books, £19) is a tonic: a tongue-in-cheek m...

🎙️ Listen to Anne O Neill talk to best selling author Kit De Waal about her scintillating life story , born in Birmingham in 1960 to an Irish mother and a Caribbean father Kit's remarkable trajectory from disenchanted youth to magistrate and mother and onwards to attaining literary success in her 50's with the publication of My Name is Leon,is an uplifting one told with Kit's northern...

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