The Quills And The Quarter Podcast: The Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Literary Festival 2025

Welcome to the final episode of the Quills and the Quarter podcast for the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Literary Festival2025,  which this year is celebrating its 10th anniversary. For this special closing conversation, I was joined by my co-host, poet and writer Denise Blake, as we sat down with award-winning journalist and author Kathy Donaghy. It’s a conversation full of humour, heart, and ins...

In this episode, my co-host Phil Dalton and I are joined by one of Donegal’s best-known voices — writer, broadcaster, journalist, short story writer, poet, Bluegrass festival MC, and all-round raconteur, Frank Galligan. As with all of our guests this year, we put our set of five thought-provoking questions to Frank, but as you’ll hear, his answers come wrapped in wit, wisdom, and a fair dose of mi...

This year we are celebrating the festival’s 10th anniversary and we’re really looking forward to the biggest and best ever line up of festival events taking place between the 16th & 19th of October 2025. It’s a late summer Friday evening in Letterkenny —  the town is buzzing, the astro pitches are alive with shouts and laughter, and traffic is backed up all the way to the Cathedral ! That’s th...

I’m joined this time on the podcast by Kieran Kelly — teacher,playwright, historian, and a man with an eye for the quirks of both the past and the present. Poet and author Denise Blake also joins me for the first time as my co-host We recorded today’s conversation on a gloriouslate-summer evening in the beautiful and historic Conwal Parish Church — the perfect setting for stories, history, and a f...

Welcome to Quills and the Quarter , the official podcast of the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Literary Festival 2025.This year is extra special – it’s the 10th anniversary of the festival, and to celebrate we’re trying something a little different. Across the series, I’m joined by a co-host for each episode,  long time Letterkenny residents, Phil Dalton and Denise Blake. We’ll be asking each of ou...