Kevin Barry Reading "Fjord of Killary" + Q&A at Wordstock PDX 10.5.13

( T. Dean - G. Wardwell)
("I started thinking of old friends I hadn't seen in a long time.  They'd been pirates, dealers, and scam artists back in Boston and New York in the 70's and early 80's.  Most had been smart enough to retreat from those lives and to escape to places less frantic - Maine, New Hampshire, Nova Scotia - lucky to be alive and out of jail.  I wondered what their children knew about all that, and I thought about the ones who hadn't made those changes, and didn't make it this far")
-- G. Wardwell

Ebbets Field

Writers - T. Dean & G. Wardwell)
(Another gorgeous lyric by George Wardwell. When I first laid eyes on these words, I knew a song would soon be at my door.)

Change Of Heart

A talk by Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD, to accompany the launch of the digital Kevin Barry Archive in the UCD Digital Library. 

The Digital Kevin Barry Collection can be viewed at:
The UCD Digital Library http://digital.ucd.ie/
The Kevin Barry Papers http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:39106
The Papers of the Kevin Barry Memorial Committee http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:38697

Further information and a brief biography of Kevin Barry by Prof. Ferriter can be viewed at http://www.ucd.ie/library/finding_information/digital/kevinbarry/

Recorded by UCD Media Services, December 11th 2015.

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Diarmaid Ferriter - Kevin Barry and his legacy

Spring has sprung, so we're going down the rabbit hole with Kevin Barry, who joins us this month to talk about Beatlebone, his wonderful novel about a very famous John's quest to reach a tiny island that he owns in Clew Bay, off the West Coast of Ireland. Inspired by his trip, our theme is about all those literary escapes to the ends of the earth and to the centre of the mind. We'll be following that elusive rabbit's fluffy tail and lighting out for the territory with Huck Finn, breaking out of jail with the Count of Monte Cristo, and getting lost in all kids of mythical adventures. Come along for the ride. 

Literary Friction - Down The Rabbit Hole with Kevin Barry

A selection of sounds and music created and used for Brokencrow's Dark Kingdom, Granary Theatre, June 2016. It was an adaptation of two Kevin Barry short stories (The Winter Songs, Ernestine and Kit). This comprises about a third of the material used in the show. It was a real hair pulling pleasure.

Dark Kingdom Medley

MAE ASWELL and JOE ANDREWS are joined by comic KEVIN BARRY -- discussions include just what kind of show GOING COMMANDO! is, anyway; Joe's lust for Betty White and his taste in "women" who could use a little Rock Star 'n' Coke, Beer Facts, women are not that funny(!?), what men notice about women, why eyes are in the front of the head, Mad Men's 10 Rules! Mae's James Brown impression! Vuvuzuelas and Alligators! (sounds like a party to me)

The Block Radio's Album

GOING COMMANDO! -w- MAE ASWELL - 7-14-10

In this episode of the Wigtown Book Festival podcast we catch up with poet Nadine Aisha Jassat and novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry. 

Nadine Aisha Jassat talks about her unique experience of lockdown as she was taking part in the Edinburgh International Book Festival's Outriders Africa project. She also discusses her debut collection, Let Me Tell You This, and talks about a future piece of work which she is writing as part of her Scottish Book Trust New Writer's Award.

Longlisted for last year's Booker Prize, Kevin Barry first attended the Wigtown Book Festival in 2012. He chats to Peggy about that experience, as well as telling us about the genesis of Night Boat to Tangier and giving us a flavour of what to expect from his forthcoming collection of short stories That Old Country Music.

Presented by Peggy Hughes. Incidental music by Ragland.

Wigtown: Nadine Aisha Jassat and Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry is an award winning Irish author. Here he reads and excerpt from a short story he wrote about a poet who buys a hotel by the coast of Kilroy Fjord - yes Ireland has a fjord, just the one we're not show offs.

Kevin Barry, Reading To Students In UCD School Of English, Drama, Film And Creative Writing, 2017

The Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking big questions about the nature of writing itself.

Kevin is a multiple award-winning writer whose most recent book, Night Boat to Tangier, was published in 2019. Here, he sits down with Sebastian via video chat to puzzle out some of the deeper questions about the art of writing, including the influence of early family life on one's writing, lyricism in prose, and how and why a writer should have a good self-care routine.

What The Hell/Heaven Are We Doing - 18. Kevin Barry

GOING COMMANDO! with Mae Aswell

Remove the Undergarments of Your Mind with Existential Radio

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon is the national agency for funding, developing and promoting the arts in Ireland.

A monthly conversation about books and ideas on NTS Radio hosted by friends Carrie Plitt, a literary agent, and Octavia Bright, a writer and academic. Each show features an author interview, book recommendations, lively discussion and a little music too, all built around a related theme - anything from the novella to race to masculinity. Listen live on NTS Radio www.nts.live

History Hub. is based at the School of History, University College Dublin, Ireland. Our ambition is to make the most recent academic research available on-line to everyone who loves history. 

Our podcasts feature historians talking about a whole range of subjects from medieval to modern history, both Irish and international. Our From the Archives section showcases original historical documents held in the Archive at UCD. We also have a History and Policy section where historians contribute to current policy debates.

Podcasting by https://soundcloud.com/real-smart-media

Putting a little festival spirit into lockdown life, we run the vibrant Wigtown Book Festival and develop the literary and cultural wealth of Scotland's National Book Town and its region.

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