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All about Ireland! A panel with Dermot Bolger and Roy Foster. And Roddy Doyle reads from his Booker Prize-winning novel Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha

Year: 1994
Names: Bolger, Dermot, 1959-, Doyle, Roddy, 1958-, Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949-, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description:

A reading by Roddy Doyle, from his book Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha.. Also - a discussion with writer and editor Dermot Bolger and historian Roy Foster about the myths and changes in Irish literature.

Type: Sound recording non-musical

Where Does Poetry Come From?: From Dublin, a Griffin Poetry Prize panel

Year: 2005
Names: Borson, Roo, 1952-, Dorgan, Theo, Forché, Carolyn, Simic, Charles, 1938-2023, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description:

From the Dublin Writers Festival - Host Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the winners of this year's Griffin Poetry Prize, Roo Borson and Charles Simic, along with American poet Carolyn Forché and Irish poet Theo Dorgan about the question "Where Does Poetry Come From?"

Type: Sound recording non-musical

A "Bloomsday" Panel discussions on ideas of Home and Away, with Irish writers Michael Collins, Claire Keegan, Colum McCann and Nuala O'Faolain

Year: 2003
Names: Collins, Michael, 1964-, Keegan, Claire, McCann, Colum, 1965-, O'Faolain, Nuala, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description:

In honour of Bloomsday (June 16th), the day of James Joyce's Ulysses, Eleanor Wachtel talks to four Irish writers - Michael Collins, Claire Keegan, Colum McCann and Nuala O'Faolain - on ideas of home and away. Recorded at the Manulife Literary Arts Festival in Victoria, B.C.

Type: Sound recording non-musical

Four hundred years of Irish poetry and prose, with Declan Kiberd

Year: 2001
Names: Kiberd, Declan, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description:

Eleanor Wachtel talks with Irish literary historian Declan Kiberd about his new book Irish Classics, which covers four hundred years of poetry and prose, from Gaelic bards to Joyce and Beckett.

Type: Sound recording non-musical