FICTION AT THE FRIARY AND ON CAMPUS
We present a series of nine programmes featuring authors reading and being interviewed on location in UCC, as well as invited guest authors and open mic readers at Fiction at the Friary, a regular fiction event held in Cork City. The producers are Kieran Hurley, Station Manager of UCC 98.3 FM, JP Quinn, Head of UCC Visitor’s Centre, and authors Danielle McLaughlin and Madeleine D’Arcy. Music is by Nick Kelly.
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Episodes
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
On Campus: Eimear Ryan
FATF Author: Andrea Carter
Open Mic: Susan Lanigan, Mona Lynch, Elaine Desmond.
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
On Campus: Danielle McLaughlin
FATF Author: Neil Hegarty
Open Mic: Niamh Bagnell, John Mee, Lourdes Mackey.
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
On Campus: Madeleine D’Arcy, author of short story collection Waiting For the Bullet.
FATF Author: Elisabeth Reapy, author of the novels Red Dirt and Skin.
Open Mic Deirdre Kingston, Kevin Power.
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
On Campus: Sarah Harte
FATF Author: Eibhear Walshe
Open Mic: Mary Rose McCarthy, Kate Barry
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
On Campus: Catherine Kirwan author of debut crime novel Darkest Truth (January 2019, Century Arrow, Penguin UK).
FATF Guest Author: Anne Griffin
Open Mic: Noelle Kelly-Trindles, Brian Keane
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
On Campus: William Wall
FATF Guest Author: Elizabeth Rose Murray
Open Mic: Deirdre Crowley, Mary O’Connell
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
On Campus: Tadhg Coakley
FATF Guest: Author Ethel Rohan
Open Mic Fiona Whyte, Lisa Sedgewick.
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
This programme features Mary Morrissy on Campus. FormerlyAssociate Director in the School of English at University College, Cork, Mary is an award-winning Irish novelist and short story writer. She is the author of three novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey, and two collections of short stories, A Lazy Eye and Prosperity Drive.
The guest author at Fiction at the Friary is John O’Donnell, award-winning poet and fiction writer, whose debut short story collection, Almost the Same Blue, was published by Doire Press in 2019.
The Open Mic reader is Donal Moloney.
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
This programme features Conal Creedon on Campus. Conal is an internationally renowned Cork novelist, short story writer, playwright and broadcasterand served as writer in residence at UCC from 2016 to 2017. His most recent novel is Begotten, Not Made (2018).
Niamh Boyce is the featured guest author at Fiction at the Friary. Her debut novel The Herbalist Here she reads from her second novel Her Kind, which tells the story of Ireland’s first witchcraft trial.
The Open Mic readers are Conor McManus, Oonagh Montague and Laura McKenna.