Books for Breakfast

By Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley

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Episodes: 62

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A podcast focussing on fiction and poetry hosted by poets and writers Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley. Also features the Toaster Challenge where guest writers are given the time it takes to make toast to talk about a book that has resonated with them. 


Episode Date
61: Paul Muldoon on his new book; Strokestown shortlisted poets
Apr 25, 2024
6O: Mary Costello on Barcelona
Apr 04, 2024
59: Victoria Kennefick on Egg/Shell
Mar 14, 2024
58: Fleur Adcock, Kerry Hardie and Aoife Lyall
Feb 29, 2024
57: Remembering Philip Casey
Feb 14, 2024
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Jan 02, 2024
56: Summer is icumen in; TCD Writer Fellow James Harpur
Jun 15, 2023
55: Injury Time; A New Basho
Mar 09, 2023
54: New Year's Eve 2022 Special
Dec 31, 2022
53: Interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Nov 28, 2022
52: IMRAM 2022; Mark Roper's Beyond Stillness
Nov 10, 2022
51: Judith Mok: The State of Dark
Oct 27, 2022
50: Love poems for today: a new anthology from Dedalus
Oct 13, 2022
49: Critic at Large: Kevin Power's The Written World
Jun 09, 2022
48: Two Salmon Poets; Trump Rant
May 12, 2022
47: Leland Bardwell at 100
Apr 28, 2022
46: Colm Tóibín talks about Vinegar Hill
Apr 07, 2022
45: Wendy Erskine; Ukrainian poetry
Mar 24, 2022
44: Paul Lynch's The Black Snow; John McAuliffe on his Selected Poems and Wong May
Mar 10, 2022
43: Gabriel Byne: on Walking with Ghosts
Feb 24, 2022
42 : Poetry, Memory and the Party: Thomas McCarthy Tells All
Feb 10, 2022
41: Thomas Kinsella 1928-2021; breakfast highlights of 2021
Dec 24, 2021
40: Claire Keegan on Small Things Like These
Dec 09, 2021
39: New poetry from Eleanor Hooker, Amanda Bell
Nov 25, 2021
38: Imram 2021; Alannah Hopkin on A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins
Nov 11, 2021
37: Short story special with John MacKenna and Madeleine D'Arcy
Oct 28, 2021
36: Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Éilis Ní Dhuibhne and Catherine Dunne
Oct 14, 2021
35: 30 Years of the Irish Writers Centre; Kent Haruf
Sep 29, 2021
34: New books; Lucia Berlin; Iain Crichton Smith
Sep 16, 2021
33: Intimate City: Dublin essays, Aoife Lyall on Mother Nature; A Line Made by Walking
Jul 08, 2021
32: Sinéad O'Connor's Rememberings, Victoria Kennefick, Sharon Olds
Jun 24, 2021
31: Louise Kennedy, Penelope Shuttle, Denise Levertov
Jun 10, 2021
30: Evelyn Conlon, The Examined Life, Grace Paley
May 27, 2021
29: Moya Cannon's Collected, The Best Address in Town, Nan Shepherd
May 13, 2021
28: Philip Ó Ceallaigh's Trouble; in Prague with Justin Quinn; Edith Templeton
Apr 29, 2021
27: A Gap in the Clouds: James Hadley and Nell Regan; haiku and senryu from Grant Caldwell; Hamsun's Hunger
Apr 15, 2021
26: Mountains to Sea podcast audio edition with Laura McKenna and Conor O'Callaghan
Apr 01, 2021
25: Apocalypse now; Una Mannion on A Crooked Tree; stories from the end of the world
Mar 18, 2021
24: Shirley Hazzard; Poetry and Money; Leeanne Quinn; the last of the Soviets
Mar 04, 2021
23: 40 Years of Salmon Poetry; Bachelard's images; Cathy Belton
Feb 18, 2021
22: New and recent poetry; Michael O'Loughlin's Liberty Hall; in search of lost gods
Feb 04, 2021
21: Fiction for 2021; Berryman's letters; African American poetry
Jan 21, 2021
20: Christmas Special: Paula Meehan, Tara Bergin, Pessoa's disquiet, Dublin's 20th century buildings, new poems.
Dec 17, 2020
19: IMRAM's magical films; forging Dracula with Henrietta McKervey
Dec 03, 2020
18: Poems for Winter; Kathleen MacMahon, Helen Garner.
Nov 19, 2020
17: Fuggedaboutit: dictionaries and languages; on the wild side with Seán Lysaght and Dara McAnulty
Nov 05, 2020
16: Hilary Mantel: Giants and Ghosts; Books for Younger Readers
Oct 29, 2020
15: Shirts for books; Kerry Hardie; The Radetzky March
Oct 22, 2020
14: Derek Mahon, Louise Glück, The Great Hunger; Neil Hegarty
Oct 15, 2020
13: The latest Ferrante; Mary O’Donnell; the poem that wouldn’t go away
Oct 08, 2020
12: The other Elizabeth Taylor; Sarah Bannan; Lee Harwood
Oct 01, 2020
11: Owen Roe: An actor calls; 32 Words for Field
Sep 24, 2020
10: Zadie Smith; Caitriona Lally: Driving on Eggshells; Michael Hartnett
Sep 17, 2020
9: Death and Nightingales; Joe Woods; Kathleen Jamie's Scots accent of the mind
Sep 10, 2020
8: Birdcage Walk; Olivia O'Leary; A Legendary Dinner
Sep 03, 2020
7: What You Don't Want to Know; Adam Wyeth; Coming Close to Charles Simic
Aug 27, 2020
6: Country Pursuits, Marianne Lee's A Quiet Tide, Poetry from Sweden
Aug 20, 2020
5: The Art of Seeing, Short Stories, Poetry and Place
Aug 13, 2020
4: Cities, languages, elegies; Philip Davison
Aug 06, 2020
3: Stalled festivals, Alice Lyons and missing O's, kings and doors
Jul 30, 2020
2: Short poems and Spies
Jul 22, 2020
1: Hamnet, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Pearse Hutchinson
Jul 16, 2020