Current Series

23rd June 2004 Listen 23/06/04  
The first programme features "The Racker" Peter Donnelly. Peter has performed on Bloomsday over the last several years, entertaining listeners with his form of Joycean word play, raggle taggle poems which he describes as 'racks'. In this programme he delves into his own fantasy vision of Molly Bloom.....

30th June 2004 Listen 30/06/04  
The second show in the series features Evelyn Conlon, who read her extracts of her story "Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour" to illustrate her own view of a modern Molly Bloom. 

7th July 2004 Listen 07/07/2004
Gavin Corbett is a regular contributor to RTE Radio's Sunday Miscellany and Fiction 15 programmes. His first novel, 'Innocence', was published last year by Simon and Schuster/ Townhouse. He works as a sub-editor. He lives in Dublin.

14th July 2004 Listen 14/07/2004
This week's programme features Dublin based travel writer Mary
Russell, who tells us about Molly's forgotten sister...

21st July 2004 Listen 21/07/2004
Ann Marie Horan is a performer and writer, who has written a one-woman play called "Nora Barnacle-Signora Joyce", and who most recently appeared as Nora in the TV Film "Imagining Joyce", which was shown on the Bloomsday Centenary on RTÉ.

28th July 2004 Listen 28/07/2004
This week's programme features Noel Monahan who has published four collections of poetry; Opposite Walls,1991; Snowfire; 1995; Curse of The Birds; 2000; and The Funeral Game, 2004, all with Salmon Poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous periodicals here and abroad and have been awarded several prizes including the prestigious Seacat National Poetry Award 2001. His play, Broken Cups, won the P.J. O'Connor RTE Radio Drama Award, 2001. In 2002 Noel received the ASTI Achievements Award for his contribution to literature in Ireland and abroad. Recently two of his plays were performed at Ramor Theatre: Exits and Entrances, performed by the students of St. Clare's College and Talking Within, directed by Padraig McIntyre and performed by Ramor Players. Noel Monahan was born in Granard, Co. Longford and is now living in Cavan.

4th August 2004 Listen 04/08/2004
This week's programme features Talking of Dreams, a script by Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe, read by the actress Maria Macdermottroe. Molly is in her mid-50s in present day Dublin, lying in bed and thinking aloud about her past life with her husband and the world that surrounds them both today, as multi-cultural Dublin merges with her reverie of the Irish countryside of her youth.

Gerald Dawe has published six collections of poetry, including The Morning Train and Lake Geneva. He was recently elected a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin where he teaches English. Maria Macdermottroe is a well-known and distinguished stage and film actress whose many roles include the part of Molly Ivors in John Huston's internationally recognised version of James Joyce's masterly short story,The Dead.

11th August 2004 Listen 11/08/2004
Joseph Woods was born in 1966 in Drogheda. He is currently Director of Poetry Ireland. In 2000 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award and in 2001 his first collection, Sailing to Hokkaido was published by Worple Press, UK. A second collection is forthcoming in Spring 2005.

18th August 2004 Listen 18/08/2004
Tonight poet Ian Duhig shares his impressions of Molly Bloom. Ian Duhig has written four books of poetry, the most recent being The Lammas Hireling (Picador 2003), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and shortlisted for the Forward Best Collection and T.S. Eliot Prizes. He has won Cholmondeley and Arts Council Writers Awards, the Forward Tolman Cunard Best Poem Prize once and the National Poetry Competition of Great Britain twice.

25th August 2004 Listen 25/08/2004
Tonight Professor Pat Couglan of UCC gives Dave McHugh her own thoughts and perceptions of Molly Bloom. Patricia Coughlan is a professor in the Dept. of English at UCC. She has published extensively on Irish literature in various periods, especially on 16th and 17th century writings about Ireland, as well as on Beckett. She takes a particular interest in the way women are represented in literature, and in women's writing; she has written essays about Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien and Peig Sayers, and has analysed women and femininity in Séamus  Heaney and John Montague's work.

1st September, 2004: Listen 01/09/2004
Aidan Matthews