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The Prompt - exploring 'Irrevocable Change' with Lucy Caldwell

This week on The Prompt on RTÉ Radio 1, all of the submissions are themed around 'Irrevocable Change'.

Have you read Jan Carson's Quickly, While They Still Have Horses?

10 outstanding books you may have missed in 2024

Before our final rundown of the year's best books, we wanted to give a flavour of some of this year's most outstanding releases which, for one reason or another, didn't quite garner the attention they deserved.

Best Of 2024 • 11 Dec 24

Sunday Miscellany: Seeing Things, by Lucy Caldwell

On childhood eye surgery, spirit animals and ways of seeing

Belfast Book Festival • 26 Jun 24

Book Of The Week: Openings by Lucy Caldwell

The Carver-esque story titles that make up Lucy Caldwell's new collection belie the lyricism at work in the author's short story canon.

Book Of The Week • 11 Jun 24

First Thought Talks: Three Female Versions of Belfast

There has been a remarkable flowering of female writing in Northern Ireland over the last 20 years.

In Conversation • 12 Oct 23

Reviewed: These Days by Lucy Caldwell

Books • 14 Mar 22

RTÉ Short Story Competition winner Kevin Donnellan

Winner announced of 2021 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 29 Sep 21

Shortlist announced for RTÉ Short Story Competition 2021

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 22 Sep 21

Something For The Weekend - Louise Kennedy's cultural picks

Something For The Weekend • 02 Jul 21

Coming out of the Dark: Lucy Caldwell on writing for radio

"I still think it's a kind of magic, that a stranger's voice can travel over that mysterious thing called airwaves, and reach us, enter us, disarm or distract or maybe even change us..."

Get Creative • 05 Mar 21

The RTÉ Short Story Competition 2021: We want your short stories!

The RTÉ Short Story Competition 2021 in honour of Francis MacManus is now open for entries...

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 03 Mar 21

Nicole Flattery: A chicken walks into a bar, well, sort of - surreal story in Being Various

Reviewed: Being Various: New Irish Short Stories

Kevin Barry, Nicole Flattery, Peter Murphy, Sinead Gleeson, Eimear McBride and Sally Rooney number among the 24 short story-writers represented in Being Various, the engaging anthology edited by Lucy Caldwell.

Books • 15 May 19

Lucy Caldwell