‘Voices in the Ether: Irish Writing on the Radio’

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On the 2nd of February the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Literatures in English hosted a public interview with Seamus Heaney and Olivia O’Leary in St. Ann’s Church Dawson Street. The interview opened a two day  event run by the RIA entitled ‘Voices in the Ether: Irish Writing on the Radio’ and was attended by around 270 people. Other speakers at the conference included John Bowman who presented fragments on a Who’s who? Of Irish writers from the RTE sound archive, Allan Hepburn from McGill University on Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction, Anne Devlin playwright and BBC’s Stephen Douds who spoke on a panel which explored producing and curating Irish writing to round up the day. For a full list of speakers please click here

The interview with Seamus Heaney and Olivia O’Leary was recorded by RTE Radio One and will be broadcast on the 19th of March 2012.