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Ep 500 Older & Bolder: celebrating our 500th episode
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Today is a BIG day for us. It’s our 500th episode! We love any excuse for a party, as you know, so in lieu of being able to gather the team together for some bubbles we did a very pandemic thing and partied with our listeners over Zoom. Last Thursday evening we held a live episode of the podcast with some very special guests aged 19 to 81, who shared their feelings on ageing and becoming Older & Bolder. They were: Yara Alagha, Rosemary Adaser, Olivia O’Leary, Allie O’Rourke, Jan Brierton, Ann Ingle, Hilary Fannin, Dr Rosaleen McDonagh, Dr Catherine Motherway and Iniolu Ekeolu. It was an emotional evening, as Kathy and Róisín reminisced about some of their most memorable episodes and talked about how far we’ve come since that very first show about women in politics back in 2015. Since then
In the
Poetry Programme on Sunday 16th May, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Olivia O Leary’s guests are John FitzGerald and Ireland Professor of Poetry Frank Ormsby.
John FitzGerald is University Librarian at University College Cork and started to write poetry around ten years ago, in his late forties. While still unpublished, he won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Prize for 2014. A pamphlet,
First Cut, was published in 2017 by Southword Editions, and he joins Olivia to talk about his first full-length collection,
The Time Being, published by The Gallery Press in June 2021.
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In the
Poetry Programme on Sunday 9th May, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Olivia O Leary’s guests are Leontia Flynn and Matthew Geden.
Award-winning poet Leontia Flynn was born in Co Down and lives in Belfast, where she teaches Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre. She has published four full collections, with
These Days winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her 2017 collection,
The Radio (Cape Poetry), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize and received the Irish Times Poetry Now Award.
She joins Olivia to talk about her work and to read a selection of work form