Lucy discusses her new collection Intimacies  on RTE Radio 1's "Arena" ...
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Elizabeth Day talks to Lisa McInerney and Lucy Caldwell, two young writers born in the same year from different side of the Irish border. 100 years since partition, they discuss how a literary culture once defined by exile and sectarian identities is being reconfigured in exciting new ways today. (listen at the BBC) Book List – Sunday 23 May and Thursday 27 May The Rules of Revelation by Lisa McInerney ...
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Jan Carson, Lucy Caldwell, Adrian Duncan, Louise Kennedy & John Patrick McHugh discuss their recent collections of stories as part of the West Cork Literary Festival ...
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Lucy Caldwell discusses her most recent publication, Intimacies (2021), in conversation with Keith Hopper ...
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Lucy Caldwell talks to Hedwig Schwall about narrative perspective in general and you-narrations in particular, about the influence of James Joyce and Lucia Berlin on her short story collections Multitudes and Intimacies and about family dynamics. She reflects on motherhood and autobiographical writing, on the act of choosing love over fear, and on the power of literature to hold a space for its readers. She also discusses the Belfast author ...
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Yan Ge and Lucy Sweeney Byrne In Conversation with Lucy Caldwell Join Belfast Book Festival Patron, Lucy Caldwell in conversation with two stellar short story writers, Lucy Sweeney Byrne and Yan Ge. Lucy Sweeney Byrne’s debut short story collection Paris Syndrome (2019), explores travelling the world alone as a young woman. She has recently been shortlisted for the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize Yan Ge has been writing and ...
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Louis MacNeice’s 'Autumn Journal', written August to December 1938, was an immediate personal response to the public events of those months and the mood on the streets. ‘It is the nature of this poem,’ a prefatory note declared, ‘to be neither final nor balanced.’ In 'Spring Journal', written between March and late August 2020, the novelist Jonathan Gibbs replies to MacNeice and redeploys his form in an urgent, fluent act ...
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Is Ireland going through a ‘golden age of literature’ when it comes to women’s writing? Sally Rooney and Anna Burns are hugely popular but what is behind this boom in new writing? Writers Lucy Caldwell and Jan Carson discuss ...
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