Lucy Caldwell

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BBC Radio Ulster “The Arts Show”

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Marie-Louise Muir, host of The Arts Show on BBC Radio Ulster, talks to Lucy Caldwell and Sinéad Gleeson about “The Long Gaze Back, an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers Ireland has ever produced ...
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A Multitude of experiences…

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Lucy Caldwell returns to Belfast this month to read from her debut short story collection about young love and growing up. She tells Jenny Lee about being inspired by Van Morrison's lyrics and the near-death experience of her baby son that led to her writing close to the heart (from The Irish News, 10 August, 2015) BELFAST author Lucy Caldwell returns to her roots for the first reading from her ...
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Lucy interviewed by The Thought Fox

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From the award-winning author of The Meeting Point comes another powerful exploration of love, desire and family, featuring a narrator raking over the past to uncover secrets long-buried – secrets that take in The Troubles in 1970s Belfast. All the Beggars Riding confirms Lucy Caldwell as one of the most accomplished young novelists writing today – and we’re delighted to hear that the Arts Council in Northern Ireland have chosen ...
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Interview with Writing.ie

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Eleanor Fitzsimmons © 7 March 2013. Posted on writing.ie “I start the novel with this fictional documentary based very much on the stories told by the Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich (in her book Voices from Chernobyl) using testimony from people, especially women but some men also, firemen and soldiers, who had been involved in the Chernobyl catastrophe. One story in particular is told by a woman about her fireman husband ...
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Drawing on dynamics, from Belfast to Iraq

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Lucy Caldwell’s latest novel is inspired by an ancestor’s dramatic life, and her own career has taken her from the stage to the page and recently to Iraq Interview published in the Irish Times, Monday April 15. When Lucy Caldwell was 13, an English teacher at school set her class an unusual exercise. The students had been reading How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston, and were asked to ...
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