Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Anne Enright (August 2008)

Hugo Hamilton (August 2008)

Paula Meehan (August 2008)

Bisi Adigun (September 2008)

Theo Dorgan (March 2009)

Ursula Rani Sarma (March 2009)

Dorothy Cross (June 2009)

Conor McPherson (June 2009)

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (June 2009)

Marina Carr (July 2009)

Barry McCrea (July 2009)

Mary O’Malley (July 2009)

Gerry Adams (August 2009)

Roddy Doyle (August 2009)

Alice Maher (August 2009)

Colm Tóibín (December 2009)

Paul Muldoon (December 2009)

Women Writers in the New Ireland Network

(December 2009)

Seamus Heaney (January 2010)

Cathal Ó Searcaigh (January 2010)

Michael Longley (February 2010)

Eavan Boland (February 2010)

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45

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66

79

89

100

110

122

132

144

154

168

179

188

201

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223

233

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