Gerald Butler who featured in the recent RTÉ series Great Lighthouses of Ireland, gives a talk based on his book "The Lightkeeper: a memoir".

Recorded at dlr Lexicon Studio on Tuesday, November 20th 2018.

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John Boyne’s new novel is a seductive psychodrama about the boundless ambition of a brilliantly devious aspiring writer. Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for success. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent – but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own. Ladder to the Sky is at once a pacy thriller and a devastating satire on the contemporary literary landscape.

Recorded at The Studio, dlr LexIcon on 02 October 2018

Listen back here: https://soundcloud.com/dlr-soundcloud/john-boyne-in-conversation-with-eithne-shortall

Michael Doran gives a talk on the centenary of the First Dáil which was held on January 21st 1919 in the Mansion House. The first President of Dáil Éireann was Cathal Brugha.
Michael regularly lectures in dlr LexIcon as part of the UCD Adult Education History Programmes.

Recorded at dlr Lexicon Studio on Tuesday, January 22nd 2019.

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David Gunning, Archivist in Residence at dlr LexIcon launches the exhibition he has curated which features material relating to F.M. O’Flanagan, Dalkey resident, activist and founding member of many local clubs and associations. The exhibition contains a selection of documents and publications relating to The Vico Road Association and the Dalkey Development Association plus a special feature on the King of Dalkey!

Recorded at dlr Lexicon on Tuesday, April 9th 2019.

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Peggy O’Brien, whose collection, Tongues, is a poetic reimagining of the medieval Abelard and Heloise love story, in conversation with Deirdre Sullivan, author of Tangleweed and brine, a collection of reimagined fairy tales, moderated by Siobhán Parkinson, novelist and publisher with Little Island Books.

Recorded at dlr LexIcon on Thursday 02 May 2019

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“The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends. At night you hear them rattling in the wind”. The narrator of Dublin palms has returned to Dublin to set up home with his partner Helen and their two children. Hugo Hamilton’s spectacular new novel is a powerful story of fragmentation and belonging, of emigrants and strangers and people returning.

Recorded at Studio Theatre, dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire, Thurs 2 May 2019.

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Becoming Belle is a witty, feminist novel set in Victorian London, based on the true story of a woman ahead of her time. In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class military family, growing up in a small garrison town. By 1891 she is the Countess of Clancarty, dubbed “the peasant countess” by the press, and a member of the Irish aristocracy. Nuala O’Connor’s brilliant new novel is the story of the four years in between, of Belle’s rapid ascent and the people that tried to tear her down. The novel serves as a reminder of the author’s uncanny knack for transmuting the lives of historical characters into urgently compelling fiction.

Recorded at dlr Lexicon Studio Theatre, Dún Laoghaire on Tues 23 October, 2018.

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Declan Kiberd and photographer Dragana Jurišić engage in a fascinating discussion about the censorship of the 1960s and the algorithmic censorship of social media today. Chaired by Nell Regan.

Recorded at dlr LexIcon Studio on Monday 29 April 2019.

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Catriona Crowe of the Royal Irish Academy and Paula Shields of RTÉ Radio 1’s Arena hold a wide-ranging conversation about Edna O’Brien, her The country girls trilogy and the 1960s society that reacted to the book.

Recorded at the Studio Theatre, dlr Lexicon on Thurs, 18 April 2019.

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Convent life gave opportunities to Irish women to get a good education, avoid ‘compulsory’ marriage and indeed the chance for ‘worldly’ adventures and travel. Find out more with Professor Deirdre Raftery, author of Nano Nagle; the life and the legacy and Professor of Poetry, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin during an evening of talk and readings introduced by Nell Regan.

Recorded at the Studio Theatre, dlr Lexicon on Wed, 17 April 2019.

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