Reading the FutureReading the Future is a fascinating series of interviews offering insight into the lives and work of twelve great Irish writers, as selected by an eclectic panel of avid readers for the RTE Radio One series Reading the Future. Who are the Irish writers working today whose work will be read in a hundred years time? That was the question RTE put to an eclectic panel of critics, editors, teachers, a librarian, an actor and a former government minister

half having been previously published in The Moth

From the privileged nineteenth-century world of her youth at Lissadell in Sligo and an artist's life in Paris to the dramas and disappointments of revolution and politics in Dublin

Its mortgagees

Edith continues to write after her partner’s death

for the English were in governance then

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He is also remembered for his cantankerous

Eoin O’Brien

for example) and correspondence (to his mother and others)

its allusive potential within and beyond a single work

three new voices appear for the first time

filled with sexual longing