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Professor Joseph O’Connor, Frank McCourt Chair in Creative Writing at UL, speaks to Arena on RTÉ Radio 1 and reads from his latest novel 'The Ghosts of Rome', the second in the trilogy and follow up to 'My Father's House'.

Joseph also highlights the upcoming UL Creative Writing Festival (9-12 April), which features a stellar line-up of Ireland’s literary talent, including Marian Keyes, Liz Nugent, Paul Muldoon, Paul Lynch and UL's own award winning Donal Ryan.

Listen here: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22493893/

Congratulations to our dear colleague Professor Michael Griffin, who was at studios in London recently to talk to Melvyn Bragg for an 'In Our Time' episode on Oliver Goldsmith! He was joined by Profs David O'Shaughnessy & Judith Hawley
University of Limerick

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Oliver Goldsmith Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this influential and prolific 18th-century Irish writer.

Well done, Jack!

In today's Irish Times, Elizabeth MacBride reviews Your Own Dark Shadow edited by Jack Fennell. It's a stand-out collection of classic Irish stories that helps fill in some of the gaps in our horror history!