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Ep 489 Predicting the pandemic: Sue Rainsford - Redder Days
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Sue Rainsford handed in the final manuscript of her novel Redder Days on the 14th of March 2020, the same day that schools and colleges closed their doors due to Covid-19. It was remarkable timing, given the (now all too familiar) pandemic theme running through her book. Set in a world wracked by climate change, Redder Days tells the story of a survivalist cult who seek to escape a mysterious contagion only known as ‘red’. In today’s episode, the author speaks to Róisín Ingle about this accidental prediction, an idea she’s had since 2013. They also discuss her childhood spent in South Dublin, her love for dystopian writing and plans for her next book.
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When Catriona Ward was about 13, she’d wake up each night with a hand in the small of her back, pushing her out of bed. “It was absolutely terrifying. I could feel that there was someone in the room.” Had Google been around in the early 1990s, she might have found out sooner about hypnagogic hallucinations, intensely real sensations on the border between wakefulness and sleep. “But it doesn’t matter whether it’s real or not; the fear is real. And there’s nothing else quite like it, that fear in the dark.”
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Updated / Tuesday, 2 Feb 2021
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Spoken Stories Independence collection on RTÉ Radio 1, now available as a podcast here.
Before writing her story, Rainsford asked herself ‘what does independence mean explicitly for women, especially in relation to war and violence and the roles their bodies play, that are often obscured after the facts.
Shorn is a story about forced hair cutting, a rampant practice that was carried out by both sides during the (Irish) Civil War.’
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All the writers contributing to the series consider independence today, a hundred years after Ireland’s War of Independence. The resulting collection is as varied as the writers themselves, as the stories are set across different times, locations and circumstances.
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Assignation by Mary Costello is the latest new story available from RTÉ Radio 1's
Spoken Stories Independence collection of writing, commissioned from some of today's finest fiction writers - listen to it here and download the podcast here.
Assignation is meticulously read by Caitríona Ní Murchú.
Caitríona Ní Murchú reads
Assignation
The story unfolds over one day in Manhattan in 1938, culminating in a certain realization for Marian, a young Irish woman working for a wealthy American family. In writing this, Mary Costello has said how she 'thought about what independence means at a personal level - freedom, choice, personal autonomy - and how scarce that was in the early decades of our own independence, our young Free State in the grip of poverty, the Church, emigration. In the 1920s + 30s emigration was like a death. People would not be returning’.
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