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Spoken Stories for Chinese New Year: An Authentic Conversation

Updated / Wednesday, 17 Feb 2021
14:58
Nan and Akmaral, two young Asian students, attend Ace English Language Learning in Dublin. In the process of grappling with a weekend assignment from their teacher Aisling, to engage in an authentic conversation with a stranger, their perception of authenticity grows...
An Authentic Conversation by Yan Ge is broadcast this Sunday, 14 January, to coincide with the Chinese New Year, as part of the RTÉ Radio 1 series
Spoken Stories Independence - listen above.
Writers invited to contribute a new story started out by thinking about what a consideration of independence might throw up today, where it might bring them, a hundred years after Ireland's War of Independence.

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Saoirse Ronan reads Shorn for Spoken Stories Independence

Saoirse Ronan reads Shorn for Spoken Stories Independence
Updated / Tuesday, 2 Feb 2021
14:21
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.’
Sue Rainsford
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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Spoken Stories: Kevin Barry's hymn to his Native Limerick

Kevin Barry's new story
A Pirate Dreaming, read by the author, is another gem from RTÉ Radio 1's
Spoken Stories Independence collection - download and listen to the podcast here.
All the newly written stories are inspired in different ways by a consideration of independence today, a hundred years after Ireland’s War of Independence.
It’s 1983 in
A Pirate Dreaming. High above his beloved city of Limerick, perched under his Velux window, a pirate DJ watches a bright springtime morning unfold. With thoughtful consideration he chooses the music he plays for his devoted listeners. He works his way along an organic selection of discs that includes

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Spoken Stories Independence: Assignation by Mary Costello

Updated / Monday, 18 Jan 2021
13:27
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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Saoirse Ronan to star in RTÉ series to mark Ireland's Decade of Centenaries

Saoirse Ronan to star in RTÉ series to mark Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries
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In a landmark contribution to the Decade of Commemorations, RTÉ Radio 1 has commissioned a series of 12 half hour stories from the finest writers associated with Ireland for a radio and podcast series.
Spoken Stories Independence will start this Sunday at 7pm on RTÉ Radio 1.
Among the writers are Dublin Literary Prize winners, a Booker Prize winner, an IFTA award winner, an Oscar winning writer, authors whose work has been awarded Irish short story of the Year, as well as numerous other international awards and short-listings, along with major national and international publishing contracts.

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