Dermot Healy's guest appearances

Dermot Healy

Backlisted

RTÉ - Arts Tonight

Kerry Today

Literature and Arts - Video (HD)

Literature and Arts - iPhone/iTouch/iPod (Mobile)

Literature and Arts - Audio

Glucksman Ireland House

Michael Harding

Elizabeth Strout

John Haskell

Patrick McGuinness

Thomas Carlyle

Colum McCann

Ingrid Croce

Terrance Hayes

Sarah Bernhardt

Alan Drew

Mary O'Malley

Ralph Ellison

Owen McCafferty

Patricia Smith

Eamonn Wall

Bill Atkinson

OwlTail

Joining John and Andy this week are novelist Patrick McCabe (The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, Winterwood) and Unbound's editor-at-large Rachael Kerr. We got together to discuss Dermot Healy's remarkable second novel A Goat's Song (1994) and the peripatetic life of its author, one of the great Irish writers of recent times. Patrick, Rachael and John all knew, worked and occasionally drank with Dermot Healy and this special episode reflects their personal connections with a much-loved and much-missed man. Also in this edition Andy considers the most recent novel of another legendary Irish writer, Girl by Edna O'Brien; while John shares his admiration for Shola Von Reinhold's Lote, winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2021.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)07:56 - Lote by Shola Von Reinhold13:27 - Girl by Edna O'Brien19:26 - A Goats Song by Dermot Healy* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining John and Andy this week are novelist Patrick McCabe (The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, Winterwood) and Unbound's editor-at-large Rachael Kerr. We got together to discuss Dermot Healy's remarkable second novel A Goat's Song (1994) and the peripatetic life of its author, one of the great Irish writers of recent times. Patrick, Rachael and John all knew, worked and occasionally drank with Dermot Healy and this special episode reflects their personal connections with a much-loved and much-missed man. Also in this edition Andy considers the most recent novel of another legendary Irish writer, Girl by Edna O'Brien; while John shares his admiration for Shola Von Reinhold's Lote, winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2021.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)07:56 - Lote by Shola Von Reinhold13:27 - Girl by Edna O'Brien19:26 - A Goats Song by Dermot Healy* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at <a href="http://uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted</a> where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit <a href="http://www.backlisted.fm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.backlisted.fm</a>*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/backlisted" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/backlisted</a><br/><p> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

A Goat's Song by Dermot Healy

Dermot Healy's writing+literary work with his editors Bill Swainson+Peter Fallon; poet Mary O'Malley; Keith Hopper who with Neil Murphy is editing his writing+related essays; Timothy O'Grady in whose film of his book 'I Could Read The Sky' Dermot featured; writer Brian Leyden who edited Force 10 and Neil Jordan, writer and longtime friend of Healy.

Dermot Healy: A consideration of his writing and literary work. 

Novelist, playwright, and poet Dermot Healy reads from his latest novel, Long Time, No See, which writer Roddy Doyle calls "Funny, sad, wild, tender, profound, brilliant... [by] Ireland's finest living novelist."

Dermot Healy launches Long Time, No See

Dermot Healy Lecture