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Patricia Buckley On Sunshine 106.8FM

March 18, 2011 – 7:03 pm

Patricia Buckley was on On Sunshine 106.8Fm’s Dublin’s Talking with Lynsey Dolan this week. The interview is below.

Patricia Buckley On Sunshine 106.8Fm

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Publishers Description
Patricia Buckley is a down-to-earth mystic – gentle, funny and practical. In the last decade, through her openness and her joyous embrace of the angels in her own life, she has been able to help and to heal the broken spirits of legions of people who have come to her when they are lost and looking for guidance.

From as early as she can remember, Patricia took the presence of angels for granted. She also took for granted that she would sometimes see and talk to dead people. Though her childhood was often tough and she went through the torments of poverty, neglect and abuse, the angels and the spirit world made her feel secure and cherished

As she got older, life got even tougher: she slept rough; she was committed to a mental ward and put on medication; a boyfriend tried to kill her. She gave up on the angels. Though she found love in a good marriage and joy in the birth of her children, for nearly twenty years, until she was 40, Patricia remained fragile and dependent on tranquillisers.

In 2001 a chance encounter with someone who recognised her hidden spiritual energy woke her up. She gave up on the pills and she welcomed the angels back into her life. She knew the time had come to share her gifts with the world.

Now, she shares her story in My Journey with the Angels - a wonderful memoir of growing up in Dublin, a moving account of how she came to terms with her extraordinary gifts, and an inspirational guide – full of examples from her life and her work – to the wisdom of the angels.

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Tere Duperrault On Sunshine 106.8FM

March 15, 2011 – 4:26 pm

Tere Duperrault was on Dublin’s Talking with Lynsey Dolan on Sunshine 106.8FM during the week. The interview is below:

Tere Duperrault On Sunshine 106.8FM

You can buy her book here.

Publisher’s Description
The true story of the sole survivor of a massacre at sea.

In 1961 eleven-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault’s family fulfilled their dream of renting a luxury sailboat so that they could spend six months exploring the Caribbean. It should have been the holiday of a lifetime, but the dream turned into a nightmare when the sociopath skipper Julian Harvey slaughtered her family and left her for dead aboard the sinking Bluebelle.

Terry Jo cheated death by escaping on a tiny cork raft as the boat went under. Through sheer determination she survived for four days alone in the ocean, without food or water.

In Voyage of Terror, Terry Jo (now Tere) tells her story of survival for the first time. Through psychologist Richard Logan she reveals how she clung to life in shark-infested waters, enduring the burning sun by day and freezing winds at night. We discover what became of her family’s murderer, a pilot and war hero who had successfully hidden his past and duped the Duperraults into trusting him.

Both chilling and inspiring, Voyage of Terror is a story of the best and the worst that we are capable of.

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Liz Ryan On Sunshine 106.8FM

March 4, 2011 – 9:15 am

Liz Ryan's French LeaveLiz Ryan appeared on 106.8FM’s Dublin’s Talking with Lynsey Dolan this week talking about her boo, French Leave. The interview is below.

Liz Ryan On Sunshine 106.8Fm

You can buy her book here.

Publishers Description
French Leave is a wonderfully witty and insightful tale of best-selling woman’s fiction author Liz Ryan’s decade spent living in Normandy – will she stay or go after ten years? Find out in this memoir, reminiscent of A Year in Provence and Driving Over Lemons.

Nearly all of us dream of getting away, leaving it all behind – and maybe even more so these days when the news seems to be so hard. For many of us the dream destination is la belle France; we love the food, we can muddle through with Leaving Certificate French, we holidayed in Brittany and Languedoc – we watched Keith Floyd gently winding (and drinking) his way down the Canal Du Midi. That said, very few of us take the plunge and pack it all up into the car and board the ferry at Rosslare with a one-way ticket.

In 2001, journalist and best-selling woman’s fiction writer Liz Ryan did make the big move and settled in Normandy. Her funny and informative book charts her gradual immersion into French village life, the setbacks and the pleasures – as well as explaining the often paradoxical French attitudes to food and dieting, sport, shopping on the grand scale and their attitude to their Anglophone residents.

The book culminates with Liz posing the question to readers as to whether she should stay or go? Or should that be rester ou partir?

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Christopher Sommerville On Sunshine 106.8FM

March 4, 2011 – 8:00 am

Christopher Sommerville's Walking In IrelandTravel writer Christopher Sommerville spoke with Lynsey Dolan on Dublin’s Talking on Sunshine 106.8FM this week covering his new book Walking In Ireland: 50 Walks Through the Heart and Soul of Ireland. The interview is below:

Christopher Sommerville On Sunshine 106.8FM

You can buy his latest book here.

Publisher’s Description
Walking has never been a more popular pastime and nowhere is more beautiful for walkers to explore than Ireland. In this beautifully written and superbly researched guide, Christopher Somerville draws on his very popular column for the Irish Independent, to present 50 of the very best walks in Ireland – from the Nephin Beg Mountains in Mayo to Dingle Way in Kerry. Practical instructions for the walks are married with evocative and informative passages on the history, flora and fauna, culture and topography of the land. Whether it’s exploring the Burren in its floral glory or seeing the Walls of Derry, or even sitting at home in your armchair planning your next walk, this book will prove popular with walkers, holiday makers and anyone who loves the Irish landscape.

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A Dublin Book Festival Gallery ~ Day One

March 2, 2011 – 2:25 pm

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The Friday Five Quiz ~ 008

February 18, 2011 – 11:12 am

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Dublin Book Festival Programme Released

February 14, 2011 – 11:49 am

The Dublin Book Festival has launched its full program in PDF and online.

Running from 2 March through to 6 March 2011, the programme opens with Dublin, Its Place I Literature moderated by Eileen Battersby and featuring Anthony Cronin and Dermot Bolger.

The programme also features discussions about; Ireland’s future with Mark Little, Shane Coleman, Justine McCarthy, Stephen Kinsella and Ken Foxe; Ireland’s crime problems with John Mooney, Barry Cummins, Abigail Rieley and Emer Connolly; Careers and personal finance with Colm Rapple, Brendan Foley and Jane Downes; a session on writing for young children with Sarah Webb, Kevin Stevens and chaired by Mags Walsh; and The Past is Now: Lessons for today from Ireland’s past, a discussion about Irish history with Ryan Tubridy, Diarmaid Ferriter and Susan Cahill.

The festival will also feature book launches for The Boy In The Gap by Paul Soye, The Last Irish Plague: The Great Flu Epidemic in Ireland 1918-19 by Catriona Foley and October Moon by Michael Scott

The Good Room in the Mercantile bar will feature a tea party extravaganza, Lady-dee nov’lists swanning about in all their glory, literary heads having cosy chats with cuddly writer Brian Leyden and Good Room games such as ‘Bring Your Girl/Boyfriend to Meet The Mammy’ and silent scrabble with the Child Who Can Be Seen and Not Heard. Irish Publishing News will host a Pecha Kucha session in the Good Room at 4pm on Saturday 5 March.

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Neil Gaiman On Piracy

February 11, 2011 – 8:31 am

ORG Zine | Video: An interview with Neil Gaiman.

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Melissa And Kevin Hill On Sunshine 106.8FM

February 9, 2011 – 1:52 pm

Mellissa Hill and her author and co-author Kevin Hill appeared on Sunshine 106.6FM this week with Lynsey Dolan on Dublin’s Talking. They write together as Casey Hill and their first co-authored book, Taboo is out this month. The interview is below:

Casey Hill (Mellissa Hill and co-author and husband, Kevin Hill)

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Publisher’s Description
Forensic investigator Riley Steel, Quantico-trained and California-born and bred, imagined Dublin to be a far cry from bustling San Francisco, a sleepy backwater where she can lay past ghosts to rest and start anew.

She’s arrived in Ireland to drag the Garda forensics team into the 21st-century plus keep tabs on her Irish-born father who’s increasingly seeking solace in the bottle after a past tragedy involving Riley’s younger sister, Jess.

But a brutal serial killer soon puts paid to that. A young man and woman are found dead in a hotel room, the gunshot wounds on their naked bodies suggesting a suicide pact. But as Riley and the team dig deeper, and more bodies are discovered, they soon realise that a twisted murderer is at work, one who seeks to upset society’s norms in the most sickening way imaginable…

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UNESCO City Of Literature Writers’ Forum For Dublin

February 2, 2011 – 8:47 am

The UNESCO City of Literature Office is to host a Writers’ Forum designed to engage with writers and to gather their opinions on how to develop the City of Literature designation.

The Forum will take the format of informal engagement through a World Café style event, to capture your views on a range of issues.

There will be two sessions (see details below) and writers are asked to contact elizabeth.cuddy@dublincity.ie or tel: (01) 6744873 before Monday 7th February to request a space at ONE of them:

Monday 21 February, 6.30pm – 8.30pm National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Wednesday 23rd February 10am -12noon, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

The City Of Literature is a permanent designation which is awarded by UNESCO in recognition of the city’s literary heritage and its ongoing vitality in Dublin.

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