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Dublin's Northside City of Literature


Dublin’s Northside City of Literature is a five part radio series that highlights and celebrates north Dublin’s contribution to UNESCO’s endorsement of Dublin as one of five World Cities of Literature. These programmes feature interviews with local authors from the north side of the city discussing their life and work. Each programme also features panel discussions on one featured work from the author. This series focuses and highlights the unique contribution of north Dublin authors to Dublins status of a UNECSO city of Literature.

You can listen to podcasts of all the programmes in the series here.

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