Hinterland – The Podcast
Hinterland - The Podcast
Podcast Description
Hinterland is an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival based in the spiritual home of the Book of Kells in Co. Meath. The podcast features artist interviews with an array of stellar guests to Kells, including all the leading Irish fiction writers, and a number of major UK writers and many wonderful participants, crossing all genres.
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The podcast focuses on literature, art, and cultural commentary, featuring interviews with renowned writers and artists. Episodes explore themes such as the intersection of political history and literature, with conversations like Richard O'Rawe discussing his controversial insights on the IRA and Peter Taylor delving into MI5's covert operations for peace in Ireland. It also highlights personal stories of creativity and activism, exemplified by Linda Ervine's efforts to promote the Irish language in unionist communities.
Hinterland is an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival based in the spiritual home of the Book of Kells in Co. Meath.
The podcast features artist interviews with an array of stellar guests to Kells, including all the leading Irish fiction writers, and a number of major UK writers and many wonderful participants, crossing all genres.
Richard O’Rawe is a Belfast author, playwright and a former IRA member who was press officer for the Provisional IRA in Long Kesh in 1981 during the IRA hunger strikes.
His controversial revelation that British terms for ending the hunger strike were accepted within Long Kesh, but rejected by the IRA leadership (in his book Blanketmen) put him at odds with many of his erstwhile Republican comrades. He is the author of two works of comic fiction featuring the memorable Ructions O’Hare
His most recent work Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War, made a timely appearance a few months before the March2024 interim Kenova report, compiled by Chief Constable Boutcher and the Kenova team after a number of years spent investigating allegations that Freddie Scappaticci, head of the IRA’s execution squad was a British intelligence assent.
Richard O’Rawe was in conversation with Myles Dungan in June 2024.
Recorded live at Hinterland Festival of Literature and Arts.
For more episodes and artist information, visit:
www.hinterland.ie
https://www.facebook.com/HinterlandFestivalKells/
https://www.instagram.com/hinterlandfestivalkells/
music by https://soundcloud.com/xcaliberbeats
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