The SHC Podcast
The SHC Podcast reveals some of what goes on in the Heaney Centre's unassuming houses on University Road, Belfast, with interviews and performances by staff, students, Fellows, and friends. It is produced in a small back room by Ian Sansom, Stephen Sexton, and Rachel Brown.
With production/sound design from Chantal Ailsby and Conor McCafferty, and original music by Nicholas Boyle. Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and many other providers. Listen and subscribe!
Latest Episodes...
Archive Episode: Ciaran Carson
To coincide with the appointment of our inaugural Ciaran Carson Fellows, we took a trip to the archives to reflect on the legacy of our colleague and founding director, Ciaran Carson. The recordings were selected from the Seamus Heaney Centre’s audio collection, and featured music by Ciaran and Deirdre Carson, and Padraigin Ni Uallachain, and words from Seamus Heaney and Ciaran himself. With additional readings from Milena Williamson, Dane Holt and Stephen Sexton.
Poems by Ciaran Carson are used by kind permission of The Gallery Press and the Estate of Ciaran Carson.
Archive Episode: with Gerry Dawe
Friend of the Centre, and member of our Advisory Board, Gerald Dawe looks back over his writing and publishing career of 40 years to reflect on the violence of our recent past. In the voice of a clock; reflected in a WW2 film; in dreams of Winston Churchill, violence is never far from the homestead. Nor is the Europe of the present far from the Europe of the past where immigrant families aim for America and hit on Belfast. We’re grateful to Gerry for this generous reflection across his poems; across our history.
Summer School 2020 Showcase: New Poetry
Featuring new writing by Genevieve Stevens, Steven Blythe, Alanna Offield, Kevin O'Farrell, Grace Tower, Lorraine Carey, Tim Dwyer, Rebecca Farmer, Sinead Nolan, Iain Whiteley, Rachel Donati, Julia Wieting, Tom Day, Dide, Stephanie Green, and Erin Vance, and closing comments by Nick Laird.
Season Two (Jan-Jul 2020)
Season Two featured interviews and masterclasses with visiting Fellows, and showcased new prose, drama and poetry by our students.
Episode 5
Meet the Fellows
with screenwriter and creator of Derry Girls, Lisa McGee, and Grammy-nominated musician, Iain Archer, talking to SHC Coordinator, Rachel Brown.
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Episode 6
with Lucy Caldwell
with novelist and playwright and SHC Fellow, Lucy Caldwell, in conversation with SHC Director, Glenn Patterson.
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Episode 7
with Jed Mercurio
with screenwriter and creator of Line of Duty, Jed Mercurio, in conversation with SHC lecturer, Tim Loane.
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MA 2020 Showcase
New Prose and Drama
by Will Reade, Aisling Daly, Oisin Colligan, Stephen Brown, Daniel Paton, Anne Bodel, Hasan Shah, and Sionnán Ní Nualláin, performed by Jo Dow and Anna Healey
Listen and SubscribePage to Stage - Mayonnaise Like This
Mayonnaise Like This, by Mahon McCann was written, produced, edited, and directed as part of Queen's University Belfast's MA in Creative Writing, Page to Stage module. The module is taught by Tim Loane.
It was produced by Maisie Linford and Aniskaa Rajasagaran, directed by Michael J Daly and Holly Yates, and edited by Comhgall McKeating and Xuejing Wang. With Thomas Finnegan as Georgie, Gerard McCabe as Tony, Susan Davies as Katie, Cathy Brennan as Katie's Mother, Megan McGarry as Shana, and Peter Gilroy as Jimmy. Other parts were played by members of the production team.
The Pilot Season (Feb-Jun 2019)
Featuring short interviews with poetry, prose and drama writers, interspersed with new poems by our students. Every episode begins with a rumination on the theme by Stephen Sexton. Conversations are hosted by Ian Sansom.
Episode 1
St Valentine's Day
with Ciaran Carson, Glenn Patterson, Leontia Flynn and Tim Loane, and poems by Caitlin Newby.
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Episode 2
St Patrick's Day
with Manuela Moser, Gail McConnell and Jimmy McAleavey, and poems by Manuela Moser and Padraig Regan.
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Episode 1: Saint Valentine's Day
In this amatory episode Ian Sansom talks love songs with Glenn Patterson, Shakespeare's Sonnets with Leontia Flynn, and black masses with Tim Loane. Caitlin Newby reads some love poems, and Ciaran Carson sings a song for a blue-eyed lassie. Produced in a back room by Stephen Sexton, Ian Sansom, Rachel Brown, and Conor McCafferty. With music by Nicholas Boyle.