Last week the Women’s Podcast book club gathered for a live event in Chapters Bookstore in Dublin to discuss what books they’ll be packing with them on their summer holidays. Celebrated author Claire Keegan was the special guest who joined book clubbers Róisín Ingle, Bernice Harrison, Ann Ingle and Niamh Towey for the event, alongside an audience of podcast listeners. Keegan spoke about the novel and two short stories that she hopes listeners will enjoy and she treated the audience to a reading from The Great Gatsby.

You can find the full list of recommendations here: https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/the-womens-podcast/the-womens-podcast-book-club-summer-reading-recommendations-with-claire-keegan/\

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Gold Watch by John McGahern
• Last Day of Summer by Ian McEwan, a short story from his collection, First Love, Last Rites.
• Famesick by Lena Dunham
• Few and Far Between by Jan Carson
• Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
• Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
• The Keeper by Tana French
• The Spare Room by Helen Garner
• Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
• John of John by Douglas Stuart
• The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
• Land by Maggie O’Farrell
• The Make Believe by Hannah Murray
• Tatty by Christine Dwyer

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Summer is finally upon us and that means festival season is officially here. In today’s episode, we meet a pair of women behind two of Ireland’s most exciting festivals, Beyond the Pale and Kaleidoscope. Jenny Jennings and Fiona McGinn join Roisin Ingle to discuss the challenges facing the festival industry, what it takes to create such large-scale events and which acts are not to be missed in the line up.

Later on Ingle is joined by Irish Times journalist and author Sally Hayden, who has just released her new book ‘This is also a Love Story’. The book is a reflection on how love can endure even in the most difficult of times and contains love stories from people Hayden has met while reporting in war zones and places ravaged by conflict and inequality.

But first, Irish Times opinion editor Jennifer O’Connell is here to discuss some of the biggest stories of the week including a row over private care at the Rotunda hospital in Dublin and what can be learned from the recent controversy surrounding Belle Burden’s memoir, Strangers.

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