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Dec 17, 2017

What's the solution to the affordable housing shortage in Dublin? What role should social housing play in solving this crisis? With our friends at Banter, we recently got together a panel of experts to discuss these and related questions: Debbie Mulhall, Community Development Worker in Dolphin House; Michelle...


Nov 22, 2017

In this first episode of Music at Marrowbone Books, fiddle-player Danny Diamond performs at the Dublin bookshop (on 16 Nov. 2017), and chats with Martin Cook in his studio about his music and life. Diamond is a member of the Nordic/Irish band Slow Moving Clouds, and has also put out a series of acclaimed albums,...


Oct 7, 2017

JC’s in Swords is Ireland’s largest independent supermarket, a much-loved north Dublin institution. But it’s besieged by budget competitors like Lidl, which has literally moved in next door. Recently, JC’s laid off 20 long-term employees. In this podcast from April 2016, Lorcan Archer sits down with the boss,...


Oct 7, 2017

Why are the the Samuel Beckett and Tom Clarke bridges so far apart? a reader asked us. It makes for some long walks for pedestrians crossing the Liffey in the Docklands, he said. So we set off to find and answer for him, a journey which touched on the history of the Docklands, the ferryboat business, a pile of...