In this explosive book award-winning BBC investigative journalist John Ware forensically lays bare intelligence gathering operations in Northern Ireland. Neither Confirm Nor Deny brings together all the major official investigations into alleged state misconduct during the Troubles, from shoot-to-kill and collusion inquiries to Operation Kenova and the ‘Stakeknife’ repercussions. John will be in conversation with Myles Dungan.

For more than 25 years as an Irish Times columnist (first with The Last Straw, then An Irishman’s Diary) Frank McNally has been chronicling the foibles of his fellow countrymen and women. In Not Making Hay, he looks inwards in a memoir that covers his journey from Carrickmacross farm boy, through the Civil Service, precarious years as a freelancer and the perils of the Dublin newspaper world (including dicing with deadlines and a job interview with the fearsome Vincent Browne). Frank will be in conversation with Eileen Dunne.

Following up on his 2023 biography of John Hume, former BBC journalist Stephen Walker returns to Hinterland with his examination of the political career of Hume’s fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Ulster Unionist party leader David Trimble, the shy Belfast academic who helped change the political landscape of Northern Ireland. Stephen will be in conversation with Myles Dungan.

It’s strange to think that someone as influential Dermot Bannon made his first TV appearance on ITV’s Blind Date more than thirty years ago. Since his RTÉ career began on Room To Improve in 2007 he’s become one of the country’s most influential architects. Dermot will be in conversation with fellow architect Robert Miles.

Adopted at age two and a half, journalist Paul Cullen always felt like an outsider. After a near-fatal fall from Germany's highest peak in 2017 left him broken, physically and emotionally, he faced a personal reckoning. He knew that if he survived the fall he could no longer avoid the questions that had haunted him since childhood. What happened in those missing early years? And why was it so hard to find the truth? Paul will be in conversation with Sophie Grenham.

Meet Freddy Farrelly, a young Nature Hero on a mission to save the bog! Created by imaginative 5th class children of St. Kilian’s N.S Mullagh, this delightful book is bursting with creativity, colour and care for nature. Each copy is lovingly handmade, with hand-stitched bog flowers, recycled and handmade pages, and a story that changes every time - because every child has written their own special ending. No two books are the same, just like no two adventures in the bog!

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In Great Irish Wives: Remarkable Lives from History, Nicola Pierce brings ten overlooked Irish wives out of the shadows, from Matilda Tone to Sinéad de Valera and George Yeats. Through vivid, accessible biographies she shows how these women powered the lives, work and legends of the men history remembered first. Nicola will be in conversation with Sophie Grenham.

Join Michael for a meditation on faith and creativity. Reflections on the in-between world where reason ends and faith begins. Michael Harding is renowned as the best-selling author of a major series of memoirs chronicling ordinary life in Ireland through a time of transformation. He has written 3 award winning novels, and many theatre works including 5 plays for the National Theatre. A member of Aosdana, a newspaper columnist, and a regular guest on television and radio, his storytelling craft is singularly optimistic and visionary. Join him as he reflects once again on the meaning of everything.