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Eimear McBride

Damien Molony

Heather Larmour

Shorts: New Irish Writing: Me and the Devil

Me and the Devil

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BBC Radio 4 - Shorts, New Irish Writing, Me and the Devil

Eimear McBride’s story of dark family secrets and a long-awaited act of revenge.

A story of dark family secrets and a journey home to execute a long-awaited act of revenge. Read by Damien Molony.

A series of original stories from some of Ireland’s most exciting writers. 

Donal Ryan (The Spinning Heart, The Thing About December) brings us to Limerick where a young writer befriends a local octogenarian, Tommy, and discovers the beauty within the man. Eimear McBride (A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing) takes us into a world of dark family secrets and revenge, while playwright Rosemary Jenkinson reflects on the changing landscape of Belfast and its mythology as a young girl believes she’s discovered the fairy folk in the hill behind her home.


Writer ..... Eimear McBride
Reader ..... Damien Molony
Producer ..... Heather Larmour

Shorts: New Irish Writing

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Series of original stories by writers from Ireland.

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