Sinead Gleeson

Reading can often have a serendipitous, almost conspiratorial feel to it - just as you begin reading about a topic, suddenly you notice it everywhere. It was there all along, of course, but you hadn’t yet thought to look for it - nor for…

Irish women have many stories to tell, about ourselves, our mothers, our grandmothers. We stayed silent for a long time. An involuntary, imposed, shame driven silence. But that silence has been  broken, we are finding our voices, we are…

Most of us can recall the personal essay from our Leaving Cert English papers: that chance to write about our own lives and reflect on the world in all our eighteen year old wisdom.  Who doesn't love a bit of self-indulgence? Though long…

"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one." Kazuo Ishiguro The Lit Review has been off living its life but now it's back with all your literary news and truths... News Dublin One City One Book The Dublin…

Sinéad Gleeson is a broadcaster, writer, editor of three short story anthologies, host of The Book Show on Radio One, half of The Anti-Room, and all round enviable sound person. She very kindly joined Alan and Ellen to talk about Top of the…

Events A new collection of Irish fiction by writers from Northern Ireland will be launched in the Ulster Museum on Monday 3rd October. The collection, entitled The Glass Shore, is edited by Sinead Gleeson, the presenter of the Book…

The marriage of Sinéad Gleeson’s vision and peerless curation with New Island Books has produced an anthology of Irish women writers that is a triumph in both scope and content. There has been a distinct lack of women writers in the…