Paulines Poems

What better way to unwind than to join the Craol 2018 award winning show with Pauline Skehan and friends for poetry, chat and song. An accomplished poet, Pauline is joined weekly by Rob Hopkins and makes for an enjoyable half hour show.

Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
Read by Fiona Kelly

Bliss, By Katherine Mansfield is one on the author’s earliest and greatest short stories. It was published in 1918 at a time when its themes of homoerotic longing could only be hinted at in the vaguest of terms. Born Katherine Beauchamp in New Zealand in 1888, At the age of 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917, she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, that claimed her life at age 34.

Count Ferdinand Eboli by Mary Shelley
Read by Fiona Kelly

‘Ferdinand Eboli, a tale’  was first published in 1838 by Mary Shelley in a volume entitled The Keepsake for 1829. Mary Shelley is best known for her career defining novel Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. This story comes from her large collection of lesser known short stories and is being broadcast on Radio Corca Baiscinn in the hopes that it will bring her less well known works to a wider audience. Mary Shelley is also well known for her close association with many of the most prominent literary figures of her age including her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, her father, the Novelist William Godwin and her mother was the early feminist writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Paulines Poems

What better way to unwind than to join the Craol 2018 award winning show with Pauline Skehan and friends for poetry, chat and song. An accomplished poet, Pauline is joined weekly by Rob Hopkins and makes for an enjoyable half hour show.

The Sisters of Albano by Mary Shelley
Read by Fiona Kelly

‘The Sisters of Albano’ is a story by the celebrated nineteenth century writer Mary Shelley, who is best known for her career defining novel Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. This story comes from her large collection of lesser known short stories and is being broadcast on Radio Corca Baiscinn in the hopes that it will bring a her less well known works to a wider audience. Mary Shelley is also well known for her close association with many of the most prominent literary figures of her age including her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, her father, the Novelist William Godwin and her mother was the early feminist writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft.