What’s in the water?

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Collaborative Studios

10 episodes

2 months ago

An unashamedly pro-female platform for Irish writers to come together to talk, laugh and tell their stories.

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An unashamedly pro-female platform for Irish writers to come together to talk, laugh and tell their stories.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Arts

Episodes (10/10)

What’s in the water?

Grief

Anna and Sinead are joined by fellow best selling Authors Edel Coffey and Alex Barclay to talk about grief - they share their personal stories of loss, bereavement, heartbreak and the less traditional versions of grieving.

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3 years ago

43 minutes 13 seconds

What’s in the water?

Religion

Anna and Sinad are joined by fellow authors Jan Carson and Cauvery Madhavan to talk about religion, how it has shaped Ireland and how it can contribute to our upbringings. Cauvery talks about being a lapsed hindu and Jan shares her Protestant evangelical background and they all discuss their views on faith and how it can differ from religion.

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3 years ago

43 minutes 51 seconds

What’s in the water?

Irish Family

Anna and Sinead are joined by best selling Authors Ciara Geraghty and Sinead Crowley to talk about the Irish family and how it has changed over the last few decades, they remember Ireland when you "couldn't get a condom to put on your husbands penis", and discuss how the family is no longer only expected to be 'traditional' except perhaps during lockdown times of the pandemic and of course they debate the age old question, does it matter where you are placed amongst your siblings!!

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3 years ago

43 minutes 49 seconds

What’s in the water?

Sex

Anna and Sinead are this week joined by fellow best selling authors Louise O' Neill and Caroline Grace Cassidy to talk about sex - they cover their own sex education experiences, consent, porn, how much or little we share on our sex lives and just how long it can take to have really good sex!

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3 years ago

42 minutes 24 seconds

What’s in the water?

Missing Women

Anna and Sinead are joined by Authors Catherine Ryan Howard and Niamh O'Connor to talk about the missing women of Ireland, they also discuss female safety, the Graham Dwyer and Larry Murphy cases and why so many Irish female Authors choose to write crime fiction.

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3 years ago

48 minutes 44 seconds

What’s in the water?

Divorce

Anna and Sinead are joined by fellow best selling Authors Vanessa O'Loughlin (Sam Blake) and Rachael English to talk about divorce, they recall each of the referendums and what Ireland was like at the time; the greyness, Miley's affair in glenroe and our obsession with land all get a mention!

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3 years ago

44 minutes 20 seconds

What’s in the water?

Dark Past

Anna and Sinead are joined by best-selling Authors Patricia Gibney and Christine Dwyer Hickey to talk about Ireland's dark past.They touch on the shame visited on Ireland by the Catholic Church, and also share their own experiences of grief and childhood trauma including Christine's experience of fainting in church on a Good Friday.

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3 years ago

42 minutes 13 seconds

What’s in the water?

Menopause

Anna and Sinead are joined by fellow best selling Authors Sheila O'Flanagan and Ann Griffin where they chat about hot flushes, battling anxiety and the urge to kill their husbands!

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3 years ago

46 minutes 24 seconds

What’s in the water?

Friendship

Anna and Sinead are joined by fellow best selling authors Clauida Carroll and Hazel Gaynor where they chat about what friendships mean to them and whether or not you would do time for a mate! They also share some poignant stories of their own friendships and their favourite books on the topic.

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3 years ago

46 minutes 5 seconds

What’s in the water?

Crime

Talking about murderers, The Kerry Babies tribunal and, weirdly, Anglo Irish’s Seanie Fitzpatrick, and discussing the true crime cases that gripped crime writers Liz Nugent and Jane Casey

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3 years ago

42 minutes 4 seconds