New Northern Ireland, A [Storytellers]

This episode features Shannon Yee on ‘Interfaces', the different kinds of architectural and personal in-between spaces she perceives in Belfast after almost two decades living in the city.

In ‘Packing Up', as Tara McEvoy clears out her childhood room in Downpatrick, and prepares to move away again, she reflects on belonging, what it means to be from and of a place.

Essayists Shannon Yee and Tara McEvoy on unheard stories of Northern Ireland today.

In this episode, Dawn Watson considers in ‘Spring I' how her fractured relationship to her homeplace becomes transformed when she experiences it through the eyes of another - and their shared loved of music.

James Conor Patterson, in ‘On Fine Lawns and Elocution', reveals how, searching for a key by which his writing might tap into his own Newry vernacular, he makes a discovery that he finds transformational.

Essayists Dawn Watson and James Conor Patterson on unheard stories of Northern Ireland.

In ‘Earthworks', Dean Fee writes about his relationship to the Black Pig's Dyke earthworks, uncovering how they trace, in a way, the journey of his own border life.

The short series concludes with Michelle Moloney, who describes how, on trying to make meaning of grief after the death of her child, she discovers ‘A Place of Mourning' in which she is not alone.

Essayists Dean Fee and Michelle Moloney on unheard stories of Northern Ireland today.