Broadcaster and crime expert for festival
John Creedon will be in conversation with RTE Radio 1’s Paula Shields on Saturday, October 11, at 8pm as part of the Dromineer Nenagh Literary Festival.
The popular broadcaster’s new book This Boy’s Heart is set in a city-centre household bursting with humanity, with a cast of a dozen children and another dozen adults, including beloved aunts, an American writer, an African doctor and a Scottish bookie. The streets outside are teeming with brewery horses, Christian Brothers, beat clubs, dance halls, a Turkish Delight shop -- and a pub where a child could sit up on a high stool and smoke his cigarette in peace. Summers are spent farmed out to friends and family in the countryside, with hilarious tales of donkey derbies and cow chases.
Set in wildly contrasting worlds — from urban exotica to spacious meadows, from the classroom of fifty boys to the open road — these stories of friendship, fun, family and folklore take you on a heart-warming journey into an Irish childhood. The Irish Examiner reviewer wrote that the book ‘leaves a glow, a richness and a convincing reassurance that humanity is essentially good and well intentioned’.
John Creedon is one of Ireland’s best-loved broadcasters. He currently produces and presents The John Creedon Show on RTÉ Radio 1. He has also presented popular television series on RTÉ 1, including Creedon’s Wild Atlantic Way, Creedon’s Epic East, Creedon’s Shannon and several series of Creedon’s Atlas of Ireland. His first book, That Place We Call Home, was a bestseller, and his second book, An Irish Folklore Treasury, won the Best Irish-Published Book at the An Post Book Awards.
FORMER PATHOLOGIST IN CONVERSATION
On Friday, October 10, at 8pm in Nenagh Arts Centre, DNLF 2025 will host a special event with former state pathologist Marie Cassidy in conversation with crime journalist and podcaster Nicola Tallant
Called Deadly Evidence the discussion will focus on Marie Cassidy’s new novel of the same name which opens as her heroine State pathologist Terry O'Brien is about to take on her toughest role yet.
Tasked with leading the Open Case Review Unit, her usual post-mortem work has been extended to cold-case investigation into unsolved suspicious deaths. When a garda detective is murdered, his body mutilated and dumped on gangland ground, she is called in.
As a large-scale investigation takes shape to hunt down the killers, Terry's postmortem uncovers uncomfortable evidence. She soon finds herself up against the powers that be.
But as new evidence emerges from her cold-case work that impacts closer to home, this may be the least of her worries. Can the identity of her sister Jenny's killer, all those years ago, be revealed? And is this a truth best left buried?
Deadly Evidence is a gripping page-turner that charts the course of a heroine of the mortuary who has come back from the brink once and remains determined to speak truth to power, whatever the cost.
During her 15-year career as Ireland’s State Pathologist, Marie Cassidy became known to the Irish public as a trusted figure whose expertise helped to solve murders and clarify unexplained deaths. In over thirty years of practice, she performed thousands of postmortems and dealt with hundreds of murders. She retired at the end of 2018 to spend more time on the other passions in her life, her family and writing. Marie is the author of two number one bestselling books: her memoir Beyond the Tape (2020) and her debut novel Body of Truth.
Nicola Tallant is an award-winning journalist, author and podcaster. She specialises in organised crime and regularly appears on TV, radio and at live events. She is executive producer of a number of crime documentaries as well as the award-winning podcast; The Witness in His Own Words based on her best-selling book The Witness. She hosts her own weekly show - Nicola Tallant’s Crime World. She lives in Dublin. Her seventh book Groomed is released in October.