Kevin Barry: Embracing Mistakes & Running With Them

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

Society & Culture, News, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture:personal Journals, Personal Journals, Politics

4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, award-winning writer Kevin Barry joined Jarlath for a fascinating conversation about writing and the mystery of the creative process. Kevin speaks about the deal fiction writers make with their subconscious mind, the importance of embracing failure, trusting the gut and reveals the book he regards as his "awkward child". This chat is full of the classic Irish observations you’d expect from Kevin and few strange revelations such as his early attempts to write after returning home from a heavy night out to his admission that he couldn’t ride a bike until he was 15. This conversation is the perfect antidote to the bleakness we have all gotten used to this past month. Irishman Abroad brings you more light next Friday with Harry Hill joining our online comedy show in aid of frontline workers. Go to www.returnofthecraic.com to reserve your stream and see the rest of the stellar lineup. To hear every episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 400 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad Our charity partner is jigsawonline.ie. In these tricky times, Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for your people to help them strengthen their mental health and the skills needed to navigate life. Please visit their website and consider making a donation. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow @jarlath on Twitter, visit www.jigser.com or email the show directly on [email protected]. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Irishman Abroad podcast is clearly and accurately provided.

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0:00.0	Nothing can transport you quite like Kevin Barry's words.
0:06.4	His award-winning short-story collections and novels don't need any further praise, least of all from someone like me, but needless to say, they are sublime.
0:16.0	What's even more extraordinary about his work is how late he has come to success.
0:22.3	The pattern of starting things late and coming to a realisation after years of wandering elsewhere is something we had
0:28.7	the chance to talk about, along with a few other topics he's never really spoken about before.
0:35.5	I'd love you to hear the whole thing. We are a crowdfunded podcast, only made possible through your support.
0:42.6	If you fancy it, if you have a couple of extra euro and would like to hear the rest of this chat
0:46.7	and hundreds of other deep dive conversations with Irish legends like Dylan Moore and Tommy Tiernan, Gabriel Byrne, Sharon Horgan, Mary Robinson,
0:55.6	and many more.
0:56.7	Head to patreon.com forward slash Irishman abroad.
1:01.1	That's where you need to go.
1:03.0	I'm doing a little 15% discount at the moment if you sign up for the year.
1:08.4	I like to use this podcast as well as a platform to promote one charity that is very close to my heart,
1:13.9	jigsaw.io,
1:16.2	Ireland's National Centre for Youth Mental Health.
1:19.2	They need your help to cope with the surge in demand for their services.
1:23.7	I've committed to run 2,000 kilometres for them this year
1:26.8	to raise as much money as I can for them.
1:29.7	What you can do is tune in to our running podcast every Tuesday with Sanya O'Sullivan and join us on the road and set your own goal.
1:36.9	What can you do?
1:38.1	What can you raise?
1:38.8	How far can you run?
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