Jack Harte on location for A Heritage Tour Tireragh

Welcome to Jack Harte’s page here at podcasts.ie, below you will find some unique audio recordings of Jack’s work.  

Jack Harte is a full time writer and is published both in Ireland and abroad. Jack was born in Kileenduff in Co Sligo and when he was nine years old his family moved to Lansboro in Co Longford. Jack’s first collection of short stories, Murphy in the Underworld, was published by Glendale Press in 1986. Dedalus Press published his novella, Homage, in 1992 and his second collection of stories, Birds and other Tails, in 1996. A selection of his stories, under the title, Birds and Selected Stories, was translated into Bulgarian and published by Orpheus (Sofia) in 2001.

A volume of new and selected stories Under Gogol’s Nose was published by Scotus Press in 2004, along with ‘Lament for the Birds’, a CD of his stories and songs commissioned by Sligo County Council and recorded by All Points West Media Productions. Other works by Jack Harte include his 2006 volume of short stories ‘Dream of a Pyramid’, published in India by Rajkamal Prakashan in Hindi translation, and in 2007 a Russian translation of ‘From Under Gogol’s Nose’ was published by Voskresenye Publishing House and launched at the Moscow Book Fair.

                                                Reflections in a Tar Barrel Written by Jack Harte    From Under Gogol's Nose - Written by Jack Harte    In the Wake of the Bagger   Lament for The Birds - By Jack Harte with Music from Carmel Gunning

In 2006 Scotus Press published ‘In the wake of the Bagger’, a novel commissioned by Sligo Co Council under the Per Cent for Art Scheme of the Irish Government, the first novel to be so commissioned. 2007 saw the publication in Bulgarian translation of his novel, ‘Reflections in a Tar Barrel’. The English version was published by the Scotus Press in 2008.

Newly added this week.  Jack reads an excerpt from his novel ‘Reflections in a Tar Barrel’. Below that file we have an excerpt of a short story called Birds from the collection ‘Under Gogol’s Nose’ and the third recording is an extract from Jack Harte’s 2006 Novel In the Wake of the Bagger. 

 
 Excerpt from Reflections in a Tar Barrel [16:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
 
 Excerpt from Birds written by Jack Harte [5:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
 
 Excerpt from In the Wake of the Bagger written by Jack Harte [3:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

For more about Jack Harte and his collections visit his website by clicking here.