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Talk to Joe: Life, Liveline and Me
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- Book Synopsis
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For nearly three decades, Joe Duffy sat behind the mic as host of RTÉ's Liveline, the radio show that became Ireland's national sounding board. In this walk down memory lane, Joe takes readers inside the studio and beyond, sharing the stories, voices and moments that defined a generation.
From Celtic Tiger boom to crash, from marriage equality to menopause, Liveline was where Ireland came to talk - and often to change. It was the place where scandals broke, injustices were exposed, and ordinary people made headlines - and where issues from maternity care to abuses in schools and institutions were brought into the national conversation.
With warmth, honesty and trademark wit, Joe reflects on the privilege and responsibility of platforming the nation's voice, through heartbreak, humour, anger and hope. Talk to Joe is more than a memoir: it's a chronicle of Ireland in transition, told by the man who listened hardest - and made talking feel easy.
- About The Author
- Broadcaster and author Joe Duffy was the presenter of Ireland's most popular daily radio programme, Liveline, on RTÉ Radio 1 for more than 25 years. He also presented Liveline: Callback and latterly The Meaning of Life on RTÉ One Television.Born in Dublin's Mountjoy Square and reared in Ballyfermot, he published his bestselling memoir, Just Joe, in 2011.In 2015, his original research on the children killed during the Easter Rising of 1916 unearthed, for the first time, information on the forty children who died violently that week. His books have been critically acclaimed: Children of the Rising won the Non-Fiction Book of the Year award at the Irish Book Awards in 2015, and Children of the Troubles, co-authored with Freya McClements, won Best Irish-Published Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards in 2019.Following a distinguished career in broadcasting, Duffy retired from RTÉ in 2025, having become one of Ireland's best-known and most trusted broadcasters.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781399762618
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland, (29 October 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 580 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 236 x 158 x 34 mm
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