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 a chronicle of Ireland in transition, told by the man who listened hardest - and made talking feel easy.
Author Joe Duffy is the former presenter of Ireland''s most popular daily radio show, Liveline, on RTE Radio 1. He also presented Liveline Callback on RTÉ One Television.
Born in Dublin''s Mountjoy Square and reared in Ballyfermot, he published his bestselling memoir Just Joe in 2010.
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 at the Irish Book Awards in 2015, and Children of the Troubles won Best Irish-Published Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards in 2019. Talk to Joe is his fourth book.


