{"product_id":"talk-to-joe","title":"Talk to Joe","description":"For nearly three decades, Joe Duffy sat behind the mic as host of RTÉ''s Liveline, the radio\u003cbr\u003eshow that became Ireland''s national sounding board. In this walk down memory lane, Joe\u003cbr\u003etakes readers inside the studio and beyond, sharing the stories, voices and moments that\u003cbr\u003edefined a generation.\u003cbr\u003eFrom C eltic Tiger boom to crash, from marriage equality to menopause, Liveline was\u003cbr\u003ewhere Ireland came to talk - and often to change. It was the place where scandals broke,\u003cbr\u003einjustices were exposed, and ordinary people made headlines - and where issues from\u003cbr\u003ematernity care to abuses in schools and institutions were brought into the national\u003cbr\u003econversation.\u003cbr\u003eWith warmth, honesty and trademark wit, Joe reflects on the privilege and responsibility\u003cbr\u003eof platforming the nation''s voice, through heartbreak, humour, anger and hope. Talk to\u003cbr\u003eJoe is more than a memoir: it''s a chronicle of Ireland in transition, told by the man who\u003cbr\u003elistened hardest - and made talking feel easy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBroadcaster and author Joe Duffy is the presenter of Ireland''s most popular daily radio\u003cbr\u003eshow, Liveline, on RTE Radio 1. He also presents Liveline Callback on RTÉ One Television.\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Dublin''s Mountjoy Square and reared in Ballyfermot, he published his bestselling\u003cbr\u003ememoir Just Joe in 2010.\u003cbr\u003eIn 2015, his original research on the children killed during the Easter Rising of 1916\u003cbr\u003eunearthed for the first time information on the forty children who died violently that week.\u003cbr\u003eHis books have been critically acclaimed: Children of the Rising won the non-fiction Book\u003cbr\u003eof the Year at the Irish Book Awards in 2015, and Children of the Troubles won Best Irish-\u003cbr\u003ePublished Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards in 2019.","brand":"Duffy, Joe","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53625557582163,"sku":"9781399762618","price":24.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/duffy-joe-talk-to-joe-9781399762618-1242679478.jpg?v=1780576902","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/talk-to-joe","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}