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Scholarcast 25: 'Dreaming of the Islands': The Poetry of the Shipping Forecast
UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago - May 27, 2011 10:52 - 35 minutesThis lecture examines poems which make reference to the Shipping Forecast, as broadcast by BBC Radio Four, including poems by Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Sean Street, Andrew McNeillie, and Andrew Waterman. The aim of the lecture is to consider how both the radio broadcast and the poems it ins...
Scholarcast 24: England Versus English Literature
UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago - May 27, 2011 10:51 - 21 minutesThis presentation looks at the relationship between England and the British discipline of English Literature, whose origin, it argues, owes much to the state unification of Britain between 1790 and 1815, particularly informed by an anti-French-Revolutionary Burkean philosophy which was defined by...
Scholarcast 21: Scottish and Irish Second World War Poetry
UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago - August 04, 2010 10:51 - 37 minutesThe relationship between the poetic and the national is crucial to how war poetry is perceived and interpreted. This essay looks at Second World War (and wartime) poetry from Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and in particular at images of absence, cancellation, annulment an...
Scholarcast 20: Alright, Jack? Conflict and Cohesion in Britain, 2005-10
UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago - July 12, 2010 10:51 - 37 minutesNick Groom's study of the union, The Union Jack: The Story of the British Flag, was published in 2006. In this paper, he brings that story up to the present day by surveying the past five years of Union Jackery, from Gordon Brown's initial enthusiasm for new definitions of Britishness through ong...
Scholarcast 19: Four Nations Feminism: Una Troy and Menna Gallie
UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago - June 28, 2010 10:51 - 36 minutesThe emergence of four nations framework in literary and historical scholarship has helped us to arrive at a fuller understanding of the complex and overlapping histories of the islands of Britain and Ireland, while recent research into Wales and Ireland in particular has helped to make the map of...
Scholarcast 18: Dynamism, deixis and cultural positioning in some contemporary poetry
UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago - May 27, 2010 10:51 - 34 minutesAmong the many divergent strands of Irish and Welsh cultural history, one commonality stands out: the profoundly self-conscious preoccupation with nationality and nationhood. For decades, political and cultural thinkers have troped this concern in the spatialized relation between centre and perip...
Scholarcast 17: Professions of English diaspora
UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago - May 20, 2010 10:51 - 33 minutesIn '"I have only one culture and it is not mine": Professions of English diaspora', Julian Wolfreys engages in acts of memory-work, to recover, through a focus on the voice as mnemotechnic and anamnesiac trace, the occluded and marginalized cultural differences of the regional English. Through a ...
Scholarcast 16: Poems and Paradigms
UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago - May 06, 2010 10:51 - 33 minutesIn Poems and Paradigms Edna Longley argues that the archipelagic paradigm is crucial to the criticism of modern poetry in English. Quoting John Kerrigan on the expansive, multi-levelled, polycentric aspects of the literary and cultural field, she discussed five poems which display their archipela...