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Scholarcast 8: Filming Friel: Lughnasa on Screen
UCD Scholarcast - Series 1: The Art of Popular Culture: From "The Meeting of the Waters" to Riverdance - December 03, 2008 10:41 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFrank McGuinness speaks of his experience of adapting Brian Friel’s Dancing At Lughnasa for the screen, with Meryl Streep in the leading role. Friel has appeared to shy away from film for most of his distinguished career but was deeply influenced by the wider revolutions in acting, writing and d...
Scholarcast 7: Globalising Irish Music
UCD Scholarcast - Series 1: The Art of Popular Culture: From "The Meeting of the Waters" to Riverdance - April 28, 2008 10:51 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOver the last three decades Bill Whelan has been at the heart of many exciting moments of extraordinary innovation in Irish music across the genres from traditional to rock. Here he documents and considers his varied career to date, from jobbing session musician in the early 1970s to Grammy Award...
Scholarcast 6: Hollywood and Contemporary Irish Drama
UCD Scholarcast - Series 1: The Art of Popular Culture: From "The Meeting of the Waters" to Riverdance - April 14, 2008 10:51 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis lecture examines how contemporary Irish playwrights depict and how they engage the cinematic and narrative patterns we’ve come to associate with American movies. Donal O’Kelly’s Catalpa (1995), Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan (1996), Marie Jones’s Stones in His Pockets (1999), and...
Scholarcast 5: Neutrality and Popular Culture
UCD Scholarcast - Series 1: The Art of Popular Culture: From "The Meeting of the Waters" to Riverdance - April 08, 2008 10:51 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis lecture explores forms of popular culture that developed in Ireland during the Second World War. Comparisons are drawn with Britain, where radio and cinema assume tremendous importance in the war years. In Ireland the major developments are in amateur drama, reading groups, beginnings of fil...
Scholarcast 4: Anne Fogarty - James Joyce and Popular Culture
UCD Scholarcast - Series 1: The Art of Popular Culture: From "The Meeting of the Waters" to Riverdance - March 27, 2008 12:51 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames Joyce’s works abound in references to popular culture. They depict such works as part of the very fabric of modern consciousness. Frequently, Joyce deploys allusions to popular entertainment as a means of underlining the debasement and vulgarity of contemporary existence. But also crucially...
Scholarcast 3: Eddie Holt - W.B. Yeats, Journalism and the Revival
UCD Scholarcast - Series 1: The Art of Popular Culture: From "The Meeting of the Waters" to Riverdance - March 14, 2008 13:51 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis lecture examines W.B. Yeats’s not inconsiderable body of writing for the newspapers which ranges from literary journalism to letters to the editor. Attention will focus on the tensions between his clear commitment to journalistic practice and his own avowed hostility to ‘the Ireland of the n...
Scholarcast 2: Elaine Sisson - The Boy as National Hero: The legacy of Cuchulainn
UCD Scholarcast - Series 1: The Art of Popular Culture: From "The Meeting of the Waters" to Riverdance - March 14, 2008 12:51 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis lecture is focused primarily on the pre-revolutionary period in Ireland and looks at the cultural and visual significance of the image of the boy within Irish nationalist discourse.
Scholarcast 1: PJ Mathews - Doing Something Irish: From Thomas Moore to Riverdance
UCD Scholarcast - Series 1: The Art of Popular Culture: From "The Meeting of the Waters" to Riverdance - March 12, 2008 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLike Moore’s Melodies, Bill Whelan’s Riverdance has become the stable signifier of a complex cultural moment. The innovation and appeal of his music lies in his ability to interrogate and transcend the highly compartmentalised divisions within Irish music which can be traced back to Yeats’s rejec...
Scholarcast Series 1 Introduction
UCD Scholarcast - Series 1: The Art of Popular Culture: From "The Meeting of the Waters" to Riverdance - March 11, 2008 09:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPJ Mathews introduces Series 1 of UCDscholarcast