Latest Anne fogarty Podcast Episodes
Scholarcast 61: Style and context -Traditional Irish Harping
UCDscholarcast - April 20, 2017 10:52 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis Scholarcast is an extract from Helen Lawlor's book, Irish Harping: 1900-2010 (Four Courts Press, 2012). This study provides a musical ethnography and a history of the Irish harp. It gives a socio-cultural and musical analysis of the music and song associated with all Irish harp styles, inclu...
Scholarcast 61: Style and context -Traditional Irish Harping
UCD Scholarcast - Series 5: Reflections on Irish Music - April 20, 2017 10:52 - 32 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis Scholarcast is an extract from Helen Lawlor’s book, Irish Harping: 1900-2010 (Four Courts Press, 2012). This study provides a musical ethnography and a history of the Irish harp. It gives a socio-cultural and musical analysis of the music and song associated with all Irish harp styles, inclu...
Scholarcast 60: On Development, Waste and Ghosts
UCDscholarcast - January 27, 2016 11:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsMovements in ecocriticism that call for links to be made with postcolonialism challenge us, here in Ireland and outside of it, to do work that has not come naturally. As critics like Rob Nixon have pointed out, ecocriticism and postcolonialism were, in fact, often at odds with each other as the f...
Scholarcast 59: Environmental Narratives, Climate Change and Sovereignty Loss
UCDscholarcast - January 11, 2016 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode argues for a politicization of cultural and literary critiques of environmental issues in Ireland. It demonstrates methods through which Irish Studies can enter into a creative correspondence with the growing field of Environmental Humanities scholarship.
Scholarcast 58: Taking the Floor: Dance, Nation and Gender in the Irish Revival
UCDscholarcast - November 05, 2015 11:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode explores the process whereby dance was transformed from a practice enjoyed for its own sake into ‘a conscious symbolic act' of Irish nationhood during the Revival. Drawing on the work of dance scholars and historians, Barbara O'Connor examines the role of the Gaelic League in develop...
Scholarcast 57: James Joyce, Treeless Hills and the Night of the Big Wind
UCDscholarcast - August 11, 2015 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe fall of the great forests of Ireland provided James Joyce with a rich literary trope laden with cultural memory and socio-political resonances, which he utilized throughout his works and most fully in Finnegans Wake. The trope taps into a chain of historical events well-rehearsed by nationali...
Scholarcast 56: Revival and Visual Art – Harry Clarke's Geneva Window
UCDscholarcast - July 29, 2015 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe episode focuses on one of the most elaborate artworks to be made in Ireland in the 1920s, Harry Clarke's Geneva Window. The work, intended for the League of Nations, illustrates extracts from the texts of fifteen Irish writers. Clarke's innovative approach to the technique of stained glass an...
Scholarcast 55: Yeats, Revival and the Temporalities of Modernism
UCDscholarcast - July 17, 2015 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis lecture puts forward the idea that Yeats's Revivalism lies at the heart of his modernism rather than at the "pre-modernist" periphery of his early career. For Yeats, as for so many of his contemporaries, Revival was not a form of nostalgia, in which the past was cut off from experience; nor ...
Scholarcast 54: The Revival and the City in James Stephens's Dublin Fiction
UCDscholarcast - June 24, 2015 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsExamining the infiltration of new notions of urbanism into Irish culture in this era, in particular through the Housing and Town Planning Association of Ireland, this talk looks at the Dublin-based writings of James Stephens to show how revivalist writers were responsive to the peculiarities of I...
Scholarcast 53: Supply Chains: Labour, Poverty, and the the Nonhuman Animal of Joyce's Ulysses
UCDscholarcast - June 04, 2015 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode Adam Putz explores complementary representations of labour and poverty in Ulysses which disintegrate category distinctions like human and nonhuman.
Scholarcast 52: Gaelic Culture from the Child's Perspective - The Diaries of Kerry Schoolgirls (1916-1918)
UCDscholarcast - June 02, 2015 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsOne of the most complicated and persistent questions in the study of childhood in the past relates to the experiences of individual children. How can we know how children perceived the world around them when they have left little written evidence of their own experience and interpretations of the...
Scholarcast 51: 'The IFSC as a Way of Organizing Nature': Neoliberal Ecology and Irish Literature
UCDscholarcast - May 25, 2015 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode Sharae Deckard analyses the unprecedented commoditization of new ecological commons under neoliberal capitalism and reflects on the importance of environmental humanities approaches to historicize conceptions of environment and configurations of environment.
Scholarcast 49: Silence and Solitude: The absence of intimacy in Roddy Doyle's The Snapper
UCDscholarcast - April 30, 2015 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn spite of the linguistic license that defines Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper, the characters maintain crucial silences throughout in relation to meaningful issues. This episode examines the system of self-imposed censorship that operates among the female characters in particular and how it leads to ...
Scholarcast 50: The Van
UCDscholarcast - April 30, 2015 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Van, the final novel in Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown trilogy, explores the physical, psychological and social impact of unemployment on the protagonist, Jimmy Rabbitte Sr. Having been laid off from his job as a plasterer, Jimmy struggles to find a new role for himself within the family that is not...
Scholarcast Series 13: Dublin, One City One Book 2015 - The Barrytown Trilogy
UCDscholarcast - April 24, 2015 09:00 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 2 ratingsRoddy Doyle is perhaps the single most successful novelist of this period, gaining an audience far beyond the environs of Dublin's Northside where most of his writing is set. Along with the emergence of rock group U2, Doyle represents a brash generational shift, a confident certitude in his gener...
Scholarcast 48: Everybody Speaks: Utopia and Polyphony in The Commitments
UCDscholarcast - April 24, 2015 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsFredric Jameson proposes that a "utopia" is a political idea that hopes to transcend, or exist outside, politics, but that must, inevitably, begin inside politics – at "the moment of the suspension of the political," the political must inevitably return. This holds true for the utopian imagined c...
Scholarcast 47: The Barrytown Trilogy: An Introduction to Roddy Doyle's Dublin
UCDscholarcast - April 24, 2015 09:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat has become known as the Barrytown trilogy: The Commitments (1988), The Snapper (1990) and The Van (1991), have become iconic in Irish culture. Centred on one family, the Rabbittes, Roddy Doyle makes reference to current events like the 1990 Soccer World Cup, and in dealing with the issues of...
Scholarcast 46: Children and the Irish Cultural Revival
UCDscholarcast - March 18, 2015 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode discusses how and why various Irish nationalist individuals and organisations attempted to engage children and youth in the Irish cultural revival, particularly in the early twentieth century. It also explores the link between the promotion of a specifically Irish cultural identity a...
Scholarcast Series 12: Modalities of Revival
UCDscholarcast - March 18, 2015 11:00 - 2 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn Irish Studies, the term Irish Revival broadly defines the cultural nationalist movement which thrived in Ireland from the late nineteenth-century up until the establishment of the Irish Free State. It refers to the pre-Independence period when powerful narratives of de-colonization and cultura...
Scholarcast 45: Salmon Leap
UCDscholarcast - December 22, 2014 11:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, Eamonn Ryan deliberates on the collective leap which individuals and nation states need to make for a sustainable, habitable future. He argues that individuals cannot be faced with moral choices about the environment on a daily basis. Instead, he indicates that it is through soun...
Scholarcast Series 11: Irish Studies and the Environmental Humanities
UCDscholarcast - December 22, 2014 11:00 - 2 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 2 ratingsEvery reader and scholar of Irish literature is familiar with its extensive genealogy of nature writing, and a 'sense of place' found across a great variety of texts. While not unique to Ireland such a rich heritage has produced some of the most enduring and exciting literary and cultural critici...
Scholarcast 44: Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them
UCDscholarcast - June 05, 2014 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this lecture Paula Meehan delivers the Ireland Chair of Poetry Lecture, 2014. The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust was set up in 1998 and is jointly held between Queen's University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Counci...
Scholarcast 43: Writing the City
UCDscholarcast - April 25, 2014 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis talk explores the challenges involved in writing the city of Dublin into poetry. It considers the insights and emotions that emerge from reading the work of these poets as they write to remember, to celebrate and to interrogate Dublin as a place of personal and national significance.
Scholarcast 42: 'Mine by right of love': Women Poets in the City
UCDscholarcast - April 16, 2014 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis talk explores some poems by women published in the last one hundred years, from lesser-known figures such as Winifred Letts to contemporaries Eavan Boland and Paula Meehan.
Scholarcast 41: Peopling the Place
UCDscholarcast - April 08, 2014 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis short talk will consider some of the ways in which poems in the If Ever You Go anthology visualise and present people in the city environment of Dublin. The poems included cover a broad historical range, from Samuel Ferguson to Paula Meehan, revealing the important representation of Dublin p...
Scholarcast 40: The Lyric Flow of Street
UCDscholarcast - April 01, 2014 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe poems that appear in this anthology reflect the broad spectrum of relationships that exist between the city and those that inhabit, however briefly, its public and private spaces. From speakers who trace their Dublin roots through generations, to those who visit the city for a short time, per...
Scholarcast 39: Giving 'A Tongue to the Sea Cliffs': The Landless Inheritance of W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland
UCDscholarcast - March 04, 2014 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIrish literature has often been shaped by its relation to the national through land and the consciousness of land. New perspectives provided by Atlantic studies, however, now allow for new narratives unrelated to land to be put into conversation with older narratives. This lecture examines work ...
Scholarcast 38: 'port-lights/Of a ghost-ship': Thomas Carnduff and the Belfast Shipyards
UCDscholarcast - February 18, 2014 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsBelfast, as a city, has come to be represented in recent years by the shadow of its industrial heritage. The Titanic, and the shipyards in which it was built, have become central to the city's attempt to give cultural and economic purchase to its contemporary identity. This lecture uncovers some ...
Scholarcast 37: 'At the Dying Atlantic's Edge': Norman Nicholson and the Cumbrian Coast
UCDscholarcast - January 07, 2014 11:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis lecture is concerned with the mid-twentieth-century Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson. Far from being a late Lake District poet', Nicholson is chiefly a poet of northern England's Atlantic edge, the Cumbrian coastal strip. Yet his contemplative gaze almost never turns westward. He also refuses ...
Scholarcast 36: Draining the Irish Channel: Identity, Sustainability, and the Politics of Water
UCDscholarcast - January 07, 2014 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 1722 an anonymous author styling himself with the degree 'A. M. in Hydrostat' published a proposal in Dublin with the title, Thoughts of a Project for Draining the Irish Channel, a satire on both the South-Sea Bubble and Anglo-Irish politics, as well as a comment on the craze for projects and ...
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