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Scholarcast 35: Via Holyhead, Material and metaphorical meaings between Ireland and Wales

UCDscholarcast - November 12, 2013 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
This lecture explores the Holyhead Road as a cultural corridor along which people, books, and ideas move, and is part of a larger project examining infrastructural links as sites of cultural exchange between Britain and Ireland from Swift to Joyce. The lecture begins by following Buck Mulligan's ...

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Scholarcast 34: Commemorating Abuse: Gender Politics and Making Space

UCDscholarcast - November 12, 2013 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
Recent cultural explorations of Ireland's history of institutional abuse have focussed on buildings as ways of creating a commemorative space for this history. Brokentalkers' The Blue Boy (2011), Anu Productions' Laundry (2011), and Evelyn Glynn's Breaking the Rule of Silence (2011) all insist on...

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Scholarcast 33: Archipelagic Cartographies: Brenda Chamberlain's 'Western Isle'

UCDscholarcast - October 29, 2013 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
This lecture is an exploration of the archipelagic island imagination of artist, poet and writer Brenda Chamberlain (1912–71) under the rubric of literary cartography. Part of a wider study of the literary text's 'mapmindedness' – the ways in which imaginative writing accomplishes specifically ca...

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Scholarcast 32: Famine Commemoration and Migration

UCDscholarcast - October 28, 2013 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
Since the 150th anniversary of the Irish Famine in the 1990s, the Famine has been the subject of a remarkable commemorative boom, with more than one hundred public monuments newly constructed worldwide. Over the past decade Dr Emily Mark-FitzGerald has completed the first large-scale documentatio...

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Scholarcast 31: Writing around the Irish Sea: Inlets, outlets, Firths and Mouths

UCDscholarcast - August 23, 2013 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
The Lecture explores the enduring fascination of the Irish Sea, focusing particularly on the Solway Firth, an area regarded by the nineteenth-century artist, art critic, writer and social reformer, John Ruskin, as second only to the Holy Land in its cultural importance. The ageing Ruskin wrote pa...

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Scholarcast 30: Memory Studies and Famine Studies: Gender, Genealogy, History

UCDscholarcast - August 20, 2013 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
This lecture identifies and examines a number of trends in recent historiographical work on the Great Famine including their striking appropriation of narrative and fictive tropes. It explores the existence – or perceived existence – of an 'affective gap' in existing historiography, which is seen...

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Scholarcast 29: The Prisons Memory Archive

UCDscholarcast - May 13, 2013 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
The Prisons Memory Archive is a collection of 170 filmed interviews inside Armagh Gaol and the Maze and Long Kesh Prison. Utilising protocols of inclusivity, co-ownership and life-storytelling, the PMA recorded participants, including prison staff, prisoners, chaplains, teachers and visitors, as ...

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Scholarcast 28: Ireland, Empire and the Archipelago

UCDscholarcast - April 12, 2013 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
By 1916 the British Empire was at a point of crisis. The beginning of the First World War marked the end of a half-century of expansion in trade and speculation that made the empire a global network for the exchange of capital. Consequently, the foundations of Irish separatism were built in movem...

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Scholarcast 27: 'All Changed, Changed Utterly': Easter 1916 and America

UCDscholarcast - February 20, 2012 10:52 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
When P.H. Pearse proclaimed 'The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic' on Easter Monday 1916, he acknowledged that Ireland of the Rising was 'supported by her exiled children in America'. What assistance did these "exiled children" provide, and how did people in America react to the Easte...

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Scholarcast 27: 'All Changed, Changed Utterly': Easter 1916 and America

UCDscholarcast - February 20, 2012 10:52 - 39 minutes
When P.H. Pearse proclaimed 'The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic' on Easter Monday 1916, he acknowledged that Ireland of the Rising was 'supported by her exiled children in America'. What assistance did these "exiled children" provide, and how did people in America react to the Easte...

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Scholarcast 26: Perspectives on Popular Music in Ireland from the 1960s to the mid-1970s

UCD Scholarcast - Series 5: Reflections on Irish Music - August 31, 2011 10:52 - 36 minutes ★★★ - 1 rating
In this Scholarcast Paul Brady reflects on his early childhood encounters with music and on the importance of popular music in the 1960s to the formation of his own musical consciousness.  He recounts his earliest experiences playing with various  R ‘n’ B bands during his time as a student at UCD...

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Scholarcast 26: Perspectives on Popular Music in Ireland from the 1960s to the mid-1970s

UCDscholarcast - August 31, 2011 10:52 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this Scholarcast Paul Brady reflects on his early childhood encounters with music and on the importance of popular music in the 1960s to the formation of his own musical consciousness.  He recounts his earliest experiences playing with various  R ‘n’ B bands during his time as a student at UCD...

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Scholarcast 25: 'Dreaming of the Islands': The Poetry of the Shipping Forecast

UCDscholarcast - May 27, 2011 10:52 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
This 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...

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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 minutes
This 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...

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Scholarcast 24: England Versus English Literature

UCDscholarcast - May 27, 2011 10:51 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
This 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...

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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 minutes
This 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...

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Scholarcast 23: Pliny's Encyclopedia: The reception of the natural history

UCDscholarcast - December 10, 2010 10:51 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
In his episode Aude Doody reads from the Introduction to Pliny’s Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History, published by Cambridge University Press. The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred ...

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Scholarcast 23: Pliny's Encyclopedia: The reception of the natural history

UCD Scholarcast - Series 3: Scholars off the Page - December 10, 2010 10:51 - 10 minutes
In his episode Aude Doody reads from the Introduction to Pliny’s Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History, published by Cambridge University Press. The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred ...

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Scholarcast 22: Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s

UCDscholarcast - December 10, 2010 09:51 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode Nicholas Daly reads from the Introduction to his book Sensation and Modernity in the 1860's published by Cambridge University Press. This is a study of high and low culture in the years before the Reform Act of 1867, which vastly increased the number of voters in Victorian Britain...

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Scholarcast 22: Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s

UCD Scholarcast - Series 3: Scholars off the Page - December 10, 2010 09:51 - 24 minutes
In this episode Nicholas Daly reads from the Introduction to his book Sensation and Modernity in the 1860's published by Cambridge University Press. This is a study of high and low culture in the years before the Reform Act of 1867, which vastly increased the number of voters in Victorian Britain...

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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 minutes
The 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...

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Scholarcast 21: Scottish and Irish Second World War Poetry

UCDscholarcast - August 04, 2010 10:51 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
The 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...

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Scholarcast 20: Alright, Jack? Conflict and Cohesion in Britain, 2005-10

UCDscholarcast - July 12, 2010 10:51 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
Nick 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...

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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 minutes
Nick 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...

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Scholarcast 19: Four Nations Feminism: Una Troy and Menna Gallie

UCDscholarcast - June 28, 2010 10:51 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
The 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...

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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 minutes
The 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...

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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 minutes
Among 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...

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Scholarcast 18: Dynamism, deixis and cultural positioning in some contemporary poetry

UCDscholarcast - May 27, 2010 10:51 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
Among 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...

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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 minutes
In '"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 ...

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Scholarcast 17: Professions of English diaspora

UCDscholarcast - May 20, 2010 10:51 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
In '"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 ...