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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Daly, Nicholas Paul (Nick Daly)
- Abstract:
- 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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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Groom, Nick, 1966- (Nick Groom)
- Abstract:
- 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... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Brannigan, John (John Brannigan)
- Abstract:
- 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... [ … ]
