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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Whelan, Bill (Bill Whelan)
- Abstract:
- Over 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... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- O'Connor, Blaze, 1975-2009 (Blaze O'Connor)
- Abstract:
- This short paper offers a personal reflection based on the author’s involvement in the reconstruction phase of the Francis Bacon studio project. During this project, archaeologists were employed to deconstruct or ‘excavate’ the contents of Francis Bacon’s painting studio in London, and... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- McGuinness, Frank, 1953- (Frank McGuinness)
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- Frank 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... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Media type:
- audio/mpeg
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Wills, Clair (Clair Wills)
- Abstract:
- This 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 film... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Bailey, Douglass (Douglass Bailey)
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- Professor Bailey discusses the various relationships between art and archaeology, and argues that the most exciting current work is pushing hard against the boundaries of both disciplines. His proposal is for archaeologists and artists to take big risks in their work and to cut loose the restraints... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Media type:
- audio/mpeg
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Russell, Ian (Ian Russell)
- Abstract:
- Ian Russell introduces Series 2 of UCDscholarcast. In the summer of 2008, Ian Russell curated a series of contemporary art projects entitled Abhar agus Meon as part of Ireland’s hosting of the Sixth World Archaeological Congress at University College Dublin. The projects were placed in the shared... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Reynolds, Paige (Paige Reynolds)
- Abstract:
- This 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... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Holt, Eddie (Eddie Holt)
- Abstract:
- This 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... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Fogarty, Anne, 1958- (Anne Fogarty)
- Abstract:
- James 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,... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Kiberd, Declan, 1951- (Declan Kiberd)
- Abstract:
- In this episode Declan Kiberd reads the closing chapter of his latest book Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living published by Faber and Faber. Kiberd shows that Ulysses, far from being the epitome of elitism, was always intended as a book for the common people. It was rooted in their experience... [ … ]
