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- Type/Formats:
- Collection — Sound — podcasts
- Media type:
- audio/mpeg
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Mathews, P.J. (Patrick) (PJ Mathews) (edt Editor) (pbd Publishing director)
- Abstract:
- UCDscholarcast provides downloadable lectures, recorded to the highest broadcast standards to a wide academic audience of scholars, graduate students, undergraduates and interested others. Each scholarcast is accompanied by a downloadable pdf text version of the lecture to facilitate citation of... [ … ]
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- Media type:
- audio/mpeg
- Abstract:
- In this series leading scholars from across the humanities read extracts from their recently published books.
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- Media type:
- audio/mpeg
- Abstract:
- The aim of this series is to offer insights into key moments in the story of Irish popular culture since the publication of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies in the early nineteenth century. If the story of transnational Irish popular culture begins with Thomas Moore in the early nineteenth century, it... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Doody, Aude, 1977- (Aude Doody)
- Abstract:
- 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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- 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:
- Negra, Diane, 1966- (Diane Negra)
- Abstract:
- In this episode Diane Negra reads from the Introduction of Old and New Media after Katrina published by Palgrave Macmillan. This pioneering collection explores the relationship between Hurricane Katrina and a range of media forms, assessing how mainstream and independent media have responded... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Ferriter, Diarmaid, 1972- (Diarmaid Ferriter)
- Abstract:
- In this episode Diarmaid Ferriter reads from chapter six of his latest book Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland published by Profile Books. Using a huge variety of different sources, Occasions of Sin charts the Irish sexual experience over the course of the twentieth century. In... [ … ]
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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... [ … ]
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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.... [ … ]
