Podcasts by Davis Now Lectures
Presenting new or previously broadcast commissioned lectures on timely subjects from Ireland's finest scholars, thinkers and artists. The inspiration for the podcast is the iconic RTÉ THOMAS DAVIS lectures which for over half a century since 1953 featured newly written radio talks on a host of subjects.
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Podcast: Making Home 2020: An Introduction | Davis Now Lectures from 2022-04-21T11:18:17.152783
A re-shaping for our times of the iconic RTÉ Thomas Davis Lectures, recorded with a live audience. A leading figure in a subject hosts their choice of commissioned lectures from scholars and creati...
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Podcast - Making Home 2020: Lecture 4 from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.986706
Unmaking Home: Making Homes for Shelter or for Investment? by Professor Michelle Norris, Head of the School of Social Policy, Social Work, and Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland.
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Trailer: Davis Now Lectures Podcast from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.961537
The RTÉ Radio 1 DAVIS NOW LECTURES podcast presents new or previously broadcast commissioned lectures on timely subjects from Ireland’s finest scholars, thinkers and artists. The inspiration for t...
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Spaces of the Mind | Davis Now Lectures Podcast from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.956185
Geographer Jim Hourihane was consultant editor of a series first broadcast in 2002 entitled ‘Engaging Spaces’ which explores the nature of space in our lives; how we occupy space and how it engages...
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Urban Dreams | Davis Now Lectures from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.952816
Geographer Dr Ruth McManus, lectures at Dublin City University, and contributed to the RTÉ Radio 2002 series 'Engaging Spaces' which considered the nature of space in our lives. Her lecture entitle...
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The County: Designation, Identity and Loyalty | Davis Now Lectures from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.941378
Professor Des Gilmore of Trinity College, Dublin contributed to the 2002 series 'Engaging Spaces' on the nature of space in our lives. His lecture 'The County: Designation, Identity and Loyalty' as...
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The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature | Davis Now Lectures from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.887274
'The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature' 1975 series featured writers on a writer in the Irish language to which they were drawn. Sean O'Faolain (1900-1984) chose Liam O'Flaherty. O'Faolain claims that...
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Declan Kiberd on libraries from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.880829
Declan Kiberd on how writers Catherine Cookson, Thomas McCarthy and Frank O'Connor began their love of books in their local libraries and the once stultifying moral censorship of the Irish library ...
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Brendan Kennelly on Myles na gCopaleen from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.878412
Poet Brendan Kennelly on Myles na gCopaleen, pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan. His 1941 darkly comic novel An Béal Bocht, translated as The Poor Mouth by Flann O'Brien, is equally a satire on the Irish a...
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James Joyce's Letters by Richard Ellmann from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.871115
James Joyce's Letters by Richard Ellmann, his biographer, who says hints and declarations in them reveal Joyce a little as he saw himself, describing the letters in the 1982 Thomas Davis Lectures J...
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James Joyce by Maurice Craig from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.867915
James Joyce by Maurice Craig, author of the landmark book 'Dublin 1660-1860: an Architectural and Social History', who in the 1982 Thomas Davis Lectures Joyce Centenary series says Joyce showed lit...
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Professor Emeritus Lorna Reynolds on Irish writer Kate O'Brien from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.855562
From the 'Kate O'Brien: The Woman and the Writer' birth-centenary of O'Brien 1997 series is an intriguing account of her longtime friend, and relates too why after years of obscurity O'Brien's writ...
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Poet Eavan Boland on Irish writer Kate O'Brien from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.849911
From the 'Kate O'Brien: The Woman and the Writer' birth-centenary of O'Brien 1997 series and whose insights into the lives of women, so far from suburban Dublin where she and her husband entertain...
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Ailbhe Smyth on Kate O'Brien from 2022-04-21T11:18:16.843174
In 'Kate O'Brien: Legend in Her Own Time' activist and feminist Smyth covers themes and characters in O'Brien's books - including their bid to be free of conventions and how men are incidental from...
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John Coolahan - UnRealised Potential: Ireland's Public Libraries and Our Schools from 2020-07-22T12:00
Educationalist John Coolahan on the precarious relationship which existed between the Irish state and its libraries for much of the 20th century in his talk 'UnRealised Potential: Ireland's Public ...
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Diarmuid Ferriter - The Post-War Public Library Service in Ireland: Bring Books to the Remotest Hamlets and Hills from 2020-07-22T12:00
Historian Diarmuid Ferriter in his talk 'The Post-War Public Library Service in Ireland: Bring Books to the Remotest Hamlets and Hills' from the 2002 series marking 100 years of Carnegie Libraries ...
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Fintan O'Toole - Reading, Writing and Rebelling: Growing Up with Public Libraries from 2020-07-20T12:00
Fintan O'Toole, writer, critic and journalist on the private pleasures of reading and how our first library card gives us an entry into the public community of readers in his talk 'Reading, Writing...
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Eavan Boland on James Joyce from 2020-06-17T12:00
Poet Eavan Boland on James Joyce: The Young Romantic, from the 1982 Thomas Davis Lectures, the centenary of the birth of Joyce, when she considers his poetry collection Chamber Music, A Little Clou...
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James Joyce and Marsh’s Library from 2020-06-10T12:00
Marsh's Library, Ireland's first public library, and its rare books figure in James Joyce's Stephen Hero, Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. Dr Muriel McCarthy, then its keeper, recounts its intriguing h...
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Pearse Hutchinson on Micí Mac Gabhann | Davis Now Lectures from 2020-05-19T12:00
Poet Pearse Hutchinson celebrates Micí Mac Gabhann whose Rotha Mór an tSaoil (1959), recounts his life story of endurance and adventures from Donegal to the Canadian Yukon Gold Rush. From 'The Plea...
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Máirtín Ó Cadhain by Breandán Ó hEithir | Davis Now Lectures from 2020-05-13T12:00
Journalist and author Ó hEithir catches the thrill and impact of Ó Cadhain's novel Cré na Cille. Set in a graveyard, its occupants, tormented by the slowness of time, are starved of gossip and act...
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Eavan Boland - Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh from 2020-04-28T12:00
Poet Eavan Boland contributed to the 1993 series 'Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh' which looked at aspects of contemporary poetry written in Irish and English from the 1950s to the early 1990s. Her lec...
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Annraoi Ó Liatháin on Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin | Davis Now Lectures from 2020-04-21T12:00
'The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature' 1975 series featured writers on a writer in the Irish language to which they were drawn. Annraoi Ó Liatháin chose Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin. His diary of 19th ce...
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Tomás Ó Criomhthain and An tOileánach | Davis Now Lectures from 2020-04-15T12:00
Poet Máire Mhac an tSaoi contributed to the 1975 series 'The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature' featuring writers on a writer in the Irish language to which they are drawn. Her choice was Ó Criomhthai...
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Symbolic Streetscapes | Davis Now Lectures from 2020-03-31T12:00
Dr Yvonne Whelan of the Irish Academy for Cultural Studies, Derry, contributed to the 2002 series 'Engaging Spaces' on the nature of space in our lives. Regarding Dublin's Spire to statutes of roya...
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The Rural Idyll | Davis Now Lectures from 2020-03-25T12:00
Dr Mary Cawley of NUI Galway contributed to the 2002 series 'Engaging Spaces' on the nature of space in our lives. Her lecture 'The Rural Idyll' contrast the rural idyll of more recent times with t...
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Change and Renewal in Issues of Place, Identity and the Local | Davis Now Lectures from 2020-03-19T12:00
Irish Geographer Dr Patrick Duffy of Maynooth University, contributed to the 2002 series 'Engaging Spaces' on the nature of space in our lives. Here is his lecture 'Change and Renewal in Issues of ...
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Podcast | Davis Now Lectures from 2020-02-23T12:00
Studio conversation with host and lecturer Ellen Rowley, and lecturers Linda Doyle, Róise Goan, Michelle Norris and Hugh Campbell.
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Podcast - Making Home 2020: Lecture 5 from 2020-02-16T12:00
'Lecture 5: Houses in Motion: Architecture and Patterns of Dwelling' by Professor Hugh Campbell, the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin.
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Podcast - Making Home 2020: Lecture 3 from 2020-01-26T12:00
'Too Close to Home: Irish Theatre and Home' by Róise Goan, Artistic Director of Artsadmin, London recorded in Glebe House, Donegal, Ireland.
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Podcast - Making Home 2020: Lecture 2 from 2020-01-19T12:00
'Bricks, Mortar and Data: The Future Home' by Dr Linda Doyle, Vice President /Dean for Research and Professor of Engineering and the Arts, Trinity College Dublin.
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Podcast - Making Home 2020: Lecture 1 from 2020-01-12T12:00
'Clearing Hovels and Building Homes: an Architectural History of Irish Housing' by Dr Ellen Rowley, architectural historian and consultant editor of the series.
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