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Identity, Sustainability, and the Politics of Water

UCDScholarcast

Nick Groom on an immodest 18th Century proposal to drain the Irish Channel.

Lecture History Politics Environment

Memory Studies and Famine Studies: Gender, Genealogy, History

UCDScholarcast

Professor Margaret Kelleher examines a number of trends in recent historiographical work on the Great Famine including their striking appropriation of narrative and fictive tropes.

Lecture History Women Gender

On Development, Waste and Ghosts

UCDScholarcast

In this lecture, Oona Frawley looks at how movements in ecocriticism that call for links to be made with postcolonialism challenge us.

Lecture History Social Justice Politics

The Lyric Flow of Street

UCDScholarcast

In this lecture, poet Micheal O'Siadhail, looks at how the poems in If Ever You Go express the varying emotions generated by the experience of Dublin.

Lecture Dublin Poetry

Women Poets in the City

Dr Lucy Collins explores some poems by women published in the last one hundred years, from lesser-known figures such as Winifred Letts to contemporaries Eavan Boland and Paula Meehan.

Lecture Women Poetry Dublin

Exploring the Sea in the Work of Eavan Boland and W.B. Yeats

Jody Allen Randolph explores the 'landless inheritance' of two of our greatest poets, and how the sea shaped their imaginative lives.

Lecture The Sea Poetry Writing

Commemorating Abuse: Gender Politics and Making Space

Emilie Pine looks at three cultural projects that explore institutional abuse in Ireland.

Lecture History Trauma Working Class

James Joyce, Treeless Hills and the Night of the Big Wind

UCDScholarcast

Katherine O'Callaghan looks at the influence of forests on Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

Lecture Nature Writing History

Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in them

Poet Paula Meehan delivered this lecture as Ireland's Professor of Poetry in 2014.

Lecture Poetry Memory Childhood

Work and Idleness

UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life

Professor Brian O'Connor on how, in the Enlightenment, philosophers thought idleness would prevent us from realising our talents and skills.

Lecture Philosophy Mental Health Mortality

Ethics in the Age of Climate Change

UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life

Professor Maeve Cooke on how humans fundamentally need to rethink their ethics and their politics.

Lecture Environment Ethics Nature