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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reads Patrick Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh's poem read by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Video Nature Farming Poverty

Pollen

A poignant reading of Moya Cannon's poem.

Video Love Nature Covid-19

Dúlra (The Elements, Nature)

Spreading the Words

Hear how the natural word is perceived by Irish writers in the past and present.

Podcast Nature Poetry Gaeilge

Mary Costello's The River Capture

Every Life is Many Days

On Joyce the teacher, and the mystery of consciousness.

Interview Biography Nature Education

Making Music with Birds and Bugs

In this episode of City of Books, host Martina Devlin speaks to Professor David Rothenberg.

Podcast Music Writing Nature

Sensory Places and Spaces

To mark the first National Green Week, UCD's Ciaran Beatty, Tina Lowe and David McCormack join host Lily Cahill to discuss their thoughts on sensory places and spaces

Interview Environment Nature Playful

Fás aon oíche (Mushroom)

Spreading the Words

Ireland has a great biodiversity of fungi but how have the Irish referred to puffballs, stinkhorns and the like over the centuries?

Podcast Gaeilge Nature History

Coll (Hazel tree)

Spreading the Words

Hazel trees have greatly benefited the people of Ireland since medieval times; hazel nuts have served as tasty, nutritional snacks and hazel rods have been used to construct houses and fences.

Podcast Nature History Gaeilge

A Wet Summer's Evening

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Joseph Woods evokes an all too familiar image, that of a rainy Irish summer.

Reading Poetry Nature Reading

The Light Fantastic

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Kate Dempsey takes whimsical look at an everyday occurrence in rural Ireland.

Reading Poetry Nature Writing

Luna

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe explores the associations between the female body and the moon.

Reading Poetry Women Nature

Daniel's Duck

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

In Kerry Hardie's poem, an unfortunate duck provides a child's first encounter with death.

Reading Childhood Mortality Nature

Filleadh ón Antartach

Words Lightly Spoken

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh's poem tells a story of a man who travels to Antarctica only to fall in love with the sound of the ice and its landscape.

Podcast Gaeilge Poetry Nature

A Sonnet for Michael Viney

Words Lightly Spoken

Words Lightly Spoken, a podcast about poetry from Ireland, is a Rockfinch production, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Poetry Nature Friendship Poetry

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

Old and Tough / As love

Moya Cannon reads her poem 'Pollen' in which she describes the powdery grain as 'old and tough / as love'.

Poetry Poetry Nature Storytelling

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

Dulra (Nature)

Spreading the Words

Learn about the word dulra or ‘nature’ and its etymology steeped in Irish history, poetry and mythic tale.

Podcast Gaeilge Language Nature