Margaret Kelleher | RadioMoLI

Hold Open the Door: Nithy Kasa & Jean O'Brien

Hold Open the Door

On learning not to be strong, teaching creative writing, writing in English as a fourth language, and finding trusted readers.

Interview Poetry International Writing

Behind the Words

Spreading the Words

Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Sharon Arbuthnot tell Professor Margaret Kelleher about the making of the Spreading the Words series.

Interview Gaeilge Writing Language

Lus An Chromchinn (Daffodil)

Spreading the Words

Over the centuries, some beautiful and memorable names of flowers and plants have been recorded in Irish.

Podcast Gaeilge Language History

The Shambles of Maamtrasna

City of Books

The Maamtrasna murders, "one of the gravest miscarriages of justice in Irish history", are discussed by Professor Margaret Kelleher and Justice Peter Kelly. Presented by Martina Devlin.

Podcast History Language Politics

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

Hold Open the Door: Paula Meehan

Hold Open the Door

In conversation with Kelly O'Brien and Margaret Kelleher, poet Paula Meehan reads a new poem and covers topics such as the value of creative workshops, cycles of poverty in north inner-city Dublin, and poetry as a means of protest.

Interview Poetry Dublin Social Justice

Paul Lynch & Juliet Mabey

Books & Their Makers

The Booker Prize-winner and his publisher in conversation with Prof. Margaret Kelleher.

Podcast Writing Publishing Awards