Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland’s urban gothic writing.
In this episode, writer Seán Hewitt discusses his gothic memoir All Down Darkness Wide with Dr Katie Mishler. The book engages with the ghosts of queer history, including MoLI's own resident poet ghost: Gerard Manley Hopkins, who lived and died in MoLI's home, UCD Newman House, in the late nineteenth century.
Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI).
The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler’s postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.
Producer Ian Dunphy
Sound Ian Dunphy
