History
An Introduction to the UCD Special Collections
Dr Evelyn Flanagan on the collection's many treasures.
Myth-Making Michael Collins
Michael Collins is the the Irish Civil War's most famous casualty but ...
Lus An Chromchinn (Daffodil)
Over the centuries, some beautiful and memorable names of flowers and plant ...
Leabharlann (Library)
Hear about how books were stored in medieval Irish libraries and about how ...
Crith Talún (Earthquake)
Medieval Irish chronicles and stories sometimes mention ‘the movement of th ...
Teaghlach (Household)
In medieval Ireland, the hearth was at the centre of the house, but what ki ...
Cró (Enclosure)
From cró madra ‘a dog kennel’ to cró snáthaide ‘the eye of a needle’, this ...
Gloss/Clós/Glas
Eiléan Nà Chuilleanáin’s poem Gloss/Clós/Glas explores the sound and meanin ...
Dinnsheanchas (A Literature of Place)
Real space without and imaginative space within: how the poetry of Nuala NÃ ...
Fás aon oÃche (Mushroom)
Ireland has a great biodiversity of fungi but how have the Irish referred t ...
Cleas (Trick or Feat)
The early Irish hero Cú Chulainn was accomplished in an array of feats incl ...
Duileasg (Dulse)
In his poetry, Seamus Heaney referred often to ‘dulse’, but how does this e ...
Smugairle Róin (Jellyfish)
A look into the history of the Irish phrase smugairle róin, which is widely ...
Maighdean Mhara (Mermaid)
This episode explores the concept of fish-women and other sea-creatures men ...
The Shambles of Maamtrasna
The Maamtrasna murders, "one of the gravest miscarriages of justice in ...
The Fine Art of Reading
Artist Robert Ballagh talks to Martina Devlin about why Samuel Beckett thou ...
Identity, Sustainability, and the Politics of Water
Nick Groom on an immodest 18th Century proposal to drain the Irish Channel.
Memory Studies and Famine Studies: Gender, Genealogy, History
Professor Margaret Kelleher examines a number of trends in recent historiog ...
On Development, Waste and Ghosts
In this lecture, Oona Frawley looks at how movements in ecocriticism that c ...
Commemorating Abuse: Gender Politics and Making Space
Emilie Pine looks at three cultural projects that explore institutional abu ...
James Joyce, Treeless Hills and the Night of the Big Wind
Katherine O'Callaghan looks at the influence of forests on Joyce' ...
Jacob and Macardle in Context: James Little
Exploring and celebrating the writing of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardl ...
Carrie Crowley reads Rosamund Jacob
Exploring and celebrating the writing of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardl ...
Kathy Rose O'Brien reads Dorothy Macardle
Exploring and celebrating the writing of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardl ...
Lia Mills, Sophie White & Sinéad Gleeson
Exploring and celebrating the writing of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardl ...
Jacob and Macardle in Context: Deirdre Brady
Exploring and celebrating the writing of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardl ...
Jacob and Macardle in Context: Katie Mishler
Exploring and celebrating the writing of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardl ...
Jacob and Macardle in Context: Sharon McArdle
Exploring and celebrating the writing of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardl ...
Jacob and Macardle in Context: Leeanne Lane
Exploring and celebrating the writing of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardl ...
Opening remarks from Professor Gerardine Meaney
Exploring and celebrating the writing of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardl ...
