Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Monday, 14 February 2022, 10 – 11am 'Historically Informed Performance (HIP), Vocal Music of the Late Baroque, and the Employment of Female Musicians' a talk by Dr Simon Trezise as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The School of Creative Arts Research Forum meets fortnightly at 10am on Mondays during term and is led by the School's do...

Monday, 14 February 2022, 4 – 5pm 'A water bawdy house: women and the Stuart navy' a seminar by Dr Elaine Murphy (Plymouth) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Trinity Centre for Early Modern History promotes understanding of the culture, society, economy, religion, politics and warfare of early modern Eu...

Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 4 – 5pm ‘M. R. James: The Demon in the Library’ a seminar by Professor Darryl Jones (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2021-22 in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research community since the 1990s. The aim of th...

Tuesday, 22 February 2022, 4 – 5pm 'Of Monsters and Women: Gender and Resistance in Galician Noir Audiovisual Media' a talk by Dr Catherine Barbour (TCD Dept of Hispanic Studies) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. This presentation contrasts strategies of resistance to gender-based violence in two...

Wednesday, 23 February 2022, 12:30 – 1:30pm ‘Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia’ a seminar by George Makari and Brendan Kelly as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. The Trinity College Dublin Medical and Health Humanities Initiative brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines including history, p...

Thursday, 17 February 2022, 1 – 2pm An online roundtable discussion with Neo Gilson, Jamalida Rafique, and Thirukumaran Thiruchelvan (Thiru), three of the poets who took part in our ‘Window to My World’ series for World Poetry Day 2021, showcasing poetry from refugees, asylum seekers, and exiled poets in Ireland. The discussion will be chaired by Professor Philip Coleman, School of English, TCD, a...

Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 7 – 8:15pm A panel discussion organised by Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute to mark the start of a new multiannual discussion series ‘Literature and Resistance.’ The discussion will be chaired by Professor Darryl Jones. Literature, says Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses, is “...

Recorded February 14, 2022. This podcast episode marks an important centenary: 100 years ago, in 1922, the trailblazing modern mathematician, Emmy Noether, was finally given a paid lectureship at the University of Göttingen in Germany. Despite a formidable reputation in her field, Noether had been denied paid academic work due to her gender and her Jewish heritage. She is now rightly recognized as...

Tuesday, 1 February 2022, 4 – 5pm ‘Healing the Union: Health, Illness, and Disability in the National Tale’ a seminar by Dr Matthew Reznicek (Creighton University) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2021-22 in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English re...

Monday, 7 February 2022, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Professor Edmund Russell (Carnegie Mellon) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. The Trinity Centre for Early Modern History promotes understanding of the culture, society, economy, religion, politics and warfare of early modern Europe. The Centre organises seminars, co...

Monday, 7 February 2022, 10 – 11am ''Not in Flesh’: The Construction of the Disenfranchised Woman in Irish Theatre' a talk by Dr Salomé Paul (TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. This paper investigates the construction of the figure of the underprivileged woman in the Irish dramatic canon during the Revival movement through the...

Behind the Headlines: Falling out of Love with Dublin? Wednesday, 9 February 2022, 7 – 8:30pm In 1922 -- the year of Ulysses, James Joyce’s love letter to his native city -- Dublin of the future: the new town plan was published by Patrick Abercrombie, Sydney Kelly and Arthur Kelly, having won a competition launched by The Civics Institute of Ireland to gather ideas for the city’s development. One...

Monday, 31 January 2022, 4 – 5pm TLRH | Early Modern History Seminar | ‘Irish material in the Prize Papers collection’ ‘Irish material in the Prize Papers collection’ a seminar by Oliver Finnegan (National Archives, UK) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Trinity Centre for Early Modern History promotes u...

Thursday, 3 February 2022, 7 – 8pm In recent years, there has been a disturbing trend toward authoritarianism in the Global South. For this event, three panellists will describe the factors that led to its rise in Brazil, India, and the Philippines and assess the forces of resistance in each country. They will argue that far from being a coincidence, authoritarianism's rise in different locales ha...

Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 12:30am – 1:30pm 'Anticipating the Ageing Trajectories of the Marvel Superheroes' a seminar by Professor Ruth Hubbard (Queensland) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Trinity College Dublin Medical and Health Humanities Initiative brings together researchers from a wide range of discipl...

Friday, 28 January 2022, 5 – 6:30pm An online webinar to celebrate the launch of the new online exhibition 'Seeing Ireland' which will explore one of the most important events in Irish art history: Exposition D’Art Irlandais, held at Galerie Barbazanges in Paris in Jan-February 1922. Guest speakers include H.E. Vincent Guérend, French Ambassador to Ireland, Mick O’Dea, PPRHA, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh,...

A keynote lecture delivered by Edna Longley as part of the 'Derek Mahon: Conference to celebrate poet’s life and work'. The life and work of poet Derek Mahon will be celebrated (Friday 19th & Saturday 20th November) in Trinity College Dublin. A conference, which is being held in advance of what would have been the poet’s 80th birthday, has been organised by Trinity’s School of English in associati...

A keynote lecture delivered by Lucy Collins as part of the 'Derek Mahon: Conference to celebrate poet’s life and work'. The life and work of poet Derek Mahon will be celebrated (Friday 19th & Saturday 20th November) in Trinity College Dublin. A conference, which is being held in advance of what would have been the poet’s 80th birthday, has been organised by Trinity’s School of English in associati...

A keynote lecture delivered by Hugh Haughton as part of the 'Derek Mahon: Conference to celebrate poet’s life and work'. The life and work of poet Derek Mahon will be celebrated (Friday 19th & Saturday 20th November) in Trinity College Dublin. A conference, which is being held in advance of what would have been the poet’s 80th birthday, has been organised by Trinity’s School of English in associat...

11th January 2022 Padraic Colum (8th August 1881—11th January 1972): A 50th Anniversary Celebration of his Life and Work An online keynote lecture by Professor Margaret Kelleher (UCD) “Plutarch Lied”: Padraic Colum’s Challenge to Historical Biography” as part of a day-long symposium organised by Dr Pádraic Whyte, School of English, TCD and Dr Keith O’Sullivan School of English, DCU in partnership...

Recorded January 13, 2022. In this episode Lisa Doyle talks to Helen Meany and Dr Bridget Martin about their exciting projects which ensure that Classics is becoming available to everyone: Access Classics (the UCD outreach programme) and ClassicsNow (the cultural festival taking place online and across Dublin). The discussion ranges from the opportunities offered by studying the ancient world to t...

Recorded November 26, 2021. Listen back to session three Chair: Prof Ruth Karras, Dept. History, Trinity College Dublin with guest speakers Dr Annaleigh Margey, Dundalk Institute of Technology, presentation titled ‘The Cecils and the mapping of early modern Ireland' and Prof Hiram Morgan, School of History, University College Cork, presentation titled ‘In war and peace: Sir Robert Cecil’s /Salisbu...

26th Nov 2021 Listen back to Session 2 – Chair: Prof Susan Flavin, Dept. History, Trinity College Dublin with guest speakers, Dr Jim Murray, Director of Development, Quality and Qualifications Ireland, presentation titled ‘William Cecil and the early Elizabethan Reformation in Ireland’ and Dr Brian Jackson, Technological University of South-East Ireland, presentation titled ‘Sir William Cecil and...

26th Nov 2021 Listen back to the welcome by Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub followed by talks from Dr Alan Kelly PhD TCD titled ‘The secretaries before the Cecils: the foundations of an Irish policy 1495 – 1558’ and Dr David Heffernan, School of History, University College Cork gave a presentation titled ‘Sir William Cecil and the shaping of English policy in Ireland, 1...

Recorded December 9, 2021. In this episode I spoke with Jenny Macdonald and Melody Chadamoyo about their work with the SoloSIRENs Collective based in Tallaght. The collective uses applied drama/theatre methods to generate dialogue and create pieces of theatre. We discussed how the collective worked together prior to the pandemic and talked about the transition into working solely in a Zoom setting...