Chris Beausang

Politics and Letters

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A podcast about politics and literature

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Chris Beausang

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Latest episode

Mar 17, 2026

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Episodes

Andrew Drummond: The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer 17.03.2026

Andrew's book is available here from Verso.

The Russian Revolution IV: Civil War & Revolution in Germany 30.12.2024

Intro: Red Army is the Strongest - Alexandrov Red Army Choir Outro: You Fell Victim Further Reading Broué, Pierre. The German Revolution: 1917 - 1923 . Haymarket Books, 2005. Carr, Edward Hallett. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923 . W.W. Norton & Company, 1985. Cohen, Stephen P. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography 1888 - 1938 . Knopf, 1973. Deutscher, Isaac. The Pro...

The Russian Revolution III: February to October 17.12.2024

Works Cited Carr, Edward Hallett. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923 . W.W. Norton & Company, 1985. Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition . Verso, 2015. —, Stalin: A Political Biography . Vintage Books, 1960. FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution . Oxford University Press, 2008. Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power 1878 - 1928 . Penguin,...

The Russian Revolution II: Germany, Poland and Russia in the Second International 10.12.2024

Further Reading Broué, Pierre. The German Revolution 1917 - 1923 . Haymarket Books, 2005. Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition . Verso, 2015. ——, Stalin: A Political Biography . Vintage Books, 1960. FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution . Oxford University Press, 2008. International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald, ‘Manifesto’. Marxists.org, 1915...

The Russian Revolution I: Hegel, Marx and the First International 04.12.2024

First part of a 6 / 7 part lecture series on the Russian Revolution going from the Enlightenment to the Paris Commune. 07:27: My bad explanation of Kant ends. 14:20: My bad explanation of Hegel ends. I think I was sick of recording towards the end, you can hear it in my voice a bit. Further Reading Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World . Verso, 2...

The Russian Revolution: Introduction 03.12.2024

Strategic aims and outline of what I hope to achieve

Michael G. Cronin, Impure Thoughts: Sexuality, Catholicism and Literature in Twentieth-Century Ireland, Revolutionary Bodies, Sexual / Liberation 19.08.2024

Interview with Michael G. Cronin, Assistant Professor of English in Maynooth University about his books: Impure Thoughts: Sexuality, Catholicism and Literature in Twentieth-Century Ireland Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political Imagination in Irish Writing and Sexual / Liberation

Chris Beausang, Tunnel of Toads 05.03.2024

Interview

Liam McNulty, James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist 02.02.2024

Conversation with Liam McNulty about his book James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist , a critical biography of the great Irish socialist revolutionary, out from Merlin Press. Tunes: Frank Harte - James Connolly Liam Weldon - James Connolly

Chris Beausang: Tunnel of Toads 29.11.2023

Roxanna Nic Liam reads a excerpts from Tunnel of Toads, a novel I have written which is due to be published by Marrowbone Books in a few weeks. Tunes: Radie Peat - Cailín deas cruite na mBó / When I Was a Young Girl Pinch & Shackleton - Cracks in the Pleasuredome Burial & Four Tet - Moth Mícheál Keating & Brendan McInerney - It's Still There

Sam Slote: Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses 30.10.2023

Interview with Sam Slote of Trinity College Dublin, co-author with Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner of Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses , available from Oxford University Press.

Thomas Pynchon's California Novels: The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland and Inherent Vice 15.10.2023

'Good American writers know their job has something to do with interrogating the spiritual poverty of the nation'. Tunes Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - Bob Dylan The Big Stick - Minutemen Hallelujah I'm a Bum - Barbara Dane Works Cited / Further Reading Curtis, Adam. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace . BBC, 2011. Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angel...

Tom Roseingrave: Frustrated Writer's Group Vol. 1 03.09.2023

A transmission previously broadcast on Dublin Digital Radio with Tom Roseingrave speaking on the publication of the Frustrated Writer's Group zine (Volume 1), with recorded contributions from the zine's contributors: Clíodhna Breathnach, Emily Featherman, Baxter King-Epping, Molly May O'Leary, Carina nic Giolla Phádraig, Katy Finnegan, Cian Booth and Sophia Malaika. Music from Kool A.D...

Joe Cleary: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland 17.07.2023

A conversation with  Joe Cleary about his book Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland , a collection of essays engaging with Irish culture from the time of the literary revival, through the Free State and postwar periods to the Celtic Tiger. Joe Cleary is a professor of English in Yale University, where he teaches on modernism, Irish, postcolonial and world literatures. More rec...

Odrán de Bhaldraithe: Neglect in the North of Ireland 20.06.2023

A conversation with Odrán de Bhaldraithe about his new book Neglect in the North of Ireland , which will be available to order here on Thursday the 22nd of July. Odrán also has a Substack, which you can read here .

Sinéad Kennedy: Repeal the Eighth 22.05.2023

A conversation with Sinéad Kennedy about the history of Irish feminism, the campaign to repeal the eighth amendment from the Irish constitution, and the distinct ways in which the politics of liberation in Ireland have been inflected by Ireland's unique position within the world system. This episode was inspired to a large extent by Dr Camilla FitzSimons ' book Repealed: Ireland's Unfi...

Conor McCarthy: Edward Said 14.03.2023

An interview with Conor McCarthy about the life and work of the Palestinian literary critic and activist Edward Said.  Conor McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer at Maynooth University. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said ,   Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969 - 1992. He has also edited The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly 1893...

Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh & Kerron Ó'Luain: The Irish Civil War 03.01.2023

An interview with the historians Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh & Kerron Ó'Luain about the Irish Civil War, originally broadcast on Nervous State. Leabhar Ó'Luain: https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2019/rathcoole-and-the-united-irish-rebellions/ Blag Mac Bloscaidh: https://blosc.wordpress.com Nervous State: https://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/resident/nervous-state

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