Reimagining Ireland (English version)

What did Ireland sound like before conquest? In this two-part conversation, Professor Pat Palmer guides us into the vibrant world of early modern Ireland, where bardic poets, Gaelic lords, Spanish captains and Elizabethan officials all left their mark. From flourishing schools of poetry to the sudden rupture at Kinsale, these episodes invite us to reimagine the past through many voices and redisco...

Reimagining Ireland with Professor Pat Palmer uncovers the lost voices of early modern Ireland. Through poetry, chronicles, and accounts in nine different languages, the MacMorris Project reveals a plural world too often overshadowed by English sources. These episodes explore how deep mapping can restore Irish perspectives, challenge colonial narratives, and offer fresh ways of thinking about hist...

History books are full of men. Women, by contrast, are often absent, or appear only as queens, mistresses, or figures remembered for their notoriety. In this episode of Reimagining Ireland, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College Dublin, introduces Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland, a groundbreaking digital project that uncovers the everyday lives of women between 1550 and 1700. Closely con...

What role did Ireland play in the making of empires? In this episode of Reimagining Ireland, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College Dublin, introduces her acclaimed book Making Empire, based on her James Ford Lectures. She shows how Ireland was not just shaped by empire but also shaped it — serving both as a site of colonisation and a platform for colonisers. Covering two centuries, from the mid...

Podcast series from the Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Aarhus. Isabelle Torrance is a professor at Aarhus University and director of the project "Classical Influences and Irish Culture". Ireland has a very special relationship with Classics that goes back more than 1000 years. During the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland, a number of authors - including Seamus Heaney - interpreted...

Podcast series from the Center for Irish Studies at Aarhus University. Laura McAtackney is Associate Professor of Archeology at Aarhus University. Unlike most other archaeologists, she does not dig in the past - but in the present. What becomes heritage? What can we remember and what do we tend to forget? Laura McAtckney's research has brought her to Irish prisons and institutions such as a Magdal...

I 2013 the Irish government had to issue a formal apology to the thousands of women who had been abused by the religious orders at the Magdalene Laundries. Why - and how - did the Catholic Church manage to a make fortune without any interference from public authorities, while they systematically abused vulnerable women? Associate Professor Katherine ODonnell of University College Dublin is the pri...

For over 30 years, Arthur MacCaig, documented the Northern Irish conflict. Meanwhile, his son Donal Foreman grew up in Dublin. After MacCaig's death, the idea for the documentary film "The Image You Missed" emerged, interweaving the story of a son's attempt to get to know his late father, with the history of Northern Ireland's conflict. Father and son's recordings show two very different approache...

Lance Pettitt, who is Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, has done intensive research on how the Easter Rising was commemorated by RTÈ in 1966. Why is it interesting to study the way in which a nation commemorates important historical events? In the 'decade of centenaries', Ireland is commemorating events that led to political independence from Britain, but also to civil w...