Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

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...

Monday, 6 December 2021, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event featuring Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola University Chicago), hosted by Dr Daniel Geary (TCD). About Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Elizabeth Tandy Shermer is an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, where she teaches courses on labor, capitalism, and politics. She has written about those topics in op-eds, academic articl...

Thursday, 2 December 2021, 7 – 8:30pm 'Novel approaches to Dublin History: Historic Fiction and the City' is an online panel discussion organised by Dublin History Research Network and supported by the Trinity Long Room Hub. Historians of Dublin use primary research to write the story of the city but many readers learn Dublin’s story from historical fiction. The two forms of writing are distinct b...

Monday, 22 November 2021, 10 – 11am Surfáil sna Scannáin: The History and Cultural Politics of the Irish Surf Film Genre A talk by Stephen Boyd (PhD Candidate, Film Dept) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Attendance is open to all with relevant interests inside and outside TCD. Please indicate if you have any access requirements,...

Monday, 22 November 2021, 7 – 8:30pm ‘Work is a necessary evil’, wrote the American author Mark Twain. But as we emerge from the pandemic, during which working life for many changed dramatically, do we need to reconsider our attitude to the culture of work? As we transition to remote and flexible working arrangements, is there a nostalgia for the collective rotas and routines of industrial capital...

Tuesday, 16 November 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Alex Alonso 'Seamus Heaney and the Radio Imaginary' 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 the seminar seri...

Monday, 15 November 2021, 7 – 8pm Freemen out with the Tribe: Exiles for Christ from Saints Patrick to Kilian Online Lecture by Dr Alexander O'Hara, Department of Celtic Languages & Literatures, Harvard University in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The event will be chaired by Dr Ciaran O'Neill, Deputy Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub. This year marks the 15th centenary of the bir...

15th Nov 2021 Can archaeology be ethical? Posthumanism and our connection to the past. This episode explores the issues of ethical archaeology in museums and political arenas with special guest Dr. Craig Cipolla of the Royal Ontario Museum. Craig and I discuss how these issues play out in cultural institutions and in the field. Through these discussions, we also explore the role that archaeology,...

Recorded November 11, 2021. In 1858 the first ever message to be transmitted across an ocean – a note of congratulations from Queen Victoria to President Buchanan of the United States -- was sent from Valentia Island in County Kerry to Trinity Bay in Newfoundland. The 98-word message took 16 hours to transmit, and the US President’s 143-word response was sent in just 10 hours. Improvements in cabl...

Monday, 8 November 2021, 6 – 7:30pm A public online lecture on 'Resistance and Responsibility: A Vulnerability Analysis, by Professor Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory University), organised by the Trinity's Centre for Resistance Studies in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Martha Albertson Fineman Martha Albertson Fineman is a Robert W. Woodruff Professor. An internationally recognized la...

Monday, 8 November 2021, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event featuring Dr Kenneth Pearce (TCD), hosted by Professor Paul O'Grady (TCD). About Kenneth Pearce Kenneth Pearce is Ussher Assistant Professor in Berkeley Studies (Early Modern Philosophy) and Head of Philosophy in TCD. He is the author of Language and the Structure of Berkeley’s World (Oxford University Press, 2017) and, together with Grah...

Thursday, 4 November 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Professor Chris Morash (TCD) 'Voices Off: Reflections on Unseen Plays' 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...

Recorded November 2, 2021. A lecture entitled ‘Shakespeare from the Periphery’ by Professor Murphy held to mark Professor Murphy’s appointment as Professor of English Literature (1867) at the School of English. The lecture demonstrated how Shakespeare’s position as a central figure in global culture is due in part to the efforts of a set of little known figures operating – largely unremarked – in...

Monday, 11 October 2021, 4 – 5pm 'Rethinking George Berkeley’s legacy' a seminar by Scott Breuninger (Virginia Commonwealth University) 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 m...