Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded February 11th, 2026 The recent moves on Venezuela and Greenland by US President Donald Trump have left world leaders once more questioning geopolitical norms and a decades-long alliance between the US and the EU. A direct threat to the territorial integrity of the EU has confirmed for many a move away from a rules-based international order, with some questioning its existence in the first...

Recorded February 11th, 2026. Continuing our Bridging the Gap series, this seminar explores how researchers, policy-makers and members of the public can work together to translate scientific knowledge into practical, lasting action. Drawing on her experience chairing Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, and more recently her work as Chair of the Independent Advisory Committee on Natu...

Recorded January 27th 2026. A lecture by visiting research fellow Dr Seçil Yılmaz (University of Pennsylvania) organised by the School of Histories and Humanities.  Although syphilis had existed in Ottoman society since the sixteenth century, it became a significant public health concern in the latter half of the nineteenth century as a result of increased mobility, particularly among soldiers, Mu...

Recorded 3rd February 2026. On Tuesday, 3 February, the Trinity Long Room Hub will host a discussion highlighting Trinity's collaboration with Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art spring 2026 exhibition, "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts". The discussion will also address the Cuala Press archives and other Yeats collections held by both universities.   Short panel...

Recorded February 5th, 2026. In this conversation, Prof Patrick Geoghegan (Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub) and Christian Du Pont (Burns Librarian, Boston College) explore the long-standing and evolving collaborations between Trinity College Dublin and Boston College, with a particular focus on the legacy of Cuala Press and the work of the Yeats sisters. They discuss how shared collections,...

Recorded January 28th, 2026. A lecture by Dr Catherine Swift (MIC Limerick/ Loyola Institute, TCD) organised by the Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Recorded January 13th, 2026. Are the recent deadly attacks lawful under international and US domestic law?  If they are NOT lawful orders, can US military personnel refuse to follow them? Who makes that decision? The speaker is a retired US Marine Corps lawyer who went on to teach The Law of Armed Conflict at the University of Washington in Seattle for twenty years. Speaker: Rick Lorenz, Senior Pe...

Recorded December 10th, 2025. Each year, December 10th is recognised globally as Human Rights Day. This year's theme, "Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials", offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the everyday rights that matter most to people with dementia and their care partners, as well as the legal frameworks that seek to safeguard those rights. Please join us for a special Human Rights Da...

Recorded December 2nd, 2025. A lecture by Prof Jan Zielonka (University of Oxford, University of Venice) organised by the Centre for Resistance Studies. Prof Jan Zielonka's public lecture will address the challenges posed by the "sovereignist turn" in European politics to the stability of the European Union. This lecture is the annual Łukasiewicz Lecture that is organised in memory of Polish logic...

Recorded December 2nd 2025. A seminar by Dr Clare Clarke (School of English) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. English 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 series is to provide a relaxed and convivial atmosphere for staff and students to present...

Recorded November 18th, 2025. A seminar by Yannis Athanassiou & Chiara Mastronardo (TCD) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. English 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 series is to provide a relaxed and convivial atmosphere for staff and students...

Recorded November 10th, 2025. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Dr Anna Deeny Morales (Georgetown University, USA) in conversation with Dr Evangelia Rigaki (Department of Music). Bio: Anna Deeny Morales is a US-based Latina writer who grew up between Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. Her works in opera and poetry consider everyday family love and children; modes of empathy; patterns of...

Recorded November 25th, 2025. On 1 July 2026, Ireland will take on the Presidency of the Council of the EU for the first time since Brexit. This event, in partnership with the global CEO advisory firm Teneo, will reflect on the last time Ireland held the presidency (in 2013) and debate the challenges and opportunities ahead. The event will reflect on challenges and achievements of the 2013 preside...

Recorded 1st December 2025. A discussion with Ambassador Lars Thuesen, Denmark’s Ambassador to Ireland, about Denmark’s European Presidency (ending on the 31st of December), their priorities and vision for Europe, as well as the challenges Europe faces at this pivotal moment. We will also hear from the Minister for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne TD about the objectives and ambitions of the forthco...

Recorded November 19th, 2025. The Trinity Long Room Hub was delighted to launch a new seminar series - Bridging the Gap between Policy and Research - exploring how scholarship in the Arts and Humanities can shape and inform public policy for the common good. The opening seminar, Do the Humanities Actually Matter? Public Policy and the Humanities hears from Peter MacDonagh, a former senior advisor...

Recorded November 18th, 2025. Rough Magic Theatre Company, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub, presents Embracing Uncertainty: An Evening with Margaret Heffernan, Roy Foster and Tommy Tiernan. In a world where change is constant, the future rarely unfolds as expected. How do we learn not just to endure uncertainty, but to harness it? Drawing upon her recent book Embracing Uncertainty: H...

Recorded  November 14th, 2025. The Pollard Collection of Children’s Books: Past, Present, and Future Prof. Kenneth Kidd, Dr Lydia Ferguson, Laura Shanahan, Dr Jane Carroll, Dr Pádraic Whyte Recorded as part of The Pollard Collection of Children’s Books: A Symposium This collaboration between the School of English and Trinity College Library brought together a range of experts to discuss the histor...

Recorded  November 14th, 2025. Presentations from Students on the M.Phil. programme in Children’s Literature: Jovyn Anderson, Shumane Cleary, Judit Climent Torras, Alice Andrea Dall’Alba, Cleo Daly, Eryne Decluy-Mason, Isabelle Duffy, Bianca Embrén, Annelise Hoffman, Eva Hughes-Sutton, Susan Stewart, Paulina Tittertington, Jiaying Wu. Recorded as part of The Pollard Collection of Children’s Books:...

Recorded  November 14th, 2025. Dr Jane Carroll Convivial Patchworks: Collections within the Pollard Collection of Children's Books Tony Flynn Stories in Blank Spaces: Revealing biographies of childhood through inscriptions and marginalia found in the Pollard Collection of Children’s Books and Pollard Schoolbook Collection Dr Sinéad Moriarty "Weep on then, lost island": imagining Irish landscapes i...

Recorded  November 14th, 2025. Dr Pádraic Whyte The History of Harry Spencer: Paul Pollard and the beginnings of Irish Children’s Literature Dr Maggie Masterson Paul Pollard's anti-canon of unknown and uninteresting books Prof. Aileen Douglas The ‘new literature of animals’ and the Pollard Collection Recorded as part of The Pollard Collection of Children’s Books: A Symposium This collaboration bet...

Recorded November 14th, 2025. Emer O’Sullivan graduated from University College Dublin and pursued further studies and academic work at Berlin and Frankfurt universities before being appointed Chair of English Literature at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Writing in both German and English, she specialises in comparative and children’s literature, with particular interests in translation and image s...

Recorded November 24th, 2025. An evening of celebration as we award the Research Ireland - Harrison Medal to Philip V. Bohlman. Following the presentation of the medal, Bohlman will deliver the 2025 Harrison Lecture, "On Goodness". About the Research Ireland - Harrison Medal In 2004 the Harrison Medal was inaugurated by the Society for Musicology in Ireland in honour of Frank Llewellyn Harrison (1...

Recorded November 3rd, 2025. As we approach the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement on 15 November 1985, Behind the Headlines returns to debate whether this was a crucial stepping stone on the path to peace, or a controversial stumbling block. Bringing together experts from across the island, the panel re-examines the Agreement before the Good Friday Agreement, discusses w...

Recorded November 3rd, 2025. As we approach the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, Behind the Headlines revisits one of the most significant – and contested – moments in modern Irish history. In this special curated episode, Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Chair of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin, speaks with an expert panel ahead of the Behind the H...

Recorded October 2nd, 2025. Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together is a new series of live and recorded conversations amplifying voices that have been silenced in Irish cultural life. It gives space to artists, writers and thinkers who offer radical new perspectives on existing narratives. Our first conversation takes the form of a podcast series. Entitled 'In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland'...