Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded June 14, 2025. Conrad Brunström (Maynooth University): ‘Shakespeare and Sheridan's Coriolanus: Who banished who?’ Ceola Daly (St Cross College, Oxford): ‘“Ó Moeloins” Malone: Ireland's Most Famous Forgotten Shakespearean’ Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Recorded June 14, 2025. Eilís Smyth (Trinity College Dublin): ‘The Smock Alley Promptbooks in the 21st Century’ Madeleine Saidenberg: (Worcester College, Oxford): ‘Hamlet in Irish Wool: Fashioning an Anglo-Irish Shakespeare, 1721’ Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Recorded June 14, 2025. Tara Lyons (Illinois State University): ‘A Colonial Collection? English Drama in the First Duke of Ormonde’s Irish Libraries’ Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Shakespeare, the Charlemont Library and the Politics of Identity’ Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Recorded June 14, 2025. David Dickson (Trinity College Dublin): 'The social backdrop: Eighteenth-century Dubliners' Linzi Simpson: ‘Smock Alley: the rediscovery of Dublin’s oldest surviving theatre’ Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Recorded July 22nd 2025. An in conversation event with Prof David Kinley (The University of Sydney) and Prof Blanaid Clarke (TCD) organised by the school of Law. Who cares when corporations kill? The remarkable story behind suing one of the worlds largest asbestos companies for transnational negligence. In Conversation - Professor David Kinley, Chair of Human Rights Law, Sydney Law School, The Uni...

Recorded July 2nd, 2025. 46th Annual Memorial Lecture Barbarous Cuisine: T. S. Eliot in Ireland (1936 & 1940) Fran Brearton - Queen’s University Belfast Chaired by Patrick Query, T.S. Eilot Society President Fran Brearton is Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast. Her books include The Great War in Irish Poetry, Reading Michael Longley, and, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of Mode...

Recorded May 21, 2025. A keynote lecture for the Global Intersections: Communication and Resilience Across Borders conference, by Chris O’Connell (Trócaire, Policy and Advocacy Advisor in Human Rights and Civil Society Space). The Global Intersections: Communication and Resilience Across Borders conference was hosted by Trinity Centres for Global Intercultural Communications; Forced Migration Stud...

Recorded May 13th, 2025. A seminar by PhD Music students presenting their research, organised by the Department of Music. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Recorded May 13th, 2025. A seminar by PhD Music students presenting their research, organised by the Department of Music. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Recorded May 13th, 2025. A seminar by PhD Music students presenting their research, organised by the Department of Music. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Recorded May 13th, 2025. A seminar by PhD Music students presenting their research, organised by the Department of Music. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Recorded May 8th, 2025. A talk by Dr. Barry Devine as part of the TCD Medical/Health Humanities Seminar Series. Seán O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars is often described as a play about The Easter Rising, but the ever-present spectre of tuberculosis in the play overshadows the politics in favor of more humanitarian concerns in 1916 Dublin. Barry Devine is an Associate Professor of English at Heid...

Recorded April 22, 2025. A lecture by Dr Eilís Smyth (School of English, 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 to present...

Recorded May 12th, 2025. The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture for 2025 was delivered by Bruce Shapiro, on "The Spectacle of Fearsome Acts": Violence, Journalism and the Democratic Future. Are today’s journalists the unwitting enablers of autocrats or the last bastion of democratic defence? Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the...

Recorded March 21st 2025. The annual seminar for the CONUL Teaching and Learning Committee organised by Trinity Library and with a keynote by Dr. John Danaher (School of Law, University of Galway). Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Recorded March 25th, 2025. A lecture by Dr James Wood (University of East Anglia) 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 pre...

Recorded March 14th, 2025. A lecture by Dr Sanjoy Som (scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, USA) organised by Trinity's MPhil in Identities & Cultures of Europe and funded by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. Come and listen to an astrobiologist working at NASA on how space exploration can reshape human identity in times of crisis. This event explores the relationship between s...

Recorded April 8th, 2025. A lecture by Dr Dilek Ozturk & Dr Elliott Mills (School of English, TCD) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. This weeks seminar will cover two lecture: Revisiting Brian Friel: Space, Place, and Text & ‘I always make a point of following the works of Mr Eliot’: T.S. Eliot in Flann O’Brien’s Undecidable Modernism. English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Ser...

Recorded April 9th, 2025. A discussion between Prof Chris Morash (English) and Dr Mark O'Connell (Author and Rooney Writer Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub) organised by the Library of Trinity College Dublin. Professor Chris Morash, Trinity’s Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, and prize-winning author Dr Mark O’Connell discuss on the writing of John Banville. This event coincides with the incl...

Recorded March 20th, 2025. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Dr Nina Lamal (Huygens Instituut, KNAW, Netherlands) in conversation with Dr Ann-Marie Hansen (Fagel Collection Project Manager, Library, TCD). Bio: Dr Nina Lamal is an early modern historian based at the Humanities Cluster of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam. Her research focuses on ear...

Recorded March 11th, 2025. A lecture by Fergus Sheil (Founding Artistic Director of Irish National Opera) for the Music Composition Centre Talks. Fergus is the founding artistic director of Irish National Opera. He has conducted a wide-ranging repertoire of over 50 different operas in performance, recordings and on film. Highlights include Strauss’ Salome, Der Rosenkavalier and Elektra, Rossini’s ...

Recorded March 11th, 2025. A lecture by Prof Jarlath Killeen (School of English, 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 to...

Recorded February 25, 2025. A lecture by Alan Armstrong and Yael Bassan (School of English, TCD) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. This weeks seminar will cover two lectures: Hares Upon Hearthstones – Envisioning the Death of Civilization in Medieval Literature & Cognitive Reading of the Supernatural in Shakespeare’s Plays. English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a for...

Recorded February 22nd, 2025. A Keynote Address by Dr Miranda Corcoran (Chairs: Janice Deitner and Dara Downey, TCD),entitled “Lizzie in America: Transatlantic Transformations and the Figure of Elizabeth Style in Shirley Jackson's Fiction.” Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Recorded February 13th, 2025. Pay Attention!: Literary Studies, Neurohumanities and the ‘Distraction Economy’ Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Prof Ronan McDonald (University of Melbourne, Australia) in conversation with Prof Christopher Morash (School of English, TCD) and Prof Shane O'Mara (TCIN, TCD). ‘Attention studies’ is burgeoning in academic and popular fora, not least because...