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Series
- Series 1: The Art of Popular Culture
- Series 1 Introduction
- Scholarcast 1
- Scholarcast 2
- Scholarcast 3
- Scholarcast 4
- Scholarcast 5
- Scholarcast 6
- Scholarcast 7
- Scholarcast 8
- Series 2: Archaeologies of Art: Papers from the Sixth World Archaeological Congress
- Series 3: Scholars Off the Page
- Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles
- Scholarcast 16
- Scholarcast 17
- Scholarcast 18
- Scholarcast 19
- Scholarcast 20
- Scholarcast 21
- Scholarcast 24
- Scholarcast 25
- Series 5: Reflections on Irish Music
- Series 6: The UCD / Notre Dame Lectures
- Series 7: The Literatures and Cultures of the Irish Sea
- Series 8: The Irish Memory Studies Research Network Lectures: 'Gender and Commemoration'
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Welcome to Scholarcast
UCDscholarcast is a Digital Humanities project dedicated to the dissemination of academic research in the field of Irish Studies and adjacent disciplines through podcasting. Our specially commissioned podcasts by leading scholars, writers and artists are recorded in studio to ensure a high quality listening experience.
These open access podcasts are aimed at a wide academic audience of scholars, graduate students, undergraduates and interested members of the public. The objective is to broaden the impact of academic scholarship.
Each Scholarcast is accompanied by a downloadable PDF transcript to facilitate citation in written academic work.
To date UCDscholarcast has produced academic podcasts in the following subject areas: literature, history, music, archaeology, popular culture, film, media studies, classics.
SCHOLARCAST SERIES
Series 1: The Art of Popular Culture
This inaugural Scholarcast series features eight talks on aspects of Irish popular culture from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Contributors include: Frank McGuinness, Bill Whelan, Paige Reynolds, Clair Wills, Anne Fogarty, Eddie Holt, Elaine Sisson & P.J. Mathews.
Series 2: Archaeologies of Art: Papers from the Sixth World Archaeological Congress
In this series a number of distinguished archaeologists consider relationships between archaeology and art. Based on papers given at the Sixth World Archaeological Congress held at University College Dublin in 2008. Contributors include: Ian Russell, Douglass Bailey, Blaze O'Connor, Kevin O'Dwyer, Andrew Cochrane.
Series 3: Scholars off the Page
In this series we invite leading academics to read extracts from their recently published work. Contributors include: Declan Kiberd, Diarmaid Ferriter, Diane Negra, Nick Daly, Aude Doody.
Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago
This series brings together some of the major scholars in the cultural study of modern conceptions of the British Isles, and connections between their constituent parts. Contributors include: Edna Longley, Julian Wolfreys, Alice Entwistle, Claire Connolly, Nick Groom, Michael Gardiner, John Brannigan.
Series 5: Reflections on Irish Music
In this series some of the major participants in the Irish folk music revival, as well as a number of the leading scholars in the field reflect on developments in Irish music over the course of the twentieth century. Contributors include: Paul Brady.
Series 6: The UCD / Notre Dame Lectures
Contributors include: Robert Schmuhl.
Series 7: The Literatures and Cultures of the Irish Sea
This series hosts eight lectures by major scholars on literary and cultural transactions across the Irish Sea, and which focus on the Irish Sea as an 'inner waterway' of the British and Irish Isles.
Series 8: The Irish Memory Studies Research Network Lectures: 'Gender and Commemoration'
The past is a foreign country and we must explore it; from the commemoration of historic events to the newly visible histories of modern institutions, the remembrance of things past is embedded in the spaces of the Irish rural and urban landscapes. And this is not a new phenomenon – the backward glance has always been an integral element of how Ireland is imagined and framed.
RECENT EPISODES
- Series 8, Episode 29: The Prisons Memory Archive
The Prisons Memory Archive is a collection of 170 filmed interviews inside Armagh Gaol and the Maze and Long Kesh Prison. Utilising protocols of inclusivity, co-ownership and life-storytelling, the PMA recorded participants, including prison staff, prisoners, chaplains, teachers and visitors... - Series 7, Episode 28: Ireland, Empire and the Archipelago
By 1916 the British Empire was at a point of crisis. The beginning of the First World War marked the end of a half-century of expansion in trade and speculation that made the empire a global network for the exchange of capital... - Series 6, Episode 27: 'All Changed, Changed Utterly': Easter 1916 and America
When P.H. Pearse proclaimed 'The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic' on Easter Monday 1916, he acknowledged that Ireland of the Rising was 'supported by her exiled children in America'. What assistance did these "exiled children" provide, and how did people in America react to the Easter Rising?... - Series 5, Episode 26: Perspectives on Popular Music in Ireland from the 1960s to the mid-1970s
In this Scholarcast Paul Brady reflects on his early childhood encounters with music and on the importance of popular music in the 1960s to the formation of his own musical consciousness. He recounts his earliest experiences playing with various R 'n' B bands during his time as a student at UCD...