Davis Now Lectures - RTÉ Podcast
1) Ailbhe Smyth on Kate O'Brien
In 'Kate O'Brien: Legend in Her Own Time' activist and feminist Smyth covers themes and characters in O'Brien's books - including their bid to be free of conventions and how men are incidental from th...Show More
2) Professor Emeritus Lorna Reynolds on Irish writer Kate O'Brien
From the 'Kate O'Brien: The Woman and the Writer' birth-centenary of O'Brien 1997 series is an intriguing account of her longtime friend, and relates too why after years of obscurity O'Brien's writing...Show More
3) Poet Eavan Boland on Irish writer Kate O'Brien
From the 'Kate O'Brien: The Woman and the Writer' birth-centenary of O'Brien 1997 series and whose insights into the lives of women, so far from suburban Dublin where she and her husband entertained ...Show More
4) Diarmuid Ferriter - The Post-War Public Library Service in Ireland: Bring Books to the Remotest Hamlets and Hills
Historian Diarmuid Ferriter in his talk 'The Post-War Public Library Service in Ireland: Bring Books to the Remotest Hamlets and Hills' from the 2002 series marking 100 years of Carnegie Libraries in ...Show More
5) John Coolahan - UnRealised Potential: Ireland's Public Libraries and Our Schools
Educationalist John Coolahan on the precarious relationship which existed between the Irish state and its libraries for much of the 20th century in his talk 'UnRealised Potential: Ireland's Public Lib...Show More
John Coolahan - UnRealised Potential: Ireland's Public Libraries and Our Schools
26:52 | Jul 22nd, 2020
6) Fintan O'Toole - Reading, Writing and Rebelling: Growing Up with Public Libraries
Fintan O'Toole, writer, critic and journalist on the private pleasures of reading and how our first library card gives us an entry into the public community of readers in his talk 'Reading, Writing an...Show More
Fintan O'Toole - Reading, Writing and Rebelling: Growing Up with Public Libraries
23:20 | Jul 20th, 2020
7) James Joyce's Letters by Richard Ellmann
James Joyce's Letters by Richard Ellmann, his biographer, who says hints and declarations in them reveal Joyce a little as he saw himself, describing the letters in the 1982 Thomas Davis Lectures Joyc...Show More
8) James Joyce by Maurice Craig
James Joyce by Maurice Craig, author of the landmark book 'Dublin 1660-1860: an Architectural and Social History', who in the 1982 Thomas Davis Lectures Joyce Centenary series says Joyce showed little...Show More
9) Eavan Boland on James Joyce
Poet Eavan Boland on James Joyce: The Young Romantic, from the 1982 Thomas Davis Lectures, the centenary of the birth of Joyce, when she considers his poetry collection Chamber Music, A Little Cloud f...Show More
10) James Joyce and Marsh’s Library
Marsh's Library, Ireland's first public library, and its rare books figure in James Joyce's Stephen Hero, Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. Dr Muriel McCarthy, then its keeper, recounts its intriguing hist...Show More