The Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University Podcast Series Podcast
1) Author Cauvery Madhavan on Migration, Identity, and Storytelling Between India and Ireland
Author Cauvery Madhavan discusses her journey from India to Ireland, where she reflects on the challenges and opportunities of migration, from adapting to small-town life to building community and a s...Show More
2) Irish Civic-leader Emma DeSouza on the Role of Women, Youth, and Community-Based Movements in Effecting Societal Change in Northern Ireland
In this final episode of our 6th season, Political Science and Irish Studies Professor Cera Murtagh has a conversation with Emma DeSouza, a journalist, award-winning campaigner, and peace activist who...Show More
3) In Conversation with 2025 Irish Studies Heimbold Chair Stephen Sexton
Stephen Sexton is an Irish poet and a lecturer at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast. While on campus in March 2025 he sat down with the Center for Irish Studies Directo...Show More
4) Theater-maker Dan Colley on 'Lost Lear'
Dan Colley is an Irish theater and film writer and director whose play Lost Lear had its North American premier at Villanova's Mullen Center for Performing Arts in February 2025. While on campus he sa...Show More
5) In Conversation with 2024 Irish Studies Heimbold Chair Emilie Pine
The 1st episode of our 6th season features a conversation between Irish author and 2024 Heimbold Chair Emilie Pine, Villanova creative writing professor Adrienne Perry, Villanova student Charlotte Ral...Show More
6) The Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University Podcast Series -- The Seamus Heaney Centre Presents at Villanova
Mícheál McCann is a poet from Derry City. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Poetry Review, Queering the Green and elsewhere. He is the author of Safe Home (Green Bottle Press, 2020...Show More
7) The Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University Podcast Series – Sustainability and Irish Poetry: Catherine Phil MacCarthy, Katie Donovan and Jane Clarke
Poets Catherine Phil MacCarthy, Katie Donovan and Jane Clarke write about an ethos of sustainability in their poetry. Having grown up on farms in Ireland, they share insights on our interactions with...Show More
8) Writers and Editors, Ethics and Craft: A Conversation with the 2023 Irish Studies Heimbold Chair Mary O’Donoghue and Irish writer Lisa McInerney
Conversation with the 2023 Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies, award-winning writer, translator, and editor, Mary O'Donoghue, and award-winning Irish writer and editor, Lisa McInerney, about the craft of...Show More
9) The Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University Podcast Series – Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon
Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon talks to Dr Cera Murtagh, Assistant Professor of Irish and Comparative Politics at Villanova, about her recent trip to Ireland as part of the presidential delegation wit...Show More
10) The Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University Podcast Series – Rosie O’Gorman of Cow House Studios in Wexford, Ireland
Bio: Rosie O’Gorman was born and raised in Wexford. Time spent on the farm as a child with her three sisters encouraged her love of inventive playfulness. Rosie is a mother of two boys Michael an...Show More