Barry Houlihan

University of Galway

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Barry Houlihan is an Archivist at the James Hardiman Library at the University of Galway

RTÉ Players, including Daphne Carroll, Cathryn Brennan, Marcella O'Riordan and Conor Farrington record James Joyce's Ulysses, which was broadcast unedited and uninterrupted on RTÉ Radio 1 on Bloomsday 1982. Photo: John Cooney/RTÉ Guide

8 times Ulysses made a splash on stage and screen

How have various adaptations of Ulysses tried, succeeded or failed to bring audiences closer to Joyce's Dublin odyssey?

Ulysses • 14 Jun 22

The cast of Patrick. Photo: RTÉ Stills Library

The 1965 opera with St Patrick as a labourer on a building site

The ambitious TV opera Patrick portrayed the saint as an Irish navvy in contemporary 1960s England rather than a bearded man in robes

st patricks day • 15 Mar 22

Dún Aonghasa on Inis Mór. Photo: Etienne Rynne Archive, Hardiman Library, NUI Galway

A new view of an old country: heritage tourism in Ireland

How the changing face of heritage tourism since the 1950s has allowed us to see Ireland in new ways

Heritage • 13 Aug 21

Thomas Kilroy's play, Christ, Deliver Us! dramatised the experiences of teenage boys in a boarding school in the midlands in 1950s Ireland.

The cultural responses to Ireland's institutional past

The Abbey Theatre, and other theatres, have created cultural responses to Ireland's institutional past (and present) by drawing on testimony and archival records, as well …

Theatre • 22 Apr 21

How one of the world's biggest musicals found its star in Dublin

Genevieve Lyons played a central role in Irish theatre in the 1950s at a time the country was undergoing much cultural change

Brainstorm • 08 Jan 21

The Galway team take the pitch for The Big Game in Castlebar in 1987. Photo: Macnas Archives

A game of two halves: when Irish sport meets theatre

How has Irish identity and culture been represented by performances involving sport onstage?

Culture • 21 Aug 20

What James Joyce's bones and house tell us about Irish culture

Cultural heritage in Ireland is often only equated with income from tourism, hotel bed nights and profit

James Joyce • 06 Dec 19

'Archives can give voice to victims of past violence'

Archives provide a forum for transparency as well as for deconstructing myth-making within a nation's history

Archives • 22 May 19

Ollie West in Dead Centre's performance of Hamnet

When theatre goes digital...

How does contemporary theatre function when it no longer entirely "human"?

Theatre • 02 May 19

A fire at the museum. Photo: Buda Mendes/Getty Images

What we lose when culture and heritage are destroyed

Museums, galleries and libraries are irreplaceable places of discovery so the loss of Rio's National Museum will be felt for generations

Culture • 06 Sep 18