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Declan Kiberd salutes our libraries - Davis Now Lectures podcast

Saluting our public libraries, one of the jewels of civic life, this week's RTÉ Davis Now Lectures podcast shares from its archives a wonderfully mischievous and entertaining talk by Professor Declan Kiberd from the 2002 series University of the People...

Podcasts • 11 Jun 20

Author Breandán Ó hEithir features in the latest Davis Now Lectures podcast

The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature revisited - Davis Now Lectures

The latest RTÉ Radio 1 Davis Now Lectures podcast features three major forces in 20th-century Irish writing. The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature was a 1970s Thomas Davis Lectures series, featuring writers on writers in the Irish language.

Podcasts • 15 May 20

Eavan Boland on Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh - Davis Now Lectures

Poet Eavan Boland contributed to the 1993 series Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh, which looked at aspects of contemporary poetry written in Irish and English from the 1950s to the early 1990s - listen above.

Davis Now Lectures • 30 Apr 20

British Architect Ian Ritchie's Monument of Light or The Spire on O'Connell Street, Dublin, won the international competition for a monument for Dublin city, and was completed in 2003.

Listen: Davis Now lectures - Symbolic Streetscapes

This series encourages us to look at, and take account of our built and natural, as well our cultural and emotional surroundings.

Davis Now Lectures • 02 Apr 20

Irish playwright and founder of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory (1852 - 1932)

Listen: Davis Now lectures - Spaces Of The Mind

Engaging Spaces: People, Place and Space from an Irish Perspective is now available as a Davis Now Lectures podcast - listen to the first installment.

Culture • 24 Mar 20

Listen: Davis Now Lectures - Bringing It All Back Home

A wrap studio session of the RTÉ Davis Now Lectures: Making Home series is hosted here by architectural historian and the series consultant editor Dr Ellen Rowley

Davis Now Lectures • 25 Feb 20

Lecturer Professor Hugh Campbell with series consultant editor Dr Ellen Rowley in Nano Nagle Place, Cork

Davis Now Lectures: Architecture and Patterns of Dwelling

A poetic meander taking in Bachelard, Jane Eyre, David Byrne and Talking Heads and on through Roma and the stories of Herman Melville...

Davis Now Lectures • 19 Feb 20

Davis Now Lectures: Making Homes for Shelter or for Investment?

Michelle Norris's radio lecture is a brilliant and enlightening study of the economic and political forces shaping Irish housing for over the past hundred years.

Davis Now Lectures • 04 Feb 20

Series Producer Clíodhna Ní Anluain, playwright Darren Murphy, contributing lecturer Róise Goan and series host Dr Ellen Rowley at Glebe House, Co Donegal

Listen: Davis Now - Irish Contemporary Theatre Performance & Home

Too Close to Home: Irish Contemporary Theatre Performance and Home - is a lecture by theatremaker Róise Goan for the current Davis Now Lectures series, currently broadcast on Sundays at 6pm on RTÉ Radio 1.

Theatre • 29 Jan 20

Listen: Davis Now Lectures: Bricks, Mortar and Data

The Davis Now Lectures: Bricks, Mortar and Data

Davis Now Lectures • 21 Jan 20

Listen: Davis Now - an Architectural History of Ireland.

Cultural historian and Davis Now: Making Home consultant editor Dr Ellen Rowley delivers the first lecture in the series lecture entitled Clearing Hovels and Building Homes: an Architectural History of Ireland. Listen to it above...

Davis Now Lectures • 14 Jan 20

The Davis Now Lectures - series consultant editor and host, Dr Ellen Rowley

Davis Now Lectures: Making Home

The Davis Now Lectures are a re-shaping of the long-running RTÉ Thomas Davis Lectures, in which academics, creatives and thinkers presented ideas on a subject through a series of radio lectures, under the direction of series editor and host Ellen Rowley.

Davis Now Lectures • 10 Jan 20

Davis Now Lectures