Davis Now Lectures Tuesday 31 March 2020
The RTÉ Radio 1 DAVIS NOW LECTURES podcast presents new or previously broadcast commissioned lectures on timely subjects from Ireland's finest scholars, thinkers and artists. The inspiration for the podcast is the iconic RTÉ THOMAS DAVIS lectures which for over half a century since 1953 featured newly written radio talks on a host of subjects. Listen and subscribe here, or search 'Davis Now Lectures' in your podcast app.
Symbolic Streetscapes | Davis Now Lectures
Dr Yvonne Whelan of the Irish Academy for Cultural Studies, Derry, contributed to the 2002 series 'Engaging Spaces' on the nature of space in our lives. Regarding Dublin's Spire to statutes of royalty and rebels she demonstrates how urban spaces can be contested and highly political.