Davis Now Lectures Monday 20 July 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.
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 and Rebelling: Growing Up with Public Libraries' from the 2002 series marking 100 years of Carnegie Libraries in Ireland.