Information re digital projects – Irish Revival Network

November 7, 2015 Dawn Duncan New Publications

1) PODCAST SERIES MODALITIES OF REVIVAL WITH UCD SCHOLARCAST NOW AVAILABLE IN FULL!

The Irish Revival Network podcast series Modalities of Revival is now fully available on the University College Dublin Scholarcast website. You can listen to the podcasts and download the transcripts at www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/series12.html. To receive regular updates from UCD Scholarcast don’t forget to subscribe. Edited by Dr Giulia Bruna and Catherine Wilsdon at UCD, Modalities of Revival brings together six experts from a variety of fields to discuss multiple forms of engagement through which Irish artists and activists mediated competing notions of Irishness and of Revivalism. The series features:

Dr Marnie Hay, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra: “Children and the Irish Cultural Revival”
Dr Ríona Nic Congáil, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra & University of York: An Cultúr Gaelach ó Pheirspictíocht an Linbh: Cín Lae Chailíní Scoile Chiarraí (1916-1918) [Gaelic Culture from the Child’s Perspective: The Diaries of Kerry Schoolgirls (1916-1918)]
Dr Liam Lanigan, Maynooth University: “The Revival and the City in James Stephens’s Dublin Fiction” 4. Prof. Gregory Castle, Arizona State University: “Yeats, Revival and the Temporalities of Modernism”
Dr Róisín Kennedy, University College Dublin: “The Revival and Visual Art – Harry Clarke’s Geneva Window”
Dr Barbara O’Connor: “Taking the Floor: Dance, Nation and Gender in the Irish Revival”

Check the Irish Revival Network Facebook page www.facebook.com/groups/irishrevivalnetwork and Twitter account @IrishRevival for more initiatives, events and opportunities. You can also get in touch by emailing irishrevivalnetwork@gmail.com.

2) DIGITAL RESOURCE AND EXHIBITION ON THOMAS MACDONAGH NOW AVAILABLE

The digital resource Revival to Revolution: the Literary Career of Thomas MacDonagh is now available at http://revival2revolution.omeka.net/. This Irish Revival Network project was set up in the Spring 2015 to showcase and preserve content from the event ‘Revival to Revolution: the Literary Career of Thomas MacDonagh’ which was held in Dublin at the National Gallery in June 2015. Coordinated by Catherine Wilsdon, Dr Giulia Bruna and Dr PJ Mathews in the UCD School of English, Drama & Film, the project was funded by the Irish Research Council in the New Foundations Scheme ‘Marking the National Decade of Centenaries’ and the UCD Humanities Institute. The event comprised an academic symposium, a public screening of RTÉ’s 1966 documentary On Behalf of the Provisional Government: Thomas MacDonagh by Aindreas Ó Gallchoir (courtesy of RTÉ Archives), and the physical exhibition ‘Thomas MacDonagh & the Irish Review’, now on display in UCD Library. The digital resource Revival to Revolution showcases a selection of items from the Curran Collection in UCD Library Special Collections relating to Thomas MacDonagh’s literary work. It features an illustrated exhibit about the magazine Irish Review (co-edited by MacDonagh) along with podcasts from the symposium.