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Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Opened in 2010, the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute is dedicated to advancing Trinity College Dublin’s rich tradition of research excellence in the Arts and Humanities, on an individual, collaborative and inter-disciplinary basis.
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Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsEmbracing Uncertainty
Recorded November 18th, 2025. Rough Magic Theatre Company, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub, presents Embracing Uncertainty: An Evening with…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsThe Pollard Collection of Children’s Books: Roundtable Discussion
Recorded November 14th, 2025. The Pollard Collection of Children’s Books: Past, Present, and Future Prof. Kenneth Kidd, Dr Lydia Ferguson, Laura Shanahan, Dr…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsAdventures in the Pollard Collection
Recorded November 14th, 2025. Presentations from Students on the M.Phil. programme in Children’s Literature: Jovyn Anderson, Shumane Cleary, Judit Climent…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsThe Pollard Collection of Children’s Books: Panel Two
Recorded November 14th, 2025. Dr Jane Carroll Convivial Patchworks: Collections within the Pollard Collection of Children's Books Tony Flynn Stories in Blank…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsThe Pollard Collection of Children’s Books: Panel One
Recorded November 14th, 2025. Dr Pádraic Whyte The History of Harry Spencer: Paul Pollard and the beginnings of Irish Children’s Literature Dr Maggie Masterson…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsPollard's Germans: exploring the Collection’s transnational dimensions
Recorded November 14th, 2025. Emer O’Sullivan graduated from University College Dublin and pursued further studies and academic work at Berlin and Frankfurt…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsAwarding of the Research Ireland - Harrison Medal to Philip V. Bohlman
Recorded November 24th, 2025. An evening of celebration as we award the Research Ireland - Harrison Medal to Philip V. Bohlman. Following the presentation of…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsBehind the Headlines: Debating the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 40 years on
Recorded November 3rd, 2025. As we approach the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement on 15 November 1985, Behind the Headlines returns…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsThe Anglo-Irish Agreement: Its Making, Impact, and the People Behind It
Recorded November 3rd, 2025. As we approach the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, Behind the Headlines revisits one of the most…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsIn the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland
Recorded October 2nd, 2025. Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together is a new series of live and recorded conversations amplifying voices that have been silenced in…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsResilience and its Many Faces
Recorded October 1st, 2025. A seminar by Dr Peter Rogers (Macquarie University, Australia) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. This…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsThe Blooming of Dorian Gray
Recorded October 7th, 2025. A seminar by Prof Jarlath Killeen (School of English, TCD) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. "Time is…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsTLRH | 2025 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture | William Dalrymple
Recorded October 15th 2025. The Trinity Long Room Hub is delighted to welcome author and historian William Dalrymple to present the 2025 Edmund Burke Lecture…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsIn Conversation with Aoife McLysaght, the Government Science Advisor
Recorded September 26th, 2025. Government Science Advisor, Aoife McLysaght, joins a lively conversation with Hub Director Patrick Geoghegan on bridging…
Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts'I Fall Down': a behind-the-scenes look at this punk-feminist production
Recorded Monday 22nd September 2025. Gina Moxley and the creative team behind I Fall Down: A Restoration Comedy give us a behind-the-scenes look at this…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsBehind the Headlines: The Irish Presidency
Recorded Monday 22nd September 2025. The Hub's Behind the Headlines series begins its second decade with a public discussion on the Irish Presidency. The panel…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsBeyond Competition, towards International Solidarity
Recorded September 25th, 2025. Franciszek Krawczyk (Education) explores the role of the university in advancing international solidarity, comparing Trinity and…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsClare Moriarty on Philosophy, Berkeley and…motherhood
Recorded 25th September 2025. Hub Director Patrick Geoghegan speaks with Dr Clare Moriarty (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsExpressions of Loss: Creative Arts, Culture, and Public Health Approaches to Mourning
Recorded September 24th, 2025. In this joint session chaired by AHSS Faculty Dean Carmel O'Sullivan, Shannon Mora (Digital Humanities) will explore mourning as…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsFamine Then, Famine Now: A Conversation about Famine in the Middle East, Past and Present
Recorded September 23rd, 2025. James Hanrahan (French) hosts a difficult and timely conversation with Tylor Brand (Near & Middle Eastern Studies), in this…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsFur, Feathers, and Flora: Alternative Branches in the Digital Humanities
Recorded September 23rd, 2025. From emojis in online condolences, to legendary goat-riding criminals and mapping wild urban plants, this panel (Shannon Mora…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsFutures of the Future: AI and Humanities Research
Recorded September 26th, 2025. What does artificial intelligence mean for research in the Humanities? This panel brings together David Brown (the IRC-funded…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsIs there Rhyme in Ancient Greek Poetry?
Recorded Tuesday, 23rd of September 2025. Ben Jonson's claim that "Greek was free from Rime’s Infection" has echoed for centuries, although rejected by some…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsLost Souls: Resurrecting the Neglected Creators of Gothic and Horror
Recorded September 25th 2025. Why do some creators of Gothic and Horror fade into obscurity, while others become icons? Bernice Murphy (English) chairs a panel…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsPartition and P.E.N. International
Recorded September 24th, 2025. Stephen O'Neill (English) looks at writing and partition in this festival edition of the Modern and Contemporary Irish History…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsSpotlight on US History
Recorded 22nd September 2025. This international history seminar focuses on the US, with Dan Geary (History) discussing 'Forgotten American Liberals: Why…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsTales of Brave Ulysses: From Swerve of Censorship to Bend of Copyright
Recorded Tuesday, 23rd September 2025. Join James Joyce expert Sam Slote (English) for a sharp look at censorship, copyright, and Ulysses in this festival…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsThe Flag That Doesn't Exist Yet?: Re-Imagining Symbols in Northern Ireland and Ireland
Recorded September 25th, 2025. Should Northern Ireland, or Ireland, have a new flag? David Michell and Etain Tannam (Peace Studies) explore this long-debated…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsThe University and Truth-Telling
Recorded September 25th 2025. Reflecting on her new publication Theology and the University, Fáinche Ryan (Theology) explores whether the university is or…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsTrinity Library Quick Picks
Recorded September 25th, 2025. Library staff share favourite finds from current projects. From autumnal windmills and apples to cartoons, maps and Michael…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsTrinity's Medical and Health Humanities: Bridging Cultures; Challenging Norms; Raising Consciousness
Recorded Tuesday, 23rd Setpember 2025. Join Georgina Laragy (History) and Mandy Lee (Medicine) to explore past achievements and future directions for Trinity’s…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsWandering Books Showcase
Recorded September 24th 2025. How do we locate books in time and place? Nicole Volmering (History) and the Trinity Centre for the Book invite you into the…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsWhat does Dignity mean when you are Deprived of your Liberty?
Recorded Monday 22nd September 2025. Mary Rogan (Law) discusses her pioneering research on human rights and detention, and how people in prison experience the…
Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts‘The Evidence of Things Not Seen’: Ethics and the True Crime Industry
Recorded 22nd September 2025. Why are we so drawn to true crime? And what are the ethical stakes behind the stories? Join popular literature experts Clare…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsHibernian Shakespeare - Session 5
Recorded June 14, 2025. Emer McHugh (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘National Questions: Shakespeare and Ireland studies, and where we are now' Final Round…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsHibernian Shakespeare - Session 4
Recorded June 14, 2025. Conrad Brunström (Maynooth University): ‘Shakespeare and Sheridan's Coriolanus: Who banished who?’ Ceola Daly (St Cross College…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsHibernian Shakespeare - Session 3
Recorded June 14, 2025. Eilís Smyth (Trinity College Dublin): ‘The Smock Alley Promptbooks in the 21st Century’ Madeleine Saidenberg: (Worcester College…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsHibernian Shakespeare - Session 2
Recorded June 14, 2025. Tara Lyons (Illinois State University): ‘A Colonial Collection? English Drama in the First Duke of Ormonde’s Irish Libraries’ Andrew…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsHibernian Shakespeare - Session 1
Recorded June 14, 2025. David Dickson (Trinity College Dublin): 'The social backdrop: Eighteenth-century Dubliners' Linzi Simpson: ‘Smock Alley: the…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsWho cares when corporations kill?
Recorded July 22nd 2025. An in conversation event with Prof David Kinley (The University of Sydney) and Prof Blanaid Clarke (TCD) organised by the school of…
Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts46th T.S. Eliot Society Annual Memorial Lecture - Barbarous Cuisine: T.S. Eliot in Ireland 1936-1940
Recorded July 2nd, 2025. 46th Annual Memorial Lecture Barbarous Cuisine: T. S. Eliot in Ireland (1936 & 1940) Fran Brearton - Queen’s University Belfast…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsA struggle for rights and freedoms: The importance of civil society space
Recorded May 21, 2025. A keynote lecture for the Global Intersections: Communication and Resilience Across Borders conference, by Chris O’Connell (Trócaire…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsMichael Mc Laughlin – “Defining a Community Choir: Navigating the Complexities of Social Inclusion and Musical Excellence”
Recorded May 13th, 2025. A seminar by PhD Music students presenting their research, organised by the Department of Music. Learn more at…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsDaniel Vives Lynch – “Irish Traditional-Classical Synthesis Composition: Contemporary Figure-based Approaches to Egalitarian Synthesis Achievement”
Recorded May 13th, 2025. A seminar by PhD Music students presenting their research, organised by the Department of Music. Learn more at…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsAnastasia Motiti – “Operatic Adaptations of Euripides’ Alcestis: Baroque and Classical Approaches to Ancient Greek Tragedy”
Recorded May 13th, 2025. A seminar by PhD Music students presenting their research, organised by the Department of Music. Learn more at…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsEmmelle Wadding – “Time Is What You Make of It: Audience Control in Live Contemporary Music Performance”
Recorded May 13th, 2025. A seminar by PhD Music students presenting their research, organised by the Department of Music. Learn more at…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsIt's All About Tuberculosis: Seán O'Casey's Critical Look at the Easter Rising
Recorded May 8th, 2025. A talk by Dr. Barry Devine as part of the TCD Medical/Health Humanities Seminar Series. Seán O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars is…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsSmock Alley Shakespeare: Reclaiming Ireland’s Role in The Dramatist’s Legacy
Recorded April 22, 2025. A lecture by Dr Eilís Smyth (School of English, TCD) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. English…
Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts2025 | "The Spectacle of Fearsome Acts": Violence, Journalism and the Democratic Future
Recorded May 12th, 2025. The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture for 2025 was delivered by Bruce Shapiro, on "The Spectacle of Fearsome…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsHeroes and sidekicks - collaboration and partnerships with colleagues inside and outside the library world
Recorded March 21st 2025. The annual seminar for the CONUL Teaching and Learning Committee organised by Trinity Library and with a keynote by Dr. John Danaher…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsRichard Steele and the Uses of Deference
Recorded March 25th, 2025. A lecture by Dr James Wood (University of East Anglia) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. English…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsSearching for Common Identity – A Personal Journey
Recorded March 14th, 2025. A lecture by Dr Sanjoy Som (scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, USA) organised by Trinity's MPhil in Identities & Cultures of…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsRevisiting Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa: Space, Place, and Text
Recorded April 8th, 2025. A lecture by Dr Dilek Ozturk & Dr Elliott Mills (School of English, TCD) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsAn Infinitely Full Stop: Mark O’Connell and Chris Morash Discuss John Banville’s Writing
Recorded April 9th, 2025. A discussion between Prof Chris Morash (English) and Dr Mark O'Connell (Author and Rooney Writer Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub)…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsFellow in Focus: Dr Nina Lamal
Recorded March 20th, 2025. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Dr Nina Lamal (Huygens Instituut, KNAW, Netherlands) in conversation with Dr…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsOscar Wilde and the Fenians
Recorded March 11th, 2025. A lecture by Prof Jarlath Killeen (School of English, TCD) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. English…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsTackling Wagner in Ireland
Recorded March 11th, 2025. A lecture by Fergus Sheil (Founding Artistic Director of Irish National Opera) for the Music Composition Centre Talks. Fergus is the…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsHares Upon Hearthstones – Envisioning the Death of Civilization in Medieval Literature & Cognitive Reading of the Supernatural in Shakespeare’s Plays
Recorded February 25, 2025. A lecture by Alan Armstrong and Yael Bassan (School of English, TCD) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. This…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsThe Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies Keynote: Dr Miranda Corcoran
Recorded February 22nd, 2025. A Keynote Address by Dr Miranda Corcoran (Chairs: Janice Deitner and Dara Downey, TCD),entitled “Lizzie in America: Transatlantic…
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsFellow In Focus: Prof Ronan McDonald
Recorded February 13th, 2025. Pay Attention!: Literary Studies, Neurohumanities and the ‘Distraction Economy’ Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow…