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The Field Day Podcast brings you the newest critical thinking and informed discussion of culture, history and technology from specialists and academics from Ireland. Along with the podcast, Field Day is busy in many fields of activity, including journalism, theatre and public lectures. See fieldday.ie to learn more or visit our youtube channel.
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The Field Day Podcast is going on a hiatus from November 2020. It takes quite a bit of time and energy to produce the kind of content we want to share, and time and energy are in short supply these days, in the face of other commitments. Additionally, as the podcast approaches its 3rd anniversary, […]
The post Announcement – November 2020 appeared first on Field Day.
The political doesn’t always correspond in Ireland to the culinary. Dorothy Cashman reads the long-forgotten recipe books of Irish country houses, and inserts them into the history of the country and the world. In her analysis of one recipe book from Kilkenny, she gives us a fascinating portrait of a network of women and food […]
The post 31. Irish Culinary History, with Dorothy Cashman appeared first on Field Day.
2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the technical standard for the compact disc. Eamonn Bell explains how this format is an important hinge in the establishment of digital music for the general consumer. As a portable medium, it belongs to the era of vinyl and magnetic tape, yet as the first widespread digital music format, […]
The post 30. The Compact Disc at 40, a media history with Eamonn Bell appeared first on Field Day.
Polly Platt is not a household name, and that is the problem we tackle in this episode. She was a lynchpin in the making of an astonishing list of some of the best American films for more than two decades. So how come so few people know about her? When her name is remembered, it […]
The post 29. Absence and Presence in Hollywood: On Polly Platt, with Aaron Hunter appeared first on Field Day.
Crowds create atmospheres. Police try to control those atmospheres. From the interaction between them, says Illan Rua Wall, emerges power. And that power can take the form of political upheaval and unrest, or the consolidation of pre-existing sovereignty. A lecturer in law at the University of Warwick, Illan Rua Wall pursues questions of police and […]
The post 28. The Atmosphere of Crowds, with Illan Rua Wall appeared first on Field Day.
When it comes to work, the coronavirus has changed everything, and changed nothing. We are more idle, and we are busier than ever. Some employers bring therapets (therapeutic pets), such as alpacas, into the office. It helps people get out of their heads, as Stephen Dunne explains in this episode. So, what’s wrong with our […]
The post 27. Post-work and Busynesslessness, with Stephen Dunne appeared first on Field Day.
The history of rural life is a history of technology. In this interview, we explore the machinery, systems of distribution and technological innovations that transformed many Irish rural communities when they adopted the cooperative model in the late 19th century. Historian Patrick Doyle of the University of Manchester opens his account of the Irish cooperatives […]
The post 26. Cooperative Movements and Political Change in Ireland, with Patrick Doyle appeared first on Field Day.
I don’t trust newspapers. Half the time they lie. – Alex Jones, Infowars In this conversation, we talk about trust, truth and trolls. Are conspiracy theories a new phenomenon? Do we believe authorities less than we used to? What is a Russian troll farm? Eileen Culloty is an expert in conspiracy theories, and she has […]
The post 25. Trust, Truth and Trolls, with Eileen Culloty appeared first on Field Day.
Does a city have a sound? It’s the question that set writer Karl Whitney on a unique musical pilgrimage around the cities of Britain. The result is his book, just out: Hit Factories: A Journey Through the Industrial Cities of British Pop. When Karl was back in his native Dublin recently, we talked about the […]
The post 24. Pop Music and British Cities, with Karl Whitney appeared first on Field Day.
Hannah Arendt coined the phrase ‘the right to have rights’ in her 1958 book The Human Condition. In this lecture, literary critic Seamus Deane links Arendt’s phrase with the Irish immigration system, in particular the ‘Direct Provision’ centres. Since the first half of the the twentieth century, the condition of being stateless, of being a […]
The post Episode #23: Seamus Deane on the Right to Have Rights appeared first on Field Day.
How has the Irish Sea become the most polluted sea in the world? The answer lies in the north west of England, where the Sellafield site has poured millions of tonnes of nuclear waste into the sea since the 1950s. Like the history of nuclear power plants around the world, its history is one of […]
The post Episode #22: Mark Dearey on Nuclear Power in Ireland and Britain appeared first on Field Day.
We are seeing Ireland north and south being sold to corporate powers Bernadette Devlin McAliskey is Ireland’s finest political orator, and a key figure in recent political history. In this lecture she takes as her theme a line from playwright Sean O’Casey, ‘A Terrible State o’ Chassis’, where chassis means ‘crisis’. While still a student […]
The post Episode #21: Bernadette Devlin McAliskey – “A Terrible State o’ Chassis” appeared first on Field Day.
One of many prophets who forecast the disasters of modernism, but one of the few who did it from the left. Georg Lukács was one of the leading European literary critics of the 20th century. His life story was entangled with the political storms that swept across his native Hungary – communist revolution, reaction, fascism, […]
The post Episode #20: Seamus Deane on Georg Lukács appeared first on Field Day.
From the 1910s to the 1950s, newsreels were the only source of non-fictional moving images available to the public. Many samples of this forgotten genre survive. Now researchers are uncovering a whole new set of archival sources that nuance and illustrate the history of Ireland in the first half of the 20th century. Ciara Chambers […]
The post Episode #19: Ciara Chambers on Irish Newsreels appeared first on Field Day.
In 2013, Roddy Flynn and Tony Tracy had a bright idea. Why not make a statistical analysis of Irish film? This conversation explores the surprising things they found out. Flynn and Tracy’s data-driven approach focuses particularly on the Irish Film Board and the projects it has supported. In this insightful and entertaining commentary, they explore […]
The post Episode #18 Roddy Flynn and Tony Tracy on Irish Film appeared first on Field Day.
This is a threshold moment, Johnny. The Mad Max world teeters on the edge of reason and on the edge of existence. It is difficult to think of a more highly-charged and high-octane film franchise that has reached a mass global audience. The four iconic films are among the most recognisable and influential movies of […]
The post Episode #17 Jonathan Rayner on the Mad Max Films appeared first on Field Day.
What is society going to look like if you have a certain number of people living forever? Mark O’Connell is best known for his bestselling, prizewinnng To Be A Machine. In that book, he describes various fringe projects around the world dedicated to extending human life as much as possible. In this interview, he connects […]
The post Episode #16 Mark O’Connell on Posthumanists and Preppers appeared first on Field Day.
“The language we speak is always borrowed. We don’t invent it ourselves. It comes from somebody else.” Some modernist writers in search of a way out of their alienation found that leaving their own native languages offered a new freedom. Professor of Comparative Literature Barry McCrea explores the unexpected choices that helped some find a […]
The post Episode #15 Barry McCrea on Modernism and Minor Languages appeared first on Field Day.
Steve Coleman is an American anthropologist at Maynooth University who studies the Irish language and the Gaeltacht way of life. As part of that project, in the 1970s he got to know the legendary sean-nós singer Joe Heaney, whose music we talk about here. Steve also talks about how the linguistic anthropology approach can influence […]
The post Episode #14: Anthropologist Steve Coleman on Irish-Language Songs and Literature appeared first on Field Day.
The first million-seller in the global music industry was the sheet music of Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies. Using this as his starting point, music historian and industry insider Michael Mary Murphy shows that there are long chains of cause and effect that run through the history of Irish popular music from 19th-century ballads to 21st-century […]
The post Episode #13: Michael Mary Murphy on the Irish Music Industry appeared first on Field Day.
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