MULTIMEDIA
PODCASTS AND VIDEOS
Recording podcasts and videos has been an important aspect of work carried out by researchers associated with UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics for many years. The research team at VICTEUR is building upon this work by creating podcasts and recording talks associated with the project.
We hope you enjoy the content below. Please visit the page for regular updates.
A Visit from the Banshee
The 2024 MoLI Christmas Ghost Story was a live recording from the launch of MoLI Edition’s new publication, A Visit from the Banshee, edited by Katie Mishler, and produced by the Museum of Literature Ireland in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics. Across the half-hour recording, you will hear extracts from three stories featured in the book, alongside live music and sound design by Seán Mac Erlaine.
In Oein DeBhairduin’s story ‘Hungry Grass’, performed by Nuala Hayes, a mother seeks to appease a sinister spirit by offering bread. In Melatu Uche Okorie’s story, “Guardians of the Land”, performed by Demi Isaac Oviawe, a young warrior, faces the ghostly Warriors Past of Ikenga in a trial of endurance. And in ‘Buille Luath an Luain agus Buille Déanach an tSathairn’ – a story collected by Peig Sayers, translated here by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, and performed by Nuala Hayes, a grieving farmer’s son encounters a mysterious old woman who performs terrifying nightly rituals.
🔉 An audio recording of the event is available on RadioMoLI 🔉
Migration, Adaptation and Ex/change - Podcasts
Migration, adaptation and ex/change: Victorian and contemporary culture was a two day colloquium held at MoLI on 14 and 15 November 2024, hosted by the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics. This event explored questions of migration, adaptation and cultural ex/change through the lens of cultural analytics, in particular the use cases and new functionalities of the Curatr platform developed as part of the VICTEUR project.
Event recordings by speakers:
Technology in Irish Literature and Culture - Podcasts
On 8 November 2023, the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics celebrated the edited collection Technology in Irish Literature and Culture (Cambridge, 2023) with an event at MoLI. The editors, Professor Margaret Kelleher (UCD) and Dr James O’Sullivan (UCC), and contributors reflected on the motivations for the collection, as well as the possible future impact technology will make on cultural production, and Dr Kathryn Conrad (University of Kansas) presented a keynote: ’“Haunted by a sewing machine”: Technology and the Politics of Text Style from Yeats to ChatGPT’.
Event recordings:
States of Confinement - Podcasts
‘States of Confinement’ was an event hosted by the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) in Dublin on 15 November 2023. The event explored and celebrated the autobiographical life writing and political fiction of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardle.
Event recordings:
- 🎧 Opening remarks from Professor Gerardine Meaney
- 🎧 Jacob and Macardle in Context: James Little
- 🎧 Carrie Crowley reads Rosamund Jacob
- 🎧 Kathy Rose O’Brien reads Dorothy Macardle
- 🎧 Lia Mills, Sophie White & Sinéad Gleeson
- 🎧 Jacob and Macardle in Context: Deirdre Brady
- 🎧 Jacob and Macardle in Context: Katie Mishler
- 🎧 Jacob and Macardle in Context: Sharon McArdle
- 🎧 Jacob and Macardle in Context: Leeanne Lane
Curatr Instructional Videos
Curatr is an online platform for the exploration and curation of the 19th-century British Library Digital Corpus.
In this series of short instructional videos, VICTEUR project researchers Gerardine Meaney, Derek Greene, Karen Wade, Briony Wickes and Lauren Cassidy give guided tours on how to use the Curatr platform.
Insight Podcast on Cultural Analytics
In Episode 13 of The Insight Podcast, Prof. Gerardine Meaney and Assoc. Prof. Derek Greene spoke to hosts Gráinne and Louise about how data analytics can lend an insight to the past, and how that in turn can shine a light on what’s happening now.
Joyce Portrait 100
The Digital Multimedia Edition of James Joyce’s first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, was created by a team of researchers from UCD’s Nation, Genre and Gender Project, as part of the Decade of Centenaries (2012-2022), which celebrates Irish history and cultural heritage.
The edition reproduces the text of the first publication of this novel as a single volume, by B. W. Huebsch Inc, in New York, 1916. The edition is available to download as a free audiobook, recorded by Irish actors Sam and Barry McGovern. It can also be explored chapter by chapter below.
Mapping Gothic Dublin
Dr Katie Mishler is a postdoctoral researcher in the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics. Her project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: Historical and Literary Hauntings 1820-1900, was awarded funding as part of an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership scheme in partnership with the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI).
The Dublin Gothic podcast explores how the legacy of Ireland’s gothic literary tradition intersects with studies of psychology, architecture, natural history, and urban planning.
The project looks at how histories of urban planning, political change, and architecture shaped the writing of authors such as Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Charles Maturin.
Bodies of Data
Podcasts from Bodies of Data: Intersecting Medical and Digital Humanities. This Irish Humanities Alliance conference, a collaboration with UCD and DIT took place in the RIA and in UCD Humanities Institute on 22-23 November 2018.
The conference addressed the emerging discipline of the medical humanities at the intersection between arts and humanities and the biomedicine which explores the social, historical and cultural dimensions to medicine.
Nation, Genre and Gender
Combining literary and data science expertise, Nation, Genre, Gender maps and analyses social networks in Irish and English fiction, 1800-1922.
It explores how writers and readers have imagined the connections between people in their society and turned those connections into plots. The project, funded by the Irish Research Council, has completed work on 46 novels to date.
The project is a unique collaboration between researchers in literature and data analytics. The research team combines UCD’s strengths in cultural criticism and social network analysis.
