What help is philosophy in the face of climate change? Norah Campbell of Trinity College Dublin explains the basics of the philosophical movement known as Speculative Realism. She makes the provocative claim that the tools for thinking that we get from Speculative Realism are the only way to comprehend climate change. This interview traces a […]
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Episode #03 Merlo Kelly on Georgian Dublin
Architectural historian Merlo Kelly relates the story of Georgian Dublin. Who were the developers? Who bought these houses? And what explains their slow demise over the centuries? The leading authority on the history of the north side of the city in this period, Merlo Kelly puts these elegant buildings and streets in their social, aesthetic […]
Continue readingEpisode #02 Angela Nagle on Internet Subcultures
Angela Nagle chronicles the online culture wars that rumble underneath the news events that have shaken consensus politics in the last couple of years. Last year, her book Kill All Normies instantly became the go-to guide on everything from 4chan to Tumblr, from the manosphere to the lamestream, and from neckbeards to basic bitches. In […]
Continue readingReduction, read by Stephen Rea
This is a reading by actor Stephen Rea of an account of events in County Cork during the Great Famine of the 1840s. Historian Breandán Mac Suibhne draws on the source material of a local doctor’s notes to describe how an entire society, its customs and norms, collapsed under pressure of dispossession, starvation and disease. […]
Continue readingPodcast Episode #01 Paul Ennis on Cryptocurrencies
We are kicking off with an interview with Paul Ennis about the dark politics of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. What connects libertarianism, digital disruption, Trumpism and the politics of exit? Paul is a researcher at the Centre for Innovation, Technology and Organisation at University College Dublin. This interview took place in the summer of 2017, […]
Continue readingSelect Articles Commissioned by Field Day for Village Magazine
Select Field Day Articles Published in Village Magazine It’s Time for Leaving Cert Reform February 2018. Dr. Joanne Banks, ESRI, on how the Leaving Cert reproduces social inequality, causes stress, and inhibits learning. Read article Repaying to the Last October 2017. Tony McKiver on advertisements by Irish banks Read article Marketing is Killing […]
Continue readingFIELD DAY REVIEW 3 (2007)
Seamus Deane and Breandán Mac Suibhne, eds.
A journal of Irish Studies and international contexts, published in Dublin in association with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame.
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Seamus Deane and Breandán Mac Suibhne, eds.
Published in Dublin in association with the Keough Naughton School of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame.
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