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 […]
Continue readingArchitectural 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 readingAngela 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 readingThis 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. […]
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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 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 readingWe’re delighted to announce that Field Day’s upcoming Seamus Deane Annual Lecture will be delivered by Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. This year’s lecture, “A Terrible State of Chassis”, will take place at the Playhouse, Artillery Street, in Derry on Friday 30 September 2016 at 8pm. Tea and Coffee reception 7pm. Lecture starts 8pm. This lecture series […]
Continue readingAn edited version of a lecture delivered at the Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, 3 August 2015: The second chapter of Ulysses has Stephen Dedalus teaching in Mr. Deasy’s school in Dalkey. The class is reading Milton’s ‘Lycidas,’ but Stephen also permits himself a reverie about historical facts: Had Pyrrhus not fallen […]
Continue readingThe inaugural Seamus Deane Honorary Field Day Lecture takes place at the Playhouse, Artillery Street, in Derry on Saturday 12 September 2015 at 7pm. Entitled “Republics that were and might be”, it will be delivered by Seamus Deane himself. Deane has been described by his fellow co-director, Stephen Rea — who will attend the event […]
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Image: ‘Paths from Irish Street’ ©Willie Doherty. Read here Susan McKay’s poignant article of 2013 in tribute to Paul McCauley, who died on Saturday June 6 2015 as a result of catastrophic head injuries suffered in a sectarian attack in Derry in July 2006. Extract from ‘Lost Boys’, a collaborative project by journalist Susan McKay and […]
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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.
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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