Podcast
Library Treasures
Hosted by Maynooth University Library · EN
The Library Treasures Podcast delves into the history of the library, the collections, and its people.
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Interview with Poet Dr. Kimberly Campanello Pt. 2
May 4, 202300:25:19Tap to summarizeIn this episode of the Library Treasures Podcast, our Archivist Ciara Joyce and Library Assistant David Rinehart interview associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of Leeds, and poet Dr. Kimberly Campanello. We discuss her work, such as MOTHERBABYHOME, and the work she is doing with the Pearse Hutchinson Archive at Maynooth University’s Special Collections and Archives. Music By: bensound.com
Transcribe →Interview with Poet Dr. Kimberly Campanello Pt. 1
Apr 13, 202300:30:43Tap to summarizeIn this episode of the Library Treasures Podcast, our Archivist Ciara Joyce and Library Assistant David Rinehart interview Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Leeds, and poet Dr. Kimberly Campanello. We discuss her work, such as MOTHERBABYHOME, and the work she is doing with the Pearse Hutchinson Archive at Maynooth University’s Special Collections and Archives. Music By: bensound.com
Transcribe →The Learning Garden: Interview with Niamh Bhreathnach Pt. 1
Mar 27, 202300:35:53Tap to summarizeThe Froebel Department at Maynooth University reached out to us to facilitate, aid, and collaborate on the start of their new Podcast the Learning Garden. The first episode is part one of a three-part interview with the formidable former Labour Minister of Education Niamh Bhreathnach. Click here to follow the Learning Garden on Spotify (also available on all major platforms) for the upcoming parts 2 and 3 of this fantastic interview and all future episodes.
Transcribe →Interview with Dr. Ciarán McCabe
Dec 19, 202200:33:51Tap to summarizeDr. Ciarán Mac Cabe is a social historian of Ireland and Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. His interests are in the history of poverty and welfare, women’s history, and urban history. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 2015 from Maynooth University for his thesis, examining perceptions of and responses to begging and alms-giving in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland, with particular focus on charities and religious denominations. His monograph (Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland) was published in Liverpool University Press’s ‘Reappraisals in Irish History’ series in 2018 and received a Special Commendation Award in the NUI Publication Prize in Irish History 2019. His latest publication – Dublin and the Great Irish Famine was co-edited by Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Ciarán McCabe & Ciarán Reilly and published by UCD Press. He is currently working in Queen’s University Belfast.
Transcribe →Interview with Professor Terence Dooley
Jul 15, 202200:28:40Tap to summarizeBurning the Big House Exhibition at Maynooth University John Paul II Library Terence Dooley is a Professor of History at Maynooth University and Director of the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates. He specialises in Irish social and political history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly the history of Irish country houses and the landed class; the working of the Irish Land Commission; the revolutionary period 1916-23; and local history in Ireland. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules related to all of these areas of specialisation.
Transcribe →Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Boyle – Part 2
May 13, 202200:31:32Tap to summarizeIn part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Boyle, we talk more about her book Fierce Appetites, her research, and the library spaces and collections at Maynooth University and St. Patrick’s College Maynooth. We are now recording our fascinating interview with @thecelticist in @SCA_MULibrary @library_MU! We are covering t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— MU Special Collections & Archives (@SCA_MULibrary) April 06, 2022
Transcribe →Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Boyle – Part 1
Apr 13, 202200:35:09Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we speak with Dr. Elizabeth Boyle about the acquisition of a 1471 first edition print of a Paulus Orosius work, her research and relationship with the Russell and Maynooth University John Paul II Libraries and Librarians, and her exciting new book Fierce Appetites. Dr. Elizabeth Boyle with the Orosius Incunable, 1471, after recording the podcast.
Transcribe →Our Collections and History
Oct 28, 202100:20:10Tap to summarizeWe are joined by our very own Senior Library Assistant, Susan Durack for a brief overview of our collections and history.
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