UCDscholarcast is a research-oriented podcasting initiative. Our podcasts are studio-recorded to broadcast standard and are aimed at a wide academic audience of scholars, graduate students, undergraduates and interested others. Each scholarcast is accompanied by a downloadable PDF transcript to facilitate citation in written academic work. Disciplines represented include literature and drama, popular culture, history, archaeology, music. The project is directed by Dr PJ Mathews, School of English, Drama and Film, UCD.

Series 1: The Art of Popular Culture: From 'The Meeting of the Waters' to 'Riverdance'

Scholarcast 1: PJ Mathews, School of English, Drama and Film, UCD, ‘‘Doing Something Irish’: From Thomas Moore to Riverdance’
Scholarcast 2: Elaine Sisson, School of Creative Arts, Dun Laoghaire IADT, ‘The Boy as National Hero: The legacy of Cúchulainn’
Scholarcast 3: Eddie Holt, School of Communications, DCU, ‘W.B. Yeats, Journalism and the Revival’
Scholarcast 4: Anne Fogarty, School of English, Drama and Film, UCD, ‘James Joyce and Popular Culture’
Scholarcast 5: Clair Wills, Dept of English, Queen Mary, Univerity of London, ‘Neutrality and Popular Culture’
Scholarcast 6: Paige Reynolds, Dept of English, Holy Cross College, ‘Hollywood and Contemporary Irish Drama’
Scholarcast 7: Bill Whelan, Composer, Riverdance, ‘Globalising Irish Music’
Scholarcast 8: Frank McGuinness, Writer-in-Residence, School of English, UCD, ‘Filming Friel: Lughnasa on Screen’

Series 2: Archaeologies of Art: Papers from the Sixth World Archaeological Congress
Scholarcast 9: Douglass Bailey (Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University), ‘Art to Archaeology to Archaeology to Art’
Scholarcast 10: Blaze O'Connor (UCD School of Archaeology), ‘Dust and Debitage: An Archaeology of Francis Bacon's Studio’
Scholarcast 11: Kevin O'Dwyer (Artist-in-Residency, Sixth World Archaeological Congress), ‘Art and Archaeology':
Scholarcast 12: Ian Russell (UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland) & Andrew Cochrane (School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University), ‘Archaeoclash: Manifesting Art and Archaeology’

Series 3: Scholars off the Page
Scholarcast 13: Declan Kiberd (UCD School Of English, Drama & Film), 'Ulysees & Us: The Art of Everyday Living' (Extract)
Scholarcast 14: Diarmaid Ferriter (UCD School Of History and Archives), 'Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland' (Extract)