Results

Reading by Seamus Heaney, A (2002)

Subject

Literature

Seamus Heaney was awarded the Noble Prize in Literature in 1995. He has resided in Dublin since 1976 and visits Harvard University to teach and read every two years. His recent books are a selected poems...

DVD Find Other Online

Learning and Patronage (1994 Video)

Producer

Nick Levinson

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The provision of libraries and university reform was the product of enlightened patronage. This programme looks at the patronage of Thomas Bodley and Archbishop Laud at Oxford, Cardinal Mazarin in Paris and...

DVD Find Other To order

Miss Sarajevo (1995 Video)

Director

Bill Carter

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 31 min.

Shows the lives of people in war-torn Sarajevo, focusing on young people and how the Bosnian civil war has disrupted both their educaiton and their social lives.

DVD Find Other To order

O’Casey and Expressionism (1988 Multimedia)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

out of distribution, 50 slides. b&w/col.

Discusses Sean O’Casey’s work from the heightened realism of the Dublin trilogy through a highly individual form of expressionism in the middle period, to the celebratory theatre of the later fantasy plays.

DVD Find Other Record only

Liberation of Algebra, The (1987 Video)

Producer

Glan Thomas

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL), £34.99

Looks at the work of William Rowan Hamilton in Dublin and George Boole in Cork. Uses Hamilton’s discovery of quaternions to Booles’ The Laws of Thought’, as the foundations for work in the fields of...

DVD Find Other Record only

Shadow of a Gunman (2004)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 90minutes), $24.95

An American television production of O’Casey’s play, writtten in 1923. It is a tragi-comedy set in a squalid Dublin tenement in 1920. Portrays the life of some obscure people during the time of the...

DVD Find Other To order

Mitchell and Kenyon in Ireland

Director

Sagar Mitchell; James Kenyon

Subject

Film studies; History; Spanish studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

This compilation features 26 films made by Mitchell and Kenyon in Ireland between May 1901 and December 1902. The films include street scenes of Dublin, Wexford and Belfast, local dignitaries attending the...

DVD Find Other To order

Portrait of a Poet: Gerard Manley Hopkins (1989 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

Using a series of monologues based on extracts from Hopkins’ letters, journals and poems, traces his changing mood from youthful religious fervour to the confused isolation of his final years in Dublin.

DVD Find Other Record only

James Joyce: Do You Hear What I’m Seeing?: Extracts from David Norris’s One-Man Show (1998 Video)

aka: James Joyce: Extracts from David Norris’s One-Man Show

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 45 minutes), £35.00 - higher education - master tape for re-editing and copying£150.00 (+VAT +p&p)

David Norris, a Joyce scholar and creator of the James Joyce Museum in what had been a derelict Georgian House in north Dublin, performs Joyce’s works in a one-man show given at the James Joyce Centre in...

DVD Find Other To order

Soldier’s Trade, The (1994 Video)

Producer

Nick Levinson

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

In the 17th century, the influence of the state began to extend into areas such as poor relief, hospitals and religion. This programme examines the establishment of the great military hospitals, Les...

DVD Find Other To order