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A programme about W.B Yeats from the ‘Famous Authors’ series of documentary biographies. Using film, archive documents, portraits, music and commentary, the programme presents not only a factual outline...
Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Roddy Doyle, originally broadcast on Radio 4’s FRONT ROW on 19/8/1999. Author of The Commitments and the Booker Prize Winning novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy...
Audio extracts from a BBC radio programme called TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMERS, broadcast on 1/1/1937, in which Irish dramatist, social critic, essayist and political thinker George Bernard Shaw talks about: a few...
Extracts from two BBC radio interviews with the Irish poet, critic and translator Seamus Heaney. In the first interview, broadcast in the Radio 4 serIes TURNING POINTS on 15/11/1988, Seamus Heaney talks to...
Extracts from a National Lecture on Modern Poetry given by Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats, originally broadcast on 11/10/1936, in which he talks about the work of Edith Sitwell, the effect of...
Declan Kiberd, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin, examines the language and theme of J M Synge’s greatest play, ‘The Playboy of the Western World’. Synge...
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...
Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde’s grandson, charts the course of Wilde’s literary and personal reputation over the last hundred years.
Terence Brown, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin, lectures on the young W B Yeats, focusing on two of the writer’s preoccupations - work and sexuality.
Victoria Glendinning, author of a 1998 biography of Jonathan Swift, outlines Swift’s life and literary personality, focusing on several key works, including ‘Gulliver’s Travels’.
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