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Fear, functionality and freedom: Electricity comes to Ireland

The curators of the Electric Generations exhibition and invited experts give short presentations on how electricity changed people's lives from the 1960s onwards.

Electric Generations: the Story of Electricity in the Irish Home - an exhibition examining the reception and understanding of electricity across the twentieth century through an array of advertisements, pamphlets, magazines and domestic objects. (A collaboration between the University of Hertfordshire, ESB's archives and the Institution of Engineering and Technology Archives.)

Recorded at dlr LexIcon Studio on Wednesday, 15 November 2017.

Listen back here: https://soundcloud.com/dlr-soundcloud/fear-functionality-and-freedom-electricity-comes-to-ireland

Positive Parenting 2018 Podcasts

 
dlr Libraries offer a number of talks that focus on supporting parents. In 2018 we recorded some of these talks as we are conscious it can be sometimes be difficult for parents to attend library events. Enjoy and please feedback if there is a talk you would like to see hosted regarding any aspect of parenting.
 
Recorded at dlr LexIcon on various dates in March and April 2018
 
Listen back here: https://soundcloud.com/dlr-soundcloud/sets/positive-parenting-talks-at-dlr-lexicon
 
 
 

The Good Friday Agreement, a talk by Tim Pat Coogan

Renowned historian and author Tim Pat Coogan gave a talk in Dalkey Library on Tuesday 10 April 2018 on the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement which was signed in Belfast on Good Friday, 10 April 1998. 
Tim Pat Coogan is the author of many titles on Irish history and politics including The IRA, Ireland since the Rising, The Famine Plot, Michael Collins, to name but a few.
 
Recorded at Dalkey Library on Tuesday 11 April 2018

Listen back here: https://soundcloud.com/dlr-soundcloud/the-good-friday-agreement-a-talk-by-tim-pat-coogan

Ulysses on the South Dublin coast a talk with dlr library staff member Brendan Moriarty

Ulysses tells the story of a day in the life of Dublin; a day that began right here in our area. Brendan Moriarty, a dlr Library Assistant and veteran Joycean, talks us through the events and background of the first 3 chapters, known as the Telemachiad, which are set in Sandycove, Dalkey and on Sandymount Strand.

 


Recorded in Dalkey Library on Thursday 14 June 2018, as part of Bloomsday celebrations

Listen back here: https://soundcloud.com/dlr-soundcloud/ulysses-on-the-south-dublin-coast-a-talk-with-dlr-library-staff-member-brendan-moriarty

Sebastian Faulks in conversation with Edel Coffey

Sebastian Faulks is widely regarded as one of the finest novelists of his generation. His magnum opus, Birdsong, has sold over two million copies. His new novel Paris Echo follows Hannah, an American postdoctoral researcher studying the German Occupation of Paris in 1940-44; and Tariq, a Moroccan teenager who has run away from home. Faulks takes us back into the hidden Paris of the Dark Years, the Algerian war and the simmering discontents of the Banlieue, a haunted city of injustice and bad faith, of ghettos and betrayal.
 
Recorded in the Pavilion Theatre on Tuesday 4 September 2018.
 

Speeches of note, with editor Shaun Usher and a cast of leading Irish actors/readers

Speeches of Note is a celebration of oratory old and new. From Shaun Usher, the author of the international bestseller, Letters of Note, comes an obsessively curated and sumptuously produced collection of speeches from throughout the ages. Some are surprising, inspiring, hilarious; others are moving, comforting, enlightening. Some of these speeches changed the course of history; others are all but unknown, and many of them are Irish. All are extraordinary.
 
Recorded in the Pavilion Theatre on Saturday 22 September 2018.
 

Sarah Perry in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson

Melmoth, Sarah Perry’s follow-up to her wildly-successful historical novel, The Essex Serpent, promises to be one of the most talked-about books of 2018. Helen Franklin is assailed with guilt for past misdeeds but her sheltered life is upended when a strange manuscript comes into her possession. Filled with testimonies from the darkest chapters of human history, it records sightings of a tall, silent woman in black - Melmoth, the loneliest being in the world. Everyone that Melmoth seeks out must make a choice: to live with what they’ve done, or be led into the darkness. As her past finally catches up with her, Helen too must choose which path to take.

Recorded at The Studio, dlr LexIcon, on 21 November 2018 as part of Library Voices

Listen back here: https://soundcloud.com/dlr-soundcloud/r05-0001mp3

Lighthouses: Hazel Gaynor in conversation with Sue Leonard

Irish Times and New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor discusses her latest novel The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter with Sue Leonard, published by HarperCollins Autumn 2018.

Recorded at dlr LexIcon on Tuesday 20th November 2018.

Listen back here: https://soundcloud.com/dlr-soundcloud/hazelgaynor

 

100 Poems: A celebration of Seamus Heaney’s best-loved poems

Before his death, Seamus Heaney had intended to assemble a personal selection of poems as an introduction for new readers. He never managed to do this himself but now the project has been completed by the Heaney family. To celebrate the publication of 100 Poems, an all-star cast including Marie Heaney, Paula Meehan, Colette Bryce, Simon Armitage, Mark Doty and John Kelly read selected Heaney poems, sure to be amongst your favourites. Music by Colm Mac Con Iomaire.

Recorded in the Pavilion Theatre on Thursday 29 November 2018

Listen back here: https://soundcloud.com/dlr-soundcloud/untitled-11292018-200600

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