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Introduction
University College Dublin is one of Europe's leading research-intensive universities and is ranked within the top 1% of higher education institutions world-wide. In the 2019 QS World University Rankings by Subject, UCD has six subjects ranked in the top 50: Veterinary Science (26), Library & Information Management (38), Nursing (44), English Language and Literature (49), Sports-related subjects (50), and Engineering – Mineral & Mining (50). The University also has 14 subjects in the top 100 and 35 in the top 200.
In 2020, for the third year in a row, UCD was ranked number one in Ireland for graduate employability and 75th in the world, in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings.
UCD is also Ireland's most globally engaged university with over 30,000 students drawn from 136 countries, including almost 4,000 students based at locations outside of Ireland. The University's main Dublin campus occupies an extensive parkland estate of more than 130 hectares and offers world-leading facilities including the UCD O'Brien Centre for Science, UCD Sutherland School of Law, UCD Lochlan Quinn School of Business, UCD Moore Centre for Business and UCD Student Centre. The campus offers students access to a thriving, English-speaking European capital city, which is among the safest in the world and is renowned for its welcome as much as it is for its vibrancy.
As Ireland's largest university, with its great strength and diversity of disciplines, UCD embraces its role to contribute to the flourishing of Ireland, Europe and the wider world. Built on the traditions of the past, we are a university of the future, connected and connecting, engaged and engaging, committed to a sustainable future built on a healthy biosphere. The University's Strategy 2020-2024 Rising to the Future outlines the objectives and major strategic initiatives set in place in order to accomplish UCD's mission and vision for this era.
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Folklore Fragments Podcast Episode 30: The Stray Sod (Blúiríní Béaloidis)
There are numerous accounts in tradition of wayfarers who suffer fits of confusion and disorientation while traversing the natural landscape. Such bouts were at times attributed to the influence of the fairies (who would set wanders astray for their own amusement) or the power of the stray sod (an enchanted sod of earth which set those who trod upon it astray). While the accounts vary, these occurrences involve situations in which individuals are forced to navigate a landscape characterised by its sudden shift into unfamiliarity and strangeness. Tilled fields that are worked by day become unnavigable and impassable by night. Well-worn and intimately known paths, crossroads and laneways are rendered odd, unknown and eerie all at once. The landscape at times becomes unrecognisable, indefinite and nameless. Landmarks are erased, inverted or otherwise replaced with new and unidentified features. Grand residences and strange houses appear on the side of hitherto barren hills. Impenetrable fogs, mists and coloured hazes descend and disorientate. Rivers, ditches, woods and walls appear to block all progress through the land. Lights rise and float in the distance and familiar reference points fall away, leaving the experiencer to navigate strange and foreign scenery which is at once indeterminate and unknown, with disenchantment coming at the dawn, leaving the exhausted wayfarer to suddenly realise their location, often only short distance from their homes.
For episode 30 of Blúiríní Béaloidis Jonny traverses fields, hedges, ditches and heights examining narratives concerning stray sod and 'seachrán sí' (fairy straying) traditions; from the graves of unbaptised children to illusions and phantasms appearing in the natural landscape, and from spirits of the dead refused entry to either heaven or hell, to workings of the fairy host, join us as we explore the liminal personae who inhabit those isolated and unknown portions of the landscape.
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Folklore Fragments Podcast EP29: A Folk History Of Ireland's Protestants (with Dr. Deirdre Nuttall)
The Irish Folklore Commission (established in 1935) tasked itself with the documentation of the unwritten customs, beliefs and narratives of the Irish people; those ‘disiecta membra’ (as James Hamilton Delargy described them) of a rich heritage which it was feared was in danger of dying out and disappearing forever unless swift action was taken to gather up the fragments that remain, lest they perish. Delargy, and those with whom he worked, endeavoured to secure for future generations the sources of inspiration and pride which he saw as having languished in the ‘lumber room’ of history; those tales, traditions and songs of Ireland, cultural expressions he understood as representing ‘the State Papers of a forgotten and neglected people’.
The work of the Irish Folklore Commission then, in recording the voices and ideals of the ordinary people of Ireland , aimed to represent those communities whose voice was not heard among the formal archival records of the state. But, there are silences in every archive, and the Irish Folklore Commission was no different, having its own particular biases and tendencies. Among these biases was an initial focus on the customs of rural people over those in towns and urban areas. Another, and one which is the subject of today’s discussion, was the absence of material collected from Ireland’s Protestant community. Thankfully, this has recently been addressed by Dr. Deirdre Nuttall, who, working with the National Folklore Collection between 2013 and 2017 conducted a folk history of Ireland's Protestants consisting of ninety eight interviews and seventy six questionnaire responses, the results of which she has recently published in her book ‘Different and the Same: A Folk History of the Protestants of Independent Ireland’.
Join Jonny and Deirdre as they discuss 19th century conceptions of 'the Folk', examine Protestant origin stories and consider counter-narratives to Ireland's major historical events embedded in the communal memories of Ireland's Protestant community.
'Different and the Same' is published by Eastwood Books, and is available from the publisher directly at:
eastwoodbooks.com/different-and-the-same/
The book is available in all good bookshops in Ireland, and online.
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Funeral Service for Michael Byrne officiated by UCD Chaplain Fr Eamonn Bourke
Affectionately known as “Old Man Belfield” by students and staff, Michael Byrne sadly passed away on Monday, 11 January, 2021 on the campus that was his home for over thirty years.
Loved and respected by generations of students and staff and neighbours in Woodbine, Nutley and Greenfield, he will be greatly missed.
The (McCarthy) family who watched out for Michael for the past thirty years would like to thank all those who were kind to Michael and who respected his fierce privacy and independence.
Singer: Declan Wildes
Organist: Alan Fagan
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UCD Online - Gain a Globally Recognised University Qualification through Flexible learning
See www.ucd.ie/online
At UCD, we recognise the high demand in Ireland and overseas for further learning. We are committed to providing quality education and recognised university qualifications using modern, flexible learning approaches. Online learning is just one of these.
UCD Online was established in 2013 in response to increasing student demand, as well as to rapidly evolving advances in technology. Since then, proven, up-to-date course materials that are well developed and tested have been delivered online by the same academics that provide their expertise and support to students who attend the UCD campus. Thousands of students have advanced their careers by studying online for a recognised UCD qualification at graduate certificate, graduate diploma and masters level.
Prospective UCD Online students can look forward to the same quality academic material and support as our campus-based students. There is no difference between a UCD qualification obtained on campus or online. Studying online provides a proven option for students to achieve a UCD degree with the flexibility to combine this with work, family, or travel commitments.
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Folklore Fragments Podcast - Ep 28: Land and Language with Manchán Magan
My guest for this edition of Bluiríní Béaloidis is writer and documentary maker Manchán Magan, whose recent book '32 Words For Field' is a meditation on old Irish words and the nuances of a way of life that is vanishing with them. The book considers the 'richness of a language closely tied to the natural landscape' which 'offered our ancestors a more magical way of seeing the world'. It considers the 'sublime beauty and profound oddness of the ancient tongue that has been spoken on this island for over 2,000 years'. In this discussion, we consider how language and tradition binds us to the landscape, expolore the role of tradition in modernity and speculate on the ancient connections between Ireland and India.
Manchán's book '32 Words For Field' has been nominated for numerous awards, and (as of December 2020) is already in its fourth printing.
Copies can be purchased from all good independent book shops: http://www.easons.com/thirty-two-words-…gan-9780717187973
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Folklore Fragments Podcast - Episode 27: The Banshee (with Professor Patricia Lysaght)
The Banshee is a well known supernatural figure in Irish folk tradition. In origin a patron goddess caring for the fortunes of her people, the banshee of folk belief is usually considered to be a harbinger of death, being said to follow certain families from generation to generation. Traditions about her are spread widely throughout the country, and for this episode of the podcast Jonny has the privilege of speaking with Professor Patricia Lysaght, who is the world authority on the topic of the Banshee.
Their discussion takes in the rich array of customs and beliefs concerning her, starting with an exploration of the names by which she is popularly known, before moving on to the ways in which she manifests to the people. Her function as a prognosticator of death in the community, the attitudes to life and death that are expressed through her, and the ways in which ancient ideas and motifs concerning her have survived to the modern day are further explored, with archival audio excerpts supplementing the conversation.
Patricia's book 'The Banshee: The Irish Supernatural Death Messenger' is the authoritative work on the topic, and is available to purchase online: www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchRe…anshee&kn=&isbn=
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Kevin Barry Centenary Public Seminar | Mary E. Daly, Eunan O'Halpin, Síofra O'Donovan, Conor Mulvagh
UCD Decade of Centenaries: Kevin Barry Centenary Public Seminar | UCD videos series commemorates centenary of execution of Kevin Barry
A new series of videos explores the life, death, and historical legacy of Kevin Barry, the first Irish republican to be executed during the War of Independence. It marks the Centenary of the Execution of Kevin Barry on 1 November 1920 and is part of the UCD programme of events to commemorate the Decade of Centenaries.
Kevin Barry, a UCD Medical Student and member of H Company, 1st Battalion of the IRA’s Dublin Brigade, was captured on 20 September 1920 during a failed arms raid on British soldiers at Monk’s Bakery on Upper Church Street, near the corner of North King Street in Dublin city centre. Three British soldiers, Henry Washington, Matthew Whitehead, and Thomas Humphries, died as a result of the IRA ambush in which Kevin Barry was captured.
Barry was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging at Mountjoy Prison.
His death sentence provoked a massive reaction, nationally, globally, and among his fellow students at UCD. His eventual execution, coming a week after the death on hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, galvanised opposition to the British campaign of counterterror in Ireland which was at its height in the winter of 1920.
In 1934, UCD graduates commemorated Kevin Barry with a stained glass memorial which is now located in the UCD Charles Institute of Dermatology on the Belfield Campus.
Mary Daly, Emeritus Professor of History, University College Dublin
Conor Mulvagh, Assistant Professor in Modern Irish History, University College Dublin
Síofra O’Donovan, Kevin Barry relative and author of Yours ‘Til Hell Freezes: A Memoir of Kevin Barry (Currach Books, 2020)
Eunan O’Halpin, Emeritus Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin, Kevin Barry relative and author of Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death (Merrion Press, 2020)
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Kevin Barry in Memorial and Memory | Dr Conor Mulvagh
UCD Decade of Centenaries: Kevin Barry Centenary Public Seminar | UCD videos series commemorates centenary of execution of Kevin Barry
A new series of videos explores the life, death, and historical legacy of Kevin Barry, the first Irish republican to be executed during the War of Independence. It marks the Centenary of the Execution of Kevin Barry on 1 November 1920 and is part of the UCD programme of events to commemorate the Decade of Centenaries.
Kevin Barry, a UCD Medical Student and member of H Company, 1st Battalion of the IRA’s Dublin Brigade, was captured on 20 September 1920 during a failed arms raid on British soldiers at Monk’s Bakery on Upper Church Street, near the corner of North King Street in Dublin city centre. Three British soldiers, Henry Washington, Matthew Whitehead, and Thomas Humphries, died as a result of the IRA ambush in which Kevin Barry was captured.
Barry was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging at Mountjoy Prison.
His death sentence provoked a massive reaction, nationally, globally, and among his fellow students at UCD. His eventual execution, coming a week after the death on hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, galvanised opposition to the British campaign of counterterror in Ireland which was at its height in the winter of 1920.
In 1934, UCD graduates commemorated Kevin Barry with a stained glass memorial which is now located in the UCD Charles Institute of Dermatology on the Belfield Campus.
Mary Daly, Emeritus Professor of History, University College Dublin
Conor Mulvagh, Assistant Professor in Modern Irish History, University College Dublin
Síofra O’Donovan, Kevin Barry relative and author of Yours ‘Til Hell Freezes: A Memoir of Kevin Barry (Currach Books, 2020)
Eunan O’Halpin, Emeritus Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin, Kevin Barry relative and author of Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death (Merrion Press, 2020)
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Kevin Barry - Student, Dancer and Soldier | Síofra O'Donovan
UCD Decade of Centenaries: Kevin Barry Centenary Public Seminar -
Kevin Barry, UCD Medical Student and a member of H Company, 1st Battalion of the IRA’s Dublin Brigade, was the first Irish republican to be executed during the War of Independence. He had been captured on 20 September during a failed arms raid on British soldiers at Monk’s Bakery on Upper Church Street, near the corner of North King Street in Dublin city centre. Three British soldiers, Henry Washington, Matthew Whitehead, and Thomas Humphries, died as a result of the IRA ambush in which Kevin Barry was captured. Barry was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging at Mountjoy Prison. Kevin Barry’s death sentence provoked a massive reaction, nationally, globally, and among his fellow students at UCD. His eventual execution, coming a week after the death on hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, galvanised opposition to the British campaign of counterterror in Ireland which was at its height in the winter of 1920.
In 1934, UCD graduates commemorated Kevin Barry with a stained glass memorial which now sits in the UCD Charles Institute of Dermatology on the Belfield Campus.
To mark the centenary of the execution of Kevin Barry, UCD has organised a series of videos which explore Kevin Barry, his life, times, death, and legacy.
This series features
Mary Daly, Emeritus Professor of History, University College Dublin
Conor Mulvagh, Assistant Professor in Modern Irish History, University College Dublin
Síofra O’Donovan, Kevin Barry relative and author of Yours ‘Til Hell Freezes: A Memoir of Kevin Barry (Currach Books, 2020)
Eunan O’Halpin, Emeritus Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin, Kevin Barry relative and author of Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death (Merrion Press, 2020)
Each contributor offers their individual reflections and insights on Kevin Barry in life and death followed by a roundtable discussion on the significance of Kevin Barry in Irish history and in subsequent commemoration up to the present.
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Kevin Barry Centenary Public Seminar | Prof Eunan O'Halpin
UCD Decade of Centenaries: Kevin Barry Centenary Public Seminar | UCD videos series commemorates centenary of execution of Kevin Barry
A new series of videos explores the life, death, and historical legacy of Kevin Barry, the first Irish republican to be executed during the War of Independence. It marks the Centenary of the Execution of Kevin Barry on 1 November 1920 and is part of the UCD programme of events to commemorate the Decade of Centenaries.
Kevin Barry, a UCD Medical Student and member of H Company, 1st Battalion of the IRA’s Dublin Brigade, was captured on 20 September 1920 during a failed arms raid on British soldiers at Monk’s Bakery on Upper Church Street, near the corner of North King Street in Dublin city centre. Three British soldiers, Henry Washington, Matthew Whitehead, and Thomas Humphries, died as a result of the IRA ambush in which Kevin Barry was captured.
Barry was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging at Mountjoy Prison.
His death sentence provoked a massive reaction, nationally, globally, and among his fellow students at UCD. His eventual execution, coming a week after the death on hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, galvanised opposition to the British campaign of counterterror in Ireland which was at its height in the winter of 1920.
In 1934, UCD graduates commemorated Kevin Barry with a stained glass memorial which is now located in the UCD Charles Institute of Dermatology on the Belfield Campus.
Mary Daly, Emeritus Professor of History, University College Dublin
Conor Mulvagh, Assistant Professor in Modern Irish History, University College Dublin
Síofra O’Donovan, Kevin Barry relative and author of Yours ‘Til Hell Freezes: A Memoir of Kevin Barry (Currach Books, 2020)
Eunan O’Halpin, Emeritus Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin, Kevin Barry relative and author of Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death (Merrion Press, 2020)
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Kevin Barry Centenary Public Seminar | Prof Mary E. Daly
UCD Decade of Centenaries: Kevin Barry Centenary Public Seminar | UCD videos series commemorates centenary of execution of Kevin Barry
A new series of videos explores the life, death, and historical legacy of Kevin Barry, the first Irish republican to be executed during the War of Independence. It marks the Centenary of the Execution of Kevin Barry on 1 November 1920 and is part of the UCD programme of events to commemorate the Decade of Centenaries.
Kevin Barry, a UCD Medical Student and member of H Company, 1st Battalion of the IRA’s Dublin Brigade, was captured on 20 September 1920 during a failed arms raid on British soldiers at Monk’s Bakery on Upper Church Street, near the corner of North King Street in Dublin city centre. Three British soldiers, Henry Washington, Matthew Whitehead, and Thomas Humphries, died as a result of the IRA ambush in which Kevin Barry was captured.
Barry was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging at Mountjoy Prison.
His death sentence provoked a massive reaction, nationally, globally, and among his fellow students at UCD. His eventual execution, coming a week after the death on hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, galvanised opposition to the British campaign of counterterror in Ireland which was at its height in the winter of 1920.
In 1934, UCD graduates commemorated Kevin Barry with a stained glass memorial which is now located in the UCD Charles Institute of Dermatology on the Belfield Campus.
Mary Daly, Emeritus Professor of History, University College Dublin
Conor Mulvagh, Assistant Professor in Modern Irish History, University College Dublin
Síofra O’Donovan, Kevin Barry relative and author of Yours ‘Til Hell Freezes: A Memoir of Kevin Barry (Currach Books, 2020)
Eunan O’Halpin, Emeritus Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin, Kevin Barry relative and author of Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death (Merrion Press, 2020)
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Folklore Fragments Podcast - Episode 26: Seals In Folk Tradition
Seals have been an integral part of coastal life in Ireland for generations, and as such there exists a large body of tradition, belief and narrative regarding them. They were described in tradition as being enchanted people, wise women, fallen angels and drowned (or indeed reincarnated) fishermen, and encounters with them often relate how they would speak to, plead with or warn those fishermen who were about to attack or kill them out at sea or on the shore. Certain families in Ireland (Coneelys, O'Kanes, Dowds, O'Sheas and Gallaghers among them)were considered to have been the result of a union between a mortal and an enchanted seal, and many narrative accounts collected in Ireland describe how such unions came about when a mortal man who came upon a seal-woman in human form on the shore stole her cloak (which allowed her to change form) took her home, married her and had children with her, until one day she discovered her hidden cloak and left her children and husband to return to the sea.
For this month's edition of Blúiríní Jonny is joined by Ailbe van der Heide to discuss the topic of seals in folk tradition, join them as they traverse the coasts and islands around Ireland and further afield to consider the interplay between nature, culture, appearance and reality which is brought across by these liminal beings.
Some material mentioned in this episode:
'Monolingual Irish Speaker': www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP4nXlKJx…hannel=AnGhaeilge
Seán Ó hEinirí (John Henry) in conversation with Professor Séamas Ó Catháin of the Department of Irish Folklore. This video is from a documentary called 'In Search of the Trojan War' from 1985.
'People of the Sea' by David Thomson: www.goodreads.com/book/show/309401…eople_of_the_Sea
Bairbre Ní Fhloinn: 'Tadhg and Donncha...' in Islanders and Water Dwellers (1996) www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/folklor…ter-dwellers/
Linda May-Ballard: Seal Stories and Belief on Rathlin Island in Ulster Folklife
Martin Puhvel, 'The Seal in the Folklore of Northern Europe' Folklore, volume 74 issue 1: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080…7X.1963.9716898
Bo Almqvist 'Of Mermaids and Marriages. Seamus Heaney's 'Maighdean Mara' and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's 'an
Mhaighdean Mhara' in the Light of Folk Tradition', Béaloideas, Iml. 58 (1990), pp. 1-74 (Available online through JSTOR)
Alexander H. Krappe, 'Scandinavian Seal Lore', Scandinavian Studies , Vol. 18, No. 4 (1944)
pp. 156-162
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