Episode Topic: Rugby’s Global Community

This week the global growth of rugby will be discussed, with current international players and staff giving an insight into their experiences playing at home and abroad, as well as what the global diaspora of the sport has meant to them over the years.

Featured Speakers: 

• Hannah McCormack, Campaign Manager, Tackle Your Feelings 
• Karl Boyle, Director of Development, Connacht Rugby
• Eamonn Molloy, Education and Learning, Connacht Rugby and the Irish Rugby Football Union
• Justin Hickey, Program Director, Notre Dame Rugby
• Lisa Caulfield, Director of the Global Centre at Kylemore

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This podcast is a part of the Kylemore Book Club ThinkND Series titled: “To Hell or to Connacht: Stories of Irish Resilience”

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Episode Topic: Rugby and the West of Ireland

The first week of the newest Kylemore Book Club will provide an introduction to rugby, as well as the historical context for the phrase “To Hell or to Connacht.” The sport of rugby and the history of the West of Ireland will serve as the basis for the following weeks of the book club, where ideas of resilience and determination will be built upon with the music, sport, politics, and history of the West of Ireland and abroad.

Featured Speakers: 

• Eamonn Molloy, Education and Learning, Connacht Rugby and the Irish Rugby Football Union
• Justin Hickey, Program Director, Notre Dame Rugby
• Lisa Caulfield, Director of the Global Centre at Kylemore

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This podcast is a part of the Kylemore Book Club ThinkND Series titled: “To Hell or to Connacht: Stories of Irish Resilience”

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Episode Topic: A Hell of a City: Infernal Rome (Inferno 18 & 27)

In Inferno 18, Dante and Virgil enter Malebolge (or Evil Pouches) in the eighth circle of Hell where fraud is punished. In the first pouch, the crowd of panderers and seducers conjures up the image of the pilgrims who go to Rome for the first jubilee promoted by Pope Boniface VIII in 1300, the same year in which Dante’s journey is set. Inferno 27 narrates the encounter with Guido da Montefeltro, a fraudulent counselor to the same Pope Boniface VIII. This infernal portrait of the holy city and its Pope leads up to the encounter with Satan at the bottom of Hell and the lowest point in the Cosmos.

Featured Speakers: 

• Theodore J. Cachey, Professor of Italian and the Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Family Director of Dante and Italian Studies, University of Notre Dame; Co-Director, University of Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies 
• David Lummus, Visiting Professor of Italian and Co-Director, University of Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies
• Chiara Sbordoni, Adjunct Professor of Italian, University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway

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This podcast is a part of the Rome Book Club ThinkND Series titled “A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome”.

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Episode Topic: Hell’s Vineyard (Inferno 13)

Dante and Virgil are in the seventh circle of Hell where violence is punished. In the second section, those who had been violent to themselves have been transformed into trees. Pier delle Vigne, Holy Emperor Frederick II’s adviser, almost a contemporary of Dante, is condemned to this part of Hell for committing suicide.

Featured Speakers: 

• Theodore J. Cachey, Professor of Italian and the Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Family Director of Dante and Italian Studies, University of Notre Dame; Co-Director, University of Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies 
• David Lummus, Visiting Professor of Italian and Co-Director, University of Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies
• Chiara Sbordoni, Adjunct Professor of Italian, University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway

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This podcast is a part of the Rome Book Club ThinkND Series titled “A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome”.

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Episode Topic: Paolo and Francesca: Words of Desire (Inferno 5)

Dante and his guide Virgil are in the second circle of Hell, where lust, one of the sins of incontinence, is eternally punished in the 'hellish squall.' Here, the two poets meet Dido, the Carthaginian queen who loved Aeneas, and Paolo and Francesca, two contemporary lovers.

Featured Speakers: 

• Theodore J. Cachey, Professor of Italian and the Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Family Director of Dante and Italian Studies, University of Notre Dame; Co-Director, University of Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies 
• David Lummus, Visiting Professor of Italian and Co-Director, University of Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies
• Chiara Sbordoni, Adjunct Professor of Italian, University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway

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This podcast is a part of the Rome Book Club ThinkND Series titled “A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome”.Episode Topic: Paolo and Francesca: Words of Desire (Inferno 5)

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Episode Topic: Intro: From the dark wood to Rome

When Dante is lost in the dark wood of sin, the soul of the Roman poet Virgil is sent from Heaven to rescue him and guide him on his way to salvation through Hell and Purgatory. Dante’s journey is immediately compared to Aeneas’s voyage to Italy where his offspring will found the city of Rome, the subject of Virgil’s epic poem Aeneid. 

Featured Speakers: 

• Theodore J. Cachey, Professor of Italian and the Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Family Director of Dante and Italian Studies, University of Notre Dame; Co-Director, University of Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies 
• David Lummus, Visiting Professor of Italian and Co-Director, University of Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies
• Chiara Sbordoni, Adjunct Professor of Italian, University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway

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This podcast is a part of the Rome Book Club ThinkND Series titled “A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome”.

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Episode Topic: Jack Hall

We begin with "Jack Hall," an old ballad that has its origins in the early eighteenth century. It begins as a narrative of the life of a convicted criminal who was executed at Tyburn Tree in 1707, but then mutates across time, with recordings by Irish and American artists like the Dubliners and Johnny Cash. We will ask what each of these versions contribute to the evolving tradition of the song, and how it became so widely known.

Featured Speakers: 

• Ian Newman, Professor in the English Department and Fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame
• Rev. Jim Lies C.S.C., Senior Director for Academic Initiatives and Partnerships for the Notre Dame London Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame

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This podcast is a part of the London Book Club ThinkND Series titled “London in Song”.

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Episode Topic: The Jolly Young Waterman

In week 2 of our book club, we will discuss the song "The Jolly Young Waterman," which was originally written by Charles Dibdin for his ballad opera The Waterman: Or The First of August in 1765. We will read the original play and think about what happens to the song once it has passed through the oral tradition.

Featured Speakers: 

• Ian Newman, Professor in the English Department and Fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame
• Rev. Jim Lies C.S.C., Senior Director for Academic Initiatives and Partnerships for the Notre Dame London Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame

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This podcast is a part of the London Book Club ThinkND Series titled “London in Song”.

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Episode Topic: "Jerusalem"

This week we focus on what has become the national anthem for England (as opposed to Great Britain): the song known as "Jerusalem." With words by the poet William Blake and music by Charles Hubert Parry, this strange song is sung in the terraces at sporting events, performed at Royal Weddings and classical concerts, and is played as the soundtrack to "Visit England" tourism advertisements. We’ll consider how an obscure lyric, part of a preface to an esoteric and highly enigmatic prophetic poem, became one of the best known patriotic songs in England.

Featured Speakers: 

• Ian Newman, Professor in the English Department and Fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame
• Rev. Jim Lies C.S.C., Senior Director for Academic Initiatives and Partnerships for the Notre Dame London Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame

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This podcast is a part of the London Book Club ThinkND Series titled “London in Song”.

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Episode Topic: "A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square"

In the final week of London in Song, we focus on one of the most successful London songs of the twentieth century. Written in 1939, with words by Eric Maschwitz and music by Manning Sherwin, this romantic ballad was quickly established as a standard of the lounge repertoire and has been recorded by Vera Lynn, Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Harry Connick Jr., Mel Torme, and Rod Stewert among many others. The song takes its title from a short story by Michael Arlen. This week we will consider what happens in the translation from short story to song, and we will ask what it means for a nightingale to sing in Berkeley Square.

Featured Speakers: 

• Ian Newman, Professor in the English Department and Fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame
• Rev. Jim Lies C.S.C., Senior Director for Academic Initiatives and Partnerships for the Notre Dame London Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame

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This podcast is a part of the London Book Club ThinkND Series titled “London in Song”.

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