Recorded March 6, 2018.

This lecture is part of a series entitled "Beyond the Book of Kells: The stories of eight other medieval manuscripts from the library of Trinity College Dublin."

In this talk Dr Ann Buckley of Trinity College's Department of History will discuss MS 78: A fifteenth-century Irish Antiphoner. Almost half a metre tall, MS 78 is a fine example of a late medieval choir book, one of the few to survive from Ireland. Beside music for services for saints Patrick, Canice, and Bridget, it records the commemorations of numerous other all-but-forgotten Irish saints, including Magnan of Kilmainham. Though produced for use in Kilkenny Cathedral, it was in the hands of local Clondalkin families in the sixteenth century.

The lecture will be illustrated by a brief selection of chants from the manuscript, performed by Anúna members Michael McGlynn, Dónal Kearney, Patrick McGinley and Zach Trouton.

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Recorded March 8, 2018.

In this talk Dr Cahill explores the figure of the unruly Irish girl in children’s fiction. She will particularly focus on the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, looking at the extraordinary volume of novels published in the period that feature wild Irish girls: girls who disrupt schools, who become artists, who open factories, and who even engage in revolutionary activity. These girls will be considered alongside more recent YA fiction, novels which highlight the ‘bold girl’ in all her complexity. The work of 19th century writers such as L.T. Meade, Rosa Mulholland and Katharine Tynan as well as contemporary writers such as Louise O'Neill and Moira Fowley-Doyle will be considered.

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Recorded March 5, 2018.

A panel discussion chaired by Professor John Horne with Dr Judith Devlin, Dr Balazs Apor, Dr Orysia Kulick and Dr Molly Pucci.

Concluding the Utopia Dystopia lecture series, this distinguished panel will reflect on the legacy of the Russian Revolution right up to today and how it changed the course of world history at many levels.

See more about the Utopia Dystopia series here - https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/whats-on/details/utopia-dystopia.php

Balazs Apor is Assistant Professor in European Studies, TCD. His research focuses on the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 19-20th centuries and the history of communism in particular. He has a special interest in the functioning of rituals in Soviet-type societies, and the way Sovietisation led to the extensive ritualisation of political language.

Orysia Kulick is a Research Fellow in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, TCD. She is working on ‘COURAGE’, a Horizon 2020 funded research project that explores the cultural heritage of dissent in former socialist countries, with responsibility for contributions about Ukraine and Ukrainian émigré communities.

Molly Pucci is an Assistant Professor of Twentieth Century European History, TCD. Her research interests include the history of communism, legal history, and the history of policing in twentieth century Europe. She is working on a book which examines the creation of communist secret police institutions in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Eastern Germany in the period following the Second World War.

Judith Devlin is a Professor of History in UCD. Her research interests include modern Russia, its contemporary history and political culture and latterly, the culture, politics and society of the Stalin era. Recent research has included work on film history, media history, cultural politics and reception. Her current work concerns the cult of Stalin.

John Horne is former Professor of Modern European History at TCD (until 2015), where he was also founder of the Centre for War Studies. He has written extensively on modern France and the trans-national history of the Great War. He has also worked on Ireland and the Great War and published (with Edward Madigan), Towards Commemoration: Ireland in War and Revolution, 1912-1923 (Royal Irish Academy, 2013).

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Recorded March 7, 2018.

On the occasion of International Women’s Day The Trinity Long Room Hub partnered with the Institute of Irish Studies in Liverpool University to discuss if and how the position of women in society has changed over the century.

Professor Susan Cahill

‘Trust Women, Listen to Women: Waking the Feminists, Repeal the Eighth, and the Politics of Storytelling’

The #MeToo social media phenomenon has created an unprecedented platform for women’s voices calling out systemic sexual harassment in the entertainment industry and beyond. In Ireland, the Waking the Feminists movement (#WTF ) loudly queried the exclusion of women from Irish theatre and the Repeal the 8th campaign used women’s stories to highlight an urgent need for reproductive rights for Irish women. Professor Susan Cahill will explore the role of personal testimony and the politics of storytelling in feminist activism in Ireland, linking current feminist activism with the strategies of the suffragettes one hundred years ago. Are our voices being heard? Are we being trusted? Who is listening?

Professor Darryl Jones

#MeToo in the University

In February 2018, news broke that Cambridge University had received 173 complaints of sexual misconduct since the establishment of its anonymous reporting system nine months previously. Cambridge publicly admitted to having ‘a significant problem’ with sexual misconduct. Other UK universities, such as Manchester, have established similar reporting systems. The #MeTooPhD hashtag has brought to public attention hundreds of episodes of sexism and sexual harassment in universities, including in the behaviour of students towards female lecturers (who report often being judged on their looks, and who regularly receive less favourable student feedback than male colleagues). Universities are not the only institutions to be undergoing this process of self-examination and realization. News also broke in February 2018 that the UK parliament was instituting a ‘crackdown’ on harassment and bullying, after a survey revealed that 20% of Westminster staff had experienced or witnessed sexual misconduct, and 39% had been the victims of bullying. This is a critical, if not an existential moment for universities and other institutions

Professor Deirdre Ahern

Equal in Name: The Limits of Law, Then and Now

Professor Deirdre Ahern will discuss the disconnect between the recognised values of gender equality in the law and the reality of the impact of continuing gendered decision-making in our world. A century after women gained the vote we take for granted that the law provides guarantees of equal treatment and equal pay. Less certain is the honouring of equality guarantees in practice, as evidenced by continuing debate on the merits of gender quotas in boardrooms and headline revelations of pay gaps for female film and media stars. The equality and fairness debate stemming from the #MeToo dialogue therefore allows a timely reality check in relation to the lived experiences of women as divorced from protections offered by the law.

See the full detail of the Behind the headline series here

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Recorded February 26, 2018.

Summary of talks in this joint lecture:

• Dogs are more than man’s best friend: the linguistic and cultural evidence (Adrian Tien)

• Leaping Dog: Plans for a Great Leap in the Year of the Dog sixty years ago (Isabella Jackson)

• Do Dogs have rights? Animal Rights Protection in China (Heid Ning Kang Wang-Kaeding)

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Recorded February 21, 2018.

Advances in technology have led to the emergence of new forms of crime, and have enabled other crimes to move online, changing their nature and impact on victims and communities. The same technological change has generated new opportunities for the police, at a time of increasing focus on efficiency and innovation. Against this backdrop, there remains a complex relationship between public expectations of the police and the operational realities of modern-day policing. The changing nature and challenges of policing in modern society has prompted processes of reflection by many Governments and public authorities internationally in recent years, including in the UK, where a Parliamentary inquiry was established in March 2017 to examine whether police forces in England and Wales are sufficiently equipped and resourced to keep the public safe and to respond effectively to evolving demands and changing patterns of crime. All this, too, takes place in the context of a much-needed renewal of how criminal justice policy is formed.

The Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland was established by the Government in May 2017 with a similar remit, given that like all police services An Garda Síochána faces internal and external challenges rooted in the changing context in which policing operates in the 21st century.

However, the establishment of the Commission also took place in a context of added complexity and political intensity here in Ireland, where An Garda Síochána has been the subject of significant public controversies over the past decade. The Commission’s mandate is therefore to carry out a fundamental review of the role, structures, leadership and management, ethos and culture of policing and existing oversight and consultative arrangements and to develop a blueprint for the future of policing in Ireland. The Commission will report in September 2018.

With the stakes so high for the success of this work, Behind The Headlines - The Future of Policing, will step back from the day-to-day challenges and controversies being reported in the media on a daily basis and reflect on the wider context and drivers of reform in policing, including the impact of technological and organisational innovation.

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Recorded February 2, 2018.

What potential has yet to be discovered and promoted within the arts of today and of the future?

Speakers on this podcast include Giuliana Adamo; Antonio Presti; Manuela Spinelli; Giuseppe Sterparelli; Eiléan Ni Chuillenain

This event aims to discuss the status of creative arts in society today through performative dialogue between poetry, visuals arts, music and translation. We will present theories and practices within the current creative arts and investigate new possibilities for relationships between the arts and contemporary society.

The speakers, predominantly from Italy, will share their experiences and the process behind their creations.

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Recorded February 2, 2018.

What potential has yet to be discovered and promoted within the arts of today and of the future?

Speakers on this Podacst are Gianluca Pulsoni; Maurizio Boldrini and Giorgiomaria Cornelio & Lucamatteo Rossi.

This event aims to discuss the status of creative arts in society today through performative dialogue between poetry, visuals arts, music and translation. We will present theories and practices within the current creative arts and investigate new possibilities for relationships between the arts and contemporary society.

The speakers, predominantly from Italy, will share their experiences and the process behind their creations.

See more about this event here -https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/whats-on/details/event.php?eventid=126419744

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Recorded January 22, 2018.

A public lecture by Professor Emmet O’Connor (University of Ulster) as part of the lecture series Utopia Dystopia: The Russian Revolution One Hundred Years On. Organised by the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and the Department of History in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub.

Professor O'Connor is introduced by Professor John Home.

Immediately following the February 1917 revolution in Russia, Irish Labour identified with the Petrograd Soviet because it opposed the world war and supported the principle of national self-determination. Contact with the Bolsheviks was established after the October revolution and the Irish Labour delegates sided with the pro-Bolsheviks at the international socialist conference at Berne in February 1919. However, the foundation of the Comintern, and the related emergence of a far-left in Ireland, led Labour to distance itself from Russia, and Irish links with the Bolsheviks became confined to communist, Larkinite, and republican groups. Moscow would shape the politics of Irish socialism and left republicanism in the 1920s and 1930s, and the history of its several, successive affiliates tells us much about centre-periphery relations within the Comintern and the character of Comintern influence on the smaller communist parties.

Emmet O’Connor studied at University College Galway and St John’s College, Cambridge. Since 1985 he has lectured in History in Ulster University. Between 1983 and 2001, he co-edited Saothar, and is an honorary president of the Irish Labour History Society. He has published widely on labour history, including Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43 (UCD Press, 2004); Big Jim Larkin: Hero or Wrecker? (UCD Press, 2015), and Derry Labour in the Age of Agitation, 1889-1923 (Four Courts Press, 2016). At present he is working on a study of the Irish in the International Brigades.

About Utopia Dystopia Series

A century after the Russian Revolution of 1917, its driving forces and its legacy, and indeed even its start and end, are still the subject of debate. It encompassed two key episodes in 1917, the February and October revolutions. The February revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar until February 1918) began on March 8, 1917. This led to the collapse of the imperial rule by the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and the establishment of a democratic provisional government. The October revolution (which in the Julian calendar began on October 24th and 25th) began on November 6th and 7th led by Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik party, and overthrew the provisional government to establish the first Marxist state in the world. It generated the dominant model of revolution for the remainder of the 20th century, engendered communist parties in many countries and was exported to much of Eastern Europe in the former of Soviet hegemony after victory in 1945, and helped shape the process of decolonisation.

As we journey through Ireland’s decade of commemorations and move ever closer to considering the complex war of independence and civil war that preceded the formation of the Irish State, this lecture series will reflect on the aftermath of the Russian Revolution right up to today and how it changed the course of world history at many levels.

The Utopia Dystopia lecture series has been organised by Trinity College Dublin’s Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and Department of History in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

see the full lecture series here - https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/whats-on/details/utopia-dystopia.php

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Recorded December 6, 2017.

A lecture by Professor Steve Smith (All Souls College Oxford) as part of the Utopia Dystopia series. This lecture is in collaboration with the Department of History's International History Seminar Series.

The Bolsheviks seized power in October 1917 in the conviction that this would trigger a revolution that would overthrow global capitalism and commence the transition to socialism. The Bolsheviks looked to Europe, and certainly social turbulence convulsed central, southern and eastern Europe between 1918 and 1923. However, the depth of revolutionary crisis in countries such as Germany and Italy was never as great as in Russia in 1917, and insurrections of the type that had put the Bolsheviks into power failed. The lecture argues that despite the Bolsheviks’ conviction that the significance of their revolution lay in the promise of workers’ power, its principal significance lay in its challenge to colonialism and imperialism, a challenge emblematized in the Congress of the Peoples of the East in September 1920. The lecture argues that it was in Asia (Persia, Korea, China, India) that the impact of the October Revolution was most enduring, at least in the immediate aftermath of October.

Steve Smith is a senior research fellow at All Souls College Oxford and a professor in the Faculty of Modern History in the University. He is a widely published historian of modern Russia and modern China and his most recent book is Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890-1927 (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is currently writing a book which compares the efforts of Communist regimes in the Soviet Union (1917-41) and the People’s Republic of China (1949-76) to eliminate 'superstition' from daily life.

A century after the Russian Revolution of 1917, its driving forces and its legacy, and indeed even its start and end, are still the subject of debate. It encompassed two key episodes in 1917, the February and October revolutions. The February revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar until February 1918) began on March 8, 1917. This led to the collapse of the imperial rule by the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and the establishment of a democratic provisional government. The October revolution (which in the Julian calendar began on October 24th and 25th) began on November 6th and 7th led by Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik party, and overthrew the provisional government to establish the first Marxist state in the world. It generated the dominant model of revolution for the remainder of the 20th century, engendered communist parties in many countries and was exported to much of Eastern Europe in the former of Soviet hegemony after victory in 1945, and helped shape the process of decolonisation.

As we journey through Ireland’s decade of commemorations and move ever closer to considering the complex war of independence and civil war that preceded the formation of the Irish State, this lecture series will reflect on the aftermath of the Russian Revolution right up to today and how it changed the course of world history at many levels.

The Utopia Dystopia lecture series has been organised by Trinity College Dublin’s Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and Department of History in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

See the full list of lectures from this series https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/whats-on/details/utopia-dystopia.php

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/