Reimagining Ireland (English version)

Katrine Nyland Sørensen

Reimagining Ireland - Irish Studies Podcast is a series that brings research from Centre for Irish Studies at Århus University in Denmark to the rest of the world. The series is available in a Danish and an English version.

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9 episodes
Updated Sep 30, 2025

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Sep 30, 2025 · 21 min
9 Polyphonic History with Pat Palmer
What did Ireland sound like before conquest? In this two-part conversation, Professor Pat Palmer guides us into the vibrant world of early modern Ireland, where bardic poets, Gaelic lords, Spanish captains and Elizabethan officials all left their...
Sep 30, 2025 · 27 min
8 Mapping Early Ireland with Pat Palmer
Reimagining Ireland with Professor Pat Palmer uncovers the lost voices of early modern Ireland. Through poetry, chronicles, and accounts in nine different languages, the MacMorris Project reveals a plural world too often overshadowed by English...
Sep 23, 2025 · 25 min
07 Voices of Women with Jane Ohlmeyer
History books are full of men. Women, by contrast, are often absent, or appear only as queens, mistresses, or figures remembered for their notoriety. In this episode of Reimagining Ireland, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College Dublin, introduces...
Sep 23, 2025 · 21 min
06 Making Empire with Jane Ohlmeyer
What role did Ireland play in the making of empires? In this episode of Reimagining Ireland, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College Dublin, introduces her acclaimed book Making Empire, based on her James Ford Lectures. She shows how Ireland was not...
Nov 11, 2019 · 31 min
05 Greek Tragedies and Irish Politics: Classical Influences & Irish Culture
Podcast series from the Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Aarhus. Isabelle Torrance is a professor at Aarhus University and director of the project "Classical Influences and Irish Culture". Ireland has a very special relationship with...
Nov 11, 2019 · 31 min
04 Magdalene Laundries and the Maze Prison: Digging in the Uncomfortable Past
Podcast series from the Center for Irish Studies at Aarhus University. Laura McAtackney is Associate Professor of Archeology at Aarhus University. Unlike most other archaeologists, she does not dig in the past - but in the present. What becomes...
Jun 20, 2019 · 37 min
03 The Catholic Church and the Magdalene women
I 2013 the Irish government had to issue a formal apology to the thousands of women who had been abused by the religious orders at the Magdalene Laundries. Why - and how - did the Catholic Church manage to a make fortune without any interference from...
Jun 20, 2019 · 20 min
02 Northern Ireland on film: Who gets to tell whose story?
For over 30 years, Arthur MacCaig, documented the Northern Irish conflict. Meanwhile, his son Donal Foreman grew up in Dublin. After MacCaig's death, the idea for the documentary film "The Image You Missed" emerged, interweaving the story of a son's...
Jun 20, 2019 · 27 min
01 How do we commemorate the past? The Easter Rising is still relevant for today's politics
Lance Pettitt, who is Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, has done intensive research on how the Easter Rising was commemorated by RTÈ in 1966. Why is it interesting to study the way in which a nation commemorates important...