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The National Library of Ireland

The National Library of Ireland

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The mission of the National Library of Ireland (NLI) is to collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland and to contribute to the provision of access to the larger universe of recorded knowledge. It is open, free of charge, to all those who wish to consult the collections. The Office of the Chief Herald in Kildare Street and the National Photographic Archive in Temple Bar are both part of the National Library. Further informatio ...
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Treasures of The National Library of Scotland

National Library of Scotland

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To mark the opening of the ‘Treasures of the National Library of Scotland’, we’ve asked some of Scotland’s real life national treasures to select their favourite items from the exhibition. Hosted by Julia Sutherland, this series of podcasts takes a deeper dive into the objects, collections and artefacts that each guest finds most interesting. They explore the historical significance of the items to the country, and how that resonates with them personally. Featuring Grant Stott, Liz Lochhead, ...
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Narratives Library National Edition

Karena Wynn-Moylan author interviewer broadcaster

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Each week award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan interviews different authors and asks them to read their own work . The website www.narrativeslibrary.com gets over 200,000 hits per month and contains over 500 authors reading for just 5 minutes. This 28 minute podcast allows slightly longer reads and interviews, together with carefully selected musical tracks. 'Quickpods' is the Narratives Library short and sweet edition lasting up to 15 minutes, featuring one new author each week. ...
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Two very different authors , but both wonderful storytellers with deep messages. Suzanne Gervay – Heroes of the Secret Underground Suzanne Gervay OAM is also a lifetime Social Justice Literature Award winner. Suzanne’s family were Holocaust survivors who escaped to Australia after the war. In this read we witness the start of the oppression of the …
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As always on the Narratives Library National Edition, our authors will read for a about 5 minutes then discuss their work. Always illuminating! DENNIS ALTMAN – Death in the Sauna A crime story that leads us from a gay sauna, to the intrigues of of an international AIDS conference. This is celebrated gay activist Altman's 17th book and draws on his …
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This edition, a crime thriller and a fantasy novel. Just to keep you balanced! ANNE BUISST- Locked Ward A psychiatrist with a bipolar disorder suspects the police have arrested the wrong person in a murder case. An insightful story about how women are often more vulnerable than men when it comes to mental health issues, written by an author who has…
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It was Youth Book week so I have featured these two outstanding Young Adult Authors. As always on Narratives they read fromtheir own work and then discuss the book, their lives and being a writer. NAT AMOORE - WE RUN TOMORROW Nat Amoore hosts a podcast on kidslit, rides a skateboard and had very cool sneakers which matched the illustrations in her …
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The Second podcast of three authors featured at the BAD Crime Writers Festival in Sydney in 2022. These three authors will also be featured in this years festival - Margaret Hickey, Suzanne Leal and Rae Cairns. Held annually in the glorious atmosphere of the Mitchell State Library of NSW, BAD features more than 60 top crime writers with fascinating…
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BAD Crime Writers Festival is Australia's premier crime writers gathering. Over 5 days of special guests, authors reads, top crime experts, lawyers, barristers , and more get together and discuss all things criminal, dramatic and mysterious. Held in the historic Mitchell Library in Sydney it is a fun event for lovers of crime novels and authors. In…
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Michael Sharmon left Australia in 2010 for Hong Kong to pursue a career in musical theatre. What followed was 12 amazing years of writing, producing, directing and performing around the country - sometimes 5 shows in one day! He looks back very fondly on this time and the opportunities it afforded him. Four original tracks of music.…
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George Smilovici was a highly successful comedian who is now a musician who divides his time between Cuba ( where he grew up) and Byron Bay Australia. He is a guitarist and composer with a 14 piece band in Cuba and says he sometimes puts a few jokes in his solo shows just for old times sake. This interview with Karena Wynn-Moylan was first broadcas…
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Melbourne singer/songwriter, multi instrumentalist and choir leader Phia has a brand new self titled album. Karena Wynn-Moylan talks to her about the songs on the album, motherhood and music, and coming back to Australia after success overseas. Four songs from the Album - Someone Out There, All My Friends, Coffee After 3, and Full Circle.…
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Episode 4 is the finale of the Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution series. In this last episode I reflect on my work as Poet-in-Residence and read from source materials from the archives at the National Library of Ireland. The episode includes excerpts from Dorothy Macardle’s account of Easter Week, published in the Irish Press in 1933, two ne…
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'Treasures of The National Library of Scotland' is a new permanent exhibition at the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. It provides a unique insight into Scotland’s history, culture and people and its place in the world. At the Library we collect and preserve the memory of the Scottish nation on behalf of the people of Sco…
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'Treasures of The National Library of Scotland' is a new permanent exhibition at the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. It provides a unique insight into Scotland’s history, culture and people and its place in the world. At the Library we collect and preserve the memory of the Scottish nation on behalf of the people of Sco…
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'Treasures of the National Library of Scotland' is a new permanent exhibition at the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. It provides a unique insight into Scotland’s history, culture and people and its place in the world. At the Library we collect and preserve the memory of the Scottish nation on behalf of the people of Sco…
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Chris Mansell and Richard Tippping have spent their lives immersed in their poetry and art. Here they each read from their latest publications and talk about the process of being a poet, writing and art. They were both guests at the Kyogle writers Festival and spoke with Karena Wynn-Moylan of the Narratives Library.…
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Irish born, Berlin based singer/songwriter Wallis Bird has released a new album 'Hands' - 91/2 songs for 91/2 fingers. In production and arrangements it is a fresh take on her material. Here she talks with radio presenter of Arts Canvass Karena Wynn-Moylan. Contains four tracks from the album: What's Wrong with Changing, I Lose Myself Completely, D…
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To mark the opening of the ‘Treasures of The National Library of Scotland’, we’ve asked some of Scotland’s real life national treasures to select their favourite items from the exhibition. Hosted by Julia Sutherland, this series of podcasts takes a deeper dive into the objects, collections and artifacts that each guest finds most interesting. They …
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In Episode 3 of Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution I am joined by Seán Hewitt for a conversation about his work as Poet-in-Residence at the Irish Queer Archive. In this episode we discuss some of the difficult things about working with archive, including violence against LGBTQ+ people and the murder of Declan Flynn in 1982.Seán Hewitt’s debut…
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In Episode 2 of Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution we are joined by Dr Alice Rekab for a conversation about flags and song in the context of their artistic practice and Julie’s research at the National Library. Dr. Alice Rekab is an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin. Their practice is concerned with expressions and iterations of…
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Benjamin Gilmour is a writer and director and also poet and paramedic. His film 'Jirga' is a powerful statement about war and the destruction of innocent people on both sides. In this interview he discusses with broadcaster Karena Wynn-Moylan about the calculating of risk involved in making this film in Afghanistan and the importance of cinema.…
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In Episode 1 of Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution Dr Susan Cahill joins us for a conversation about writer and activist Dorothy Macardle. Cahill is a writer, editor, academic, thinker, and activist. She is well known for her activism for the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment. Cahill was the first woman to tell her abortion story on the stage of…
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While Bennelong is a name well known – the truth of the man is still misunderstood by many.In her presentation, Professor Kate Fullagar aims to explore the truth of his history by presenting neglected evidence about his latter life. She will also compare the work of Bennelong to that of some of his contemporary First Nations negotiators in other pa…
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Learn the extraordinary story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and its impact on the Australian art-world between 1885 and 1900.At this event you'll hear from Dr Gary Werskey, co-curator of the Library's current exhibition A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas, who will explore why a group of American artists and entreprene…
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Dr Andrew Levidis explores the transnational network of bureaucrats, soldiers and propagandists, who served the Japanese and Manchukuo empires and their role in shaping right-wing and socialist politics in Cold War East Asia. It rethinks the transitions from empire to Cold War beyond the binaries of superpower conflict and national experience of de…
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What do you expect when graduating with a science degree? To disarm militia in war-torn Mogadishu? To search out Iraq’s elusive weapons of mass destruction? Do you wonder what a spy does? Join former Australian intelligence officer and author Rod Barton in conversation with ABC journalist and author Michael Brissenden, as Rod discusses his new memo…
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“For generations my family wanted to conceal their Aboriginal roots. Our darker complexions, I was told, harkened back to Spanish sailor shipwrecked near Scotland, or invading Moors…The lie was only a few generations back, but it took me almost twenty years to uncover”. Dr Judith Crispin, the 2020 Honorary National Library Creative Arts Fellow for …
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The colonial heritage of Norfolk Island is little known to most Australians. 2020 NLA Fellow, Alisa Bunbury’s recent research comprises a careful and structured examination of visual imagery created during the various stages of its settlement during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These images show the difficulties of contact and comm…
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Over 400,000 men enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces to fight in World War I. Nearly one in every five of them was never to return. As every strata of society searched for meaning amidst such cataclysmic loss, many turned to Spiritualism — a fringe religion built on the belief that “death is not a cessation of life but a mere change in condi…
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Jack Waterford AM delivers the 2021 Canberra Day Oration, Canberra: Part of the Nation's Capital, presented by the Canberra & District Historical Society.From its foundation in 1953, the Canberra & District Historical Society has promoted the annual observance of Canberra Day on 12 March. In the years that follwed, the Society celebrated Canberra D…
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2021 Creative Arts Fellow for Australian Writing, Dr Jordie Albiston, discusses her research process at the National Library for her new poetry project ‘Frank’. ‘Frank’ comprises of poems based on the diaries of James Francis Hurley from two Antarctic expeditions (under Mawson, and then Shackleton) and his subsequent picture-show tour. Approximatel…
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Karena Wynn-Moylan chats to Gareth Koch about his beautiful new album 'Saladin's Dream'. This album reflects many of Gareth's accomplishments as a musician and obsessions with history. Taking his cue from a number of medieval and middle eastern styles, Gareth plays a range of instruments based around the the idea of the dreams of this historic figu…
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