Museum of Literature Ireland
Open today,
10:30-18:00
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UCD Naughton Joyce Centre
86 St Stephen's Green
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A digital radio station
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Spreading the Words
4'12"
Read by Caroline Lennon.
An insight into the eighteenth-century poem made famous again by Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat.
Spreading the Words is a series on the histories of Irish words from literature and everyday life written by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and produced in association with the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words and the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (www.dil.ie).
Virtual Crossways
Chris Agee reads from his fourth collection, Blue Sandbar Moon, and Kapka Kassabova reads the final chapter of her most recent non-fiction book, To the Lake.
Spreading the Words
In his poetry, Seamus Heaney referred often to ‘dulse’, but how does this edible seaweed feature in medieval Irish law, literature and medicine?
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