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Seumas O’Kelly (1881-1918) – Maria Ní Mhurchú – Ar Mhuin na Muice, Near FM (2023)

DJP November 10, 2023

Labhair Antaine Mac Mathúna le Maria Ní Mhurchú faoi shaol an iriseora agus scríbhneora Seumas O’Kelly. Near FM, 10 Samhain 2023.

Hedge Schools Beyond the Shrubbery – Episode 8 – Máistir Pearse

Paul August 18, 2023

In this episode we will draw all the ancient and modern educational strands together by looking at Patrick Pearse in particular, and his unique educational offering in St Enda’s, supported by material recorded at the Pearse Museum with Curator, Brian Crowley discussing…

Hedge Schools Beyond the Shrubbery – Episode 7 – Preserving Culture and Protecting Diversity

Paul August 11, 2023

This episode offers a discussion on the proliferation of Educate Together schools and Gaelscoileanna throughout Ireland as a response to perceived shortfalls in or, in defence of certain cultural or religious freedoms. Educate Together schools foster an equality-based approach, while Gaelscoileanna are…

Hedge Schools Beyond the Shrubbery – Episode 6 – Learning in Nature

Paul August 4, 2023

Pilar and Nuria Landaluce are a mother daughter team who share a passion for the outdoors and all it has to offer young minds. Life-long learners with a background in Montessori teaching, special needs, creative arts, and art therapy. Both are Forest…

Hedge Schools Beyond the Shrubbery – Episode 5 – Steiner’s Deep Immersion

Paul July 28, 2023

This episode concentrates on Steiner education as devised by Rudolf Steiner over one hundred years ago. Steiner education is dedicated to generating an inner enthusiasm for learning within every child by a deep immersion in each subject. The wide-ranging and non-competitive approach…

Hedge Schools Beyond the Shrubbery – Episode 4 – Hands on Montessori

Paul July 21, 2023

This episode concentrates on the child-centred Montessori method developed by Dr. Maria Montessori over one hundred years ago. The Montessori system is well established as a pre-school option in Ireland but not so much for full primary and not at all for…

Hedge Schools Beyond the Shrubbery – Episode 3 – Bards and Monks

Paul July 14, 2023

This episode concentrates on Bardic Schools, which existed right up until the late seventeenth century, and Monastic schools, which disappeared during the Henrician Reformation. These institutions were sources of inspiration for Hedge Schools. With that in mind, we will discuss their origins,…

Hedge Schools Beyond the Shrubbery – Episode 2 – Eccentric Teachers

Paul July 7, 2023

In this episode, Dr Antonia McManus and Dr Thomas Walsh will entertain us with pen pictures of the more legendary Hedge School teachers and their teaching methods. We will also discuss the needs and ambitions of the students and their parents, which…

Hedge Schools Beyond the Shrubbery – Episode 1 – Learning in All Weathers

Paul June 30, 2023

Episode 1 – Learning in All Weathers On the opening episode we will discuss why Hedge Schools were established, the structures they operated from, and the books and materials used, with Dr Antonia McManus and Dr Thomas Kevin Walsh. Dr Antonia McManus…

Hungry Gap, Fat Friars, Food Poverty – Episode 3

Paul June 8, 2023

In Episode 3 we are joined by Professor Bryce Evans, Dr Ian Miller and Emma Cornell-Stoffer who will concentrate on the 19th and 20th centuries. Professor Bryce Evans is a food historian who holds the Chair in Modern World History at Liverpool…

Hungry Gap, Fat Friars, Food Poverty – Episode 2

Paul June 1, 2023

From 1500 and through the next five centuries, Ireland became more and more of a British colony before emerging, after many famines and rebellions, as a Free State and then a Republic. In Episode 2 we are joined by Dr Susan Flavin…

Hungry Gap, Fat Friars, Food Poverty – Episode 1

Paul May 25, 2023

“Welcome to our new three-part food history series Hungry Gap, Fat Friars, Food Poverty. In this series we will explore food and drink production and consumption in Ireland and Britain over one thousand years starting at 1000 and ending in 2023 and…