{"id":41864,"date":"2021-11-24T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=41864"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:12:13","slug":"the-road-less-travelled-leah-kenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=41864","title":{"rendered":"The Road Less Travelled &#8211; Leah Kenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9786\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TRLTep1.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9786','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TRLTep1.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TRLTep1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=41864-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TRLTep1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TRLTep1.mp3\">Download<\/a> ()<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41870\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9395-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41870 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9395-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9395-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9395-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9395-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9395-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9395-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9395-165x110.jpg 165w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9395-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9395-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9395-663x442.jpg 663w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R: Lorraine Leeson. Leah Kenny and Eve Patten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>The Road Less Travelled<\/em> is a new series from the Trinity Long Room Hub and Near FM. In this episode, Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub sits down with Leah Kenny to talk about her journey to education and how an opportunity with Trinity\u2019s Access Programme led her to an English studies programme and a love of Samuel Beckett. We also hear from Leah&#8217;s mum Karen Kenny, her greatest champion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Road Less Travelled is a series from the Trinity Long Room Hub and Near FM featuring current and past students from Trinity College Dublin who have taken the road less travelled to education. We meet men and women from all walks of life who have overcome social barriers and surpassed prejudice and discrimination\u2014all for the opportunity to study at third level and in Trinity\u2019s Arts and Humanities. In this series, we celebrate different experiences in education, meeting fascinating people with unique life stories.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Road Less Travelled radio series is produced by Trinity Long Room Hub and Near FM with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland through the television licence fee.<\/em>\u00a0<em>The Trinity Long Room Hub would like to thank Trinity\u2019s Access Programme (TAP) for their assistance in relation to the series.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Less Travelled is a new series from the Trinity Long Room Hub and Near FM. In this episode, Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub sits down with Leah Kenny to talk about her journey to education and how an opportunity with Trinity\u2019s Access Programme led her to an English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9787\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TRLTep1.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9787','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TRLTep1.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TRLTep1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=41864-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TRLTep1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TRLTep1.mp3\">Download<\/a> ()<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":41866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20601],"tags":[26701],"class_list":["post-41864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trinity-talks","tag-trinity-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41872,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41864\/revisions\/41872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}