Dublin Gothic

About Dublin Gothic

Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? Presented by Dr Katie Mishler, the Dublin Gothic Podcast, is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland’s urban gothic writing.

Publisher

RadioMoLI

Category

arts · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Aug 2021

Latest episode

24 Apr 2023

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Apr 2023

   Gerard Manley Hopkins

   What ghostly traces do poets leave behind, and how do we curate their legacy? Dr Katie Mishler speaks to poet Vona Groake, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, about the life and writing of MoLI’s resident ghost, poet and Jesuit Priest Gerard Manly Hopkins. In 1884, Hopkins became Professor of Classics at University College Dublin, and lived and worked in Newman House, now the home of MoLI, until his death of typhoid fever in 1889 at the age of 44. As an Englishman, Hopkins felt lonely and isolated in Dublin and at the University, where he worked extremely long and grueling hours. Out of this misery, however, he wrote some of his most celebrated poetry, the ‘terrible sonnets’, so-called because of their expression of pain and isolation. His poetry also expresses queer desire that is at odds with his faith. By visiting MoLI’s hidden corridors, including the Hopkins bedroom that Groake curated in the 1990s, the two discuss Hopkins’ enduring contribution to poetry, his difficult life and death in Dublin, and whether or not he haunts the halls of MoLI. Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland’s urban gothic writing. Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin’s urban history and the development of Ireland’s literary gothic tradition. The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler’s postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship. Producer Ian Dunphy Sound Ian Dunphy Music CAPE

2. 

   17 Jan 2023

   Ireland’s Dark Tourism

   Dr Katie Mishler speaks to Dr Gillian O’Brien and discusses her tour of Ireland’s ‘dark’ history sites, the ethics of dark tourism, and Ireland’s relationship to the dead. Recorded live at MoLI First Fridays in January 2022

3. 

   29 Jul 2022

   Sarah Moss

   In this episode, Dr Katie Mishler sits down with novelist and UCD Professor of Creative Writing Sarah Moss to discuss her novel The Fell, isolation, and writing history.

4. 

   29 Oct 2021

   Daughters of Dracula

   ampires, ghosts, and the undead have an enduring cultural legacy. These uncanny figures inform, or perhaps infect, depictions of the body, maternity, and sexuality in contemporary Irish women’s writing. This panel discussion, recorded live in MoLI's Old Physics Theatre, led by Dr Katie Mishler and featuring Sarah Davis-Goff, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and Sophie White, uncovers how the gothic monstrosities of Bram Stoker and others continue to be a powerful metaphor for social anxieties, marginalisation, and historical erasure.

5. 

   13 Oct 2021

   Charles Maturin in Marsh's Library

   Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland’s urban gothic writing. What do dancing curates, and headless mummies, and dog-eared sixteenth-century manuscripts about sexual deviancy have in common? In this episode, Dr Katie Mishler speaks with Dr Tina Morin, senior lecturer in English at University of Limerick, and Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library in Dublin, about Charles Maturin’s gothic masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) and Marsh’s Library’s new exhibition, Ragged, livid & on fire: The Wanderings of Melmoth at 200. The panel discuss Maturin’s visits to Marsh’s Library, imagine what he may have read there and shed light on some bizarre finds within the walls of the library. Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin’s urban history and the development of Ireland’s literary gothic tradition. The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler’s postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship. Producers: Ian Dunphy, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Graciela Hartung Morcillo Sound: Ian Dunphy Music: CAPE

6. 

   20 Aug 2021

   The Psychology of Horror

   Dr Katie Mishler talks to Dr Noreen Giffney and Brian J. Showers about why we find comfort in experiencing fear.

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