Welcome to the Harold’s Cross Festival podcast.

The 2015 Festival takes place from Thursday May 7th to Sunday May 10th.

We will be previewing and sampling some of the best content to whet your appetite. 

The festival kicks off with a night of poetry on Thursday May 7th at 8pm in Rosie O’Grady’s in Harold’s Cross. 

I caught up with renowned Irish poet and Harold’s Cross resident Hugh McFadden to hear him read on of his poems. 

Poetry at Rosie's takes place on Thursday May 7th, 2015, in Rosie O’Grady’s in Harold’s Cross.

For Festival information log onto www.haroldscross.org or @hxfest on Twitter. 

                                                                                                    
Hugh McFadden is a poet, critic, literary editor and historian. His poems have been published widely in literary magazines. He is the author of four collections of poetry, the most recent being Empire of Shadows, published by Salmon Poetry in September 2012. A Selected Poems, Elegies and Epiphanies was published by Lagan Press in 2005. He grew up as a child in Terenure, but has lived in Harold's Cross for 40 years.

He is the executor of the literary estate of the late Harold's Cross writer John Jordan, who lived in Park View Avenue; and he has edited Jordan's collected poems and collected short stories, as well as John Jordan: Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, Dublin, 2008). He has reviewed for many papers & journals, including Books Ireland, The Irish Book Review, The Irish Press, The Irish Independent, The Irish Times and The Sunday Tribune.                                                       

Harold's Cross Festival May 7-10 2015 - Preview Poetry

In this episode we explore the Harold’s Cross connection of Irish nationalist and leader Robert Emmet. 

On Friday May 8th at 6.30 in the Rosary Pastoral Centre in Harold’s Cross Professor Patrick Geoghegan of Trinity College Dublin and Talking History on Newstalk FM will give a free talk exploring the Robert Emmett legacy and his conneciton to Harold’s Cross. 

I started by asking him what was Rober Emmet's connection to Harold’s Cross, 
 
For Festival information log onto www.haroldscross.org or @hxfest on Twitter. 

Patrick Geoghegan is Professor of History at Trinity College where he lectures on modern Irish history and the history of the United States.  He was a winner of the Provost’s award for teaching excellence in 2009, and anyone who attends his forthcoming lecture on Robert Emmet will readily understand why.  In addition to his work in Trinity College’s History Department where he supervises Ph.D. theses across his various research areas, he is committed to all aspects of outreach and engagement with society.  He presents the award-winning weekly history programme, “Talking History”, on Newstalk radio, and wrote the text for the multiple award-winning O’Connell exhibition at Glasnevin Cemetery.  He has published extensively, including an acclaimed two-volume study of Daniel O’Connell and “Robert Emmet: A life” (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2002).  A former gold medalist for oratory at UCD’s Literary & Historical Society, Professor Geoghegan has always been interested in the role of oratory in political debate and how oratory shaped political discourse. His current work develops from these interests and examines how Edmund Burke both succeeded and failed in using oratory to change the nature of imperial debate in the eighteenth century. He has also been commissioned to write the official history of Trinity College’s Historical Society for its 250th anniversary. 

Robert Emmet- The Harold's Cross Connection

In the summer of 1961 American surveyor and keen photographer Charles Cushman came to Dublin and took some amazing photographs. 

As part of this years festival – in partnership with the little museum of Dublin a selection of Charles Cushman’s photographs will be on display in the Cafeteria of Our Lady's Hospice, Harold's Cross from Wednesday May 6th to Sunday May 10th.

I met with Simon O’Connor Curator of the Little Musuem of Dublin to talk about Charles Cushman. He started by telling me how the images came to his attention. 

For Festival information log onto www.haroldscross.org or @hxfest on Twitter. 



Dublin in the 1960s - Charles Cushman exhibition comes to Harold's Cross Festival

The Harold's Cross community festival will take place on May 10th 2015 in Harold's Cross Park. 

This stream will give a sneak preview into events at the festival.

It is updated by Jack Murray (@mediamurray). 


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