Part 1 of Mark Rowe's interview as part of UCD School of Medicine's podcast series - MGA Clinical Influencers.

Dr Mark Rowe, is a 1991 graduate of UCD School of Medicine. 
Dr Rowe has been a practicing GP for over 27 years. He is the founder of the Waterford Health Park, which has become both the base for Dr. Rowe’s medical practice as well as the ‘Lifestyle Medicine Be Well Clinic’. 

In 2013, the Waterford Health Park received the Global Health Improvement Award, ‘A Place to Flourish.’ Dr. Rowe is the author of three books – ‘A Prescription for Happiness: The Ten Commitments to a Happier, Healthier Life’, ‘The Men’s Health Book’ & ‘The Vitality Mark’ published recently by Gill in 2022. Mark is a regular media contributor nationally on RTE, Virgin, The Irish Times, The Business Post et al and internationally as a Wellbeing Leader & Conference Contributor where he shares his thoughts on positive health and wellbeing practices. As a Keynote speaker, Mark regularly delivers events and workshops for organisations around the world. His TEDx talk titled ‘The Doctor of the Future: Prescribing Lifestyle as Medicine’ amplifies his teachings. Notable engagements to date have included UCD Smurfit Executive Development, the American House of Representatives and a number of Fortune 500 companies.
Mark is among the first medical professionals globally to be certified as a Diplomate of the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine. Lifestyle Medicine is defined as an evidence-based ‘lifestyle first’ approach to prevention and treatment of chronic disease. Mark has always held a strong desire to change the culture of ‘a pill for every ill’. He advocates lifestyle change as the best medicine for lasting wellbeing.

No stranger to podcasting, Mark’s weekly Podcast In the Doctor’s Chair has an international following with guest speakers from across the globe and local to home from the arena of medicine, sport, academia, politics & business – sharing conversations on Health & Wellbeing.

MGA Clinical Influencers

The MGA launched its Podcast Series - MGA Clinical Influencers - in 2022.

During this podcast series, graduates give us a trip down memory lane when describing their time at UCD (and on some occasions in other Schools of Medicine) and as junior doctors.

They discuss their stellar careers in their chosen speciality and highlights and challenges during those careers, how they share their expertise and coach others. On a personal level, they will discuss how they manage a decent work life balance, where that is possible and books for us to enjoy and holiday locations we should be thinking about. Our interviewees have compelling stories to tell that will spark your curiosity about life in the clinical speciality they have chosen and the career path they have travelled.

https://www.ucd.ie/medicine/alumni/mgapodcastseries/

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Dr Mark Rowe - GP and founder of the Waterford Health Park (Part 1 of 2)

In this episode, a recording of 'Writing LGBTQ histories from the medieval to the modern'. This event took place on March 8 2023 in UCD School of History and featured UCD historians Dr Elva Johnston and Dr Mary McAuliffe. The event was chaired by Dr Fionnuala Walsh.

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Writing LGBTQ histories from the medieval to the modern

Orla Hardiman is Professor of Neurology, Head of the Academic Unit of Neurology and Academic Director of Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, and Consultant Neurologist at Beaumont Hospital.

She is a science and medical graduate from UCD, and trained in Neurology in Boston. She is the Director of the National ALS Clinical at the National Neuroscience Centre, Beaumont Hospital Dublin Ireland, where she provides clinical are for over 80% of Irish patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) .

She is the author of over 280 peer reviewed publications and editor of a textbook of Neurodegeneration.   Her research interests include the epidemiology, phenotype, biomarker discovery and genetics of ALS. She is Co- Chair of the European Network for Cure of ALS (ENCALS) and is editor in chief of the journal Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and the Frontotemporal Degenerations, and a founder of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland and the Irish Brain Council.   She is the recipient of a number of international honours and awards including the AAN Sheila Essey Award in ALS Research and the International ALS Alliance Forbes Norris Award.

MGA Clinical Influencers

The MGA launched its Podcast Series - MGA Clinical Influencers - in 2022.

During this podcast series, graduates give us a trip down memory lane when describing their time at UCD (and on some occasions in other Schools of Medicine) and as junior doctors.

They discuss their stellar careers in their chosen speciality and highlights and challenges during those careers, how they share their expertise and coach others. On a personal level, they will discuss how they manage a decent work life balance, where that is possible and books for us to enjoy and holiday locations we should be thinking about. Our interviewees have compelling stories to tell that will spark your curiosity about life in the clinical speciality they have chosen and the career path they have travelled.

https://www.ucd.ie/medicine/alumni/mgapodcastseries/

Prof. Orla Hardiman, Professor of Neurology TCD, and Consultant Neurologist at Beaumont Hospital

Recorded November 16th, 2023.

The Trinity Long Room Hub 2023 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture  was delivered by Professor Joanna Bourke on ‘Contemplating Evil: “Monstrous” Women in History, Politics, and Law, 1890s to the Present’.

Joanna Bourke is Professor Emerita of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is also the Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. She is the prize-winning author of fifteen books, including What it means to be Human (2011) and Fear: A Cultural History (2015), as well as over 120 articles in academic journals. In 2022, Reaktion Books published Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence and OUP published Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Education for Working People. Her Edmund Burke Lecture will draw on the subject of her current research towards a book entitled Evil Women. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, and Greek.

The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture is supported by a generous endowment in honour of Padraic Fallon by his family.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

TLRH | 2023 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture | Professor Joanna Bourke

'Our shared built military heritage: the online mapping, inventorying and recording of the army barracks of Ireland, 1690-1921' by Dr Ivar McGrath (UCD) and Dr Suzanne Forbes (Open University). 

The talk took place on January 26 2024 as part of the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research Strand on Digital Cultures.

Theme Leaders: Marc Caball, UCD School of History
Lynda Mulvin, School of Art History and Cultural Policy

Digital Cultures is one of the research themes for the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research Strategy for 2020-2024. The strategy brings together and supports the combined research excellence from across the College’s Schools, Institutes, Centres and subject disciplines.

As part of the Digital Cultures theme of the strategy, Dr Charles Ivar McGrath (UCD) and Dr Suzanne Forbes (Open University) recently gave an online presentation entitled: ‘Our shared built military heritage: the online mapping, inventorying and recording of the army barracks of Ireland, 1690-1921’. The presentation took place in January 2024 and focused on their work on the Army Barracks of Ireland project. The project is funded by the North South Research Programme and co-lead by University College Dublin and The Open University.

The project team are currently preparing a comprehensive online map of all army barracks operational on the island of Ireland between 1690 and 1921, due for launch in early 2024.
You can learn more about the project on https://barracksireland.wordpress.com/ 

Thanks to support from the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research Strand in Digital Cultures, we are able to feature their talk in this episode of the podcast.

A video of the talk, complete with slides, is also available to watch on the History Hub website.

The talk was introduced by Digital Cultures theme leaders: Dr Marc Caball from UCD School of History, and Professor Lynda Mulvin from UCD School of Art History.

The online mapping, inventorying and recording of the army barracks of Ireland, 1690-1921

A UCD Gender History Seminar
 
Organised by Dr Fionnuala Walsh (UCD History) and Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD Gender Studies)

The ‘Women and the Irish Constitution: a roundtable discussion’ took place on Tuesday 13 February 2024 in the Humanities Institute, UCD Dublin. The panel included contributions from Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD, chair) Prof. Caitriona Beaumont (London South Bank University), Associate Professor Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth University), Orla O'Connor (National Women's Council), Prof. Lindsey Earner Byrne (Trinity College Dublin) and the Sutherland School of Law Poet in Residence, Julie Morrissy. 

The referendum on 8 March 2024, proposing to delete Article 41.2 of the Irish constitution which refers to women's 'life within the home' and her domestic role 'without which the common good cannot be achieved', prompted this us to reflect on reactions to the article in 1937 and the relationship between women, home and work in 20th century Ireland. 

This roundtable brings together leading historians, a poet and the chair of the National Women's Council to discuss the past and present of these issues. Listen in to what was a fascinating conversation!

We would like to thank the funders of this event: the UCD College of Arts and Humanities EDI Committee, UCD History and the UCD Decade of Centenaries Seed Funding Scheme.

Women and the Irish Constitution: a roundtable discussion

In this episode, a recording of 'St Brigit and the beginnings of Irish history' a panel discussion organised by Dr Fionnuala Walsh from UCD for International Women's Day 2024. 

The panel was: Associate Prof. Elva Johnston (UCD); Assistant Professor Megan Welton (UCD); Dr Niamh Wycherley (Maynooth); and Dr Elizabeth Dawson (Carlow College).

St Brigit and the beginnings of Irish history

In this episode of the MUSAE podcast, Dr Aoife O'Gorman (UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science) talks to Angelo Cangelosi (Professor of Machine Learning and Robotics at the University of Manchester) and artist Maciej Chmara about creative solutions for our food systems with a particular focus on robotics.

MUSAE is an EU Horizon funded project developing approaches for art-driven innovation. 
The project brings together experts from different disciplines to define an innovative model to integrate artistic collaboration in the European Digital Hubs.

The vision is to enable companies to develop innovative products and services that address key issues in the food system.

The UCD team - Prof Lorraine Brennan and Dr Aoife O Gorman - bring expertise in food and health and are actively involved in mentoring the artists as they develop their future prototypes. 

For more information about MUSAE, please visit: https://musae.starts.eu/

MUSAE - creative solutions for our food systems

Palomitas ('Popcorn' in Spanish) is the podcast where Spanish cinema comes alive. In episode one of the series, Dr Matthew Hilborn (Government of Ireland Research Fellow in Spanish Studies, UCD) and Dr Mary Farrelly (Assistant Professor of Spanish Studies, UCD) discuss La llamada (2017), the film version of the hit Spanish musical, written and directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo.

This podcast has emanated from research conducted with the financial support of Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland under Grant number R27505.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction to Palomitas podcast series https://on.soundcloud.com/Pw8RrCQ96ieU2PLW9
00:56 Background to La llamada https://on.soundcloud.com/aL4ZbPekmhgqQ9QL7
05:44 Historical and cultural context to the film https://on.soundcloud.com/v6utjjMZqJRyyvyYA
16:54 Key themes and motifs in the film https://on.soundcloud.com/QYHMdE3vCiJuULaN8
34:52 Cultural significance of La llamada and its global reach https://on.soundcloud.com/pruUGw1PmMx1KRxH9 
41:20 The new auteurship of Los Javis https://on.soundcloud.com/Hgv3Q3gmZPXAxYhn8

Scholarship cited in the episode:

For the books, ask your library - university and/or public - to buy a copy! Trust us: librarians are always eager for requests!

Farrelly, M. (2021). Seen and Unseen: Women, Spirituality and the Gaze on the Spanish Stage and Screen. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2021.1873587

García López, M. (2024). Millennial Screen Cultures in Spain: Queering the Mainstream. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2024.2392416

Wheeler, D. (2018). The Musical in Spain. Hispanic Research Journal doi.org/10.1080/14682737.2018.1444425

Louis, A., Loxham, A. (2024). Mediating Contemporary Transfeminisms and Femininities in Veneno and Ellas. In: Femininity and Feminism in Spanish TV Dramas. Palgrave Macmillan http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64369-9_7

Sánchez Olmos, C. (2023). Exploring transmedia storytelling through original songs in award-winning Spanish films. In: Popular Music in Spanish Cinema https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003194347

1. La llamada (Los Javis, 2017) (with Mary Farrelly)

Podcasts recorded at LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023: Looking Back, Going Forward.

The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award.

Workshop 1: History of LGBT Activism in Ireland took place on April 3rd 2025 in UCD Humanities Institute.

Panel 1: The Early Years of LGBT Activism (1970s-1990s) featured: 

Poet and writer Mary Dorcey (member of the Irish Sexual Liberation Movement and Irish Women United) 
Ger Moane (Psychologist, writer, feminist and queer activist)
Ailbhe Smyth (Feminist & LGBT activist) 
Activist, historian and writer,Tonie Walsh (Irish Queer Archive)
Patricia Prendiville (activist and advocate formerly of ILGA-Europe).
The discussion was facilitated by Mary McAuliffe (Historian, Director, UCD Gender Studies).

Panel 2: Writing our Histories, featured: 
Páraic Kerrigan (UCD), Sonja Tiernan (Irish Humanities Alliance) Orla Egan (Cork LGBT Archive) Sara Phillips (Irish Trans Archive). The panel was chaired by Morgan Wait from UCD.
 
Panel 3 was a Roundtable Discussion on Documenting the Movement: Queer Histories, Public and Personal Archives, Collective Memory. 

The roundtable featured:
Mary McAuliffe (Historian, Director, UCD Gender Studies)
Tonie Walsh from the Irish Queer Archive
Sara Phillips (Irish Trans Archive)
Orla Egan (Cork LGBT Archive)
Páraic Kerrigan (UCD).

This podcast was recorded at Workshop 1: History of LGBT Activism in Ireland concluded with a podcast featureing

Poet, writer, activist, Mary Dorcey, member of the Irish Sexual Liberation Movement and Irish Women United, 1970s.
Activist, historian, and writer Tonie Walsh from the Irish Queer Archive 
Ailbhe Smyth (Feminist & LGBT activist).
The discussion was facilitated by Mary McAuliffe (Historian, Director, UCD Gender Studies). 

Workshop 2: Where We’re Going – Backlash, Solidarity, and Mobilising, took place on April 16th 2025 in UCD Humanities Institute.

Panel 1: The State of LGBT Rights in Ireland Today featured: 
Sinéad Keane (BeLonG To Youth Services) 
Paula Fagan (LGBT Ireland)
Scott Cuthbertson (The Rainbow Project)
The discussion was facilitated by Ruth Baldacchino (PhD Student, UCD Gender Studies).

Panel 2: Intersectionality, Advocacy & Collective Action featured: 
Tanya Ni Mhuirthile (Legal scholar, DCU)
Pradeep Mahadeshwar (visual artist & filmmaker) 
Alice Linehan (GCN Editor)
Daire Dempsey (Transgender Equality Network Ireland) 
Bulelani Mfaco, an activist who works on migration and asylum issues
The facilitator was Molly Taylor (PhD Student, Newcastle University).

Panel 3: Strengthening Solidarity and Mobilisation featured
Chris Noone (University of Galway and NXF)
Morr O’Malley (TransHealth Action)
Paula Fagan (LGBT Ireland)
Scott Cuthbertson (The Rainbow Project) 
The facilitator was Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies).
 
Workshop 2: Where We’re Going – Backlash, Solidarity, and Mobilising concluded with the recording of a podcast which featured: 
Pradeep Mahadeshwar (visual artist & filmmaker)
Morr O'Malley (TransHealth Action)
Chris Noone (University of Galway and NXF).
The facilitator was Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies).



History of LGBT Activism in Ireland: The Early Years of LGBT Activism

The Critical Minerals Symposium was organised by Dr Gigi Tang and Katie Donnelly, and took place in UCD Humanities Institute on November 7, 2025. 

The keynote lecture 'Quarry of Thought - Minerality and AI' was given by Associate Professor Tom Nurmi, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

The podcast also features some opening remarks by Associate Professor Sarah Comyn from UCD.

Quarry of Thought: Minerality and AI. Critical Minerals Symposium Keynote by Tom Nurmi

Recordings of academic lectures and papers from workshops, conferences and seminars in the University College Dublin Humanities Institute. The Institute provides a creative architectural and conceptual space for interdisciplinary research in the humanities and allied disciplines.

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Quarry of Thought: Minerality and AI. Critical Minerals Symposium Keynote by Tom Nurmi

UCD Humanities Institute

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