Cathal Goan is former Director-General of RTÉ and Chairman of Druid Theatre Company. He was born in Belfast and received his University education in University College Dublin where he qualified in Celtic Studies in 1975. He spent two years post-graduate in the Department of Irish Folklore UCD before beginning work as a research officer with The Placenames’ Commission of the Irish Ordnance Survey. He subsequently joined RTÉ as an archivist before becoming first a radio and then a television producer in Current Affairs. In 1990 he became Editor of all RTÉ’s television output in the Irish language and in 1994 he was chosen as the first Chief Executive of the new Irish language television service which was about to be established in Galway. Teilifís na Gaeilge – TG4 – began broadcasting in October 1996 and has gained widespread recognition for the inventiveness and variety of its commissioned programming. In 2000 he returned to Dublin as Director of Television Programming at RTÉ. In 2003 he was appointed Director General (CEO) of RTÉ, a position that he held until January 2011. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Ulster in 2006 in recognition of his services to the Irish language and to broadcasting in Ireland. He was appointed Adjunct Professor in the School of Irish Language, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics in UCD in 2011. He has a life-long interest in Irish music with particular reference to the Irish language song tradition.
]]>Cathal Goan is former Director-General of RTÉ and Chairman of Druid Theatre Company. He was born in Belfast and received his University education in University College Dublin where he qualified in Celtic Studies in 1975. He spent two years post-graduate in the Department of Irish Folklore UCD before beginning work as a research officer with The Placenames’ Commission of the Irish Ordnance Survey. He subsequently joined RTÉ as an archivist before becoming first a radio and then a television producer in Current Affairs. In 1990 he became Editor of all RTÉ’s television output in the Irish language and in 1994 he was chosen as the first Chief Executive of the new Irish language television service which was about to be established in Galway. Teilifís na Gaeilge – TG4 – began broadcasting in October 1996 and has gained widespread recognition for the inventiveness and variety of its commissioned programming. In 2000 he returned to Dublin as Director of Television Programming at RTÉ. In 2003 he was appointed Director General (CEO) of RTÉ, a position that he held until January 2011. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Ulster in 2006 in recognition of his services to the Irish language and to broadcasting in Ireland. He was appointed Adjunct Professor in the School of Irish Language, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics in UCD in 2011. He has a life-long interest in Irish music with particular reference to the Irish language song tradition.
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Dr Shane Kenna holds a BA in History and Political Science, and an MA and PhD in Irish History from Trinity College Dublin. He has worked in several sites of historical and political importance including Kilmainham Gaol Museum and Archive, Dublin Castle, Government Buildings and Castletown House. Widely published in historical journals and interviewed by RTÉ, the BBC and Newstalk Radio, his first book War In The Shadows: The Irish-American Fenians Who Bombed Victorian Britain was published in 2013 by Merrion Press an imprint of Irish Academic Press. In 2014 Shane has completed a biography of the executed 1916 Rising Leader Thomas MacDonagh as part of the 16 Lives series on behalf of the O'Brien Press (See also bibliography). Further information on Kenna's current research and publications can be found at http://www.shanekenna.ie/.
Dr Shane Kenna holds a BA in History and Political Science, and an MA and PhD in Irish History from Trinity College Dublin. He has worked in several sites of historical and political importance including Kilmainham Gaol Museum and Archive, Dublin Castle, Government Buildings and Castletown House. Widely published in historical journals and interviewed by RTÉ, the BBC and Newstalk Radio, his first book War In The Shadows: The Irish-American Fenians Who Bombed Victorian Britain was published in 2013 by Merrion Press an imprint of Irish Academic Press. In 2014 Shane has completed a biography of the executed 1916 Rising Leader Thomas MacDonagh as part of the 16 Lives series on behalf of the O'Brien Press (See also bibliography). Further information on Kenna's current research and publications can be found at http://www.shanekenna.ie/.
Declan Kiberd is Keough Professor of Irish Studies at University of Notre Dame. He was for many years Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at UCD and wrote a chapter on Thomas MacDonagh in The UCD Aesthetic. Among his books are Synge and the Irish Language, Idir Dhá Chultúr, Inventing Ireland, Irish Classics and Ulysses and Us. Handbook of the Irish Revival 1891-1922, co-edited with PJ Mathews, has just been published by Abbey Theatre Press (June 2015). He is a former Director of the Yeats International Summer School and of the Abbey Theatre.
]]>Declan Kiberd is Keough Professor of Irish Studies at University of Notre Dame. He was for many years Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at UCD and wrote a chapter on Thomas MacDonagh in The UCD Aesthetic. Among his books are Synge and the Irish Language, Idir Dhá Chultúr, Inventing Ireland, Irish Classics and Ulysses and Us. Handbook of the Irish Revival 1891-1922, co-edited with PJ Mathews, has just been published by Abbey Theatre Press (June 2015). He is a former Director of the Yeats International Summer School and of the Abbey Theatre.
Dr. Kurt Bullock is an associate professor at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Irish literature and critical theory and directs senior and master's-level theses. His area of scholarship is the work of Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunkett; he most recently published two chapters on MacDonagh and the Irish Review last summer: "From Revival to Revolution: Thomas MacDonagh and the Irish Review" in Ireland and the New Journalism (eds. Karen Steele, Michael de Nie); and "Literary Provocateur: Revival, Revolt, and the Censure of the Irish Review" in The Home Rule Crisis, 1912-1914 (ed. Gabriel Doherty).
See also Bibliography for further information on his scholarship
Dr. Kurt Bullock is an associate professor at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Irish literature and critical theory and directs senior and master's-level theses. His area of scholarship is the work of Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunkett; he most recently published two chapters on MacDonagh and the Irish Review last summer: "From Revival to Revolution: Thomas MacDonagh and the Irish Review" in Ireland and the New Journalism (eds. Karen Steele, Michael de Nie); and "Literary Provocateur: Revival, Revolt, and the Censure of the Irish Review" in The Home Rule Crisis, 1912-1914 (ed. Gabriel Doherty).
See also Bibliography for further information on his scholarship
Sources
White, Lawrence William. "MacDonagh, Thomas". Dictionary of Irish Biography. (Ed.) James McGuire, James Quinn. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Web.
]]>The Golden Joy is Thomas MacDonagh’s third collection of poetry. According to Lawrence William White, this volume symbolizes MacDonagh’s transition ‘from Christian mysticism to neo-platonism’ where the poet is conceived ‘as divinely inspired mediator between the spiritual world and the physical’.
Sources
White, Lawrence William. "MacDonagh, Thomas". Dictionary of Irish Biography. (Ed.) James McGuire, James Quinn. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Web.
The final issue of the Irish Review features another 'Manifesto to the Irish Volunteers' a document which illustrates the 1914 Volunteer split following Redmond’s exhortation to the Irish Volunteers to fight in the First World War. The foundational manifesto of the Irish Volunteers first appeared in the December 1913 issue of the Review after the Volunteers’ first meeting at the Rotunda on 25th November. The 1914 piece in the Review restates the initial priorities of the organisation and its unwillingness to compromise with Redmond’s decision. As a companion piece to this manifesto, the Review also published ‘Twenty Plain Facts for Irishmen’.
Frontispiece of the Irish Review with plate by Nathaniel Hone (January 1912)
Frontispiece of the January 1912 Irish Review with a plate by Nathaniel Hone entitled “The Wave.” Nathaniel Hone II (1831-1917) was connected with other important painters and art dealers on the Irish scene such as John B. Yeats, Sarah Purser and Hugh Lane.
Harry Clarke’s plate in the Irish Review
Plate for the July 1913 issue of the Irish Review by Harry Clarke. The plate “The Silver Apples of the Moon, the Golden Apples of the Sun” illustrates W.B. Yeats’s poem “The Song of Wandering Aengus.”