Schedule for Radio Myles: Brian O’Nolan and Irish Radio Broadcasting
This first-of-a-kind online workshop explored the work of Brian O’Nolan and his contemporaries in the context of radio technology.
You can learn more by reading the Call for Papers (now closed) or contacting the organisers, Joseph LaBine and Tobias W. Harris, at radiomyles@gmail.com. We are grateful to Birkbeck College, University of London, for hosting and supporting this event.
When
1 April 2023
Where
Online
Cost
Free
Schedule
Workshop begins at 12:00 BST / 12:00 UTC + 1 / USA 07:00 ET/ 05:00 MT.
Times given are in BST / UTC+1 / Dublin Mean Time
11:45 – Optional technical check on Microsoft Teams
12:00 – Opening remarks, introductions and housekeeping
Joseph LaBine, Tobias W. Harris
12:15 – First Keynote
“Radio Heads and Loud Speakers: Of Networks and their Interruption in Europe Between the Wars”, Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London)
Chair: Tobias W. Harris
13:00-14:30 GMT – First round table
10-15 minute talks followed by 15 mins of discussion
Chair: Tobias W. Harris
13:00-13:30 – “Airplays: Radio Adaptations of Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction and Columns”, Paul Fagan (Maynooth University)
13:30-14:00 – “Radio “Modernism and the Radio Éireann Players”, Adam Pickens (Florida State University)
14:00-14:30 “The insufferable bane of our age’: O’Nolan, the radio, and self-critique”, Elliott Mills (Trinity College, Dublin)
14:30-15:00 – Break
15:00-16:30 GMT – Second round table
10-15 minute talks followed by 15 mins of discussion
Chair: Joseph LaBine
15:00-15:30 “Radio Phonics: At Swim-Two-Birds,” Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck)
15:30-16:00 “The Eternal Appeal of Thirst: Why O’Nolan’s Most-Reprised Play Works So Well for Radio”, Chris Deliso (Skopje, North Macedonia)
16:00-16:30 “‘Radio Free Joyce’ revisited”, Tobias W. Harris (Birkbeck)
16:30-16:45 – Break
16:45 – 17:30 Second Keynote
Chair: Joseph LaBine