Podcasts
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Episodes
- 19th April 2023
In this episode, Ciara Regan caught up with visual arts educator Fiona King.
From the art squad to curriculum design and teaching, Fiona has been building communities of art practice through teaching and socially engaged art for over 20 years
Fiona King is the coordinator of The Professional Master of Education (PME) programme, a lecturer and researcher in Art Education within the School of Education in the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin.
For more, check out this post with more background information about the Change Lab and this episode.
- 23rd February 2023
It’s been 4 years since the Schools Strike for Climate global event.
In this episode of the Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects podcast, Yvonne O’Callaghan reflects on that seminal moment in May 2019, and many moments since then where young people have taken the lead, saying: ‘They have broken down more barriers than anyone before them in terms of activism over the last 20 years.’
In this episode, guest host Tony Daly caught up with trade union leader Yvonne.
- 4th November 2022
Is it possible to go online today and avoid misinformation? What about work involved in writing about global issues such as FGM – in Ireland and elsewhere – and testing the interest of readers to know about them and take action?
In this episode, Ciara Regan caught up with award winning journalist and feminist Órla Ryan of TheJournal.ie, who believes “it’s through education and awareness that things can change.”
Órla talks about what it was like meeting former circumcisers involved in female genital mutilation, the power of her platform working in a newsroom, her views on the term ‘fake news’ and shares tips for young people (particularly women) interested in exploring roles in journalism.
- 27th October 2022
Cartoons have a lot to say about the state of the world. As one of Ireland’s most prolific pencils in the business, Martyn Turner’s political cartoons are unavoidably challenging.
In a career spanning more than four decades, he has raised questions of justice, equality, contradiction, responsibility, hypocrisy, accountability, rights and wrongs on a weekly basis in the pages of the Irish Times.
In this episode of the Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects podcast, guest host, ‘educational activist’ and development educator Colm Regan interviews colleague and friend Martyn Turner on the perils, dilemmas and trade-craft as a cartoonist.
- 5th April 2021
From the 1904 Casement Report detailing abuses in the Congo Free State which was under the private ownership of King Leopold II of Belgium to Mary Robinson’s role as High Commissioner for Human Rights, Irish people have been active as rapporteurs on human rights issues internationally.
In this episode, Ciara Regan caught up with Michael D. Higgins, ninth President of Ireland, to discuss the parliamentary debate motion he tabled in December 1981 about a massacre in El Salvador during his first year as an elected TD.
- 1st March 2021
Episode 1: Irish Call for Justice for Palestine with Kevin Squires
Between 27th December 2008 and 14th January 2009, Israel launched a massive and unprecedented assault on the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
For episode 1, Ciara Regan caught up with Kevin Squires, national co-ordinator of the Ireland Palestine Campaign (IPSC), who was involved in a 1-page ‘call’ published in the Irish Times in January 2009. Kevin recalls the action, involving hundreds of donations to pay for the call’s publication and the ‘call’ aimed at the Irish government as a series of demands, including ceasing its purchase of Israeli medical products and services, to demand that Israeli reverse its settlement, construction and annexation of land in accordance with Security Council resolutions and to boycott Israeli goods and services until Israel abides by international law.
This the story of the Irish Call for Justice for Palestine.
- Check out the object page for the Irish Call for Justice for Palestine
- Find out more about the IPSC and their work
- Two long reads in The Guardian – Why Israel went to war in Gaza and
How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe - Gaza: What lessons from Northern Ireland? blog posted on Amnesty UK
- 1st March 2021
Introducing 'Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects'
Based on the pop-up event in March 2020, the Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects exhibition is a snapshot of Irish engagement with global cultural, political and social issues over the past 50 years. This podcast series will explore a number of the 100 objects featured in the exhibition through the stories from the people involved in bringing them about.
Explore the posters, games, badges, books and more from the Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects exhibition online.