# William Carleton

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Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, pigs. Each of these objects were ubiquitous in the premodern cultural representation of the Irish. Through case studies of these five objects, Colleen Taylor’s new monograph Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830 (Oxford Uni…

Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, pigs. Each of these objects were ubiquitous in the premodern cultural representation of the Irish. Through case studies of these five objects, Colleen Taylor’s new monograph Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830 (Oxford Uni…

The Pudding Bewitched by William Carleton

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://polarflares.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/the-pudding-bewitched-by-william-carleton/

The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine by William Carleton Part 1

Step back in time to the heart of Ireland during the devastating Great Famine of the 1840s with The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine by William Carleton. This hauntingly powerful audiobook brings to life the trials of the Irish people, through a gripping narrative of survival, betrayal, and ho…

The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine by William Carleton Part 2

Step back in time to the heart of Ireland during the devastating Great Famine of the 1840s with The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine by William Carleton. This hauntingly powerful audiobook brings to life the trials of the Irish people, through a gripping narrative of survival, betrayal, and ho…

The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine by William Carleton Part 3

Step back in time to the heart of Ireland during the devastating Great Famine of the 1840s with The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine by William Carleton. This hauntingly powerful audiobook brings to life the trials of the Irish people, through a gripping narrative of survival, betrayal, and ho…

Blúiríní Bealoidis 44 - Legends & Literature (with Ailbe van der Heide)

Ailbe van der Heide is Collections Curator at the National Folklore Collection, having joined the staff in 2020, shortly after graduating from the MA in Irish Folklore in 2020. For several years now, Ailbe has managed the National Folklore Collection’s reading room service, along with fielding an a…

County Tyrone Matchmaker 1845 | Mary Murray's Marriage Schemes

In William Carleton's 1845 County Tyrone, Mary Murray arrived at farmhouses in a crimson cloak carrying matrimonial schemes that would shape entire parishes. This professional matchmaker convinced Biddy Sullivan and Paddy M'Cabe they were each dying of love for the other—they married while both bel…

The Rival Kempers by William Carleton followed by green noise

Hey Sleepyheads, welcome to A Grimm Goodnight. Tonight I will read The Rival Kempers by William Carelton while you drift off. No need to follow along; just know my voice is there with you in the background, supporting your sleep. I am here to keep you company and help calm your mind. So, turn the v…