Ep 26: Donal Ryan. English Day at WIT
English Day at WIT takes place once per semester. This semester, we were delighted to welcome the multi-award winning author and lecturer in Creative Writing, Donal Ryan to the Institute for a worksho...
9 Mar 202034min
Ep 25: Theatre trip: Gone Full Havisham
As part of the extracurricular programme of events on offer to students of English and/or Theatre Studies at WIT, staff and students attended a production of Gone Full Havisham at Garter Lane Arts Cen...
27 Feb 202032min
Ep 24: Students of English at WIT
In the first episode of The Nerve for the new semester, Dr. Jenny O’Connor is joined by three English students to talk about the content of the English programme: first year Rebecca Byrne, second year...
6 Feb 202035min
Ep 23: Books on the Nightstand
In this episode, Dr. Jenny O’Connor is joined by colleagues from the School of Humanities to discuss the current books on their nightstand. Dr. Hazel Farrell (Music), Philip Cremin (Religious Studies)...
4 Des 201938min
Ep 22: Translating Irish Plays
In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Jenny O’Connor is joined by Dr. José Francisco Fernández Sánchez, a Beckett scholar and expert in translation from the University of Almería in Spain, as well as WI...
11 Nov 201933min
Ep 21: Imagine Arts Festival and Waterford Writers’ Weekend
In this episode, Dr. Jenny O’Connor is joined by Jane Keane of the Imagine Arts Festival committee who highlights this year’s not-to-be missed events and talks about how important the Arts scene is fo...
22 Okt 201936min
Ep 20: Theatre trips: Synge and O’Neill
Upcoming productions: The Playboy of the Western World, Long Day’s Journey into Night and the Eugene O’Neill FestivalIn this, our twentieth episode of The Nerve, we discuss upcoming theatre production...
2 Okt 201939min
Ep 19: Jamie Beamish
In this episode, Dr. Jenny O’Connor is joined by fellow English and Theatre Studies lecturer, Dr. Kate McCarthy and special guest, WIT alumnus and London-based actor Jamie Beamish. Jamie discusses pla...
24 Sep 201940min
