Iceland and Ireland: cultural dialogues and parallel histories by UCD Digital Culture published on 2019-02-01T11:42:13Z This is a podcast from Celebrating a Century of Icelandic Sovereignty: History, culture and Irish connections. On 1 December 2018, Iceland celebrated the centenary of its status as a sovereign state. On 5 December, scholars and writers from UCD Dublin and University of Iceland commemorated this momentous event in Icelandic history with a series of talks at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. The event was organised as part of the project Cultural Memory and Contemporary Europe: Ireland, Iceland and the Atlantic Periphery a collaboration between UCD and University of Iceland. This podcast features the roundtable which concluded the event. The discussion 'Iceland and Ireland: cultural dialogues and parallel histories' featured John Brannigan, Fionnuala Dillane, Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir, Valur Ingimundarson, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Sjón. The chair was Gerardine Meaney. Podcasting by https://soundcloud.com/real-smart-media Genre Education
