The Field Day Podcast is going on a hiatus from November 2020. It takes quite a bit of time and energy to produce the kind of content we want to share, and time and energy are in short supply these days, in the face of other commitments. Additionally,

The political doesnt always correspond in Ireland to the culinary. Dorothy Cashman reads the long-forgotten recipe books of Irish country houses, and inserts them into the history of the country and

2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the technical standard for the compact disc. Eamonn Bell explains how this format is an important hinge in the establishment of digital music for the general consumer. As a portable medium,

Polly Platt is not a household name, and that is the problem we tackle in this episode. She was a lynchpin in the making of an astonishing list of some of the best American films for more than two de

Crowds create atmospheres. Police try to control those atmospheres. From the interaction between them, says Illan Rua Wall, emerges power. And that power can take the form of political upheaval and unrest, or the consolidation of pre-existing sovereign...

When it comes to work, the coronavirus has changed everything, and changed nothing. We are more idle, and we are busier than ever. Some employers bring therapets (therapeutic pets), such as alpacas, into the office.

The history of rural life is a history of technology. In this interview, we explore the machinery, systems of distribution and technological innovations that transformed many Irish rural communities when they adopted the cooperative model in the late 1...

I dont trust newspapers. Half the time they lie. Alex Jones, Infowars In this conversation, we talk about trust, truth and trolls. Are conspiracy theories a new phenomenon? Do we believe authoriti

Does a city have a sound? Its the question that set writer Karl Whitney on a unique musical pilgrimage around the cities of Britain. The result is his book, just out: Hit Factories: A Journey Through

Hannah Arendt coined the phrase the right to have rights in her 1958 book The Human Condition. In this lecture, literary critic Seamus Deane links Arendts phrase with the Irish immigration system,