Ireland's Edge
By Ireland's Edge
Born out of the eponymous event series and presented by historian and writer Chris Kissane, Ireland’s Edge – The Podcast hosts and hears from a range of disparate and diverse voices all at the cutting edge of what they do. In series one, there were discussions of transhumanism, the Irish language, space exploration, economics, the hidden history of the banjo, Taylor Swift and chaos theory - and almost everything in between!
And after another tumultuous year, we’re back with a new series of thought-provoking discussions about the altered state of the world around us.
We’ll be talking about everything from the climate crisis to data privacy, and psychedelic drugs to the future of the art, with guests including Guardian US editor John Mulholland, writer Seamas O’Reilly, and global energy expert Dr Michael Dorsey.
Things look different from the edge.
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Latest episode
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'We Didn't Start the Fire': Addressing Climate Chaos
On today’s episode, the generational divide over climate action.While most of the world agrees with the scientific fact that humans are dangerously altering the earth’s climate, we can’t agree what to do about it. Global powers and corp… -
University Challenge: What is the State of Ireland's Education Sector?
For centuries, Irish universities have been bastions of intellectual life, shaping education, politics, culture, and debate. With over half of young people receiving a third-level education, Ireland boasts one of the world's most university-educat… -
'Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On': The Abbey Theatre’s Caitríona McLaughlin in Conversation
It is no exaggeration to say that the history of modern Ireland has been played out on the stage of our national theatre, The Abbey, founded in 1904, and after independence the first publicly-subsidised theatre in the English-speaking world. It wa… -
Don’t Believe Everything You Read in the Papers
What is the future of a world without news? -
OK Computer: The Age of AI
Artificial Intelligence has already begun to change the world around us, at a speed that few of us anticipated. Will the advancement of AI bring positive progress and societal evolution, or have we created something we cannot control? On this fifth e… -
Disrupting Opera, AI and the Art of Co-Collaboration: Dumbworld
In conversation with Dumbworld, Belfast -
Everybody Hurts: Reforming Irish Healthcare
Once again this winter, the Irish healthcare system has been overwhelmed, with thousands of appointments cancelled, hundreds lying on hospital trollies waiting for beds, and staff once more having to complain about unsafe and unfair working condit… -
A View From the Hill: In conversation with Fiona Hill
"I’ve worked on a lot of conflicts that looked like they were intractable. A solution takes a lot of international effort; you’ve got to look for multiple honest brokers."From the horrendous destruction of Gaza, to the ongoing Russian invas… -
'Cowards and Women': Reporting the Rise of Sinn Féin
An extraordinary political rise in a country that has voted for the same two parties for the last 100 years.. -
The People Have The Power: Fidaa Marouf, Kevin Baker + Dinny Galvin
Meet the citizen innovators creating the change they want to see
