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The Royal Irish AcademyARINS My Identity: Episode 8 with Drew HarrisIn this episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with Drew Harris.
Jeremy Andrew Harris, OBE, QPM is a retired senior police officer who was Commissioner of An Garda Síochána from September 2018 to September 2025.
He previously served as Deputy Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) from 2014 to 2018. The My Identity series is hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is par...
2026-01-1257 min
The Royal Irish AcademyARINS My Identity: Episode 7 with Jess MajekodunmiIn this episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with Jess Majekodunmi.
Jess Majekodunmi is Managing Director of the Human Sciences Studio at Accenture, a Member of the Board of Directors at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and a champion of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
The My Identity series is hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS proj...
2025-11-2635 minThe Royal Irish AcademyARINS My Identity: Episode 6 with Leo VaradkarIn this episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with Leo Varadkar.
Leo Varadkar was Taoiseach of Ireland from 2017 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2024. During the thirteen years he spent in cabinet, he held many positions across the Ministries of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Social Protection, and Health.
After stepping down from political life in late 2024, he was appointed as a Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a Board Member of Brussels based Care4Everybody and writes a column for the Sunday Times Irel...
2025-10-0747 min
The Royal Irish AcademyARINS My Identity: Episode 5 with Claire MitchellIn the fifth episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with Claire Mitchell.
Claire Mitchell is a writer and researcher from Belfast. She writes about people and everyday politics in Northern/Ireland, using interviews, memoir, archives and storytelling. Her latest book, The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798, was published in 2022. Clare was formerly a senior lecturer in Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast and holds a BA, PhD & post-doc in Politics from University College Dublin. In this episode, she discusses her identity and her work.
This is episode 5 of the My Identity podcast series...
2025-05-221h 10
The Royal Irish AcademyARINS My Identily: Episode 4 with Lata SharmaThis is episode 4 of the My Identity podcast series hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project.
Colin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the...
2025-04-161h 00
The Royal Irish AcademyARINS My Identity: Episode 3 with Manchán MaganIn the third episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with Manchán Magan. This episode is a recording of a public conversation which took place in Dublin on 4 February 2025.
Manchán Magan has written books on his travels in Africa, India and South America. He writes occasionally for The Irish Times, and presents the Almanac of Ireland podcast for RTÉ. He has made dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4, RTÉ, & Travel Channel. His books include Thirty-Two Words For Field, Listen to the Land Speak, Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Words For Natu...
2025-03-1955 min
The Royal Irish AcademyARINS My Identity: Episode 2 with Naomi Long, MLAIn the second episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with NI Justice Minister and Leader of the Alliance Party, Naomi Long MLA. This episode is a recording of a public conversation which took place in Dublin on 6 December 2024.
A lifelong resident of East Belfast, and politically active since her early twenties, Naomi first joined Belfast City Council as an Alliance Party councillor in 2001. She was subsequently elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly as MLA for East Belfast in 2003. After having the honour of serving as Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2009 to 2010, she became the first Alli...
2025-02-201h 10
Paddy Wants To Know Brexit#7 | The Irish Border World ExclusiveThe Irish Border (@BorderIrish) as you’ve never heard it before!
All you ever wanted to know about the Irish Border and the Brexit negotiations and more.
Questions include:
Will the Irish border question be solved by June?
What side of the border does it get out of in the morning?
Who owns the fish in Lough Foyle?
We are very grateful to an actor for voicing the Irish Border revelations and to the @HSPodNetwork.
You can find us on @paddybrexit @JackGood7 & @brianmathuna1
2018-05-3113 min