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Go To Masters ShowFrom SDR to RevOps Leader: Patrick Sweny’s Journey Through Strategy, Tech, and TransformationPatrick Sweny is the Director of RevOps at Coursera. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he talks about:Running RevOps teams with product management methodologies and sprint-based workflowsMastering the art of setting boundaries and strategic technology evaluationEvolving RevOps from data delivery to change management and strategic partnershipConnect with PatrickFollow us: Linkedin | X2025-06-1635 min
Gibraltar TodayIndian High Commission, Business Innovation Awards, Miss World, Sports, Back to the Classics, BloomsdayWhy does the huge country India have an interest in tiny Gibraltar? The High Commissioner of India to the UK is on the Rock. Vikram Doraiswami has been speaking at an event at the Finance Centre Boardroom with The Financial Services Minister Nigel Feetham and industry professionals.OTWO were the winners of the Gibtelecom Business Innovation Awards. The company organises a magazine, the Eco Festival and Green Week. We spoke to Vanessa Byrne and Margherita Haiduk.Jose Mari Ruiz brought us up to speed with local sports, as the women’s squad prepare for t...2025-05-3033 min
WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans WakeBonus: Fionnán O’Connor on Whiskey and the Wake (or, Jamessan’s Slake)Flushed with their firestuffostered friendship, WAKE celebrates St. Patrick’s Day by exploring all of the many ways that Finnegans Wake refers to whiskey: Ireland’s beloved, potent créatúr. Joined by world whiskey historian and former Sweny’s volunteer Fionnán O’Connor, we explode some myths regarding monks, St Patrick, and potatoes, brush off our pub stool wisdom, prepare the worm on our darling little stills, and consider the role trust plays in what is simultaneously the oldest and youngest whiskey industry in the world. So, tuck yourself into a snug in your local shebeen with a ball of m...2025-03-171h 27
WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans WakeEpisode 36: 3.4 (Part 2), p572-590It's an episode of WAKE to make Grim Grandma Grunt, as Toby and TJ return from a long reading break to finish up Book 3! With three special readers providing their dulcet tones, we discuss whether there is any actual use to academic summaries of the text, see Joyce's perspective on parenting, puzzle over more cricket innuendo than you could ever possibly need, and agree that without the Wake, there's no Star Wars. Join us for the thunderslog!
This week's readers: Toby Malone, TJ Young, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Patrick Robinson, Bridie Malone
Progress: 590 pages complete, 38 pages to...2025-02-121h 59
Blooms & BarnaclesAs Decent a Little Man as Ever Wore a HatShakespeare is in the eye of the beholder.Topics in this episode include the real-world inspiration for Paddy’s Dignam’s funeral, Matthew Kane, the funeral cortège to Glasnevin, attendees to Matthew Kane’s funeral, Martin Cunningham, Sisyphus, the short story “Grace,” the true story behind “Grace,” the Jesuits, Matthew Kane attending his own funeral, Matthew Kane’s appearance in “Ithaca,” Michael Hart, Tom Kernan, Matthew Kane’s appearance, Shakespeare in the eyes of his beholders, visiting Matthew Kane’s gravestone, zombie Shakespeare, Martin Cunningham’s wife and Matthew Kane’s wife, ghostly voices, the origin of the name Patrick Dignam, t...2022-08-3031 min
On the Road with Penguin ClassicsUlysses with Anne FogartyJames Joyce in Dublin. Professor Anne Fogarty joins Henry in Dublin to recreate a day in the life of Leopold Bloom. They discuss Ulysses by James Joyce and visit the Martello Tower where the novel opens, Eccles Street, Davy Byrnes and the National Library. They meet Darina Gallagher, director of the James Joyce Centre, who coordinates the annual Bloomsday celebrations. 2 February 2022 is the 100th anniversary of the first book publication of Ulysses. Penguin Modern Classics editions of Ulysses by George Orwellhttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57043/ulysses/9780141182803.html...2022-02-021h 14
The SpokenWeb PodcastCylinder Talks: Pedagogy in Literary Sound StudiesTogether we listen back to select "Cylinder Talk" sound production assignments created by Concordia graduate students, and unpack the experiences, ideas and discussions that the production and study of sound can incite across disciplines. A 3-minute audio project assigned to students in Jason’s most recent graduate seminar - Literary Listening as Cultural Technique - the Cylinder Talk draws on a history of early spoken sound recordings, inviting us into an embodied sonic engagement with literature studies.The episode features sound work by Alexandra Sweny, Sara Adams, Aubrey Grant and Andrew Whiteman.SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast pr...2021-02-011h 04
The Observer Effect120 Dublin Live Show—Sweny's, Where PJ Welcomes JoyceansPJ Murphy dresses like a chemist to greet the visitors to Sweny’s Pharmacy who come to Dublin to experience James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses. At Kennedy’s Pub and Station across the street—that Joyce surely visited as well—before a lovely warm live audience, I asked how PJ ended up at the center of such a moving literary pilgrimage ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician Dana Boulé.
Westin’s Fund (http://westinsfund.org) is a foundation started by my brother and his wife to help cover the medical costs of families who lose children...2019-08-1443 min