Yvonne Igoe Biog

Yvonne Igoe B.A. (Dublin City University), M. Phil. (NUI, Galway)
Lecturer, Film Studies with radio

Teaching modules
Film Studies; Media Studies; Culture, Film & Society: Asia; Practice-Based Research: Methodology; Cinema & Ireland; Radio Research & Production; Film & Media Theory; Music in Film; Practice-Based Research: Project

Research Interests
Currently working on a Ph.D. on Irish language current affairs programmes on RTÉ Television.
Film studies; Irish cinema and media: Community media & broadcasting; Irish language media; Media representations & reporting; music and film; popular culture & the media; Identity & culture.

Research supervision
Final-year practical projects for students on the B.A. (Level 7/Level in Video & Film Production as well as dissertations on the B.A. (Hons) in Humanities. Supervision of a postgraduate student who produced a practice-based research M.A. dissertation that resulted in a Video documentary investigating the connection between conflict and art, and drew comparisons between art from Ireland and the Basque country.

Publications
Northern and troubled – southern and peaceful. Absence, punishment and the disappeared in the landscape of Irish film published in eds. Huber, W. Böss, M. Maignant, C. & Schwall, H. ‘Ireland: Representation and Responsibility.’ (Irish Studies in Europe, Volume 1). WVT, Trier, 2007.

Litríocht na hAoise seo in Cois Coiribe, NUI, Galway graduate magazine, 1999.

Conference papers
Poster presentation at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Day, Dublin City Univeristy, June 2009.

‘Irish language programming on Telefís Éireann in the 1960s: Deconstructing the ‘Gaeltacht’ – A case study’ at Humanities: Challenging the Future Symposium An Foras Feasa/The Department of Music and Creative Media, at Dundalk Institute of Technology June 2009.

‘Modheolaíocht: Cláracha chúrsa reatha ar Theilifís Éireann 1962-1987.’ Postgraduate seminar, Dublin City University, June 2008.

Seeing what we hear: The voiceover in contemporary Irish cinema presented at ‘Orality in Modern Irish Culture’ First Galway Conference of Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway. June 2006

Songs of desire: Gender and Sexuality in the films of Neil Jordan presented at the ‘New Voices in Irish Criticism’ conference, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, May 2006. Panel member “New voices, Old voices” plenary session.

Guest lecture: Representation of borders in Irish cinema to MA in Visual Culture, School of Art & Design, University of Ulster, Belfast, March 2006.

“Singing it all back home”: music and song in contemporary Irish cinema presented at ‘Place and Memory in the New Ireland’, V EFACIS conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. December 2005.

“Borderlands”: Exposing the Underworld of the Border Region presented at the Borders and Borderlands in Contemporary Culture Conference, Department of Humanities, Dundalk Institute of Technology. May 2005.

Northern and troubled – southern and peaceful. Absence, punishment and the disappeared in the landscape of Irish film presented DKIT research forum, May 2004. Published in conference proceedings.

The General and the Saint of the Underworld: the cinematic creation of Cahill the antihero and Guerin the heroine presented at ‘The Irish Hero’ conference, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI, Galway. April 2004.

Northern and troubled – southern and peaceful. Absence, punishment and the disappeared in the landscape of Irish film presented at ‘Representation and Responsibility’ IV EFACIS conference, University of Braga, Portugal, December 2003. (To be published 2007)

Branding Culture or Consuming the Nation. Cultúr: At the heart of it? at ‘Material Ireland/Virtual Ireland’ (the Mid-Atlantic American Conference for Irish Studies), the University of Maryland, October 2003.

Tobar na Cuimhne/The Well of Memory: Tradition and Memory in the poetry of Cathal Ó Searcaigh at ‘Ireland’s Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Consumption, Method and Memory’ at GMIT, Castlebar in October 2002.

Industry experience
Radio broadcasting and production across a range of radio stations over a number of years including: Freelance radio journalist in RTÉ Radio Newsroom. Producer: LMFM; Station Manager: Flirt FM (NUI, Galway); Taighdeoir: Raidio na Lifé; Presenter/Researcher: NEAR FM. Dublin Weekend Radio (DCU Community of interest station) & DCU FM: student volunteer.

Soundtrack composition
Soundtrack for short film ‘Island of Screams’ produced under FII outreach project, October 2002.
Music for ‘Dinner at Eight,’ a Filmbase/RTE short: broadcast on RTE in August 2000.