Father Ted, the Irish Fawlty Towers: A Snapshot of a Rapidly Changing Society
Guest Lecture: Éamonn Ó Ciardha (Visiting Professor, University of the Saarland)
| Datum: | 23.01.2025, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr |
| Kategorie: | Vorlesung, Veranstaltung, Vortrag |
| Ort: | Hubland Süd, Geb. PH1 (Philosophiegebäude), 15 |
| Veranstalter: | Irish Studies Würzburg - ISWÜ |
| Vortragende: | Éamonn Ó Ciardha |
Am 23. Januar 2025 findet im Philosophiegebäude am Campus Hubland Süd eine spannende Vorlesung von Éamonn Ó Ciardha statt. Diese Vorlesung beschäftigt sich mit den irischen Sitcoms "Father Ted" und "Fawlty Towers" und beleuchtet hierbei die sich schnell-wandelnde irische Gesellschaft näher. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an Studierende und Mitarbeitende der Universität.
Father Ted, the 1990s award-winning, iconic, Irish-made comedy is an at once exaggerated but remarkably perceptive snapshot of a rapidly-changing society in which many of the Irish Republic’s long-standing institutions would rapidly collapse or be utterly transformed in the space of one decade. Quintessentially Irish, but also in the best tradition of British Comedy, Father Ted drew on some of Ireland’s finest actors and comedians for its dead-pan, dark humour and hangman’s wit to ruthlessly slay sacred cows, parody the Catholic Clergy, Irish politics, the media, and Irish society generally. However, this humour came with a sharp bite, which skirted clerical celibacy, the Catholic Church’s harrowing paedophile scandals, and the church’s ham-fisted attempts to deal with these, while attempting to transform and remain relevant. Of course, the speaker experienced this rapidly-changing Ireland from the vantage-points of a Catholic boarding-school and Cardinal Newman and James Joyce’s University College Dublin so, hopefully, he can inject a personal perspective into proceedings.
Participation
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Contact
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