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Episode #20: Seamus Deane on Georg Lukács
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Episode #22: Mark Dearey on Nuclear Power in Ireland and Britain
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Episode #19: Ciara Chambers on Irish Newsreels
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Episode #18 Roddy Flynn and Tony Tracy on Irish Film
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Episode #17 Jonathan Rayner on the Mad Max Films
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