Podcast appearances and mentions of Peter Sheridan

The one-woman show, “Mother of All Behans” starring Imelda May returns this summer. Adapted from the book by Brian Behan, the show, directed by Peter Sheridan, gives a “fascinating record of a remarkable life” of Brendan Behan's mother, Kathleen.Star of the show Imelda May chatted to Pat this morning on the show.

Peter Sheridan, Screenwriter and Director joins Ray for a fascinating chat about the play and life growing up in East Wall.

This week, its story time and Im delighted to be able to dip back into the archives and revisit one of my favourite episodes with, in my opinion, one of Ireland's best storytellers, Peter Sheridan - author, playwright, and director. Peter has driven across America with actor Sean Penn, developed a cocaine addiction through his friendship with an LA dealer named Cuban Mike, auditioned top Hollywood actresses like Renee Zellweger, and learned rebel songs directly from Christy Moore. He has done it all, and he's here to tell the tales on this episode of The Mario Rosenstock Podcast.Produced by Patrick Haughey, AudioBrand.

What a career Imelda May is having! She simply throws herself into new challenges with complete joy and conviction, and she brings all that to Peter Sheridan's play "Mother of All the Behans", which tells the story of Kathleen - Brendan Behan's brother. Elmarie was fascinated. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Catch up with Oliver Callan on the weekend. This week Oliver was joined by playwright Peter Sheridan and actor Neilí Conroy, Laura Weber a New York based Irish designer of Irish Olympics team, racing driver Nicolas Hamilton and artist Paddy Cullivan.

Playwright, screenwriter and director Peter Sheridan brings his play Philo back to the stage later this month. The show is set around East Wall in Dublin and features the story of two women from very different backgrounds. Peter and the star of the show, Neilí Conroy, joined Oliver to talk about the production.

'An Chailleach ó Lough an Leagh.' The band is composed of Daragh Slacke (guitar & vocals) Barry FitzGerald (drums), David Gough (bass), Pat McManus (fiddle), Clara Rose (vocals), Peter Sheridan (keys), and engineered by Jamie Byrne. The words are by poet Noel Monaghan. The band's recent album is 'Bealach na Bó Finne'

The latest series of Holywell Conversations podcasts began with reflections on the Good Friday Agreement, amidst fears that Northern Ireland's devolution was over, and that series has now completed at a time when government has actually resumed.Over the series' 18 episodes two themes have been examined – the challenges holding back reconciliation within our society, and the specific problems that continue to face the North West region.In the first episode, we heard from three people at the table negotiating the Good Friday / Belfast Agreement. Avila Kilmurray of the Women's Coalition explained just how significant the Women's Coalition had been in terms of successfully pushing for the Civic Forum, which many of us still mourn the loss of, as well as women's rights and other social concerns. We also heard from Paul Bew, Lord Bew, who was influential with David Trimble's decision to sign up to devolution. And Ray Bassett, part of the Irish government's team, emphasised that the Good Friday Agreement was the culmination of years of conversations between all the interested parties.Subsequent podcasts reflected not just on the success of achieving devolution, but also how many of the optimistic expectations from 25 years ago have not been met. Anger at the Legacy Act, just enacted, reflects the sense of legal stalemate now reached. Early in the series, Alyson Kilpatrick – Northern Ireland's Human Rights Commissioner – made a passionate call for respect for human rights, warning specifically about the impact of what was then being called the Legacy Bill. She also expressed concerns about calls from some members of the Conservative Party to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights – which is central to the Good Friday Agreement. Those warnings remain as relevant now, as when she made them early last year. Peter Sheridan, a former senior officer with the RUC and PSNI, is now Commissioner for Investigations at the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery. In a recent podcast, he spoke about how events from the Troubles will be investigated as a result of the Legacy Act.But the challenges related to criminal justice lie not just with past events. Some 25 years ago there was an assumption that paramilitary groups would fade away. Instead, some have evolved into major organised crime gangs, generating substantial sums from dealing in drugs, money laundering and extortion. Taken together this constitutes ongoing coercive control of communities. Professor Dominic Bryan, who had been joint chair of the commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and Tradition, told us there needs to be a stronger focus on removing flags and other signals of territorial demarcation – which provide paramilitary groups with a continuing form of what might be termed legitimisation.Elaine Crory, lobbyist at the Women's Resource and Development Agency, made the point in a recent podcast that the operations of paramilitaries along with the history of Troubles' violence have reinforced gender roles in our society. This has led to Northern Ireland today recording one of the highest levels of domestic violence of any place in Western Europe.Another hangover from the Troubles that has survived a quarter of a century is the presence of peace walls – especially in Belfast, but also in Derry. In one podcast we heard from Kyra Reynolds, development worker at the Peace Barriers Programme, on the ongoing work at Derry's Bishop Street interface, bringing populations together who come from different traditions. When the Good Friday Agreement was signed we expected not only an end to peace walls, but also the achievement of a peace dividend. Yet analysis has suggested most of the so-called peace dividend has gone South, not North. Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick of Ulster University told in one podcast of the scale of poverty that continues to affect our society, all these years on from the peace talks and agreement. Significantly, she connected the ongoing deprivation also with the continuing presence of paramilitaries. She believes that poverty is helping to keep them going. Our podcast series also considered why Derry and the North West have specifically not prospered as expected after devolution. We examined why it has not been more successful, as the poorest area in NI, in gaining funding from the UK government's Levelling-Up Fund; the city's limited transport connectivity; the absence of a full size university campus; and the slow progress at Derry's two major regeneration sites of Ebrington and Fort George. As well as that we reflected on what is possibly Europe's worst illegal waste dump, Mobuoy, in a Derry suburb.This series is now over, but all the podcasts are available on the Holywell Trust website, along with an additional new episode reflecting on the series. Holywell itself has a comprehensive programme of new activities, details of which are also on the website. That is it, for now, from us. Disclaimer: This project has received support from the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council which aims to promote a pluralist society characterised by equity, respect for diversity, and recognition of interdependence. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Community Relations Council. 

In this episode from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Peter Sheridan marks the centenary of the birth of the writer Brendan Behan. Raised in Dublin's north inner city and with strong connections to Dublin's tenements, Behan is regarded as one of the greatest Irish writers and poets of all time.Sheridan discusses his engagement with the work of Behan and his career more broadly.Peter Sheridan, is a playwright, screenwriter and director.This episode was recorded at 14 Henrietta Street, on October 11, 2023.Please note: This broadcast contains strong language and themes throughout.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Legacy Act is Here The widely opposed Legacy Bill is now enacted as the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act, 2023. But it remains widely hated and the Irish government has launched inter-state proceedings against the UK administration. This is a clear and strong sign of how bad relations are between the two governments that are co-guarantors of the Good Friday Agreement.Out of what we can now call the Legacy Act comes the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery. While this body – abbreviated to ICRIR – investigates past events from the Troubles, the Act limits criminal investigations, legal proceedings, inquests and police complaints. The Act also extends the prisoner release scheme that was initially enacted in 1998. In addition, the legislation aims to provide “for experiences to be recorded and preserved and for events to be studied and memorialised”.The Irish government's inter-state case claims that the Legacy Act reneges on previous commitments entered into by the UK government through the Stormont House Agreement. In addition, that the legislation is not victim-centred; that it is not consistent with obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, which is a cornerstone of the Good Friday Agreement; that it is widely opposed within Northern Ireland; that it allows for the granting of immunity; and that it closes down existing police investigations and civil actions. Ireland argues that the ICRIR investigations are not a substitute for properly resourced police investigations.In the latest Holywell Conversations, Sara Duddy from the Pat Finucane Centre explains why it and the victims it represents will not co-operate with ICRIR. Coinciding with the establishment of ICRIR, the Centre has launched its own ‘Impunity Project', through which families of victims of Troubles killings seek to challenge false allegations against dead relatives. In some cases – as with Bloody Sunday – the Army falsely accused the dead of being bombers or otherwise paramilitaries to ‘justify' their killings.Families are now seeking two types of justice – to know the truth behind killings and to correct false allegations against dead relatives.The other interview in the latest podcast is with Peter Sheridan, a former senior officer with the RUC and PSNI who is now Commissioner for Investigations at ICRIR. He operates under the overall leadership of former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Sir Declan Morgan, who is the Chief Commissioner.Peter says that ICRIR hopes to be fully operational in the middle of this year and explains how it will proceed and how relatives of those who died, and also those seriously injured, will be able to raise cases with ICRIR. He argues strongly that his police background will not undermine his credibility as lead investigator.With such a wide array of opponents and critics of the Legacy Act – ranging from the five largest Northern Ireland parties, to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Chief Commissioner, to the departing Victims Commissioner, to victims groups and to international human rights groups – it seems implausible that ICRIR will have an easy birth.The podcast can be listened to at the Holywell Trust website along with previous episodes. Disclaimer: This project has received support from the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council which aims to promote a pluralist society characterised by equity, respect for diversity, and recognition of interdependence. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Community Relations Council. 

Recent weeks have seen a rise in concern about the continuing presence of paramilitaries in our society. Just how we make faster progress in removing them is the question considered in the latest Holywell Trust Conversations podcast.Clearly, 25 years ago when the Good Friday Agreement was approved by the public, they would have expected paramilitaries to have been fully or largely removed from our society by now. Yet we still see significant activity by both loyalist and republican groups.Should we, though, as chief executive of Co-operation Ireland and former senior PSNI and RUC officer Peter Sheridan suggests, see some of the groups simply as organised crime gangs? Would that reflect more accurately where our society is in comparison to those places in Dublin, London and the United States, for example, which are also burdened by drug-related criminality?Given that paramilitaries exercise coercive control over communities, with territories marked out by flags, is effective regulation and policing of the use of flags an essential element in asserting dominance over paramilitary groups? This is an approach favoured by Professor Dominic Bryan, who was joint chair of the commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and Tradition. And why is that commission's report, as Bryan puts it, sitting on shelves “gathering dust”, rather than being implemented? Despite this sense of negativity, we should reflect on the progress achieved, especially since the Fresh Start Agreement of 2015, which identified the need to end paramilitarism “once and for all”. It established the Independent Reporting Commission to focus on this.The trend since then has been downward, though it rose again in the last year. In the 12 months ending 31st May, there was one security-related death; seven bombings; 33 shootings; and 32 casualties of paramilitary assaults.Tackling paramilitary criminality is handled jointly by the PSNI, An Garda Síochána, HMRC, the National Crime Agency and the security services. It is the approach of the PSNI, in particular, that has been questioned, with critics suggesting that heavy-handed policing undermines acceptance of the PSNI in poorer communities and has led to greater support for paramilitaries. These complaints grew in recent days with the arrest in public sight of a health care worker in Derry, with very public comments about the arrest from the PSNI. This led to strong criticisms of the police from her solicitors, Madden and Finucane.The firm stated that “to arrest a woman with no criminal record, from her place of work where she is a well respected health care professional wholly unconnected to criminality of any kind, and to then denigrate her good name in the most egregious way, is to be condemned and deplored”.Asked whether heavy handed policing undermines the PSNI's attempts at tackling paramilitaries, Sheridan put the spotlight on how the Policing Board sees its role. “The Policing Board needs to be more vocal around this staff and take more public responsibility,” he says, adding that the political parties should nominate more senior members onto the Board, to raise its status. “I think Sinn Fein are probably the only people today who put people onto the Board who are particularly well known.”The podcast can be listened to at the Holywell Trust website.Disclaimer: This project has received support from the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council which aims to promote a pluralist society characterised by equity, respect for diversity, and recognition of interdependence. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Community Relations Council.

Imelda May chats with Miriam about preparing for her theatre debut in 'Mother of All the Behans', Peter Sheridan's story of Brendan Behan's mother Kathleen (it opens at Dublin's 3Olympia from August 15th / www.3olympia.ie)

For a special edition recorded on location in Belfast, Joshua Rozenberg returns to Northern Ireland 25 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which he reported on at the time. Meeting old contacts and new, he finds out what it took to get the negotiations over the line and what legacy the ground-breaking peace deal has had. He also hears about the challenges involved in achieving justice for the murders that remain unsolved; what problems remain with paramilitaries; and the UK government's attempt to bring about reconciliation. Will its Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill help, or rub salt in old wounds? And on the legal differences between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, Joshua meets a campaigner who had to travel to England to have an abortion. As a result of an intervention by the Westminster government, terminations have since become legal (up to a point in the pregnancy), but some women still have to leave Northern Ireland to have the procedure. Guests: Denis Murray, former BBC Ireland correspondent Peter Sheridan, former senior police officer, now CEO of Cooperation Ireland Louise Mallinder, professor of law at Queen's University Belfast Naomi Connor, co-convener of Alliance for Choice Presenter: Joshua Rozenberg Producer: Arlene Gregorius Researcher: Diane Richardson Production coordinators: Maria Ogundele and Sabine Schereck Studio engineer: Graham Puddifoot Editor: Simon Watts

He is one of Ireland's best-known poets, storytellers, novelist, and playwright to name just a few and today marks 100 years since his birth. It was the 9th of February 1923 that marked the birth of Brendan Behan in Crumlin in Dublin and there are events taking place to mark the event. Speaking about Brendan Behan this morning was Peter Sheridan is a playwright, screenwriter and director

He is one of Ireland's best-known poets, storytellers, novelist, and playwright to name just a few and today marks 100 years since his birth. It was the 9th of February 1923 that marked the birth of Brendan Behan in Crumlin in Dublin and there are events taking place to mark the event. Speaking about Brendan Behan this morning was Peter Sheridan is a playwright, screenwriter and director

Behan at 100 - Arena Special with - Donal Fallon, Peter Sheridan, Daoirí Farrell, Anne Buckley and Macdara Yeates

Help Support Mike as an Actor and support his Podcast channel. Every new supporter will receive a custom NFT character from the show. https://www.patreon.com/mikefarrellAll characters will be uploaded on opensea https://opensea.io/collection/mikefar...Mike's Links here - https://linktr.ee/mikes_insta_life_Jim Sheridan was born in Dublin, Ireland on 6 February 1949.[2] He is the brother of playwright Peter Sheridan. The family ran a lodging house, while Anna Sheridan worked at a hotel and Peter Sheridan Snr was a railway clerk with CIÉ. Sheridan's early education was at a Christian Brothers school. In 1969 he attended University College Dublin to study English and History. In 1972, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He became involved in student theater there, where he met Neil Jordan, who also was later to become an important Irish film director. After graduating from UCD in 1972, Sheridan and his brother began writing and staging plays, and in the late 1970s began working with the Project Theatre Company.In 1981, Sheridan emigrated to Canada, but eventually settled in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City. He enrolled in NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and became the artistic director of the Irish Arts Center.Sheridan returned to Ireland in the late 1980s. In 1989, he directed My Left Foot, which became a critical and commercial success and won Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker Academy Awards. He followed that with The Field (with Richard Harris) in 1990; then with In the Name of the Father in 1993, a fictionalized re-telling of the case of the Guildford Four. The film won the Golden Bear at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.In 1996 he co-wrote Some Mother's Son with Terry George. The Boxer (with Daniel Day-Lewis) was nominated for a Golden Globe for best film drama in 1997. The film was Sheridan's third collaboration with Day-Lewis after My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, making him the only director to work with Day-Lewis on three films. In 2003, he released the semi-autobiographical In America, which tells the story of a family of Irish immigrants trying to succeed in New York. The film received positive reviews and earned Samantha Morton and Djimon Hounsou Academy Award nominations. In 2005 he released Get Rich or Die Tryin', a film starring rap star 50 Cent.Sheridan helmed the 2009 film Brothers, starring Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal, which was shot in New Mexico. He also directed the thriller Dream House, which starred Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, and Rachel Weisz.Support the show

While Queen Elizabeth II's coffin travels from Scotland to London, the new King Charles III is in Northern Ireland as part of a tour of the United Kingdom, meeting Stormont's party leaders and receiving messages of condolence from the assembly. On the Sky News Daily podcast, Leah Boleto speaks to our senior Ireland correspondent David Blevins in Northern Ireland about the significance of the King's visit. Plus, Peter Sheridan, chief executive of Co-operation Ireland, discusses the previous relationship between Northern Ireland and the Queen.Podcast Producer: Soila Apparicio Senior Podcast Producer: Annie JoycePodcast Promotions Producer: David ChipakupakuEditor: Philly Beaumont

In February 2015, the Somerset prosecutor announced that John Sheridan had murdered his wife in cold blood and then killed himself. In 2017, the manner of death was updated to “undetermined.” From the local detectives to the state's Attorney General's office, a lot of people walked away from these murders. If a family as powerful and well-connected as the Sheridans gets such bad treatment, what does this say about the justice system in New Jersey? New voices interviewed in episode: • Ben Barlyn, lawyer who filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the Chris Christie administration.  • Peter Sheridan, younger brother of John, and a federal judge in New Jersey.  

On a quiet cul-de-sac, a husband and wife of 47 years are stabbed to death in the stillness of dawn. Honest and unassuming, John Sheridan, famous for never raising his voice, played against type in the rough-and-tumble world of New Jersey politics. Could the Republican lobbyist have killed his wife Joyce—a veteran public school teacher and no-nonsense mother of four sons—then set their bedroom on fire before knifing himself? That's the version of events authorities say happened in the early morning hours of September 28, 2014. But, in more ways than one, the theory doesn't add up. Key voices interviewed in episode:• Christine Todd Whitman, former Governor• Chris Stevens, Joyce Sheridan's best friend• Bob Stevens, husband of Chris' Stevens• Mark Sheridan, eldest of the Sheridans' four sons, lawyer for Governor Chris Christie's campaign and for the state Republican party for more than a decade• Peter Sheridan, John's younger brother and federal judge in Trenton since 2005• Mary Kay Roberts, hired by John Sheridan at Riker Danzig, a New Jersey law firm. Worked with him closely for a decade in the Trenton office• John Farmer, a former state Attorney General and friend of John Sheridan who runs a political research center at Rutgers University A previous version of this episode referred to Mark Sheridan as the “personal lawyer for Chris Christie.”  In fact, he was the personal lawyer for the Chris Christie campaign.  We have updated the episode to correct this.

Peter Sheridan and Neili Conroy join Miriam to discuss Peter's new play.

Its not every day you meet a man who drove across America with actor Sean Penn, developed a cocaine addiction through his friendship with an LA dealer named Cuban Mike, auditioned top Hollywood actresses like Renee Zellweger, and learned rebel songs directly from Christy Moore. Peter Sheridan has done it all, and has lived to tell the tales on this episode of The Mario Rosenstock Podcast. You are in for a real treat with this one folks. Peter is a great author, playwright, and director (he was my director in I, Keano), he has a new play called Philo , starting on Oct 21st in the Sean O'Casey Theatre in Dublin – you'll find tickets to that on Eventbrite (click here) and I strongly encourage you to go see it. In brand new and exclusive comedy this week: The Mario Rosenstock Podcast hotline has been BUZZING with messages from people who are VERY excited about getting back in to their favourite nightclubs, you might recognise some of them…Don't forget that the Mario Rosenstock Podcast hotline is open to everyone, you can send me a whatsapp voice note anytime – we'd love to hear your stories, jokes, comments, anything that's on your mind. The number is 087 268 5459. You can also email me at mariorosenstock@gmail.com. Enjoy the episode! MarioProduced by Patrick Haughey, AudioBrand. | www.audiobrand.ie See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr Peter Sheridan is an Art Deco guru, who has just published Sydney Art Deco and Modernist Walks in Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay and, he was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 13 October 2021. In this conversation, he talks about the era, the architects and the buildings! [...]Read More... from Art Deco and Modernist Walks in Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay with Peter Sheridan

Dr Peter Sheridan is an Art Deco guru, who has just published Sydney Art Deco and Modernist Walks in Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay and, he was Sylvia's guest on Arts Wednesday 13 October 2021. In this conversation, he talks about the era, the architects and the buildings!

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones are on rare form as Planet Porky returns for another cracking episode.Today's topics include: Scotland, the Isle of Skye, Jim Diamond, Porky's travelling hopes, why it's difficult to define English culture, Marti Pellow, beautiful people aging ungracefully, David Essex, Dynasty, GB News, Peter Sheridan and Emma Samms, living in California, Porky's 'taking a call in the pool' story, life in Los Angeles, the red hot weather, Linda McCartney's amazing legacy, talking to a dead friend for advice or inspiration, why some people don't grieve at funerals, Sean Bean, being wrongly sent to prison, Anthea Turner, and the highest mountain in Switzerland. It's the peak of podcasting - it's Life on Planet Porky.Follow the show on Twitter: @PlanetPorky or Mike is: @MikeParry8 while you can find Lesley-Ann: @LAJwriter.Or you can email us questions or comments to: planetporkypod@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you! 

Mark Carruthers asks Peter Sheridan from Co-Operation Ireland, Professor Deirdre Heenan and Washington commentator Shane Greer who best speaks for Northern Ireland in Washington.

Peter is embarking on a charity run from Malin Head in Donegal to Mizen head in Cork and will cover approximately 547km. He is undertaking the huge physical challenge as a way of celebrating his personal journey through homelessness and addiction.

This episode of the Corrymeela Podcast features Peter Sheridan. For many years he was known as one of the senior-most Catholics in the police in Northern Ireland, and his policing career spanned the reform of the RUC into the PSNI. At the age of 48 he made a career change and became chief exec of the peacebuilding charity Cooperation Ireland. As always you can find reflection questions and the full transcript here. And you can find out more about Cooperation Ireland here. As mentioned in the podcast, we would love to get your feedback on our Corrymeela Podcast via this short form here.

Peter Sheridan, Chief Executive of peace-building charity Co-Operation Ireland, on the anger among unionists over the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Drama on One presents another chance to hear Peter Sheridan's, Forty-Seven Roses

Authors Lon Davis and Richard Lertzman discuss their newest book, “Deconstructing The Rat Pack:Joey, The Mob and The Summit”. Peter Sheridan, London Daily Express I T'S BEEN 60 years since film classic Ocean's 11 first propelled the Rat Pack's rakish cocktail-hour swagger and perpetual partying into a cultural phenomenon. Their free-wheeling streetwise machismo embodied Sixties Mob-run Las Vegas with a penthouse suite-style that endures in culture, fashion and music to this day. Frank Sinatra was the Rat Pack's chairman of the board, with his inseparable friends and drinking buddies crooner Dean Martin, entertainer Sammy Davis Jr, British actor Peter Lawford, and comedian Joey Bishop, who boozed, brawled and womanised together. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/RickLertzman/support

Sunday Roast Paul McCloone was in the hot seat for Mario on this week's Sunday Roast. Joined by Today FM's very own Pamela Joyce and author and playwright Peter Sheridan, they discussed Dublin's lack of cultural spaces, bad manners in restaurants and taking first-world living for granted. Check out the full Roast by pressing the play/listen button on screen.

FORTRAN Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because by understanding the past, we're better prepared for the innovations of the future! Todays episode is on one of the oldest of the programming languages, FORTRAN - which has influenced most modern languages. We'll start this story with John Backus. This guy was smart. He went to med school and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He didn't like the plate that was left behind in his head. So he designed a new one. He then moved to New York and started to work on radios while attending Columbia for first a bachelor's degree and then a master's degree in math. That's when he ended up arriving at IBM. He walked in one day definitely not wearing the standard IBM suit - and when he said he was a grad student in math they took him upstairs, played a little stump the chump, and hired him on the spot. He had not idea what a programmer was. By 1954 he was a trusted enough resource that he was allowed to start working on a new team, to define a language that could provide a better alternative to writing code in icky assembly language. This was meant to boost sales of the IBM 704 mainframe by making it easier to hire and train new software programmers. That language became FORTRAN, an acronym for Formula Translation. The team was comprised of 10 geniuses. Lois Haibt, probably one of the younger on the team said of this phase: "No one was worried about seeming stupid or possessive of his or her code. We were all just learning together." She built the arithmetic expression analyzer and helped with the first FORTRAN manual, which was released in 1956. Roy Nutt was also on that team. He wrote an assembler for the IBM 704 and was responsible for the format command which managed data as it came in and out of FORTRAN programs. He went on to be a co-founder of Computer Science Corporation, or CSC with Fletcher Jones in 1959, landing a huge contract with Honeywell. CSC grew quickly and went public in the 60s. They continued to prosper until 2017 when they merged with HP Enteprirse services, which had just merged with Silicon Graphics. Today they have a pending merger with Cray. David Sayre was also on that team. He discovered the Sayre crystallography equation, and molter moved on to pioneer electron beam lithography and push the envelope of X-ray microscopy. Harlan Herrick on the team invented the DO and GO TO commands and ran the first working FORTRAN program. Cuthbert Herd was recruited from the Atomic Energy Commission and invented the concept of a general purpose computer. Frances Allen was a math teacher that joined up with the group to help pay off college debts. She would go on to teach Fortran and in 1989 became the first female IBM Fellow Emeritus. Robert Nelson was a cryptographer who handled a lot of the technical typing and designing some of the more sophisticated sections of the compiler. Irving Ziller designed the methods for loops and arrays. Peter Sheridan, aside from having a fantastic mustache, invented much of the compiler code used for decades after. Sheldon Best optimized the use of index registers, along with Richard Goldberg. As Backus would note in his seminal paper, the History Of FORTRAN I, II, and III, the release of FORTRAN in 1957 changed the economics of programming. While still scientific in nature, the appearance of the first true high-level language using the first real compiler meant you didn't write in machine or assembly, which was hard to teach, hard to program, and hard to debug. Instead, you'd write machine independent code that could perform complex mathematical expressions and once compiled it would run maybe 20% slower, but development was 5 times faster. IBM loved this because customers needed to buy faster computers. But customers had a limit for how much they could spend and the mainframes at the time had a limit for how much they could process. To quote Backus “To this day I believe that our emphasis on object program efficiency rather than on language design was basically correct.” Basically they spent more time making the compiler efficient than they spent developing the programming language itself. As with the Constitution of the United States, simplicity was key. Much of the programming language pieces were designed by Herrick, Ziller, and Backus. The first release of FORTRAN had 32 statements that did things that might sound similar today like PRINT, READ, FORMAT, CONTINUE, GO TO, ASSIGN and of course IF. This was before terminals and disk files so programs were punched into 80 column cards. The first 72 columns were converted into 12 36 bit words. 1-5 were labels for control statements like PRINT, FORMAT, ASSIGN or put a C in column 1 to comment out the code. Column 6 was boolean where a 1 told it a new statement was coming or a 0 continued the statement from the previous card. Columns 7 through 72 were the statement, which ignored whitespace, and the other columns were ignored. FORTRAN II came onto the scene very shortly thereafter in 1958 and the SUBROUTINE, FUNCTION, END, CALL, RETURN, and COMMON statements were added. COMMON was important because it gave us global variables. FORTRAN III came in 1958 as well but was only available for specific computers and never shipped. 1401 FORTRAN then came for the 1401 mainframe. The compiler ran from tape and kept the whole program in memory, allowing for faster runtime. FORTRAN IV came in the early 60s and brought us into the era of the System/360. Here, we got booleans, logical IF instead of that used in arithmetic, the LOGICAL data type, and then came one of the most important versions, FORTRAN 66 - which merged all those dialects from IV into not quite a new version. Here, ANSI, or the American National Standards Institute stepped in and started to standardize. We sill use DO for loops, and every language has its own end of file statement, commenting structures, and logical IFs. Once things get standardized, they move slower. Especially where compiler theory is concerned. Dialects had emerged but FORTRAN 66 stayed put for 11 years. In 1968, the authors of BASIC were already calling FORTRAN old fashioned. A new version was started in 66 but wasn't completed until 1977 and formally approved in 1978. Here, we got END IF statements, the ever so important ELSE, with new types of I/O we also got OPEN and CLOSE, and persistent variable controls with SAVE. The Department of Defense also insisted on lexical comparison strings. And we actually removed things, which these days we call DEPRECATE. 77 also gave us new error handling methods, and programmatic ways to manage really big programs (because over the last 15 years some had grown pretty substantial in size). The next update took even longer. While FORTRAN 90 was released in 1991, we learned some FORTRAN 77 in classes at the University of Georgia. Fortran 90 changed the capitalization so you weren't yelling at people and added recursion, pointers, developer-controlled data types, object code for parallelization, better argument passing, 31 character identifiers, CASE, WHERE, and SELeCT statements, operator overloading, inline commenting, modules, POINTERs (however Ken Thompson felt about those didn't matter ‘cause he had long hair and a beard), dynamic memory allocation (malloc errors woohoo), END DO statements for loop terminations, and much more. They also deprecated arithmetic IF statements, PAUSE statements, branching END IF, the ASSIGN statement, statement functions, and a few others. Fortran 95 was a small revision, adding FORALL and ELEMENTAL procedures, as well as NULL pointers. But FORTRAN was not on the minds of many outside of the scientific communities. 1995 is an important year in computing. Mainframes hadn't been a thing for awhile. The Mac languished in the clone era just as Windows 95 had brought Microsoft to a place of parity with the Mac OS. The web was just starting to pop. The browser wars between Netscape and Microsoft were starting to heat up. C++ turned 10 years old. We got Voice over IP, HTML 2.0, PHP, Perl 5, the ATX mother board, Windows NT, the Opera browser, the card format, CD readers that cost less than a grand, the Pentium Pro, Java, JavaScript, SSL, the breakup of AT&T, IBM's DEEP BLUE, WebTV, Palm Pilot, CPAN, Classmates.com, the first Wiki, Cygwin, the Jazz drive, Firewire, Ruby, and NumPy kickstarted the modern machine learning era. Oh and Craigslist, Yahoo!, eBay, and Amazon.com. Audible was also established that year but they weren't owned by Amazon just yet. Even at IBM, they were buys buying Lotus and trying to figure out how they were going to beat Kasparov with Deep Blue. Hackers came out that year, and they were probably also trying to change their passwords from god. With all of this rapid innovation popping in a single year it's no wonder there was a backlash as can be seen in The Net, with Sandra Bullock, also from 1995. And as though they needed even more of a kick that this mainframe stuff was donezo, Konrad Zuse passed away in 1995. I was still in IT at the university watching all of this. Sometimes I wonder if it's good or bad that I wasn't 2 or 3 years older… Point of all of this is that many didn't notice when Fortran continued on becoming more of a niche language. At this point, programming wasn't just for math. Fortran 2003 brought object oriented enhancements, polymorphism, and interoperability with C. Fortran 2008 came and then Fortran 2018. Yes, you can still find good jobs in Fortran. Or COBOL for that matter. Fortran leaves behind a legacy (and a lot of legacy code) that established many of the control statements and structures we use today. Much as Grace Hopper pioneered the idea of a compiler, FORTRAN really took that concept and put it to the masses, or at least the masses of programmers of the day. John Backus and that team of 10 programmers increased the productivity of people who wrote programs by 20 fold in just a few years. These types of productivity gains are rare. You have the assembly line, the gutenberg press, the cotton gin, the spinning Jenny, the watt steam engine, and really because of the derivative works that resulted from all that compiled code from all those mainframes and since, you can credit that young, diverse, and brilliant team at IBM for kickstarting the golden age of the mainframe. Imagine if you will, Backus walks into IBM and they said “sorry, we don't have any headcount on our team.” You always make room for brilliant humans. Grace Hopper's dream would have resulted in COBOL, but without the might of IBM behind it, we might still be writing apps in machine language. Backus didn't fit in with the corporate culture at IBM. He rarely wore suits in an era where suit makers in Armonk were probably doing as well as senior management. They took a chance on a brilliant person. And they assembled a diverse team of brilliant people who weren't territorial or possessive, a team who authentically just wanted to learn. And sometimes that kind of a team lucks up and change sthe world. Who do you want to take a chance on? Mull over that until the next episode. Thank you so very much for tuning into another episode of the History of Computing Podcast. We're lucky to have you. Have a great day! The History of FORTRAN I, II, and III :: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/paper/p165-backus.pdf

Citizens’ assemblies should be widely used to address the problems faced by communities across Northern Ireland, argues Peter Sheridan, the chief executive of Co-operation Ireland. He was interviewed in the latest Forward Together podcast. “It works in Canada, it works in Iceland: there are examples all around the world.” Speaking before the murder of Lyra McKee, Peter continues: “You pick an area and pick a problem, you randomly select a group of people from the electoral register and depending on the size of the problem it could be 30, 40, 50, 60 people. So it could be an area the size of Creggan on the west bank of the Foyle. You identify a particular problem. So let's take as an example that may be in an area, how do we stop young people joining paramilitaries? And you bring in expert opinion – who might say well, for example, in Colombia here's how they went about stopping young people joining groups.” Hear more from Peter on this and other issues, including rights and dealing with the past in this Forward Together Podcast episode.

Flute 360 | Episode 47: “Competition Repertoire Guides with Peter Senchuk” (54:50) In today’s episode, Heidi talks with composer Peter Senchuk about his Sonata for Flute and Piano (2016) in great detail. Peter talks about the overall idea of his sonata, the premiere of the work, and Heidi offers some performance suggestions. Part Two of Peter’s Flute Sonata is one of the repertoire requirements for the NFA’s Convention Performers Competition. Good luck to everyone who is submitting an application!  Episode 47 – Main Points: 0:23 – Gold Sponsor: Straubinger Flute Company 1:06 – Welcome! 3:11 – Peter is originally from Canada. 4:53 – Peter’s musical background. 8:34 – USC’s Thornton School of Music 10:45 – Peter’s flute compositions 13:15 – Daniel Dorff, Theodore Presser 13:53 – Question: What advice do you have for aspiring composers? 13:57 – Peter’s answer 14:39 – Peter’s connection to the flute community. 15:10 – Question: How did your Sonata for Flute and Piano (2016) come about? 15:22 – Pamela Youngblood, flutist and educator (TWU) 15:39 – NFA’s San Diego Flute Convention (2016) 17:00 – “I really try to write for the players themselves.” – Peter 17:05 – Peter Sheridan, low flutes specialist 18:06 – Peter’s Sonata for Flute and Piano (2016) 18:17 – Gabriel Bita, pianist 20:33 – Texas Flute Society 21:26 – Flute Sonata (2016): Part I 22:12 – Peter’s comments on Part I 30:08 – Collaboration 30:36 – Beginning of the work: open the lid of the piano. 31:30 – Flute Sonata (2016): Part II 31:43 – Part II’s middle section is influenced by jazz. 34:34 – “The grace notes are more like ‘scoops’ found in jazz.” – Peter 36:35 – Part II: Introduction and Final Sections 37:26 – Rhythmic variety 37:37 – John Adams & Jennifer Higdon, composers 40:03 – Interplay between flute and piano. 42:28 – C Dorian 45:33 – “Never do something the same way twice.” – Peter 46:37 – Final comments 46:49 – “You want [the flute sonata] to be really lively and have fun with it!” – Peter 47:19 – Advice from Peter’s teacher. 48:06 – “You have to be true to yourself.” – Heidi 54:00 – National Flute Association’s Salt Lake City Flute Convention Picks: Peter Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices Heidi Leonard Bernstein’s Essay: “The Mountain Disappears” Jack London’s Book: “The Call of the Wild” Nespresso’s Recycling Bag Episode 47 – Resources Mentioned: Peter Senchuk’s Website Peter Senchuk’s YouTube Channel Peter Senchuk’s Compositions via Theodore Presser Emily Senchuk’s Website (flutist) LA Flute Orchestra’s YouTube Channel National Flute Association’s Competition Information Stephen Hartke, composer Heidi Kay Begay’s Website  Episode 47 – Sponsors: Gold: Straubinger Flute Company's Website Silver: Contact Heidi for details! Bronze: J&K Productions’ Website

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was training for a career as a history teacher when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. She suspended her studies to enlist as a sniper in the Red Army, where she discovered a remarkable talent for shooting enemy soldiers. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll trace the career of "Lady Death," the deadliest female sniper in history. We'll also learn where in the world futility.closet.podcast is and puzzle over Air Force One. Intro: Andy Warhol's Brillo Boxes creates a host of puzzles in the philosophy of art. German architect Herman Sörgel wanted to dam the Congo to create two African seas. Sources for our feature on Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper, 2018. Roger Reese, "Soviet Women at War," Military History 28:1 (May 2011), 44-53,5. Drew Lindsay, "Why Not Send Women to War?" MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 25:3 (Spring 2013), 50-55, 58-61. Karl E. Friedl, "Biases of the Incumbents: What If We Were Integrating Men Into a Women's Army?" Military Review 96:2 (March/April 2016), 69-75. Jonathan W. Jordan, "Master of the Long Rifle," MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 18:4 (Summer 2006), 49-53. D'Ann Campbell, "Women in Combat: The World War II Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union," Journal of Military History 57:2 (April 1993), 301-323. E.M. Tenney, "Mrs. Roosevelt, the Russian Sniper, and Me," American Heritage 43:2 (April 1992), 28. John Kass, "This Soldier's Skill Had Nothing to Do With Gender," Chicago Tribune, Jan. 25, 2013. Peter Sheridan, "Meet Lady Death: The Deadliest Female Sniper That Ever Lived," Express, Feb. 5, 2018. Marea Donnelly, "'Lady Death' Sniper Made 309 Kills After Young Comrade Shot," Daily Telegraph, July 12, 2016, 23. Gilbert King, "Eleanor Roosevelt and the Soviet Sniper," Smithsonian.com, Feb. 21, 2013. Alex Lockie, "Meet the World's Deadliest Female Sniper Who Terrorized Hitler's Nazi Army," Independent, March 18, 2018. "Soviet Girl Sniper Learned to Shoot as University Co-Ed," [Washington, D.C.] Evening Star, August 28, 1942, 2-X. "Africa a Prelude, Maisky Declares," New York Times, Nov. 15, 1942. "Rifle Match Proposed," New York Times, Sept. 3, 1942. Public Radio International, "The Life and Myths of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Soviet Russia's Deadliest Sniper," PRI's The World, March 9, 2018. "Sharp-Shooting Women Best Soviet Snipers," USA Today Magazine, 135:2739 (December 2006), 3-4. Listener mail: Wikipedia, "Maidenhead Locator System" (accessed Nov. 3, 2018). Wikipedia, "Contesting" (accessed Nov. 4, 2018). "An Evaluation of Location Encoding Systems," GitHub (accessed Nov. 9, 2018). Our territory on What3Words. Meh. Gfycat. The Silly Party takes Luton. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was devised by Greg. Here's a corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Showcasing two new recordings: "Alive Inside the Tank", from Mysteries of the Night, and "For the Summer, or Forever", by Halftribe. Also making an appearance are Sherry Finzer, Peter Sheridan and Darshan Ambient.

Showcasing two new recordings: "Alive Inside the Tank", from Mysteries of the Night, and "For the Summer, or Forever", by Halftribe. Also making an appearance are Sherry Finzer, Peter Sheridan and Darshan Ambient.

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Thursday 31 May 2012With landmark shows like World’s End Lane and Laundry, Louise Lowe has firmly established herself as one of the most important theatre makers in the country. Here, we chat about getting a start in the business with Peter Sheridan, the importance of going to London for her M.A, the formation of Anu, recent freelance work with Fishamble, Performance Corporation and Prime Cut, her work with Project Brand New, and the phenomenon that is The Monto Cycle. It’s episode 30 of the Rise Productions: Irish Theatre Podcast – Enjoy!

Playwright Dermot Bolger discusses the virtual impossible task of adapting Ulysses for the stage with fellow writer Peter Sheridan. Recorded at The James Joyce Centre and broadcast with their kind permission on 10 October 2017. Sound operator and editor Lisa Farrelly. With thanks to Marty Gilroy & Mark Traynor at The Joyce Centre

Peter Sheridan is a playwright, Screenwriter and Director. His awards include the Rooney Prize for Literature. In 1980 he was writer in residence in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He has written several novels including “Forty Seven Roses” and “Forty Four; Dublin Made Me” and plays including “The Liberty Suit” and “Mother Of All The […] La entrada Episode 78 – Peter Sheridan se publicó primero en Headstuff.

In this week's podcast, Charlotte Tanner from ADA New South Wales chats with Dr Peter Sheridan about Dental Clinical Photography. They discuss the history of clinical photography in Dental practice, as well as Dr Sheridan's own experiences in learning the art of clinical photography and how dental practitioners can utilise photography as an invaluable tool in their day to day practice.