Forthcoming Events
Lecture by Dr. Dominic Bryan "Flying the Flag: Territory and a Shared Future in Northern Ireland" on November 29, 2007 Aquinas Hall Auditorium at 7:00 PM
Dominic Bryan is the Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His research interests include political anthropology, public ritual, nationalism and group identity, and Orangeism.He is currently conductig research in conjunction with the organization Democratic Dialogue on public order policing, and serves on the management board of the Institute for Conflict Research.
Lecture by Dr. Geraldine Higgins:"The Quotable Yeats, Politicians Quote the Bard" on February 21, 2008 at 7:00PM, Aquinas Hall Auditorium.
Geraldine Higgins is the Director of the Irish Studies Program at Emory University. She specializes in twentieth century Irish literature and culture, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Trinity College, Oxford. Her research addresses the troubled connections between art and the representation of violence, the poet and the polis, tradition and modernity. Heroic Revivals from Carlyle to Yeats examines the work of Carlyle, O'Grady, Russell (AE), Synge and Yeats in a reassessment of the Revival's heroic ideal. Her second book, Brian Friel, is a critical study of Ireland's most influential and important living playwright, placing his work within the context of the Irish dramatic tradition.
Public Lecture by Dr. Bruce Stewart on March 26, 2008 "What Ever Happened to Baby Tuckoo?: James Joyce in the Wake of Theory", Aquinas Hall Auditorium 7:00PM. Dr. Stewart will also conduct a graduate seminar on March 28, 2008, Spirituality/Spiritualities in Contemporary Irish Poetry.
Dr. Bruce Stewart lectures in the Department of English at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland. He is the former Conseil Litteraire of the Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco and Secretary of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) 1995-2001, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Forum for the Future of Irish Studies. He is the assistant editor of The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature and his publication , appeared in July of 2007 in the Oxford University Press's "VIP" series. He maintains a valuable Irish Studies online research website at www.ricorso.net
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