Events
Department of English Seminar Series | Professor Stefan Collini (Cambridge)
‘Quality control: academic disciplines and the future of universities’
When: Monday, 08 April 2019
Writer-in-Residence Event | Readings by Kevin Breathnach and Arnold Fanning
Readings by Kevin Breathnach and Arnold Fanning, introduced by Writer-in-Residence Christodoulos Makris
When: Wednesday, 06 March 2019
Department of English Seminar Series | Dr Porscha Fermanis (UCD)
‘Sexual Politics, Bad Conscience, and Psychological Trauma in Percy Shelley’s The Cenci and Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book’
When: Monday, 04 March 2019
Postgraduate Open Evening
The Postgraduate Open Evening at Maynooth University will take place on the 26th February 2019, from 4-8pm in the Maynooth University Library
When: Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Writer-in-Residence Event | 'Wretched Strangers' hosted by Writer-in-Residence Christodoulos Makris
Wretched Strangers, edited by JT Welsch and Ágnes Lehóczky, responded to political paranoia about borders in the UK, by gathering non-UK-born poets to celebrate diversity in ‘British’ writing. Readings and discussion by Katherine Ebury, Áilbhe Hines, and Aodán McCardle, with editors JT Welsch and Ágnes Lehóczky.
When: Monday, 18 February 2019
Department of English Seminar Series | Dr Heather Laird (UCC)
'Commemoration Against the Grain’
When: Monday, 11 February 2019
Illuminations Exhibition | Form Ever Follows Function
Form Ever Follows Function runs from February 4 to March 8, with a launch event at 6 pm on February 6 at the Illuminations gallery, Iontas Building, Maynooth University. gorse and The Pickled Body will launch the exhibition with a reception and discussion featuring artists and curators. Curated by Patrick Chapman, Christodoulos Makris and Dimitra Xidous
When: Monday, 04 February 2019
Department of English Seminar Series | Moyra Haslett (QUB)
Moyra Haslett (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘The Stories Songs Tell: Song in Eighteenth-century Ireland’
When: Monday, 10 December 2018
Illuminations Exhibition | Sam Keogh: Videos
For his show at Illuminations Gallery, Sam Keogh presents a selection of videos which have come out of his performances and installations to date.
When: Thursday, 29 November 2018
Writer-in-Residence | Mia Gallagher & Alan McMonagle in discussion with Paul Lynch
Award-winning author Mia Gallagher is the author of HellFire, Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland, and Shift. Her work has been widely anthologized. Alan McMonagle’s first novel, Ithaca, was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize. He has published two volumes of short stories, and his work has appeared in many journals.
When: Tuesday, 20 November 2018