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Illuminations Exhibition: Doireann Ní Ghríofa | Film-poems
Doireann Ní Ghríofa | Film-poems Illuminations - Maynooth University 10 April-15 May 2018
When: Tuesday, 10 April 2018
Writing and the Internet | Writers-in-Residence Spring Series 2018
Maynooth University Writers-in-Residence Rob Doyle and Sarah Maria Griffin host a discussion with Róisín Kiberd, Ian Maleney, and Mark O’Connell.
When: Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Contemporary Irish Writers | Writers-in-Residence Spring Series 2018
Maynooth University Writers-in-Residence Rob Doyle and Sarah Maria Griffin host readings and discussion, with Sara Baume, Gavin Corbett, and Sinéad Gleeson.
When: Wednesday, 07 March 2018
Publishing in Ireland | Writers-in-Residence Spring Series 2018
Maynooth University Writers-in-Residence Rob Doyle and Sarah Maria Griffin host a discussion.
When: Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Readings by Contemporary Irish Writers | Writers-in-Residence Spring Series 2018
Maynooth University Writers-in-Residence Rob Doyle and Sarah Maria Griffin host readings and discussion.
When: Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Readings by Writers-in-Residence Rob Doyle and Sarah Maria Griffin
Maynooth University Writers-in-Residence Rob Doyle and Sarah Maria Griffin are delighted to host a series of talks and readings in Maynooth Community Library and on Maynooth University campus. All are free and open to the public.
When: Wednesday, 07 February 2018
Susan MacWilliam - Observations and Communications at Illuminations
Observations and Communications forms a retrospective view across MacWilliam’s practice over the last twenty years since 1998 – the point at which she began to use moving image and to work with narratives of the supernormal. The exhibition presents a sequence of films, a collection of psychic journals, a literary book collection, research ephemera, sculptures and props.
When: Monday, 29 January 2018
Susan MacWilliam - Observations and Communications at Illuminations
Susan MacWilliam’s videos, photographic works, sculptures and installations investigate obscure and overlook histories; and reflect on the research, experimental apparatus, and personalities of those involved in parapsychology and the study of perceptual phenomena.
When: Monday, 29 January 2018
Department of English Seminar: The Gaiety of Nations: Irish Bulls and English Malapropisms in the work of Maria Edgeworth
Professor Michael Brown (Aberdeen) The Gaiety of Nations: Irish Bulls and English Malapropisms in the work of Maria Edgeworth.
When: Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Don DeLillo’s America: A Symposium
Featuring a keynote by the distinguished DeLillo scholar, Professor Peter Boxall, this symposium seeks to examine – and indeed to celebrate – DeLillo’s writing and its recurring interrogation of America as a multifaceted, contradictory text.
When: Saturday, 11 November 2017