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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
Department of English Seminar: ‘Cosmography and the Early Modern Literary Imagination’
Professor Janet Clare (Hull) ‘Cosmography and the Early Modern Literary Imagination’
When: Wednesday, 08 November 2017
Department of English Seminar: 'Bardic Country-House Poetry, Irish Studies and Two Redefinitions'?
Professor Patricia Palmer (Maynooth) 'Bardic Country-House Poetry, Irish Studies and Two Redefinitions'?
When: Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Consultation Day - Undergraduate Examination Results in ENGLISH
Consultation Day for Undergraduate Examination Results - 10am to 1pm; 2pm to 4pm.
When: Tuesday, 27 June 2017
English Department Symposium - Revolution!: Ireland and Russia in the wake of 1917
At this one day symposium speakers from universities and institutions in Ireland, Britain and Europe will address the effect of the Russian Revolution on revolutionary politics, literary culture, and on film and the visual arts in Ireland.
When: Friday, 28 April 2017
Joanna Walsh, Maynooth University Writer-in-Residence series of talks
Joanna Walsh, Maynooth University's Writer-in-Residence talks to Fernando Sdrigotti, Editor-in-Chief, Minor Literature[s]
When: Monday, 27 March 2017
Joanna Walsh, Maynooth University Writer-in-Residence series of talks
Joanna Walsh, Maynooth University's Writer-in-Residence talks to Sarah Davis-Goff, Publisher, Tramp Press
When: Monday, 20 March 2017
Illuminations Exhibition: Sean Lynch For the Birds, For the Birds
Sean Lynch’s exhibition at the Illuminations gallery considers the medieval myth of Buile Suibhne, an ongoing topic in his investigations of how folklore and history can be liberally inherited and adopted for contemporary life.
When: Monday, 20 March 2017