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Department of English Seminar Series: Professor Lucy McDiarmaid
Professor Lucy McDiarmaid (Montclair State University) ‘The Muse on the Train: 21st Century Irish Railway Poems’
When: Monday, 03 October 2016
After the Rising, After the Somme: Reflections on Commemoration in 2016
Keynotes by Dr Marie Coleman, Queen’s University Belfast; Prof Guy Beiner, Ben Gurion University and Prof Dominic Bryan, QUB; followed by roundtable discussions. All welcome. Funding is available to postgrads, doctoral students and community workers to cover travel expenses.
When: Thursday, 08 September 2016
What is a Republic? An occasion of definitional controversy inspired by the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Proclamation
Debating the Irish republican proclamation and heritage in a larger international and historical context, and investigating the range of aspirations implied by republican definitions. Keynote contribution from Prof Philip Petitt, Princeton University.
When: Monday, 23 May 2016
MH 803 Talk and CAO Application Workshop 2016
Prospective Maynooth Part Time undergraduate students and other interested parties are invited to a talk on the BA Local Studies/Community Studies (MH803) have all your application questions answered.
When: Saturday, 23 April 2016
Women and the Decade of Commemorations
Roundtable discussions with talks by: Catriona Crowe, National Archives; Martina Devlin, Writer, Journalist and Broadcaster; Professor Gerardine Meaney, Director of Global Irish Studies, University College Dublin; Professor Margaret Ward, Department of History, Queen’s University Belfast.
When: Wednesday, 06 April 2016
Department of English - "All’s Changed: 1916 and Modernism" Symposium
This symposium will address the complex relationship between revolutionary politics and modernist art in the period between the outbreak of World War I and the foundation of the Irish Free State.
When: Friday, 26 February 2016
Women and the Decade of Commemorations: An All Island Perspective
Scholars, writers, art practitioners, activists and community workers are invited to attend to participate in roundtable discussions, with the longer term goal of establishing an inclusive, all-island commemoration network.
When: Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Launch of 'Joyce's Ghosts' by Prof Luke Gibbons
In Joyce’s Ghosts, Luke Gibbons proposes that James Joyce’s Irishness is intrinsic to his modernism, and is not just a source of subject matter but of form itself.
When: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Ireland’s Others: The 21st Australasian Irish Studies Conference
Ireland’s Others: The 21st Australasian Irish Studies Conference, 18-20 June 2015, Maynooth University
When: Thursday, 18 June 2015
Red Stripe Symposium: The Historical Novel in Late Capitalism: Problems and Possibilities
Red Stripe is a broadly left-wing reading group committed to stimulating radical critical thought and literary and cultural theory in contemporary Ireland.
When: Saturday, 18 October 2014