Irish Worlds Seminar
This working group focuses on issues in modern Irish literature, culture, and politics. Last year, the group studied the relationship between the decline and attempted revival of the Irish language in Ireland in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the extraordinary linguistic and stylistic vitality of Irish literary modernism in that period. We read poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays from writers such as Wilde, Yeats, Synge, Shaw, Joyce, Bowen, Beckett, Ó Cadhain, and others, and scholarship from a range of critics of Irish and literary studies. This year, we will examine how the legacies of the Revival and Irish modernism shape contemporary literary and cultural production and politics, especially how these cultural legacies interact with the political economy of Ireland and Northern Ireland in the present. The group hosts both reading-group meetings and invited speakers. Please feel free to write to us with any questions or thoughts—we always welcome new members.
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