Former Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Claire Connolly (University College Cork) will return to Boston College on March 11 at 5 p.m. to discuss her new book, Irish Romanticism: A Literary History (Cambridge University Press). In her book, Connolly proposes that Romanticism is a temporally and aesthetically distinct period in Irish culture, during which literature flourished in new forms and styles, evidenced in the lives and writings of such authors as Thomas Dermody, Mary Tighe, Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, Thomas Moore, Charles Maturin, John Banim, Gerald Griffin, William Carleton and James Clarence Mangan. The book event, sponsored by BC Irish Studies, will be held in Connolly House.