Tag Archives: Irish Studies
Irish keywords
Two Boston College Irish Studies Program faculty members contributed articles to a special edition of New Literary History, a Journal of Theory and Interpretation. The edition is focused on ‘Irish Keywords’ and marks the 50th anniversary of Raymond Williams’ iconic Keywords: A Vocabulary … Continue reading
‘A Ghost in the Throat’
Poet and essayist Doireann Ní Ghríofa will talk about her prose debut, A Ghost in the Throat, at Boston College on September 24 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. A Ghost in the Throat is a genre-defying work that melds … Continue reading
Irish Studies scholarship
Two Boston College Irish Studies Program faculty members contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2024). Sullivan Chair in Irish Studies Guy Beiner’s essay is on “Religion and Memory in Modern Ireland.” Professor … Continue reading
The Irish Revival, reconsidered
Boston College Associate Professor of English and Irish Studies Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente (University of Buffalo) have co-edited Irish Revival: A Complex Vision (Syracuse University Press, 2023), a collection of essays offering a nuanced reinterpretation of the Irish Revival … Continue reading
Everyday objects in colonial Ireland
Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830 (Oxford University Press, 2024), written by BC Assistant Professor of English and Irish Studies Colleen Taylor, is the first book to apply new materialist theory to the critical study … Continue reading
Poet Paul Muldoon
Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon will give a poetry reading on March 13 at 5:30 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. An acclaimed poet, Muldoon was born in Portadown, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, and is the author of numerous … Continue reading
Political Heaney
Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole, an award-winning journalist, author, and leading public intellectual, will present “Political Heaney” at Boston College on November 16 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. O’Toole was recently appointed official biographer of the late … Continue reading
Writing True Crime: Mark O’Connell
Award-winning author Mark O’Connell will discuss writing true crime and his latest book, A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder (Penguin Random House, 2023), at Boston College on September 13. The event, which is free and open … Continue reading
Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Magician’
Irish novelist Colm Tóibín will present “Writing Thomas Mann: Fact into Fiction” at Boston College on February 22 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Tóibín’s acclaimed 2021 novel, The Magician, dramatizes the life of Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas … Continue reading
The centenary of the Irish Civil War
The Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up to the establishment of an independent Ireland—has long persisted in the national Irish memory, despite efforts to downplay or outright erase it from official discourse. Irish historian Síobhra Aiken has written … Continue reading
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