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Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
Lectures, Seminars and Readings
Spring 2008

JANUARY

Friday, January 25th

The Death of Criticism?
Terry Eagleton
John Edward Taylor Professor of Cultural Theory
University of Manchester

FEBRUARY

Friday, February 1st

Mediating Post-Hibernian Archaeologies: Archaeology, Humedia and Undercutting the Discourses of 'Material Culture' in Ireland
Ian Russell
NEH/Keough-Naughton Fellow

Friday, February 15th

‘O, Despise Not My Youth!’: Senses, Sympathy, and an Intimate Aesthetics in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Sîan White
University of Notre Dame

Wednesday, February 20th

Time Passante: From Forensic to Interrogation Modernity
David Lloyd
University of Southern California

Wednesday, February 27th

The Chieftains perform an evening of Irish music.

MARCH

Friday, March 14

Towards Consensus: The Irish Language and Northern Ireland
Diarmaid Ó Doibhlin
Visiting Professor
Department of Irish Language & Literature
University of Notre Dame

Friday, March 28

Jack Lynch, the ‘Arms Crisis’ and Northern Ireland, 1969/1970
Dermot Keough
University College Cork

APRIL

Wednesday, April 2nd

Modern Irish Poetry: Writing 'Home'
Bríona Nic Dhiarmada
University of Limerick

Friday, April 11th

Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections
Kate O’Malley
Royal Irish Academy

Tuesday, April 15th

A Reading by Novelist Alice McDermott
Richard A. Macksey Professor
Johns Hopkins University

Friday, April 18

Solidarity: Past, Present and Future: Reflections On Social Concern
The Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin
Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland

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