Amy Mulligan, Assistant Professor of Irish Language and Literature and a fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Medieval Institute, will speak on "A Globalized Poetics: Ireland, Britain and Writing Place from 700-1250."
Alvin Jackson, the RIchard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh, will speak on his new book, Judging Redmond and Carson (Royal Irish Academy, 2018). In this first dual and comparative biography of John Redmond and Edward Carson—senior members of the British parliament who were locked together in combat over Home Rule— Professor Jackson assesses the men as contemporaries would have done. He uses both new approaches and much new evidence to shed fresh light on their sometimes fraught private lives, their professional and political achievements, and their stands on violence and war.
José Brownrigg-Gleeson Martínez is the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for the 2017-2018 academic year.
