Radvan Markus

Radvan Markus

Critic-in-Residence

Radvan Markus is associate professor in the Irish language and literature at Charles University, Prague. He is the author of Carnabhal na Marbh: Cré na Cille agus Litríocht an Domhain (2023), which was awarded the ACIS Prize for Books in the Irish Language, and Echoes of the Rebellion: The Year 1798 in Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Drama (2015). He has published widely on modern(ist) Irish-language prose and drama, focusing on the work of Pádraic Ó Conaire, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Flann O’Brien, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Biddy Jenkinson and others. He also translates from Irish to Czech, his translation of Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille won the prestigious Magnesia Litera award in 2018. His current research interests include the representations of nature in Irish-language literature of all periods. Apart from his academic work, he is also an active musician, performing Irish traditional music in the band Conamara Chaos, founded in 2017.

He is the inaugural Irish Critic-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame, on campus for the spring 2026 semester.