Lunchtime Lecture: Professor Fran Brearton (QUB) - 'Easter 1912, 1914, 1916: Poetry and Sacrifice'

This talk will look at poetic responses to political tensions in Ireland, from the Home Rule crisis through the outbreak of the Great War to the Easter Rising, comparing poems by (amongst others) W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, and Patrick Pearse, with work by some of Ireland’s serving soldier-poets – C. S. Lewis, Monk Gibbon, Francis Ledwidge, and Tom Kettle. Fran Brearton is Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen’s, and assistant director of the Seamus Heaney Centre. Her research interests are primarily in British and Irish Poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her first book was a study of the effects of the First World War on 20th-century Irish poetry; most recently, she co-edited (with Alan Gillis) The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry.

Suitable for
16-17
18+

Admission
Free admission. Booking essential. See www.nmni.com/1916 to book.

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/ni000017?id=EVENT548919