Recorded July 2nd, 2025.

46th Annual Memorial Lecture

Barbarous Cuisine: T. S. Eliot in Ireland (1936 & 1940)

Fran Brearton - Queen’s University Belfast

Chaired by Patrick Query, T.S. Eilot Society President

Fran Brearton is Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast.

Her books include The Great War in Irish Poetry, Reading Michael Longley, and, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry and Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice and his Legacy. She is a former president of the Robert Graves Society and appears regularly on BBC R4’s ‘In Our Time’ to discuss modern poetry. She was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2018.

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