11th January 2022

Padraic Colum (8th August 1881—11th January 1972): A 50th Anniversary Celebration of his Life and Work

An online keynote lecture by Professor Margaret Kelleher (UCD) “Plutarch Lied”: Padraic Colum’s Challenge to Historical Biography” as part of a day-long symposium organised by Dr Pádraic Whyte, School of English, TCD and Dr Keith O’Sullivan School of English, DCU in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub and the DCU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. BOOK here

About Professor Margart Kelleher

Margaret Kelleher is Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. Her book The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (UCD Press, 2018) and awarded the Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture by the American Conference of Irish Studies in 2019 and shortlisted for the RIA Michel Déon Prize. Other publications include The Feminization of Famine (Duke UP and Cork UP, 1997), The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, 2 vols, edited with Philip O’Leary (2006) and a special issue of the journal Éire-Ireland on the topic of “Ireland and the Contemporary”, edited with Nicholas Wolf (2017). She is Chair of the Irish Film Institute and UCD academic lead for the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI).

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/