Prof. Brian O Conchubhair: New Modernist Studies and the Irish Language

Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Centre for Irish Studies invite you to a lecture by Professor Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame, USA). Prof. Ó Conchubhair is Associate Professor at the Department of Irish Language and Literature, University of Notre Dame. His monograph Fin de Siècle na Gaeilge: Darwin, An Athbheochan agus Smaointeoireacht na hEorpa (2009) presents a detailed intellectual history of the Irish Language Revival. He has edited numerous volumes including WHY IRISH? Irish Language and Literature in Academia (2008), critical editions of Brian Merriman’s Cúirt an Mheán Oíche/The Midnight Court (2011) and of Liam O’Flaherty’s play Dorchadas/Darkness (2011, 2014), as well as a collection of contemporary Irish language short stories Gearrscéalta Ár Linne (2006). His current research focuses on modernism in Irish-language literature and culture and the relationship of mainstream modernism to minority languages.

FÁILTE ROIMH CHÁCH – ALL WELCOME!