The next talk for the Columbia Irish Studies Seminar will take place on Friday April 4, 2014, and will feature Danine Farquharson, “Love/Hate and the Post-Celtic Tiger.” As usual, the seminar will meet at 7pm in Faculty House for dinner, and the talk will commence in an adjacent room at 8pm.
Danine Farquharson is Associate Professor of English at Memorial University where she focuses on contemporary Irish literature and film and representations of violence. She co-edited Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland (Cork UP, 2008) with Sean Farrell and she has published and presented widely on authors such as Roddy Doyle, Robert McLiam Wilson, Edna O’Brien, and John McGahern. Her current research involves contemporary Irish, Scottish, and Newfoundland texts depicting the offshore oil industry.
Please RSVP to Annie Holt, rapporteur, by Tuesday, April 1, if you would like to attend dinner, which is $25 per person, payable only by check (made out to Columbia University, with “dinner sem 535” in the memo line). No reservation necessary to attend the talk, which is free of charge.
The full schedule of Irish Seminars at Columbia University is available here.