Archive for July, 2008
Call for Papers:
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Eighteenth-Century
Ireland Society Joint Meeting, Richmond, Virginia 26-29 March 2009.
Paper Proposals Due: 15 Sept. 2008
The 2009 joint meeting of ASECS and ECIS will feature four panels
affiliated with ECIS or the Irish Caucus of ASECS and three
non-affiliated panels on Irish themes. In addition, there will be a
lecture by Professor [...]
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The death has occurred, following a car accident on Sunday, of the Polish historian and politician Bronislaw Geremek.
For Daniel Vernet, writing in Le Monde, Geremek was the very figure of the humanist intellectual. Born in 1932 in Warsaw, where his father was a rabbi, the young Geremek was hidden during the war by Polish peasants. [...]
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Dear Sirs,
Thank you for devoting so much space to Barra Ó Seaghdha’s review of my Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry (drb Summer 2008). I very much appreciated his detailed and informed response, but some of the points he raised require an answer.
Ó Seaghdha views my approach as unreflective and tired revisionism, and yet his [...]
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Rushdie wins Best of Booker
LONDON (AP) — Salman Rushdie is probably the Booker Prize’s best-known winner. Now he is officially the best.
Rushdie’s 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children” was named Thursday as the greatest-ever winner of Britain’s most prestigious literary award. The book received more than a third of the 7,801 votes cast in a competition to mark the prize’s 40th [...]
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Perry Anderson Lecture
Perry Anderson, founder-editor of the New Left Review and polymath writer, will give a public lecture in the Irish Seminar series tonight (July 1st) at 8 pm at the National Gallery (Merrion Square West entrance). Anderson will discuss challenges to American global hegemony and the
situation of the contemporary left in the rapidly changing world order [...]
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