Trinity term: Schedule of Speakers

The series takes place in Room 2041B in the Arts Block at 5.15pm on Wednesdays.

We are delighted to announce an exciting line-up of speakers for Trinity term.

April 1st: Professor Declan Kiberd (U.C.D.): "Ulysses and the Art of the Everyday"

April 8th: Dr. Darryl Jones: "Ultima Thule: Arthur Gordon Pym and the Hollow Earth"

April 15th: Clare Hayes-Brady: "'The Depressed Person': David Foster Wallace and Suicide"

Dr. Dara Downey: "Hidden Cults and Hive Consciousness in the Urban Horror Stories of Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber and Harlan Ellison"
This seminar will be followed by a wine reception

Visiting Speaker: Professor Declan Kiberd (U.C.D.)

We are delighted to announce that our final guest speaker of this year's series will be Professor Declan Kiberd. Professor Kiberd will speak on 'Ulysses and the Art of the Everyday,' the subject of a forthcoming book. The seminar will take place at 5.15 pm on Wednesday April 1st in room 2041B in the Arts Block.

Declan Kiberd joined UCD as lecturer in Anglo-Irish literature in 1979, having taught English previously in the University of Kent at Canterbury (1976-7), and Irish in Trinity College Dublin (1977-9). He was appointed Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD in 1997. He has also been Director of the Yeats International Summer School (1985-7), Patron of the Dublin Shaw Society (1995-2000), a columnist with the Irish Times (1985-7) and the Irish Press (1987-93), the presenter of the RTE Arts programme, Exhibit A (1984-6), and a regular essayist and reviewer in the Irish Times, TLS, London Review of Books and the New York Times.