SEATANGLEDIreland, Literature And The Coast Mixdown

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Nov 3, 2020 · 1h 3m

Recorded November 3, 2020. A lecture by Prof Nicholas Allen (University of Georgia) organised by the Oscar Wilde Centre in partnership with Trinity School of English and the Willson Institute, University of Athens, Georgia. The coast is the scene of some of Irish literature’s most famous moments. James Joyce drew the imperial history of Ireland in the tangled outlines of Molly Bloom's memories of Gibraltar at Howth Head, while Anne Enright sketched the fragile bonds that connect the island’s diaspora in The Gathering. Seamus Heaney patrolled a northern archipelago that turned from violence to…