EVENT: States of Confinement – The Jail Journals of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardle

Museum of Literature Ireland 15 November, 12-6:30PM  ‘States of Confinement’, hosted by the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics, will explore and celebrate the autobiographical life writing and political fiction of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardle. Jacob and Macardle wrote journals during their imprisonment in Mountjoy Prison and Kilmainham Jail as Republican activists during the Irish Civil War in 1922-3. To

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RECORDINGS: The Irish Proust Keynotes

The Irish Proust was a two-day conference which took place in October 2022 and brought together scholars and writers from Ireland, France, the UK, and North America to explore the French novelist’s influence on Irish literature as well as Irish themes within his writing. By delving into what is Irish within Proust and Proustian within Irish letters, ‘The Irish Proust’

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