Magic Mists and Recent Irish Poetry

Magic Mists and Recent Irish Poetry

a lecture by Lucy McDiarmid

(Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English, Montclair State University)

Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub

In recent Irish poetry, streets disappear, cats and pigs talk, mummies board trains, ferns create a semiotic system, and a dead man reads Anna Karenina. The rich legacy of the Irish cultural imaginary is ubiquitous, but Ceo Draíochta , the magic mist of the eighteenth century, is now only slightly magical.  Lucy McDiarmid will discuss this ontological issue in her lecture; she is Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English at Montclair State University, and the author most recently of At Home in the Revolution: what women said and did in 1916 and Poets and the Peacock Dinner: the literary history of a meal.