Adrian Paterson
Dr Adrian Paterson is Lecturer in English at the University of Galway, writing on modern literature and culture. Currently President of Modernist Studies Ireland, he is on the board of directors at Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society in Galway, curator of the multimedia exhibition Yeats & the West, co-editor with Charles I. Armstrong and Tom Walker of the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to W.B. Yeats and the Arts (2024) and with Christine Reynier of two E-rea special issues on modernist non-fictional prose (2018, 2020).
Irish in Italy: confluence and influence
Despite a chequered history of conflict, cultural interchange has always been Europe’s defining feature. Until the recent arrival of the accurate genetic tracing of population groups (see Stephen Leslie et… | Read on »
‘Its hour come round at last’: rereading Yeats’s ‘The Second Coming’
‘The Second Coming’ is WB Yeats’s most quoted poem – and almost certainly the most widely quoted poem of the last hundred years. Its prediction of the savage birth of… | Read on »