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Found in Translation? France, Ireland and the Legacy of Michel Déon

Name: Found in Translation? France, Ireland and the Legacy of Michel Déon
Start: 2017-04-25T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2017-04-25T13:00:00+00:00
Location: Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

April 25, 2017 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

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Date:: April 25, 2017
Time:: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Venue

Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Organizer

: Philip Dine
Email:: philip.dine@nuigalway.ie

A Public Seminar organised by French, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures,

NUI Galway, the French Embassy in Ireland and Cúirt

Featuring

Sarah Berthaud (Portsmouth) Theoretical and practical Challenges of Franco-Irish Translation

Marie Blom (NUI Galway) Translating Humour: The Case of Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy in French

Eamon Maher (Tallaght)

Gavin Bowd (St Andrews) Translating — and Betraying — Michel Houellebecq

Clíona Ní Ríordáin (Paris) Bringing the Horseman Home: On Translating Michel Déon’s Cavalier, passe ton chemin.

Michel Déon (1919–2016) was a novelist and member of the Académie Française

He was, for many years, an associate of the French Department in NUI Galway

He donated over 7,000 books to the James Hardiman Library