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Professor Kevin Barry (NUI Galway): ‘The throats of birds: W.B. Yeats and the act of dying’

Name: Professor Kevin Barry (NUI Galway): ‘The throats of birds: W.B. Yeats and the act of dying’
Start: 2015-12-15T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2015-12-15T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building

December 15, 2015 @ 5:00 pm

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Date:: December 15, 2015
Time:: 5:00 pm

Venue

Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building

Ireland

Moore Institute Seminar

Prof. Kevin Barry (NUI Galway)

‰Û÷The throats of birds: W.B. Yeats and the act of dying’

Organised in conjunction with the ‰Û÷Yeats & the West Exhibition’

W.B. Yeats was determined to die with style, as if his reputation depended on it. From the many available genres, he chose one of the most difficult to sustain: death in infamy. This talk analyzes Yeats’s deliberate curation of his own death in infamy, and the public’s triumph over this recalcitrance.

For more information please contact daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie