Irish Worlds Seminar: Symposium on Contemporary Irish Literature

Passions & Convictions: Literature and Criticism in a Changing Ireland

Morning talks by Michael Cronin, Carol Tell Morse, and Emer Nolan on Sally Rooney, Seamus Heaney and directions in contemporary Irish prose and fiction.  Afternoon sessions with Barry McCrea in conversation with Michael Cronin on sexuality and the Irish novel and Joe Cleary and Emer Nolan on passions and politics in Irish studies.