A perfect program to celebrate Ireland a mere eight days before we celebrate St. Patrick's Day! Join us (in partnership with other libraries across the state of Massachusetts) as we welcome author and Trinity College (Dublin) professor Christopher Morash. Christopher will discuss his book Dublin: A Writer's City. 

The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James Joyce's characters, Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus, around the city centre, an ordinary-looking residential street overlooking Dublin Bay, for instance, presents the house where Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney lived for many years; a few blocks away is the house where another Nobel Laureate, W. B. Yeats, was born. Just down the coast is the pier linked to yet another, Samuel Beckett, from which we can see the Martello Tower that is the setting for the opening chapter of Ulysses. Christopher will unfold a true book lover's map of Ireland's capital, inviting us to experience what it means to live in a great city of literature.

About the author:
I am the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, a post dedicated to the teaching and research of Irish writing, based in the School of English. I have published a histories of Irish theatre, and of Irish media, both extending from the 17th century to the present; I have also published on Irish Famine writing, and, most recently, on theories of space in relation to theatre. I am currently working on Yeats's theatre. My research interests in the field of Irish studies thus range fairly widely over the field, with theatre and concepts of information flow as a kind of epicentre. I have also served as Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, and thus have an interest in broadcasting regulation. Learn more about Christopher HERE.

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