Improving Ireland: From Maria Edgeworth to Sally Rooney

To honor the important contributions of Robert and Rebecca Tracy to Irish Studies in the Bay Area, Irish Studies at UC Berkeley are delighted to announce the establishment of the Tracy Lecture Series, aimed at bringing distinguished scholars of Irish literature and culture to the Berkeley campus.

Claire Connolly is Professor of Modern English at University College Cork, Ireland where she runs the Ports, Past and Present research project. She is the author of A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 and is currently writing a book on Irish romanticism for Cambridge UP.

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