TCD School of English Evening Lectures, Michaelmas Term 2024

About this event

This course, delivered by Trinity School of English staff, will provide an introduction to major authors of poetry, drama and prose through close examination of selected texts, chosen from among those prescribed for the Leaving Certificate. The course will be of special interest to teachers and pupils preparing for the examination but the lectures will be directed towards a more general audience as well.

Fee

€ 50 for the entire series. Individual lectures are € 5 each. Concessionary rates for the full series will be € 40 or individual lecture € 4 each. The concessionary rate applies to: students, OAPs, unemployed, groups of 20+, TCD staff and Graduates.

Date, Time and Place

Tuesdays 19:00-20:00, Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. Tickets available via Eventbrite and at the door.

Schedule

There will be ten weekly lectures beginning on 1 October 2024. Lectures will start at 7pm on Tuesdays. Eventbrite registration for individual lectures will close at 6pm on the relevant day.

1 October 2024 - Dr Ema Vyroubalová: William Shakespeare, King Lear

8 October 2024 - Dr Mark Sweetnam: Poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins

15 October 2024 - Prof Darryl Jones: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

22 October - Reading Week: no lecture

29 October 2024 - Prof Stephen Matterson: Poetry by Sylvia Plath

5 November 2024 - Prof Nicholas Grene: Arthur Miller, The Crucible

12 November 2024 - Dr Tom Walker: Poetry by Patrick Kavanagh

19 November 2024 - Dr Sinead Moriarty: Tara Westover, Educated

26 November 2024 - Prof Philip Coleman: Poetry by T. S. Eliot

3 December 2024 - Dr Una Mannion: Poetry by Tracy K. Smith

10 December 2024 - Dr Margaret Robson: Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

Online/Video Recordings of Lectures

The lectures are happening live in the Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. They will also be recorded. If you purchased a ticket to a particular lecture, to several lectures, or to the entire series, you will be emailed a link to the video recording of the lecture or lectures as soon as these are available (usually the very next day).

The recordings will be available and watchable at any time until the end of the Evening Lecture series.

We regret that it has not been possible to livestream the lectures as they happen.

Contact Details:

Ms Sophia Ni Sheoin

E-mail: [email protected]

Host or Publisher Trinity College Dublin, School of English