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Lecture by Prof. Angela Bourke, University College Dublin
A Spring 2018 Program Sponsored by the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professorship
Professor Angela Bourke
University College Dublin
- Date: Tuesday, February 27
- Location: Dickson Hall 179
- Time: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
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"People, Places and Fairies in West Kerry, 1890s: Jeremiah Curtin’s Tales of The Fairies"
Professor Angela Bourke, a distinguished scholar of Irish culture and the Irish language, will speak on “People, Places and Fairies in West Kerry, 1890s: Jeremiah Curtin's Tales of the Fairies." Her book The Burning of Bridget Cleary (1999), about an Irish woman burned alive by her husband and other male relatives in 1895, was awarded the Irish Times Prize for non-fiction. A former professor of Modern Irish (language) at University College Dublin, Bourke is also the author of Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker, the biography that revived Brennan's reputation and inspired the great increase of popular and academic interest in her. Professor Bourke's short story collection By Salt Water was published in 1996. Her most recent book is Voices Underfoot: Memory, Forgetting, and Oral Verbal Art (2016). Bourke is a brilliant writer and speaker and has exerted a profound influence on scholarship in Irish Studies for the past thirty years.