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Marie Frazee-Baldasarre Professorship Lecture Series with Lauren Arrington

“Constance Markievicz: aristocrat, artist, socialist, revolutionary”

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Collage of Poetry Readings & Lectures
2009, CHSS, Irish Poetry

“Constance Markievicz: aristocrat, artist, socialist, revolutionary”
Wednesday, November 11, 6:45 p.m.
Please email Lucy McDiarmid to receive Zoom event link.

Professor Lauren Arrington of Maynooth University, Ireland, is the author of Revolutionary Lives (2016), an acclaimed double-biography of Irish rebel Constance Markievicz, née Gore-Booth, and her husband, Polish count and revolutionary Casimir Markievicz. Arrington’s other books include W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State (Oxford University Press, 2010), and The Poets of Rapallo: Late Modernist Writing in Mussolini’s Italy (forthcoming with Oxford University Press). With Matthew Campbell, she is editing the forth coming Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats, and she is serving as a director of the Yeats International Summer School from 2018 – 2021.