Professor Chris Morash presents a lively and enjoyable free online lecture on the connections between Dublin’s famous writer and the city.
This is our 4th annual Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Lecture presented by Professor Chris Morash broadcast from Dublin City Library & Archive, Pearse Street.
There are places in Dublin where the city’s literary heritage is obvious: Joyce’s Martello tower, for instance, or in any of the famous literary pubs. However, there are also hidden literary neighbourhoods, streets rich with literary associations that may not be quite so obvious. This year’s UNESCO City of Literature Lecture explores two of the quieter parts of the city – one on the north side, one on the south side – to discover the literary stories that hide in plain sight.
Chris Morash is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing in Trinity College Dublin, where he served as Vice-Provost of the university from 2016-19. He has published extensively on Irish culture, including studies of Irish Famine literature, A History the Irish Theatre 1601-2000, A History of the Media in Ireland, and he is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre (2016). From 2009 to 2014, he served as the first chair of the Compliance Committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. He was elected to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 2007, and to Fellowship of Trinity in 2016. He is the current chair of the judging committee of the Dublin Literary Award. He is originally from Nova Scotia.
We hope you enjoy.
Dublin’s Hidden Literary Neighbourhoods Lecture Reading List
Prof. Chris Morash has compiled this reading list to accompany his lecture. All titles are available to borrow from our catalogue.
• John Banville. Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir. Dublin: Hachette Books, 2016.
• Leland Bardwell. A Restless Life. Dublin: Liberties Press, 2008.
• Samuel Beckett. Collected Shorter Plays. London: Faber, 1984.
• Brendan Behan. The Complete Plays. London: Methuen, 1978.
• Kathleen Behan. Mother of All the Behans: The Autobiography of Kathleen Behan as Told to Brian Behan. Dublin: Poolbeg, 1994.
• Pat Boran and Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi (eds.). Writing Home: The 'New Irish' Poets. Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2019.
• Elizabeth Bowen. Bowen's Court & Seven Winters: Memories of a Dublin Childhood. London: Vintage, 1984.
• James Joyce. Dubliners. Ed. Terence Brown. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.
• James Joyce. Ulysses. Ed. Sam Slote. Richmond, Surrey: Alma, 2012.
• Patrick Kavanagh. Collected Poems. Ed. Antoinette Quinn. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005.
• Brendan Kennelly. The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems. Ed. Terence Brown and Michael Longley. Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2011.
• Thomas Kinsella. Dublin Documentary. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2006.
• Paula Meehan. As If By Magic: Selected Poems. Dublin: Dedalus, 2020.
• John Montague. Collected Poems. Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 1998.
• Iris Murdoch. The Red and the Green. London: Viking Penguin, 2000.
• Sean O’Casey. Collected Plays: Volume One. London: Macmillan, 1967.
• Carolyn Swift. Stage by Stage. Dublin: Poolbeg, 1985
