Online Conferences, Seminars and Workshops

Now that my modules and assignments are completed for the MA in Archives and Records Management, I have been working on my dissertation. I completed a draft of the literature review and am currently working on the methodology section. My dissertation is about archives of the Spanish Flu in the collective memory. Due to the…

E-Portfolio

I have kept this academic blog throughout my Irish Writing and Film MA to record my thoughts about classes, seminars, books, plays, films, and other topics of interest. I named the blog The Shaughraun, which means “wanderer” in Irish, after the eponymous character, Conn the Shaughraun, in Dion Boucicault’s classic Irish melodrama. I wanted to…

That Corpse You Planted in Your Garden: TS Eliot and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? Oh keep the Dog far hence, that’s friend to men, Or with his nails he’ll dig it up again! TS Eliot, The Waste Land: I. The Burial of the…

Seminar: Women in 18th Century Irish Poetry

I attended a seminar on the topic of 18th century Irish poetry about women led by Dr Andrew Carpenter of UCD. He spoke about the culture and politics of 18th century Ireland in relation to poetry written by men about women and by women about their own experiences. There was an increase in literacy levels…