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Bernadette Devlin McAliskey to deliver Seamus Deane Honorary Lecture

We’re delighted to announce that Field Day’s upcoming Seamus Deane Annual Lecture will be delivered by Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. This year’s lecture, “A Terrible State of Chassis”, will take place at the Playhouse, Artillery Street, in Derry on Friday 30 September 2016 at 8pm. Tea and Coffee reception 7pm. Lecture starts 8pm. This lecture series […]

Easter 1916, by Denis Donoghue

An edited version of a lecture delivered at the Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, 3 August 2015: The second chapter of Ulysses has Stephen Dedalus teaching in Mr. Deasy’s school in Dalkey. The class is reading Milton’s ‘Lycidas,’ but Stephen also permits himself a reverie about historical facts: Had Pyrrhus not fallen […]

Seamus Deane Honorary Field Day Lecture announced

The inaugural Seamus Deane Honorary Field Day Lecture takes place at the Playhouse, Artillery Street, in Derry on Saturday 12 September 2015 at 7pm. Entitled “Republics that were and might be”, it will be delivered by Seamus Deane himself. Deane has been described by his fellow co-director, Stephen Rea — who will attend the event […]

‘Lost Boys’ by Susan McKay and Willie Doherty. Tribute to Paul McCauley and Columba McVeigh

Image: ‘Paths from Irish Street’ ©Willie Doherty. Read here Susan McKay’s poignant article of 2013 in tribute to Paul McCauley, who died on Saturday June 6 2015 as a result of catastrophic head injuries suffered in a sectarian attack in Derry in July 2006. Extract from ‘Lost Boys’, a collaborative project by journalist Susan McKay and […]