Category Archives: Seamus Deane Honorary Lecture 12 September 2015

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 […]

  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 […]