Making and Remembering a Revolution in Ireland (10/28/15)
The Institute for the Study of Irish Culture presents Making and Remembering a Revolution in Ireland: A Lecture by Roy Foster.
Wednesday, October 28th at 6 p.m.
The Castle, 225 Bay State Road
Roy Foster’s books include Charles Stewart Parnell: The Man and His Family (1976), Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life (1981), Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (1988), The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland (1989), The Sub Prefect Should Have Held His Tongue: Selected Essays of Hubert Butler (1990), Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History (1993), The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland (2001), which won the 2003 Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism, W.B. Yeats, A Life. Volume I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 (1997) which won the 1998 James Tait Black Prize for biography, and Volume II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 (2003); Conquering England: The Irish in the Victorian Metropolis (2005), co-written with Fintan Cullen, to coincide with their exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery; Luck and the Irish: a Brief History of Change 1970-2000 (2006), a book deriving from the Wiles Lectures which he delivered at Queen’s University Belfast, in 2004; Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances (2011), derived from his Clark Lectures at the University of Cambridge; and most recently, Vivid Faces: the Revolutionary Generation in Ireland (2014), based on the Ford Lectures which he delivered at Oxford in 2012.
Foster was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1986, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1992, and an honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2011. He specializes in Irish cultural, social and political history in the modern period, but has also written about Victorian political history. He is also a well-known critic, reviewer and broadcaster.
This special event is sponsored by the William V. Shannon Trust, the Institute for the Study of Irish Culture, the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning at CGS and the BU Center for the Humanities.
