Irish Voices

During the spring of 2013, in celebration of Ireland’s EU presidency, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with Meg Tyler, associate professor of humanities, and the new Institute for the Study of Irish Culture at Boston University, hosted a series of events entitled Irish Voices. The initial events, featuring talks by Colm Toibin, Ciaran Carson, and Paul Muldoon, were organized by the Center for the Study of Europe under its “European Voices” initiative and funded by a grant to the Center for the Study of Europe from the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC. Additional support came from the Center for the Humanities, the Department of Creative Writing, the literary journal AGNI, and the Institute for the Study of Irish Culture.

Meg Tyler continues to host a number of “Irish Voices” each year, both as part of her ongoing “Poetry Series” and continued under the direction of Meg Tyler, in conjunction with her ongoing poetry reading series and as part of the Institute for the Study of Irish culture’s wide array of public readings, workshops, performances and lectures, all of which serve to broaden knowledge of Irish and Irish-American culture at Boston University and beyond.