Dean of the College Presents
EVENT POSTPONED Faculty Seminar by Michael Staunton
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Olin Humanities, Room 102
7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
"Ireland 1916 - Then and Now"
This event will take place in the Spring Semester, date TBA.A century ago a small group of revolutionaries stood on the streets of Dublin and proclaimed an Irish Republic to bemused passers-by. Although the Easter Rising of 1916 was a military failure, it transformed Ireland forever: ‘All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born,’ in the words of W. B. Yeats. It is to this event that the Irish state traces its origin, and the past year in Ireland has been dominated by commemoration and reassessment of the Rising, and reflection on its ongoing significance. In his paper Professor Staunton uses the words of the revolutionaries and of those caught up in the events of 1916 to ask questions about today’s Ireland. Have the dreams of the revolutionaries of 1916 been fulfilled? Is the Irish Republic the one that they wished for? Did the Irish nation, as they hoped, ‘prove itself worthy of its august destiny’? What is the relationship between Ireland and Britain in an age of Brexit? How does contemporary Irish literature and culture reflect the revolutionary aspirations of 1916? And how are the people of Ireland, on whose behalf the revolutionaries claimed to speak, different today?
For more information, call 845-758-7421, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102