History Alumni Lecture, colloquium to focus on Irish Revival

11:25 a.m., May 3, 2016--P.J. Mathews of University College Dublin will be the guest speaker at two Department of History events at the University of Delaware, May 12-13, focused on the 1916 Easter Rising rebellion in Ireland and the Irish cultural revival.

Mathews will deliver the annual History Alumni Lecture at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 12, in 118 Purnell Hall on UD’s Newark campus. The talk, “A Poets’ Revolt? The 1916 Rising and the Irish Cultural Revival,” is free and open to the public.

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Mathews will also speak at the Department of History’s colloquium from 2-3:15 p.m., Friday, May 13, in 203 Munroe Hall, in a talk titled “Reading the Irish Revival (1891-1922).”

He is a senior lecturer in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin and has written widely on Irish literature and theatre.

Mathews is co-editor (with Declan Kiberd) of Handbook of the Irish Revival, author of Revival: the Abbey Theatre, Sinn Féin, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement and editor of the Cambridge Companion to John Millington Synge.