The Friends of the Library – Trinity College Dublin are delighted to announce their next lecture. Admission is €5 (Members & Concessions €2.50). All welcome! Enquiries to 01 8961544 or LibraryFriends@tcd.ie.
Swift’s Dublin
Andrew Carpenter, Emeritus Professor of English, University College Dublin
19:30, Thursday 19 October 2017
Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre, Arts Building Concourse, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Andrew Carpenter was educated at Oxford and joined the full-time teaching staff of the English Department at UCD in 1970. His main scholarly interest is in poetry written in English in Ireland between 1550 and 1830 and he is a recognized expert on the work of Jonathan Swift. His publications include ten volumes of Irish Texts from the Age of Swift (Cadenus Press, 1973-79), Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Cork University Press, 1998), and many other scholarly publications. He has continued to be busy since retirement in 2008 and was General Editor of the acclaimed five-volume Art and Architecture of Ireland, published in 2014 by the Royal Irish Academy and Yale University Press.