A one-day symposium: Shakespeare the Irishman

The Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin will host a one day symposium under the title 'Shakespeare the Irishman' from 9:00 to 5:00 on Friday 14th April.

The symposium is hosted by Prof Andy Murphy of Trinity's School of English and it will feature papers from Neil Rhodes of the University of St Andrews in the UK, and from Mark Burnett, Emer McHugh and Molly Quinn-Leitch (Queens University Belfast); Patrick Lonergan and David O'Shaughnessy (University of Galway); Stephen O'Neill (NUI Maynooth); Jason McElligott (Marsh's Library) and Marc Caball (University College Dublin).

The symposium is part of a week-long series of events at Trinity celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Shakespeare First Folio, including an exhibition in the Long Room of the Old Library, an online exhibition, and a public lecture by Prof Andy Murphy on the history and significance of the First Folio and of Trinity's own copy of the volume on Wednesday 12th April.

Attendance at the lecture is open to the public free of charge, but registration is required.

Speaker: Andrew Murphy (School of English, Trinity College Dublin)