Research Seminar Series, Spring 2026

3-4 pm, O’Rahilly Building Room 2.12 

21 January

Prof Morgan Ndlovu | University of Johannesburg

Decolonising Knowledge: a reflection from the

Africa Decolonial Research Network in South Africa

4 February

 Dr Adam Hanna | University College Cork

“Shaped by the Pressure...of What Has Been Withheld”:

Seamus Heaney’s North Notebooks and Manuscript Drafts

18 February

 Dr Francesca Brooks | University College Cork

“Caedmon on the shell tip”:

Reading Old English Poetry with Lynette Roberts in Wales

4 March

Prof Patricia Coughlan | University College Cork, emerita

Eibhear Walshe, Cissie's Abattoir, and Dissident Autobiography

1 April

 Dr Bahriye Kemal | University College Cork

Ji kerema xwe, RojAva ( Kobanî ) ji bîra neke

 | رجاء لا تنسي روج آفا (كوباني )|

Please Don’t Forget Rojava (Kobani):

Women Writing Syria against Displacement, War and Genocide

15 April

Prof Elizabeth Hale | University of New England, Australia

“Our Mythical Childhood”:

Uses of Classical Antiquity in Children’s Literature