2005 Press Releases
University College Cork (UCC) hosts the British and Irish Spenser Meeting, 7 May
Speakers from British and Irish universities will gather at UCC on
Saturday next, May 7th for the 2005 meeting of the British and Irish
Spenser Seminar. This is the first occasion that this seminar is being
held in Ireland.
Titled "Spenser and his Contexts", the Seminar commences at 9.30am with
Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) with a talk titled "Leaves,
lines and rymes": Analysing Petrarchism in Spenser's Amoretti and
Richard Nugent's Cynthia followed by Andrew Carpenter (University
College, Dublin) who will speak on "The circulation of manuscript verse
in early modern Ireland: Spenser and his contemporaries". Keith Sidwell
(University College Cork) will follow with "The Tipperary Hero:
Dermot O'Meara's Latin epic poem on the 10th Earl of
Ormond." Willy Maley (University of Glasgow) closes the morning
session with the keynote lecture "Spenser and Ireland: The view from
here".
Micheál Mac Craith (NUI, Galway) commences the afternoon session with
"Sweete witt and true invencion": was Spenser familiar with Gaelic love
poetry?" followed by Pat Palmer (University of York) who will speak on
"Pollente's curse: the dialogue of the beheaded in Spenser and his
contemporaries" and Matt Woodcock (University of East Anglia): "Spenser
and Olaus Magnus: A Reassessment". The seminar closes with Dan
Carey (NUI, Galway) whose talk is titled " Spenser, Colonialism, and
the Art
of Grafting Deana Rankin (Girton College, Cambridge): "Little but
numbersome burnings and bitings": Spenser's Irish afterlife, 1633-1679".
All those interested in 16th and 17th-century Irish or English history,
Renaissance literature, Spenser or Spenser studies are very welcome to
attend the seminar. Admission is free, apart from a nominal charge of euro 5.00 for tea and coffee.
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