Professor John Kelly, whose lecture is titled 'A "Mutual Illumination"? WB Yeats and TS Eliot' is currently a Tutorial Fellow in English at St John's College, Oxford.

Professor Kelly is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and Cambridge where he studied under TR Henn. His wide interests in his field include WB Yeats, James Joyce, TS Eliot, Modernism and Anglo-Irish literature. He is the author of numerous scholarly publications, has edited texts of Anglo Irish literature and is general editor of the acclaimed Collected  Letters of WB Yeats and editor with Marjorie Howes of The Cambridge Companion to Yeats. He has also chosen and introduced the texts in the series Hibernia: literature and nation in Victorian Ireland. Professor Kelly is a frequent speaker at conferences in Ireland including the annual Yeats Summer School in Sligo.

Sponsored by ESB International and hosted by UCC, the WB Yeats lecture series has featured such notable international Yeats scholars as Roy Foster, Bernard O'Donoghue and Professor Helen Vendler.  The lecture series, an initiative of the Library and the Department of English at UCC,  was initiated as the result of a gift of Yeats first editions to the Boole  Library  in 2003.  The large collection was assembled by an Engineering graduate of UCC, Dr Eamonn Cantwell and covers 60 years of the poet's work.
 
The lecture takes place at UCC in the Boole I Lecture Theatre at 3pm on Wednesday, April 30th.  Members of the public are particularly welcome and admission is free.

Picture:  Professor John Kelly with UCC Librarian, John FitzGerald

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