St Mary's Academic to Deliver Guest Lecture at the University of Vienna

Research Fellow in the Centre for Irish Studies at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, Dr Keith Hopper, has been invited to give a guest lecture at the University of Vienna on Thursday 12^th May. The title of Dr Hopper’s lecture is “Revising the Revising: Eimar O’Duffy and Easter 1916” and forms part of a series of lectures in Vienna on the theme of Representing the Rising. Dr Hopper said, “Eimar O’Duffy (1893-1935) was a captain in the Irish Volunteers but split with the nationalist movement over the 1916 Rising, which he vehemently opposed; O’Duffy’s novel about this traumatic experience, The Wasted Island (1919), is one of the finest fictional accounts of what Roy Foster has recently characterised as the ‘Revolutionary Generation’. It is a great pleasure to discuss this unjustly neglected writer at the University of Vienna, which has a long-established and very distinguished Centre for Irish Studies”. —Dr Keith Hopper teaches Literature and Film Studies for Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education, and is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Irish Studies at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. He is the author of Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist (revised edition 2009) and general editor of the twelve-volume Ireland into Film series (2001–2007). He is the co-editor (with Neil Murphy) of Flann O’Brien: Centenary Essays (2011) and The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (2013), and of Dermot Healy’s The Collected Short Stories and Fighting with Shadows, both of which were published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2015. Dermot Healy’s The Collected Plays and a volume of critical essays entitled Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy, co-edited by Dr Hopper and Prof Murphy, will be published this July.