The Irish Literary Revival: Then and Now

With R. F. Foster, Belinda McKeon, Fintan O’Toole and James Pethica

R. F. Foster, Belinda McKeon, Fintan O’Toole and James Pethica come together for a wide‑ranging virtual conversation on Risings: The Irish Literary Renaissance and the Making of a Nation. As foremost historians, writers, critics and scholars in their respective fields, the panel will explore how literature helped imagine, energize, and complicate ideas of Irish nationhood in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Lively, thoughtful, and accessible, the conversation promises to illuminate Risings not only as a landmark exhibition about a formative period, but also as a lens through which to think afresh about the enduring power of literature in moments of national transformation.