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The Irish Writer in “Little England” symposium will now take place on Saturday 24th February. Tickets 20/10 are still available: kent.ac.uk/english/conferenc…

Now up, we have Margaret O’Neill, UL, on Kate O’Brien, Kent, & Ageing #IrishWriterLittleEngland

Now we have Diana Hirst, on Bowen & east Kent #IrishWriterLittleEngland

Now up, we have Lance Pettitt on the Ulster Exilic & Hurst #IrishWriterLittleEngland

Now our third panel, “Placing Bowen”, kicking off with Rebecca Darcy, on Bowen & Trevor #IrishWriterLittleEngland

Barry’s Tea & porter cake was a hit #IrishWriterLittleEngland

Emily Holt, on Nuala O’Faolain: An Irish Memoirist’s Challenge to “Little England” #IrishWriterLittleEngland

#IrishWriterLittleEngland now we have Wendy Parkins, on ‘Happiness in Hythe? Elizabeth Bowen’s Kent-coast years’

#IrishWriterLittleEngland Byrne calls for a revisioning of Irishness in women’s fictions of 20C

#IrishWriterLittleEngland Byrne argues that we need our green specs on when we read literature: Irishness can be evasive otherwise.

After a lovely lunch, we are now onto panel 2: ‘Irish Women Writing “Little England”’ with Deirdre O’Byrne, ‘Mapping female identities in the fictions of Moy McCrory and Maude Casey’ #IrishWriterLittleEngland

#IrishWriterLittleEngland delegates listening to Robert Kiely on Flynn & about to partake in some close reading!

#IrishWriterLittleEngland Robert Kiely on ‘Leontia Flynn, W. H. Auden, and Little Northern Irelander

#IrishWriterLittleEngland now up Rosie Lavan on ‘The Irish Writer and “Britain in Pictures”’

#IrishWriterLittleEngland Bronac Ferran now first up for our panel, ‘Tracing Influences’, with a paper ‘The Mysterious Mr Sharkey’

Innes queries Trevor’s use of “Tome OBD” in ‘The Boarding House’ (1965) #IrishWriterLittleEngland

Prof Lyn Innes opens #IrishWriterLittleEngland with a plenary on ‘William Trevor and Post-colonial London’

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Registration for The Irish Writer in “Little England” symposium is still open: store.kent.ac.uk/product-cat… note that the symposium will now take place on Sat 24th

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