‘I have my people and they are waiting: Who are the readers of poetry?’
Annual Ireland Chair of Poetry Lecture by Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
7.30pm
Wednesday 14 March
Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building,
Trinity College, Dublin
Prior registration required: please email irelandchairofpoetry@gmail.com to RSVP
Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will deliver her annual lecture as Ireland Professor of Poetry at Trinity on 14 March 2018. Professor Ní Chuilleanáin, a Fellow of Trinity College and Professor (Emerita) of the School of English, was appointed to the Chair in 2016. Her lecture, entitled ‘I have my people and they are waiting: Who are the readers of poetry?’, will explore the question of the audience for poetry.
The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust was set up in 1998, following Seamus Heaney’s receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, and is jointly held between Queen’s University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Every three years a poet of honour and distinction is chosen to represent the Chair as Ireland’s Professor of Poetry. During their tenure the holder spends a year attached to each of the three universities. Professor Ní Chuilleanáin is currently poet-in-residence at Trinity.
