Law and Literature one day symposium on April 6th at All Hallow’s Campus

DCU’s School of English is hosting its first Law and Literature one day symposium on Saturday April 6th on the All Hallow’s Campus. The event will explore the intersections between these two disciplines in modern Ireland.

The keynote speakers on the day will be Prof. Margaret Kelleher (UCD), Dr. Tom Hickey (DCU) and Dr. Heather Laird (UCC).  

Prof. Kelleher is Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin.  Her most recent book, The Maamtrasna Murders Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland was published last year.  The title of her keynote is The Bilingual Courtroom and its Literary Appearances.

Dr. Hickey is a lecturer in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. He works in the fields of constitutional law and political theory. The title of his keynote is Interpretation and the Irish Constitution.

Dr. Laird is a lecturer in English at University College Cork and the author of Subversive Law in Ireland, 1879-1920.  The title of her keynote is “[H]e daren’t show his nose with the Molly Maguires looking for him to let daylight through him for grabbing the holding of an evicted tenant”: James Joyce, the Cattle Economy and the Unwritten Agrarian Code.

If you wish to attend, you can register here through Eventbrite.  The closing date for registration is Friday March 29th.

Please contact Dr. Eugene McNulty for information or visit the symposium website.