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“What has happened to this house? Brian Friel and his Mother’s People”. Breandán will use the lives of the actual people on whom the characters in Dancing at Lughnasa are more or less based as the basis for a wide-ranging discussion of the history of west Donegall.
Breandán Mac Suibhne is the author of The End of Outrage (2017), an award-winning book on land-grabbing and informing in the time of the Famine. He was a founding editor, with critic Seamus Deane, of the journal Field Day Review and several book series, and, with historian David Dickson, he edited The Outer Edge of Ulster (2020), the longest lower-class account of the Famine, by Hugh Dorian, a native of Fánaid who died in poverty in the Bogside in 1914. Mac Suibhne is Professor of Modern Irish History at the University of Galway.
The Lecture will take place on Wednesday 4th December at 7:30pm, Ulster University, Derry~Londonderry campus, Minor Hall, MD106. This venue is kindly hosted by Ulster University.
Ticket are available through the Derry Walls website.
The Friends of Derry Walls 2024 Programme is kindly sponsored by Inner City Trust.
Derry~Londonderry Campus
Northland Rd, Londonderry, BT48 7JL
