Name: Breandán Mac Suibhne lecture, Brian Friel and his Mother’s People
Start: 2024-12-04T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-12-04T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Ulster University, Derry-Londonderry Campus

$Breand\u00e1n Mac Suibhne lecture, Brian Friel and his Mother\u2019s People$

Breandán Mac Suibhne gives a lecture titled "What has happened to this house? Brian Friel and his Mother’s People"
About this Event

The Friends of The Derry Walls and Ulster University, Magee are delighted to announce that their December 2024 lecture will be given by Breandán Mac Suibhne, Professor of Modern Irish History at the University of Galway. His lecture is titled “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. Venue for this lecture is The Minor Hall, Magee, Ulster University.

Venue kindly sponsored by Ulster University, Derry/Londonderry Campus

The Derry Walls 2024 Programme is kindly sponsored by Inner City Trust