Name: Breandán Mac Suibhne lecture- “What has happened to this house? Brian Friel and his Mother’s People"
Start: 2024-12-04T19:30:00+00:00
Location: University of Ulster, Magee

$Breand\u00e1n Mac Suibhne lecture- \u201cWhat has happened to this house? Brian Friel and his Mother\u2019s People"$

The Friends of The Derry Walls 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. The Venue for this lecture is kindly hosted by Ulster University, Magee
This event and Friends of Derry Walls 2024 Programme is kindly sponsored by Inner City Trust