TLRH | Novel Revolutions: D.H. Lawrence’s Ireland

Tuesday, 21 September 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Professor Eve Patten, Trinity College Dublin, as part of the School of English Staff Postgrad Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. In 1919 D.H. Lawrence wrote of Ireland as ‘a blank round O on the map – a sort of nowhere’, yet Irish references permeate his later novels, often in relation to his fears of an English revolution. This talk traces his Irish connections and considers them in the broader context of English-Irish literary relations after the First World War. Professor Eve Patten lectures in the School of English, TCD, and is Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. Her most recent publication is, as editor, Irish Literature in Transition, 1940-1980 (Cambridge UP, 2020), and her talk is from Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination, forthcoming from Oxford UP. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/