JM Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism by Seán Hewitt: original, powerful synergy
A rich account of three key but diverse topics convincingly held in one critical frame
John Millington Synge by John Butler Yeats. Photograph: DeAgostini/Getty Images
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April 16th, 2021 was the 150th anniversary of the birth of John Millington Synge. Synge had a tragically short life, succumbing to Hodgkinâs Disease just shy of his 38th birthday. But his achievement was considerable and the plays in particular have ensured him a lengthy afterlife, as a still potent ghost in the Irish imaginary.
There has been a renewal of scholarly interest in Synge in recent years; but there never have been and never will be that many scholarly monographs on JM Synge. For any scholar who is serious enough to undertake work on Synge is obliged to delve deep into the archive held in the writerâs alma mater, Trinity College, Dublin, and familiarise themselves with the not
Published: - Apr 28, 2021
Located in Dublin and with a history of 429 years, Trinity College named its 45th Provost of the University that will be starting on August 2021.
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Linda Doyle, who studied electrical engineering at the University of Cork and graduated with her master s degree and Ph.D. from Trinity, was elected at a process concerning student representatives and the Trinity Staff.
Doyle is the founder and director at Connect, which is a Science Foundation Research Center promoting future communications. She has been a lecturer at Trinity since the mid-1990s and also worked as dean of research and chaired boards such as the Douglas Hyde Gallery. When interviewed Prof Doyle brought up that she was delighted and excited about being the first woman to assume this prestigious role.
Academic Feminist and Founding Member of Cumann na mBan
Agnes O’Farrelly (1874-1951) pictured was a pioneering academic, feminist, professor of Irish at University College Dublin (UCD), Irish language novelist and a founding member of Cumann na mBan, the Irish nationalist women’s organisation. She presided at the inaugural meeting of Cumann na mBan in 1914.
O’Farrelly was an active campaigner in promoting equal opportunities for women in university education and was appointed a lecturer in Modern Irish at UCD in 1909. She was one of several university-educated female graduates to play key roles in various cultural nationalist organisations, most notably Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic League). In doing so, she became acquainted with Eoin MacNeill and Douglas Hyde.
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