Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances: with Roy Foster

Roy Foster discusses his new book on Yeats with poet Gerald Dawe. 

W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow.  Roy Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative perspective.  Foster repositions Yeats as an inheritor of nineteenth-century traditions, rather than simply as a creator of literary modernism in the twentieth century, and provides a new perspective on the Irish Literary Revival of the late nineteenth century.

Celebrated historian and prize-winning biographer Roy Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford.  His books include The Irish Story and Modern Ireland.

Poet Gerald Dawe is Director of M. Phil. in Creative Writing and Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing at Trinity College, Dublin.

Saturday September 10th
11.00am
Pavilion Theatre
€12 & €10 (Concession)
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