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/