Panel 1: Partition and its legacies: Cultural and Literary Legacies

Recorded May 7, 2021. This special centenary joint symposium will
address the cultural, political and social legacies of Irish
partition in 1921. The symposium consists of two panels: the first,
from Trinity College, Dublin, will discuss the cultural and
literary legacies of partition; the second, from Queen’s
University, Belfast, will cover the political and social
consequences. Each panel consists of three speakers who will
present for 10 minutes each, followed by audience Q and A. The
symposium is hosted by the Trinity Long Room Hub. Chair: Ciaran
O'Neill Ciaran O'Neill is Associate Professor in Nineteenth Century
History at Trinity College Dublin and Deputy Director of Trinity
Long Room Hub. He is editor (with Finola O'Kane Crimmins) of the
forthcoming MUP collection, Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean
(2022) and is currently completing a second monograph, entitled
Life in a Palliative State (OUP, 2022). His current research
projects focus on the Eastern Caribbean. Speakers: Stephen O’Neill
Stephen O’Neill’s monograph, Irish Culture and Partition 1920-1955
is forthcoming with Liverpool University Press. From 2019-2020 he
was an National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the
University of Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish
Studies. A graduate of Queen’s University Belfast, he completed his
PhD in the School of English at Trinity College in 2018. Stephen
will discuss the early literature and culture of partition in
Ireland, with a focus on the 1920s. Guy Woodward Guy Woodward is
the author of Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War,
published by OUP in 2015. He completed his doctorate and IRC-funded
postdoctorate in Trinity College, and is currently Post-Doctoral
Research Associate on the project ‘The Political Warfare Executive,
Covert Propaganda and British Culture’ in the Department of English
Studies, Durham University. He will talk on ‘Border crossings in
Irish wartime writing’. Eve Patten Eve Patten is Professor in
Trinity’s School of English and is currently Director of the
Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. She
is the editor of Irish Literature in Transition, 1940 – 1980 (CUP,
2020) and is completing a monograph, Ireland, Revolution and the
English Modernist Imagination, for OUP. She will discuss depictions
of the Irish border in English film and literature. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/