On October 27, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the CCC, Professor Stephen Brown, Associate Professor of English at University of Nevada at Las Vegas, will present a lecture based upon a literary jaunt of his own to Ireland.

A big, happy, animated man of Irish heritage, Professor Brown visited Ireland to see the land of his ancestors and to try to understand how this land inspired the works of Ireland’s two greatest writers, James Joyce and William Butler Yeats.  “Inspired” by his trip to Ireland, Professor Brown created this lecture in which he presents images of Ireland, reads from works of Joyce and Yeats, and visits the sites that are associated with these two writers.   We’ll visit Joyce’s tower in Sandy Cove, Yeats’s tower in Ballylee, the estates of Lady Gregory at Coole Park and Daniel O’Connell in the remote wilds of Kerry; the cottage of Patrick Pearse in the forlorn landscape of Connamara and the humble home of Nora Barnacle in Galway.  Venture inside Kilmainham jail for the last words of the poet revolutionists Pearse and McDonough.  Feast your writerly appetite in the Dublin Writer’s Museum and the Joyce Museum.  Slake your literary thirst in a pub named for Joyce’s literary sidekick and tower-mate, Oliver St. John Gogarty.  Visit Yeats’s grave in the wild landscape he immortalized, under Ben Bulben.  These and many more stops await you in the Emerald Isle!

Due to a scheduling conflict, this event has been rescheduled to Saturday, Oct. 27th.

This event has received funding from the Utah Humanities Council. The Utah Humanities Council promotes history and heritage, literature and literacy, and public discussion of issues important to our communities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this website or the lectures do not necessarily represent those of the Utah Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.