Event Details - Irish Cultural Heritage Day: The Comedy and Crisis of Irish Identity and the Celtic Tiger, with Patrick Mullen

Irish Cultural Heritage Day!

Join the Irish Studies Program on Tuesday, February 20 from 3-5 p.m. in the Dunn Conference Suite for The Comedy and Crisis of Irish Identity and the Celtic Tiger with Patrick Mullen.

Patrick Mullen is associate professor of English at Northeastern University, where he teaches courses in the areas of modernism, the history of the novel, critical theory, queer theory, Irish studies, and film. He is the author of The Poor Bugger’s Tool: Irish Modernism, Queer Labor, and Postcolonial History (Oxford, 2012), which is soon to be released in paperback, and has also written articles on Edith Wharton, James Joyce, and Roger Casement that have appeared in Novel, Critical Quarterly and Public Culture. In 2012, he was a fellow with the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on James Joyce’s Ulysses at Trinity College, Dublin.

Following the talk, BSU students who have studied abroad in Ireland will talk about their experiences and the BSU Irish Steppers will dance for us. Refreshments will be available.

This event is open to everyone in the BSU community and the public. Faculty are welcome to bring their classes.