Oliver Rafferty SJ, speaks on Irish Literature
Prior to concluding his term as Hopkins Profesor of British Literature
last September, Oliver P. Rafferty SJ, professor of Ecclesiastical History at St. Patrick's
Maynooth, delivered a series of public lectures on Irish
literature. In the first lecture, Dr. Rafferty explored the role of Irish literature in the construction of the Irish national identity, touching on the work of such authors as James Clarence Mangan and Thomas Davis, and leading into William Butler Yeats, to whose thought and work he devoted his second lecture, on Ireland's "poetic revolution," 1912-1922.
