Cherríe Moraga’s latest play, New Fire-To Put Things Right Again opens in the Brava Theater Center in January 2012, marking the Center’s 25th anniversary. To find out more about Moraga’s theatrical oeuvre click here, and watch the video below for details of Moraga’s journey towards New Fire. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/419411661/new-fire-to-put-things-right-again/widget/video.html This latest production needs support to come into fruition. [...]

Slam PhD forces academics to get to the point. The linked article above appeared in The Irish Times, 16th September 2011. It covers the 1st PhD Slam held by the School of English, University College Cork the day before the article came into print. For the Slam, participants including myself employed a Japanese method of [...]

Dr. Will Kaufman opened his Seminar with the well-known Woody Guthrie song, “This Land is My Land.” In my opinion, this set the scene for an inspirational story of Guthrie’s transformation from a narrow-minded racist into an enlightened civil rights supporter and activist. Firstly, it is important to acknowledge the way in which Kaufman presented [...]

Orla Murphy gave a stimulating paper in the School of English Research Seminar, University College Cork, which asked the fundamental question: In the coming years, is digital illiteracy going to place people on the margins of research? According to Murphy, the library, which has long been the nucleus of the modern humanities, is undergoing a complete [...]

The experience of immigration is evoked in many ways. Film, art, literature, music and exhibitions create a spectacle of immigration. The Cobh Heritage Centre’s exhibition can be compared and contrasted with other works, both past and present to reveal the nature of this spectacle. This paper investigates representations of immigration that realistically interpret the pain [...]