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Medbh McGuckian and the Politics of Minority Discourse Dr Richard Kirkland (King’s College London) The Old Senate Room, Mon 5 November, 5-7 p.m. Further information from Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy, on 01224 272630 or email sam@abdn.ac.uk Dr Kirkland is a senior lecturer in English at King’s College London. He is the author of Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965: Moments of Danger (1996), Identity Parades: Northern Irish Culture and Dissident Subjects (2002), Cathal O’Byrne and the Northern Revival in Ireland 1890-1960 (2006). Poetry Reading Medbh McGuckian (Queen’s University Belfast) The Old Senate Room, Mon 5 November, 5-7 p.m. Further information from Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy, on 01224 272630 or email sam@abdn.ac.uk Medbh McGuckian is an internationally acclaimed author of twelve collections of poetry, the most recent of which is The Currach Requires No Harbour (2006). “The Name Flows from the Naming”: The Key to Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy (University of Aberdeen) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, Tue 6 November, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy, on 01224 272630 or email sam@abdn.ac.uk Dr Alcobia-Murphy is a lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of Governing the Tongue in Northern Ireland (2005), and Sympathetic Ink (2006).