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The Hopkins Literary Festival July 19 - 25th, 2024

Newbridge College Theatre (since 1987, last week of July)

'A bright gem in the literary world'. Patrick Samway SJ

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The Gerard Manley Hopkins Literary Festival,
July 19 - 25, 2024,
Newbridge College Theatre,
Co. Kildare.

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A bright gem in the literary world. Patrick Samway SJ


Provisional List of Speakers for Hopkins July 2024


Hopkins Literary Festival SPEAKERS 2024

(Topics, Times and Dates will be confirmed closer to the festival)

Thomas H Collins (USA) lecture and read verse

Patrick Samway SJ. Burgess and The Wreck

Seán Bagnall, President, The Gerard Manley Hopkins Society

Gerard Casey (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy UCD) The Place of Poetry.

Rainer Emig Johannes Gutenberg Unversity Mainz. Structural Anachronism in Hopkins’s Poetry

Youngmin Kim, Soeul, South Korea.

Michael Allsopp Dublin Sonnets of Resolution   

William Flesch, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA  (Hardy, Hopkins and Metre)

Monika Reif-Hülser, University of Constance, Germany): Hopkins in a Contemporary Context

Eamon Kiernan University Magdeburg, Germany: Terrible Sonnets

Anthony Johnson, Abo Academy University, Finland: Title to come

Elaine Marshall, UK Hopkins Society: Hopkins’s ‘Andromeda’ and the Spoliation of the Church in Italy.

Ann Marie Klein,Ryan Fellow, University of St. Thomas, USA: Hope Amidst Grief: Is Reframing the Full Answer? Hopkins’ Wreck of the Deutschland.

Katarzyna Stefanowicz, University of Birmingham U): Title to come

Michael Woods (UK): The Dendrology of Hopkins (Mn egg-Wed. Mid) Tuesday .

Mark Wormald, University of Cambridge, UK: Fire Across the Water.

Brett Millier, Middlebury College, USA: Title to come.

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