Poetic justice in lecture series finale

Professor Roy Foster, Hertford College, Oxford University, will deliver a lecture at Johnston Central Library, Cavan on the topic of 'Outfacing Atrocity: Heaney, Yeats and meditating in time of civil war'. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Seamus Heaney's death, and the centenary both of Yeats’s Nobel Prize, and the end of Ireland’s brief but savage Civil War.

Professor Roy Foster, who has written books about both poets as well as on the Irish revolution, will compare the way that each writer used his unofficial but influential position as national poet to confront traumatic violence, inherited antipathies, and the fragile possibilities of reconciliation.

This event will be the sixth and final lecture in the Library's Autumn lectures for 2023 presented by Cavan County Library Service, in association with Cavan County Council’s Historian-in Residence programme.

Professor Foster's lecture takes place on Thursday, November 9, at 7:30pm in Johnston Central Library, Cavan. Booking your place at the event is recommended and the library can be contacted on 049 4378500/1 or by email at library@cavancoco.ie

This lecture series forms part of Cavan County Council's Decade of Centenaries 2023 and Historian in Residence programme and is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 initiative.