‘Human Rights at Sea & on Land’ (2023)

Rióna Ní Fhrighil (aoichaint/ keynote) Modern Languages CDRG Research Showcase, Queen’s University Belfast (19/5/2023) How do poems draw our attention to the paradoxes and contradictions that are at the heart of human rights discourse? A close reading of Deirdre Brennan’s poem ‘A Cuid Féin ag an bhFarraige’ (2007) / ‘ The Sea’s Claim’ (2017) brings […]

The Posthuman and Irish Antigones (2022)

Natasha Remoudou, 2022. ‘The Posthuman and Irish Antigones: Rights, Revolt, Extinction’ Clotho 4(2): 211-247. Read article here. Abstract: Antigone’s afterlives in Ireland have always enacted critical gestures of social protest and mourning that expose the fundamental fragility of human rights caught up in the symbolic conflict between oppressors and oppressed. This paper seeks to explore […]

‘A Cuid Féin ag an bhFarraige’ (2022)

Rióna Ní Fhrighil (aoichaint/ invited talk) Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe (2022) Sa chaint seo déanfar mionléamh ar dhán le Deirdre Brennan. Pléifear an léiriú a thugtar sa dán den teideal ‘A Cuid Féin ag an bhFarraige’ ar dhroch-chás na n-inimirceach mídhleathach chun na hEorpa lenár linn féin.