Rooted Cosmopolitanism in M. Mhac an tSaoi’s Poetry (2023)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil, 2023. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitanism in Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s Poetry’ in C. Ní Ríordáin & S. Schwerter (eds), The Poets and Poetry of Munster (Stuttgart: ibidem), 53-72.
‘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 […]
Writing Wrongs: Modern Poetry in Irish (2023)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil (Aoichaint/ Keynote) VI International Seminar on Irish Studies, University of Granada, Spain. (25/1/2023)
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 […]
Trauma, Radiance, & the Macabre in “Living in Hiroshima”’ (2022)
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, 2022. ‘”I am their ghost: Trauma, Radiance, and the Macabre in Anthony Glavin’s ‘Living in Hiroshima” Irish Studies in Europe XI: Interfaces and Dialogues.
‘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.
HUMAN RIGHTS & POETRY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT (2022)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil & Anne Karhio, (2022). ‘Human Rights and Poetry in a Global Context’, Law and Humanities 16(1), 3-7. Full text available open-access at Law and Humanities Achoimre/Abstract: This Special Issue titled ‘Human Rights and Poetry in a Global Context’ contains five articles from a diverse range of global perspectives and contexts including Ireland, […]
IRISH POETRY AND THE FALL OF SREBRENICA (2022)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil, 2022. ”A black day this: Irish poetry and the fall of Srebrenica’, Law and Humanities 16(1), 8-27. Full article available open-access at Law and Humanities Achoimre/Abstract: The Bosnian War elicited a substantial number of poetic responses from Irish poets, writing in both English and in Irish. This article focuses on one frequently […]
HUMAN RIGHTS & POSTHUMAN POETICS (2022)
Anne Karhio, 2002. ‘Human rights and posthuman poetics in contemporary Irish poetry: technology, media, ecology’, Law and Humanities 16(1), 102-122. Full article available open-access at Law and Humanities Achoimre/Abstract: This article examines a series of poems by contemporary Irish authors writing in English, and focuses on the role of media technology in considering post-human ethics […]
GENDERING HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN GREEK POETRY (2022)
Natasha Remoundou, 2022. ‘Wronged bodies: gendering human rights abuses in contemporary Greek poetry’, Law and Humanities 16(1), 28-58. Full article available open-access at Law and Humanities Achoimre/Abstract: This article surveys the ways in which contemporary Greek poetry unveils human rights abuses in Greek society in order to push for law and social policy reforms that […]