‘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)
‘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 and Irish Poetry’ (2021)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil: (Aoichaint / Invited Presentation) Institute of International Relations, Prague. (25/5/2021) You can see the video here . Abstract: The triadic relationship between poetry, human rights and literary translation is at the heart of the large-scale research project Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry upon which this presentation is based. Drawing on […]
‘Eoghan Ó Tuairisc & Poetry after Hiroshima’ (2021)
Natasha Remoundou: ‘Eoghan Ó Tuairisc’s Lux Aeterna: Poetry after Hiroshima’, Irish Hellenic Society/ An Cumann Éireannach-Gréagach (10/3/2021) (Aoichaint / Invited Presentation) Eoghan Ó Tuairisc’s modernist poem, Aifreann na Marbh – translated by Colbert Kearney as Mass of the Dead – formed the major part of his collection Lux Aeterna (1964). The Irish original and its […]
‘Poetry, Politics, and Pathogens’ (2020)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil & Anne Karhio (Aoichaint / Keynote) The Fifth International Arts in Society Conference (24/06/2020)
‘Writer as Righter & Irish Poetry’ (2019)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil (Aoichaint / Keynote) International Celtic Congress Conference, Bangor, Wales. (22/07/2019) Summary: The poem “Dubh” by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill was written on the fall of Srebrenica, 11 July 1995, during the Bosnian War. This paper will give an overview of Ní Dhomhnaill’s activism during the Bosnian War and will then trace this poem’s […]
‘Cearta an Duine agus an Nuafhilíocht’ (2019)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil: ‘Republic of Conscience: cearta an duine agus nuafhilíocht na hÉireann’, Léachtaí Cholm Cille. NUI Maynooth. (26/4/2019) (Aoichaint / Keynote) Achoimre: Sa léacht seo déanfar cur síos ar an tionscadal taighde Republic of Conscience: Cearta an Duine agus Nuafhilíocht na hÉireann, tionscadal atá á mhaoiniú ag an Chomhairle um Thaighde in Éirinn. Tabharfar léargas ar […]
‘Irish Poetry through a Human Rights Lens’ (2019)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil: (Aoichaint / Keynote) IV International Seminar on Irish Studies. Universidad de Granada. (12/2/2019) Poems discussed included “From the Republic of Conscience” by Seamus Heaney and “The Poem at Check-In Desk 56” by Colette Bryce.
‘Ní ceadmhach neamhshuim’ (2018)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil: (Aoichaint / Keynote). An Fhéile Bheag Filíochta, Musaem Chorca Dhuibhne. (9/11/2018) Achoimre: ‘Writer & righter’ an teideal a bhí ar léacht a thug Seamus Heaney do Choimisiún na hÉireann um Chearta an Duine agus Comhionannas, thiar sa bhliain 2010. Bhain éirim na léachta sin leis an dán a chum sé corradh is scór bliain roimhe sin arís, dán dar teideal […]