Declan Kiberd is the Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA, where he teaches in the English department and Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. He is one of the leading international authorities on the literature of Ireland, both in the English and the Irish languages, and has authored numerous influential articles and books, including: Synge and the Irish Language, Men and Feminism in Irish Literature, Inventing Ireland, Irish Classics, The Irish Writer and the World, and, most recently, Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living on Joyce’s masterpiece.

The event is presented by Oxford Brookes University and chaired by Dr Eóin Flannery, of the university’s Department of English and Modern Languages.