West Cork Literature Festival

Deep Maps co-principal investigator, Claire Connolly was invited to speak at the West Cork Literary Festival in July 2018. In her lecture,  ‘Deep Maps: Nineteenth-Century Poetry of the West Cork Coast.’ , Claire considers what nineteenth-century poetry can bring to our apprehension of the West Cork coast, and how  the poetic language of the past can shape or alter our understanding of environmental challenges in our own time.

Literary Programme