Belfast-born literary critic, Professor John Wilson Foster, will present a public lecture entitled: All the Long Tradition: Reflections on Loyalty and Service, at the Ulster Museum this week.

Professor Foster, who is currently the Leverhulme Visiting Lecturer at UU, will consider aspects of Irish loyalty during the first two decades of the 20^th Century.

His recent series of Leverhulme Lectures reflect his ongoing research into a crucial moment in Ireland’s history.

“In my first lecture I drew attention to a number of unduly neglected women writers of the 1890–1918 period and then went on in my second lecture to explore the neglected writers of the Great War,” Professor Foster said.

“In this lecture, taking Sebastian Barry’s play The Steward of Christendom as a starting point, I will reflect on that highly contested Irish virtue of loyalty and on figures from that same period who have suffered our neglect and even our odium.”

Professor Foster, who was formerly Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, has written extensively on Irish literature and cultural history. His publications include the seminal Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction, Colonial Consequences and The Age of Titanic.

This lecture will take place at 1pm in the Lecture Theatre, Ulster Museum, Belfast on Thursday 18 November.  Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.

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For further information, please contact:

Trina Porter
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