Inaugural Jude Flynn Memorial Lecture takes place in Longford Arms Hotel

County Longford Historical Society is delighted to announce the holding of the inaugural Jude Flynn Memorial Lecture.

It will be given by Vona Groarke, Ireland Professor of Poetry, on Monday, March 23 at 8pm in the Longford Arms Hotel. Her lecture will be entitled ‘Filling in the Gaps – Writing Hereafter: the Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara’.

Soon after Jude’s death just over a year ago, the committee agreed that an annual lecture would be a fitting tribute to him. Jude was a founder member, long-serving honorary secretary and later, president of the society.

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Vona Groarke has published fourteen books with The Gallery Press, including nine original poetry collections, and two translations from the Irish, most recently Woman of Winter (2023), a version of the ‘The Lament of the Hag of Beare’.

She published Hereafter: the Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara with New York University Press (2022). Vona was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library 2018-19; former editor of Poetry Ireland Review; and selector for the UK’s Poetry Book Society. She has taught at the University of Manchester since 2007 and was also Writer in Residence at St John’s College, Cambridge.

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