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Episode: 46th T.S. Eliot Society Annual Memorial Lecture - Barbarous Cuisine: T.S. Eliot in Ireland 1936-1940
Description: Recorded July 2nd, 2025.
46th Annual Memorial Lecture
Barbarous Cuisine: T. S. Eliot in Ireland (1936 & 1940)
Fran Brearton - Queen’s University Belfast
Chaired by Patrick Query, T.S. Eilot Society President
Fran Brearton is Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast.
Her books include The Great War in Irish Poetry, Reading Michael Longley, and, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry and Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice and his Legacy. She is a former president of the Robert Graves Society and appears regularly on BBC R4’s ‘In Our Time’ to discuss modern poetry. She was elected to the Royal...