“Eironeisa: Irish Islands and Pacific Waters”
Dr Maebh Long, University of Waikato, New Zealand
When? Monday 24th of July – 18.00
Where? Eisenhower Saal – IG 1.314 , Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt
This talk traces the ways familiar depictions of Ireland are interrupted when we consider some of the rare co-imaginings of Irish and Pacific islands. What do the crabs and crafts of Robert and Frances Flaherty’s Samoan film Moana (1926) tell us when watched alongside Robert Flaherty’s later Man of Aran (1934)? What version of Ireland comes into focus when we study the dreams of the Cook Islands that permeate Kenneth Sheils Reddin’s popular Dublin novel Another Shore (1945)? Or when we watch Dalkey’s shores merge with Rarotonga’s beaches in Charles Crichton’s 1948 adaptation?
Followed by a Q&A with John Greaney and a reception.
Event hosted by the Consul General of Ireland to Frankfurt
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