On 10/29 join the 11am-noon upper-level Irish Literature class's discussion of Joyce’s Hallowe’en story, “Clay” (using Cóilín Owens’s celebrated James Joyce Quarterly article), and a presentation by Joan Tremblay on J.S. Le Fanu’s Victorian Irish Gothic classic, “The Child that Went with the Fairies.” The 12:30pm Short Story class features an open discussion of the same Le Fanu story and Bowen’s “The Demon Lover” & a chance to tell your OWN ghost story! Contact host Prof. Mary Burke regarding admittance (through WebEx) to either or both classes and for links to the texts. Costumes encouraged!
Related event: 10/27 at 6:00pm: Sinead Murray (FLTA in Irish) & UConn’s Cumann Gaelach (Gaelic Society) host a Samhain (Hallowe’en) event with traditional games, stories and music. sinead.murray@uconn.edu for details.
For more information, contact: Mary Burke at mary.burke@uconn.edu