[spectre] Controversy & Debate

[Séamas Cain]

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On Tuesday, September 22, 2009, IMRAM, the annual Irish-language
literary festival, will present an evening of controversy & debate on
the issue of "Tradition and/or Innovation."

This debate will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Irish Writers' Centre,
19 Parnell Square in Dublin, Ireland.  Admission is free.

PUBLIC LECTURE & DEBATE

Does the Irish language have a modern literary culture?  Or, have
universities limited literary discussion to folkloric texts that have
little to say to urban readers?  Can poetry & literature in Irish
survive if the rural Gaeltacht dies?  Can a modern literary culture
emerge from an urban creolized form of Irish?

Has the Irish-language become the prisoner of sociologists,
anthropologists, government bureaucrats & educators who have
constricted & suffocated the possibilities to such an extent that the
very survival of the language itself has been called into question?

Will literary innovation ever be tolerated in Ireland?

These are the questions that Tomás Mac Síomóin raises in his IMRAM
talk, "An Dúchas agus an Nua" (Tradition & Innovation).  Dáithí Ó
hÓgáin, Professor of Folklore at University College Dublin, will reply
to the lecture, & IMRAM invites all with a serious interest in Irish
poetry & literature to join in this crucial debate.

Tuesday,
22 September 2009,
7:00 p.m.,
IRISH WRITERS' CENTRE,
19 Parnell Square,
Dublin, Ireland

Free admission

For additional information about the IMRAM Festival, go to ...

http://www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/imram.html

http://www.facebook.com/pages/IMRAM-IRISH-LANGUAGE-LITERATURE-FESTIVAL

http://www.facebook.com/pages/IMRAM-FEILE-LITRIOCHTA-GAEILGE

Questions may be put to
Liam Carson, Director of
IMRAM Festival at ...

liamog62 at mac.com

Books featured at
the IMRAM Festival
may be purchased
from ...

Connolly Books,
connollybooks at eircom.net
43 East Essex Street,
Dublin 2, Ireland

beir bua,

Séamas Cain
http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain
http://alazanto.org/seamascain

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