Dr Karl O’Hanlon is a Lecturer in English at Maynooth University. His research focuses on modern and contemporary poetry, and his poetry has appeared in The TLS, Irish Times, Poetry, and elsewhere. His monograph, Official Voices: Poets and the Irish State, which examines Irish poet-officials from 1922 to the late 1960s, is forthcoming with Liverpool UP in 2024, and he is co-editing Irish Writers and State Bureaucracy, also forthcoming with Liverpool UP in 2025. With Dr Gail McConnell, QUB English, he is PI on the North-South Research Programme project ‘BRAN: Beyond Regionalism and Nationalism in Irish Poetry’.

This event will be both in-person in the Irish Studies Seminar Room, 27 University Square, and online via MS Teams. All welcome in-person or online.