The GM Hopkins Festival and Archive
Explore The Hopkins Archive - over 100 Talks, Lectures on Hopkins and his Poetry
The Gerard Manley Hopkins Literary Festival,
July 19 - 25, 2024,
Newbridge College Theatre,
Co. Kildare.
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A bright gem in the literary world. Patrick Samway SJ
Hopkins Lectures
SATURDAY 20th JULY, 10 am
Lewis Roberts (Cambridge University, UK): “Hopkins on Augustine”
Koji Katsurayama (Kyoto University, Japan): “Hopkins and Ambiguity”
(Parallel Youth Hopkins Festival begins. Director: Derek Egan.
Desmond Morris Visual Art Exhibitions open to public. (10% deposit; pay, collect on Thurs. evening)
11.15 Coffee at Town Library at the Bridge
11.45 CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP Library at the Bridge
conducted by Chris Green (De Paul University, Chicago)
Participants may bring 25 copies of one poem, for critique.
MC: William Adamson (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Hopkins Lectures Music, Launch, Film Poetry
Sunday 21st JULY, 2pm
Newbridge Silver Restaurant - in the Theatre
Gerard Casey (UCD) What’s the Point?
Diarmuid Johnson: two poems in Irish and English; Flute solo
Lewis Roberts (Cambridge University UK) Hopkins on Augustine:
Film: Desmond Egan Interview with William Adamson
Koji Katsurayama introduces Laptop by Desmond Egan
Moderator: Derek Egan MC: Jenny Adamson
Hopkins LECTURES
Monday July 22nd, 2024
10.00 LECTURES
Youngmin Kim (Seoul University, South Korea):Transformative Poetics in Hopkins
Monika Reif-Hülser (University of Constance, Germany): “Hopkins in a Contemporary
Context”
Moderator: Patrick Samway S.J.
MC: Elaine Murphy
11.00 Coffee
11.45 LECTURES
Ann Marie Klein (Uni. of St. Thomas, USA)The Wreck of the Deutschland
Brendan Staunton S.J. Hopkins as a Jesuit Priest
Moderator: Michael Allsopp MC: Elizabeth Doyle
1.00 Lunch: Chat and Chew Restaurant (opp. Whitewater S.C.)
3.00 WINE RECEPTION, PRESENTATION, LECTURE Reception, courtesy, The German Embassy
THE NEWBRIDGE SILVER LITERARY AWARD: Anthony Johnson presented by Seán Bagnall
Anthony Johnson (Abo Academy Uni., Finland) Hopkins, Herbert, and Music Drama
Rainer Emig (Uni of Mainz, Germany) Hopkins’s Poetry and Its Reception
Moderator: Youngmin Kim (Seoul University, South Korea); MC: Elizabeth Doyle
4.30 Coffee
5.00 LIVE LINK
Brian Arkins (NUI Galway) recipient, LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Speakers: Seán Bagnall, William Adamson
Hopkins Lectures
TUESDAY 23rd JULY 2024
10.00 LECTURES
Michael Woods (Uni. of Worcester): The Dendrology of Hopkins
Brett Millier (Middlebury College, USA): Hopkins in the Middle Generation
Moderator: William Flesch (Brandeis University) MC: Conor Mahony
11.00 Coffee
11.30 LECTURES resume
Michael Allsopp (Creighton University and Australia): The Dublin Sonnets of Resolution
William Flesch (Brandeis University, USA): The Transport of the Aim
Moderator: Brett Millier (Middlebury College, Vermont, USA);MC: Megan Yeates.
12.45 Lunch: No. 19 Brasserie (Main
WEDNESDAY 24th JULY 2024
Hopkins Lectures continue
10.00 LECTURES
Eamon Kiernan (Magdeburg Uni., Germany); Hopkins's Exercise of Despair.
Julian Stannard (University of Winchester) Bridges and Hopkins: A Victorian Friendship: Moderator: Monika Reif-Hulser; MC: Jenny Adamson.
11.00 Coffee
11.30 LECTURES
Katarzyna Stefanowicz (Uni of Birmingham UK): Hopkins and Rossetti
Introduced by Patrick Samway S.J. (Professor Emeritus of English, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA 19131, US.) Anthony Burgess and The Wreck of the Deutschland
Moderator: Rainer Emig (Mainz University, Germany) MC: Elaine Murphy
1.00 Lunch: The Silver Restaurant
4.00 RECEPTION, LECTURE,
PRESENTATION, BOOK LAUNCHES
Rainer Emig (Mainz Uni., Germany): Structural Anachronism in Hopkins
THE O‘CONNOR AWARD /BARODA CUP Presented to Newbridge Tidy Towns Association by Desmond Egan
Hopkins Lectures
THURSDAY 25th JULY
10.00 LECTURES and LAUNCH
Elaine Marshall (UK) Hopkins’s ‘Andromeda’ and the Spoliation of the Church in Italy
Koji Katsurayama (Kyoto University, Japan): Hopkins and Ambiguity:
Bruno Gaurier Hopkins: Le Journal (French translation):
Book Presentation and talk.
Speaker: Elaine Marshall; Moderator: Anthony Johnson. MC: Anne Doyle.
11.00: Coffee
11.45 TRANSLATION WORKSHOP Director: Will Adamson
Poem for translation: God’s Grandeur (text)
with visiting translators from Japan, France, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Cyprus, South Korea
MC: Derek Egan
1.00 Lunch: Newbridge Silver Restaurant
3.00 YOUTH PROGRAMME CONCLUSION
(parents are welcome to attend)
President Seán Bagnall presents Certificates
The Rosemarie O Connor Award presented by Michael Allsopp (Creighton Uni., and Australia)
Moderator: Derek Egan;MC: Elaine Murphy.
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