Plenary speakers

Liam Harte is Professor of Irish Literature at the University of Manchester. His publications include The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2020), A History of Irish Autobiography (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007 (Wiley Blackwell, 2014) and The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725–2001 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). He is currently the principal investigator on a three-year oral history project entitled ‘Conflict, Memory and Migration: Northern Irish Migrants and the Troubles in Great Britain’, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). 

Originally from Dublin, Gerry Smyth is Professor of Irish Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. As an academic he has published widely in the fields of Irish literature and music. His most recent book was Joyces Noyces: Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce (2021). He is also active as a musician, actor and playwright. He is currently working on a book about environmentalism and English fiction, and a maritime version of Macbeth for performance onboard the Golden Hinde in London in October 2022.