Title: TBC Lorna Goodison was born in Kingston, Jamaica. A painter before she turned her focus to poetry, Goodison was educated at the Jamaica School of Art and the School of the Art Students League in New York. Her numerous poetry collections include Tamarind Season (1980),Heartease (1988), Traveling Mercies (2001), Controlling the Silver (2005), Goldengrove: New…
Caribbean Irish Connections: Interdisciplinary Connections, published in 2015 emerges from the multidisciplinary Caribbean Irish Connections conference and workshop held in November of 2012 in Barbados. Caribbean Irish Connections makes an important contribution to Irish studies by challenging the dominance of a US diasporic history and a disciplinary focus on cultural continuity and ancestry. Likewise, within Caribbean…
University College Cork 22-23 July 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS Irish Caribbean Connections is an interdisciplinary conference that seeks to explore synergies between Ireland and the Caribbean islands. This event follows the vibrant Caribbean Irish Connections conference held at the University of the West Indies, Barbados, in 2012. KEYNOTE SPEAKER LORNA GOODISON INTRODUCED BY JAHAN…
Irish Caribbean Connections 