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| Roy Foster |
Professor Roy Foster, Carroll
Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford, will lecture at the University
of Kentucky on Monday, October 26, 2015, at 4 p.m. in the UK Athletics
Auditorium of William T. Young Library. He will discuss the history of the
Irish Revolution of 1912 - 1922, focusing on the central event of the Easter
Rising of 1916 and the motivations that drove the people behind it. His lecture
will also consider the agendas, elisions, and implications of commemorating events
in history that are at once inspirational and divisive: raising issues such as
the changing historical interpretations of revolutionary change, the
psychological uses of memory in Irish history, the challenges presented by the
current centennial observations of the Irish revolutionary decade of 1912-22,
and the possible lessons of Irish history for the larger United Kingdom and
European picture.
Foster is the author of the recent and widely-acclaimed Vivid Faces: the Irish revolutionary
generation 1890-1923, which has just been awarded a President’s Medal from
the British Academy for “transforming the understanding of a period or subject
of study.”
University Press of Kentucky Interim Director Dr. Jonathan Allison, professor in the UK Department of
English, has been instrumental in bringing Professor Foster to campus. The
event is part of the Year of Europe sponsored by the UK College of Arts & Sciences.
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