Angela Bourke, MRIA
Nua-Ghaeilge / Modern Irish
Room C206
John Henry Newman Building / Áras Newman
Tel + 353 1 716 8414
angela.bourke@ucd.ie
Modules currently taught:
IR 10010 Cúlra na Nualitríochta
IR 10030 Oidhreacht na Gaeilge
IR 20040 Scéalaíocht Bhéil na Gaeilge
IR 40180 Litríocht Bhéil na Gaeilge
IR 40190 Ceird na Scríbhneoireachta
Réimsí taighde / Research interests:
- Léann idirdhisciplíneach na hÉireann, bunaithe ar:
- Interdisciplinary Irish Studies, founded on:
- An litríocht bhéil agus an litríocht scríofa / Oral and written literature in Irish;
- An teagmháil chultúrtha i ré na hathbheochana, 1880-1920 / Cultural encounter in the Irish revival, 1880-1920;
- Léamh feimineach ar an ábhar / Feminist approaches.
Tionscnaimh / Projects:
- ‘Tuiscintí Féiniúlachta / Gaelic Identities’ (Principle investigator, Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD);
- Gearrscéalta an Phiarsaigh / The short stories of Patrick Pearse;
- Éamon a Búrc (1866-1942, scéalaí / oral storyteller);
- The Irish journeys of American folklore collectors Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906) and Alma Curtin (1847-1938).
International Links:
- Parnell Fellow, 2006/07, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK;
- Member of MPhil/PhD supervisory team, Arts Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Worcester, UK;
- Naughton Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Keough Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, 2004/5;
- Japan Foundation Fellow, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, September-December 1999;
- Fondazione Bogliasco, Liguria, Italy: Fellowship for Scholars in the Humanities, spring 2003, (via The Bogliasco Foundation, New York);
- Ireland Fund of Monaco Academic-in-Residence, Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco, September-October 2002;
- Visiting adjunct professor, Boston College Irish Studies Program, 1993-94
- Visiting professor, Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, 1992-3.
Current Postgraduate Supervision:
- ‘Bilingualism, regionalism and translation in Irish women’s writing, 1960-2000 (joint supervision with Prof. G. Meaney, School of English);
- ‘Teanga na dúile: scríobh na colainne i nua-fhilíocht na Gaeilge’ [The language of desire and creation: writing the body in Modern Irish poetry]
- ‘Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh (1874-1951): Anailís inscneach ar a saol agus a saothar’ [Life and work of Agnes O’Farrelly (1874-1951): a gendered analysis];
- ‘Maeve Brennan: a critical study’ (member of supervisory team, University of Worcester, UK).
Areas for prospective postgraduates
- An Scéalaíocht agus an fhéiniúlacht / Oral storytelling and identity;
- Tuiscintí den litríocht bhéil / The reception of oral traditions;
- Mionstair Ghaeltachta / Gaeltacht microhistories.
Some recent publications:
‘Re-Imagining the Gaeltacht’ in Andrew Wyndham, ed., Re-Imagining Ireland (Charlottesville & London: University of Virginia Press, 2006), 82-98;
Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker (London: Cape; New York: Counterpoint, 2004);
‘Legless in London: Pádraic Ó Conaire and Éamon a Búrc’, Éire-Ireland 38 (fall-winter 2003) 54-67.
Joint editor, The Field Day Anthology, vols 4 & 5: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions (Cork: Cork University Press and New York: NYU Press, 2002);
The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story (London: Pimlico, 1999, 2006; New York: Viking, 2000)
Some Recent Conference Papers:
The Im Thurn Memorial Lecture, 2006, School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, 'Patrick Pearse, Print Culture and Oral Tradition', 27.11.2006;
The Parnell Lecture 2006/07, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge: ‘Jeremiah Curtin’s Irish Journeys’, 6.11.2006;
‘Even a Child Can Digest it Easily: Cultural Prescription in Pearse’s Fictions’, Finnish Literature Society conference (with UCC Dept of Foklore & Ethnology), ‘Language and Identity’, UCC, 14-16 June 2006;
Keynote lecture: ‘How Should We Read Oral Narratives?’, First Galway Conference of Irish Studies: ‘Orality and Modern Irish Culture’, 7-10 June, 2006;
Keynote lecture: ‘An Tír ina mBíonn sé ina Shamhradh i gCónaí: The Imagined Community of Pearse’s Short Stories’, UCD conference, ‘Pádraig Mac Piarias: Saol agus Saothar’ / ‘The Life and Afterlife of P.H. Pearse’ 29.4.2006;
Keynote lecture: ‘Beyond the Boundaries of Fact: Oral and Literary Fictions in the Modernizing of Connemara’, 2005 annual meeting, American Conference for Irish Studies, ‘Ireland beyond Borders’, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 13-17 April 2005.
Additional Information:
- Elected member, Royal Irish Academy
- Board member, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute forAdvanced Studies
- Extern examiner (doctoral dissertations), University of Ulster; Trinity College Dublin
- Member of editorial boards, Éire / Ireland; Canadian Journal of Irish Studies