The 2024 Frances Browne Lecture
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This fascinating evening will kick off with a short talk by Douglas Bartlett, Chair, The Steinbeck Festival on "John Steinbeck's connection with the Roe Valley"
Then visiting Frances Browne expert, Professor Thomas McLean, from the University of Otago in New Zealand will deliver the Frances Browne Lecture 2024, which will focus on Browne's ‘Legends of Ulster; both the legends themselves and their publication history, as well as some of the challenges of preparing a new edition of the Legends of Ulster.
When: Saturday 12th October, 7.30pm
Venue: Kee's Hotel, Stranorlar.
Refeshments provided.
Presented by Professor Thomas McLean
A New Edition of Frances Browne’s Legends of Ulster
Between 1849 and 1851, while living in Edinburgh, Frances Browne published a series of twelve stories known as her “Legends of Ulster.” Some of these stories have been republished individually, but they have never been published in one volume. Thomas McLean is currently working on a new edition of Browne’s “Legends,” and in this presentation he will discuss the publishing history of Browne’s “Legends,” the key themes of these stories, and some of the challenges facing an editor of Browne’s work.
John Steinbeck's connection with the Roe Valley
In August 1952 Nobel Prize Winning author John Steinbeck visited the tiny village of Ballykelly, Northern Ireland with his wife, Elaine. He regarded the farm and townland of Mulkeeragh on the edge of Ballykelly village, as the "Home Place", but yet it was a trip he "both desired and dreaded." Douglas Bartlett's powerpoint presentation will reveal the importance of the Roe Valley connection to Steinbeck and the significance the visit had for him and for his work as a writer.
Thomas McLean is Associate Professor in English at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is the editor of Further Letters of Joanna Baillie (FDUP, 2010), author of The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire (Palgrave, 2012) and co-editor with Ruth Knezevich of a new edition of Jane Porter's 1803 novel Thaddeus of Warsaw (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). He is currently preparing an edition of Frances Browne’s Legends of Ulster.
Douglas Bartlett was born in Limavady, and is a former Head of History and Deputy Head of Limavady High School, where he worked for 35 years. He is currently Chair of the Roe Valley Historical Society and in 2019 he established the Steinbeck Festival, Limavady, which celebrates the important connection the author John Steinbeck had with the Roe Valley area. Douglas is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Limavady and the Roe Valley' (www.limavadyhistory.com) and of 'Steinbeck Ulster and Ireland.' (www.steinbeckfestival.com)
