The Institute of English Studies is delighted to announce a lecture by Dr Jenny Butler of University College Cork entitled „Invoking Ireland: Celticity, Landscape and Identity in Irish Literary Tradition”.

The lecture will be held on Friday 10th May at 9 am, Collegium Paderevianum B (al. Mickiewicza 9b), at the opening of the conference “Landscape and Identity in Contemporary British and Irish Literature” (detailed programme may be found in the “Conferences” section).

Dr Butler will also give a talk on “The Traditional Irish Ritual Year and Calendar Customs” (which will be translated into Polish) on Friday 10th May, 5 pm, at the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków (Dom Esterki), ul. Krakowska 46. The talk will be followed by a concert of Irish music by Sheeban Celtic Band.

Dr Jenny Butler is a lecturer in the Study of Religions Department at University College Cork and a Principal Investigator of UCC’s Environmental Research Institute (ERI). She is the President of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (ISASR) and founder of the Irish Network for the Study of Esotericism and Paganism (INSEP), a research network of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), while also being a member of the ESSWE thematic research network ESOLIT: Esotericism and Literature. In her research she has examined many manifestations of Celtic spirituality including within contemporary Paganism, and historically during the Irish Literary Revival and birth of the Irish nation. 

This project is financially supported by the Irish Studies Programme funded through the Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme, and the programme “Excellence Initiative − Research University” at the Jagiellonian University in cooperation with the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków.