Ireland in the Picture

Video-link conference on Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 Interview with Michael McAteer This was the first ever video-conference at the Department. About twenty-something students, both from the MA and the BA, and also a few staff members turned up to spectate and enjoy this rare event, and even Fate and the rail workers at Pilisvörösvár were…

Balázs Zsuzsanna – Splitting the Self

Over the last few months, I’ve been trying to find evidence to prove that Yeats’s idea of the self and its anti-self (the mask or Daimon) bears strong relation to Pirandello’s interpretation of the distinction between the so called persona and personaggio, and this analogy is most evident in their dramas. When Yeats writes to Olivia Shakespear…