Recording of Prof. Declan Kiberd's opening address at the 'Revival to Revolution' Symposium

Declan Kiberd is Keough Professor of Irish Studies at University of Notre Dame. He was for many years Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at UCD and wrote a chapter on Thomas MacDonagh in The UCD Aesthetic. Among his books are Synge and the Irish Language, Idir Dhá Chultúr, Inventing Ireland, Irish Classics and Ulysses and Us. Handbook of the Irish Revival 1891-1922, co-edited with PJ Mathews, has just been published by Abbey Theatre Press (June 2015). He is a former Director of the Yeats International Summer School and of the Abbey Theatre.