"The Arts at Stanford" [videorecording] 2000

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"The Arts at Stanford" [videorecording] 2000

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There are two events represented in this collection: Finnegans Awake: A Day of Irish Poetry (May 2000) and A Poetry Reading in Memory of Yvor Winters (November 2000). Poets at the Irish poetry event included Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan, Medbh McGuckian, Michael Longely, and Desmond O'Grady. The second event was part of the Yvor Winters Centenary Symposium.

10 videotapes (VHS)

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6652771

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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O'Grady, Desmond, 1935-

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Biographical/Historical Sketch Stanford Channel is managed by Stanford University's Information Technology Systems and Services (ITSS), specifically Communication Services. Its broadcasts include telecourses, original programs, lectures, conferences, and Stanford sports events. From the guide to the "Russia at the End of the 20th Century: Culture and its Horizons in Politics and Society" [videorecording], 1998, (Department of Spec...

Meehan, Paula

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Yvor Winters Centenary Symposium.

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Longely, Michael.

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McGuckian, Medbh, 1950-....

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Medbh McGuckian was born in 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University, Belfast, in 1972 and earned her Masters in Arts from the same institution two years later. McGuckian won the National Poetry Competition prize in 1979 for "The Flitting," and she published her first two collections of poetry, Single Ladies: Sixteen Poems and Portrait of Joanna, in 1980. Among her most recent collections are Had I a Thousand Lives, The Book of the Angel...

Boland, Eavan

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Born in 1944 in Dublin, but spending her youth in London and New York, Eavan Aisling Boland began producing poetry in the 1960s. She gained greater prominence in the 1980s with works which generated debate over feminism and the place of the female poet in a largely male field. Boland is known for placing women within the context of patriarchal Irish traditions and myths. "Eavan (Aisling) Boland." Contemporary Literary Criticism (reproduced in...