Professor Ronan McDonald: Beyond Ireland: cultures of encounter and exchange

Often marketed as a rural idyll, with all the comforts of tradition, Ireland has also been modelled as the crucible of high literary modernism and, more recently, the high-tech gateway to Europe. Through consideration of the anomalous branding of ‘Ireland’, and the increasing involvement of the Irish diaspora, this lecture examines the shifting and travelling meanings of Irishness in a global era.