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Personal profile
Interests
My research interests are primarily in British and Irish Poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries, and in the literature and culture of the First World War, literary modernism, and war writing throughout the 20th century. I also have a particular interest in the work of Robert Graves – his poetry, historical fiction, criticism, and autobiographical writings
Research Statement
My first book was a study of the effects of the First World War on 20th-century Irish poetry; more recently, I co-edited (with Alan Gillis) The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry. I've just edited a new edition of Robert Graves's First World War memoir, Good-bye to All That, for Penguin Classics (2014) and am currently working on a study of Graves's writings.
Teaching
I teach primarily in the areas of 19th and 20th century Irish literature, modern poetry - particularly contemporary Irish and British poetry - and modernist literature. I’ve supervised research students in the areas of 19th & 20th century Irish literature, 20th-century British, Irish, and American poetry, and 20th-century British fiction, and welcome proposals in the areas of modern British and Irish literature. I also supervise the critical component of creative writing PhDs (fiction and poetry). I teach on the MA in Poetry: Creativity and Criticism, and also on the MA in Irish Literature, where I run a special option on 20th century Irish Poetry.
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Projects 2005 2018
R6985AEL: Love Across the Divide in Northern Irish Literature and Culture: 1968 - present
13/04/2018 → …
Project: Research
R1855ENG: Louis MacNeice: centenary conference and celebration
01/08/2007 → 13/12/2019
Project: Research
Research Output 1997 2018
Yeats, Dates and Kipling: 1912, 1914, 1916
Brearton, F., Aug 2018, In : Modernist Cultures. 13, 3, p. 305-322Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
W. B. Yeats
Kipling
Easter
Ireland
Quarrel
Francis Ledwidge
Brearton, F., Nov 2017, The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets. Dawe, G. (ed.). Cambridge University Press , p. 101-114 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Review of Angel Hill by Michel Longley
Brearton, F., 17 Jun 2017, The Guardian.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review
Open Access
'Horse Latitudes' and 'Drives'
Brearton, F., 03 Mar 2016, Tower Poetry Reviews 2004-2014. McDonald, P. (ed.). Tower Poetry, p. 58-64, 131-36 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
‘In a between world’: Northern Irish Poetry
Brearton, F., 2016, The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010. Larrissy, E. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 130-147 17 p. (Cambridge Companions to Literature).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Prizes
Member of the Royal Irish Academy
Fran Brearton (Recipient), 16 Mar 2018
Prize: Election to learned society
Robert W. Woodruff Library Fellowship
Fran Brearton (Recipient), 01 Aug 2002
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Visiting Scholarship, St John's College Oxford
Fran Brearton (Recipient), Aug 2008
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Accommodation
Subsistence
Activities 1999 2018
An Irish Airman Forsees his Death; Poetry and World War I
Fran Brearton (Invited speaker)10 Nov 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
14th International Robert Graves Conference
Fran Brearton (Keynote/plenary speaker)12 Jul 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Mark Doty
Fran Brearton (Host)2018 → 2023
Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
W.B.Yeats International Summer School
Fran Brearton (Keynote/plenary speaker)26 Jul 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Irish Research Council (External organisation)
Fran Brearton (Board Member)2018 → …
Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
Press / Media
BBC Radio Ulster St Anne's Cathedral Remembrance Sunday
11/11/2018
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
BBC Radio Ulster Sunday Sequence: the Armistice
11/11/2018
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Thesis
Muriel Spark and Catholicism
Author: Walls, K., 2014Supervisor: Litvack, L. (Supervisor), Hughes, (Supervisor) & Brearton, (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy