What does it mean to be both Irish and Jewish? Irish-Jewish autobiography is a mere 80-year-old phenomenon, spanning family memoir, political, social and cultural reflections on Jewish life in Ireland, and Holocaust survivor testimony. Six of these autobiographies, written by, among others, a Belfast-born President of Israel, a Cork-born literary editor and novelist, and a Dublin-born Zionist IRA man, contain significant reflections on what it means to be both Irish and Jewish. This talk will consider those reflections in the context of ever-evolving Irish identity.
Speaker: Professor Pól Ó Dochartaigh, Deputy-President & Provost, National University of Ireland, Galway
Sponsors: Center for the Study of Languages & Cultures (CSLC), Department of German & Russian, Department of History
