A new portrait of leading Irish literary critic Professor Edna Longley, by acclaimed Antrim-based artist Jeffrey Morgan, is unveiled at Queenís University Belfast, Wednesday, Jan 11, 2012. Throughout a long teaching and research career spent almost entirely at Queenís, Professor Longley has had a huge and enabling influence on the literary culture of Northern Ireland. Her critical works include Poetry in the Wars, Louis MacNeice: A Study, The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland, Poetry and Posterity (2000), and she is the editor of Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems
A new portrait of leading Irish literary critic Professor Edna Longley, by acclaimed Antrim-based artist Jeffrey Morgan, is unveiled at Queenís University Belfast, Wednesday, Jan 11, 2012. Throughout a long teaching and research career spent almost entirely at Queenís, Professor Longley has had a huge and enabling influence on the literary culture of Northern Ireland. Her critical works include Poetry in the Wars, Louis MacNeice: A Study, The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland, Poetry and Posterity (2000), and she is the editor of Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems (2008). She was also a moving force behind the establishment of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queenís, and her contribution continues to this day. As Chair of the Centreís Board, she continues to contribute to the support and encouragement of poetry and poets. Photo/Paul McErlane.
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