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No Authority

Writings from the Laureateship

Anne Enright is one of the brightest lights in contemporary Irish literature. Her novels have received numerous major awards, including the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and she frequently appears in the pages of publications such as the New Yorker and the Guardian. In 2015, Enright was named the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction by the president of Ireland. No Authority—the first book in University College Dublin Press’s series of the uncollected writings of the Laureates for Irish Fiction—turns the spotlight toward Enright’s short stories and nonfiction. The pieces in this book explore a range of topics—many touching on the idea of authority, and who truly possesses it—ranging from Enright’s relationship with Irish literature, how she coped with the loss of her father and the ascent of Trump in the same year, and the groundswell to lift the Irish constitutional ban on abortion in 2018. No Authority reveals the breadth of interest and expertise, as well as the urgent concern for the role of women in contemporary Irish society, that characterizes the work of this literary luminary in any genre.
 

120 pages | none | 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 | © 2019

Writings from the Laureate for Irish Fiction

Biography and Letters

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“Enright has expressed her concern with questions of female authority and authorship in a series of trenchant lectures given during her tenure as the inaugural laureate for Irish fiction. . . . She cites grim sets of statistics but, throughout, the mood of these essays is lifted by the evidence, everywhere, that women are no longer putting up with it.”

The New York Review of Books

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Introduction - report on my time as Laureate (first published in the Irish Times)

Lecture 1 - Antigone in Galway (first published in the LRB)

Story 1 - The Hotel (First published in The New Yorker)

Lecture 2 - Introduction to Maeve Brennan (First published by the Sting Fly as an

Introduction to The Springs of Affection)

Story 2 - Solstice (first published in The New Yorker)

Lecture 3 - CALL YOURSELF GEORGE: GENDER REPRESENTATION IN THE IRISH LITERARY LANDSCAPE

OH, CANADA - LECTURE DELIVERED as UCD Professor of Creative Writing ON THE OCCASION OF MARGARET ATWOOD ULYSSES MEDAL

PROMOTING IRELAND ABROAD
Address given to the Ambassadors of Ireland as part of the Global Ireland conference.

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