UCC symposium will mark the 50th anniversary of Frank O’Connor
Frank O’Connor was born Michael O’Donovan in Cork in 1903. He went on to become one of the foundational writers and theorists of the short story in the 20th century, though critics have yet to fully chart the significance of O’Connor as writer, translator, autobiographer, playwright and letter writer, in Ireland and America.
Funded by an Irish Research Council New Foundations award and supported by UCC school of English, the event will feature papers by scholars including Paul Delaney (TCD), Ellen McWilliams (University of Exeter), Prof Frank Shovlin (University of Liverpool), and Prof Alan Titley (UCC).
