We are delighted that UCC's Professor Claire Connolly will speak at our 2019 Festival on the Deep Maps project, which explores West Cork's coastal cultures from the mid-18th century. Earlier this year she gave the Charles Stewart Parnell Lecture at Oxford University with the intriguing title  "Too Rough for Verse? Sea Crossings in Irish Culture". A version of the lecture was subsequently published in the Irish Time and you can read it here.