In 2024 I gave an invited lecture at the Columbia University Irish Studies Seminar, New York. In 2023 I was gave the address at the first public event held in the Irish Senate, a celebration of the centenary of the award of Yeats's Nobel Prize. I was also invited to speak at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo.
I am the co-editor of three collections: Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary (with Jane Griffiths, Wadham College, Oxford University, Palgrave, 2020); Law and Literature: The Irish Case (with Eugene McNulty, Dublin City University, Liverpool University Press, 2022); and an anthology of ekphrastic poetry, The Echoing Gallery (Redcliffe Press, 2013).
I am International Officer and Head of the Second-Year Committee for English. I joined the School of English at UCC as an IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in 2015. Before this, I taught in the English departments of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Bristol and the University of Aberdeen. I have also trained and practised as a solicitor, an experience that informs my research on law and literature. I am a committee member of American Conference of Irish Studies, where I serve as International Treasurer. In 2024 I was appointed the editorial board of Cork University Press.
In 2018 I took up an HEA/Government of Ireland mobility award that enabled me to develop Irish literary archives as teaching resources with academics and librarians from the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts and Boston College. In 2021 I was awarded an Irish Research Council New Foundations grant for a project entitled 'Seamus Heaney and the Visual Arts'. In 2022 I undertook a teaching visit to Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3.
Law and Literature
I have written a monograph entitled Poetry, Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland (Syracuse University Press, 2022). I have also (with Eugene McNulty) co-edited a collection on law and literature in Ireland, Law and Literature: The Irish Case (Liverpool University Press, 2022).
Poetry, Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland is an original exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws of both of the island’s jurisdictions. Focusing on poets’ responses in their writing to such contentious legal issues as partition, censorship, paramilitarism, and the curtailment of women’s reproductive and other rights, it is the first monograph in the growing field of law and literature to focus exclusively on modern Ireland. It contains analyses of work by both major and non-canonical poets from every decade between the 1920s and the present day, including, among others, Rhoda Coghill, Austin Clarke, Paul Durcan, Elaine Feeney, Miriam Gamble, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Paula Meehan, Julie Morrissy, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and W. B. Yeats.
Space and Place
I am the author of Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space (Palgrave, 2015), which I adapted from my doctoral thesis (Bristol, 2012). Relatedly, I co-organised the conference 'The House in the Mind: Architecture and the Imagination' (Oxford, March 2016), which formed the basis of the co-edited (with Jane Griffiths) collection Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary (Palgrave, 2020).
I also have research interests in ekphrasis, literature and social class, and the use of literary archives as teaching resources.
University College Cork (2015-present)
I co-ordinate the following courses:
Irish Literary Revival and Modernism (third year lecture course)
Early Start: Literatures in Ireland (seminar course for visiting students)
Introduction to Irish Literature (lecture course for visiting students)
Irish Poetry Since Yeats (third year seminar course)
Northern Irish Literature and the Troubles (second year seminar course)
I contribute to the following courses:
Contemporary Irish Literature (third year lectures)
Literature in Time (first year lectures on Seamus Heaney)
MA classes on modern Irish poetry
Dissertation module (third year course)
I have supervised MA dissertations on Elizabeth Bowen, ecocriticism, place and political protest in modern Irish poetry.
I have in the past taught on these courses:
Special Topics in Creative Practice (second year lecture and seminar course)
Introduction to Modern Literature (first year lectures on Yeats and Heaney)
Trinity College Dublin (2016-17)
Yeats and Modern Irish Poetry (fourth year seminar course)
Northern Irish Literature and the Troubles’ (second year lecture course)
University of Aberdeen (2013-2014)
In addition to my role as the English Department’s Writing Support Tutor, I taught the following courses:
Controversial Classics (first year seminar course)
Encounters with Shakespeare’ (second year seminar course)
Summer Access Course - lectures on James Joyce and William Shakespeare
Academic Writing Skills Course (course co-ordinator)
University of Bristol (2009-12)
Approaches to Poetry (first year seminar course)
Contemporary Writing (first year seminar course)
Irish poetry weekend courses
Biography
I am Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature and the author of two monographs, Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space (Palgrave, 2015) and Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland (Syracuse University Press, 2022). My most recent book received the Honourable Mention in the 2023 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature, awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies.In 2024 I gave an invited lecture at the Columbia University Irish Studies Seminar, New York. In 2023 I was gave the address at the first public event held in the Irish Senate, a celebration of the centenary of the award of Yeats's Nobel Prize. I was also invited to speak at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo.
I am the co-editor of three collections: Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary (with Jane Griffiths, Wadham College, Oxford University, Palgrave, 2020); Law and Literature: The Irish Case (with Eugene McNulty, Dublin City University, Liverpool University Press, 2022); and an anthology of ekphrastic poetry, The Echoing Gallery (Redcliffe Press, 2013).
I am International Officer and Head of the Second-Year Committee for English. I joined the School of English at UCC as an IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in 2015. Before this, I taught in the English departments of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Bristol and the University of Aberdeen. I have also trained and practised as a solicitor, an experience that informs my research on law and literature. I am a committee member of American Conference of Irish Studies, where I serve as International Treasurer. In 2024 I was appointed the editorial board of Cork University Press.
In 2018 I took up an HEA/Government of Ireland mobility award that enabled me to develop Irish literary archives as teaching resources with academics and librarians from the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts and Boston College. In 2021 I was awarded an Irish Research Council New Foundations grant for a project entitled 'Seamus Heaney and the Visual Arts'. In 2022 I undertook a teaching visit to Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3.
I have supervised or am currently supervising PhD projects on Joyce and Dante, Revival-era Irish literature, working class Irish literature and culture, and depictions of trauma in Irish women's writing.
Research Interests
My chief area of interest is modern Irish poetry. My major research projects to date are on law and literature and space and place.Law and Literature
I have written a monograph entitled Poetry, Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland (Syracuse University Press, 2022). I have also (with Eugene McNulty) co-edited a collection on law and literature in Ireland, Law and Literature: The Irish Case (Liverpool University Press, 2022).
Poetry, Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland is an original exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws of both of the island’s jurisdictions. Focusing on poets’ responses in their writing to such contentious legal issues as partition, censorship, paramilitarism, and the curtailment of women’s reproductive and other rights, it is the first monograph in the growing field of law and literature to focus exclusively on modern Ireland. It contains analyses of work by both major and non-canonical poets from every decade between the 1920s and the present day, including, among others, Rhoda Coghill, Austin Clarke, Paul Durcan, Elaine Feeney, Miriam Gamble, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Paula Meehan, Julie Morrissy, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and W. B. Yeats.
Space and Place
I am the author of Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space (Palgrave, 2015), which I adapted from my doctoral thesis (Bristol, 2012). Relatedly, I co-organised the conference 'The House in the Mind: Architecture and the Imagination' (Oxford, March 2016), which formed the basis of the co-edited (with Jane Griffiths) collection Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary (Palgrave, 2020).
I also have research interests in ekphrasis, literature and social class, and the use of literary archives as teaching resources.
Research Grants
| Project | Funding Body | Start Date | End Date | Award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disturbed Areas: Literature and Emergency Law in Kashmir and Northern Ireland | Irish Research Council | 01-SEP-24 | 31-AUG-25 | €55,396.00 | |
| Dante in Joyce: Mapping Dante's Commedia onto Joyce's 'Dubliners', Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (Chiara Valcelli, IRC Postgraduate Scholarship) | Irish Research Council | 01-SEP-22 | 31-AUG-26 | €110,000.00 | |
| Protest Writing and Dissent Culture in Contemporary Working-Class Ireland: Poetics of Defiance (Clodagh Heffernan, IRC PhD) | Irish Research Council | 01-SEP-23 | 31-AUG-25 | €82,500.00 | |
| Seamus Heaney and the Visual Arts. | Irish Research Council | 01-MAR-21 | 01-DEC-21 | €2,556.00 | |
| Literature and Law in Ireland: Poetic Justice | Irish Research Council | 01-OCT-15 | 30-SEP-17 | €89,065.00 | |
| Teaching Irish Literary Archives | Higher Education Authority (HEA) | 01-JAN-18 | 31-DEC-18 | €2,060.00 |
Publications
Books
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2022) | Poetry, Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland. Adam Hanna (2022) Poetry, Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland. Syracuse, NY:: Syracuse University Press. [Details] | |
| (2015) | Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space. Adam Hanna (2015) Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] |
Edited Books
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2022) | Law and Literature: The Irish Case Adam Hanna and Eugene McNulty (Ed.). (2022) Law and Literature: The Irish Case Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. [Details] | |
| (2020) | Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary Jane Griffiths and Adam Hanna (Ed.). (2020) Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary Basingstoke: Palgrave. [Details] | |
| (2013) | The Echoing Gallery: Bristol Poets and Art in the City Adam Hanna, Patrick Burley and Rachael Boast (Ed.). (2013) The Echoing Gallery: Bristol Poets and Art in the City Bristol: Redcliffe Press. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2024) | 'Being an Irish Poet' Adam Hanna (2024) 'Being an Irish Poet' In: Eric Falci (eds). The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] | |
| (2024) | 'Seamus Heaney: Visual Art and Memory' Adam Hanna (2024) 'Seamus Heaney: Visual Art and Memory' In: Ekphrasis: Making the Past Present. London: Bloomsbury. [Details] | |
| (2024) | 'Twinning “Infinite” with “Fulfilment”: Rhyme and the Paradoxes of Choice in the Early Poetry of Derek Mahon' Adam Hanna (2024) 'Twinning “Infinite” with “Fulfilment”: Rhyme and the Paradoxes of Choice in the Early Poetry of Derek Mahon' In: Nicholas Grene and Tom Walker (eds). The Poetry of Derek Mahon. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Details] | |
| (2024) | 'Preservation and Proportion in ‘The Municipal Gallery Revisited’' Adam Hanna (2024) 'Preservation and Proportion in ‘The Municipal Gallery Revisited’' In: Edinburgh Companion to Yeats and the Arts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Details] | |
| (2024) | 'Law and Literature: Five Key Concepts' Adam Hanna (2024) 'Law and Literature: Five Key Concepts' In: Arianna Alpini (eds). Law and Literature: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Macerata: The University of Macerata Press. [Details] | |
| (2023) | 'The Senate and the Stage' Adam Hanna (2023) 'The Senate and the Stage' In: Matthew Campbell and Lauren Arrington (eds). Oxford Handbook of W. B. Yeats. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details] | |
| (2023) | 'On Second Thoughts: A Case Study in Teaching a Poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa Using Digitized Drafts' Adam Hanna (2023) 'On Second Thoughts: A Case Study in Teaching a Poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa Using Digitized Drafts' In: Anna Teekell and Guinn Batten (eds). Teaching Modern Irish Poetry in English. New York: Modern Language Association of America. [Details] | |
| (2022) | ''Introduction'' Adam Hanna and Eugene McNulty (2022) ''Introduction'' In: Adam Hanna and Eugene McNulty (eds). Law and Literature: The Irish Case. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Details] | |
| (2022) | 'Citizenship and Connection in Doireann Ní Ghríofa's *Clasp* (2015)' Adam Hanna (2022) 'Citizenship and Connection in Doireann Ní Ghríofa's *Clasp* (2015)' In: Adam Hanna and Eugene McNulty (eds). Law and Literature: The Irish Case. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Details] | |
| (2022) | '‘Refuge and Domestic Space in Northern Irish Poetry (c1940 to the Present)’' Adam Hanna (2022) '‘Refuge and Domestic Space in Northern Irish Poetry (c1940 to the Present)’' In: Malcolm Sen (eds). Cambridge History of Irish Literature and the Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] | |
| (2020) | 'Yeats's Stanzas, Yeats's Rooms' Adam Hanna (2020) 'Yeats's Stanzas, Yeats's Rooms' In: Jane Griffiths and Adam Hanna (eds). Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary. Basingstoke: Palgrave. [Details] | |
| (2020) | 'Introduction' Jane Griffiths and Adam Hanna (2020) 'Introduction' In: Jane Griffiths and Adam Hanna (eds). Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] | |
| (2020) | ''Seamus Heaney'' Adam Hanna (2020) ''Seamus Heaney'' In: Richard Bradford (eds). Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. [Details] | |
| (2019) | ''Photography and Commemoration in the Work of Five Contemporary Irish Poets'' Adam Hanna (2019) ''Photography and Commemoration in the Work of Five Contemporary Irish Poets'' In: The Parted Veil: Commemoration in Irish Photographic Practices. Cork: The Glucksman Gallery. [Details] | |
| (2019) | 'Habitations: Space, Place, and Real Estate' Adam Hanna (2019) 'Habitations: Space, Place, and Real Estate' In: Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds (eds). Irish Literature in Transition, Volume 6, 1980-2020. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] | |
| (2017) | 'The Vibrancy of the First House in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon' Adam Hanna (2017) 'The Vibrancy of the First House in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon' In: Lucy McDiarmid and Rhona Richman Kenneally (eds). The Vibrant House: Irish Writing and Domestic Space. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] | |
| (2017) | 'Poetry and the Working Class in Northern Ireland During the Troubles' Adam Hanna (2017) 'Poetry and the Working Class in Northern Ireland During the Troubles' In: Michael Pierse (eds). The Cambridge History of Irish Working-Class Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] | |
| (2011) | '‘“A Demobbed Neighbour Leaned Against Our Jamb”: Visitors and Intruders in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney’' Adam Hanna (2011) '‘“A Demobbed Neighbour Leaned Against Our Jamb”: Visitors and Intruders in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney’' In: John Strachan and Alison O'Malley-Younger (eds). Ireland at War and Peace. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2025) | 'Dividing Lines: The Border Roads of Irish Poetry' Adam Hanna and Anna Teekell (2025) 'Dividing Lines: The Border Roads of Irish Poetry'. Études Irlandaises, [Details] | |
| (2023) | 'Contemporary Encounters with the Law: Kimberly Campanello’s MOTHERBABYHOME (2019) and Julie Morrissy’s Positions Gendered Male in Bunreacht na hÉireann / 1937 Constitution of Ireland (2020)' Adam Hanna (2023) 'Contemporary Encounters with the Law: Kimberly Campanello’s MOTHERBABYHOME (2019) and Julie Morrissy’s Positions Gendered Male in Bunreacht na hÉireann / 1937 Constitution of Ireland (2020)'. Nordic Irish Studies, [Details] | |
| (2022) | ''Seamus Heaney's Prisoners'' Adam Hanna (2022) ''Seamus Heaney's Prisoners''. Irish University Review, [Details] | |
| (2018) | 'Seamus Heaney’s ‘Settings, xiii’ and the Troubles' Adam Hanna (2018) 'Seamus Heaney’s ‘Settings, xiii’ and the Troubles'. Notes and Queries, [Details] | |
| (2018) | 'Modern Irish Poetry in 2016' Adam Hanna (2018) 'Modern Irish Poetry in 2016'. The Year's Work in English Studies, 97 [Details] | |
| (2017) | 'Modern Irish Poetry in 2015' Adam Hanna (2017) 'Modern Irish Poetry in 2015'. The Year's Work in English Studies, 95 (1) [Details] | |
| (2016) | 'Louis MacNeice's Remote Houses' Adam Hanna (2016) 'Louis MacNeice's Remote Houses'. Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 1 (1):36-46 [Details] | |
| (2016) | 'Modern Irish Poetry in 2014' Adam Hanna (2016) 'Modern Irish Poetry in 2014'. The Year's Work in English Studies, 94 (1):98-108 [Details] | |
| (2014) | '‘John McGahern’s Photographic Eye’' Adam Hanna (2014) '‘John McGahern’s Photographic Eye’'. Revue LISA / LISA e-journal, [Details] |
Other Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2023) | 'Review: No Rootless Flower: The Letters of Seamus Heaney' Adam Hanna (2023) 'Review: No Rootless Flower: The Letters of Seamus Heaney' Books Ireland, . [Details] | |
| (2021) | 'Review: The Letters of John McGahern, ed. by Frank Shovlin' Adam Hanna (2021) 'Review: The Letters of John McGahern, ed. by Frank Shovlin' Books Ireland, . [Details] | |
| (2021) | 'Review: 'Austin Clarke by Kit Fryatt'' Adam Hanna (2021) 'Review: 'Austin Clarke by Kit Fryatt'' Irish Studies Review, . [Details] | |
| (2021) | 'Review: 'On Seamus Heaney' by R. F. Foster' Adam Hanna (2021) 'Review: 'On Seamus Heaney' by R. F. Foster' Review Of English Studies, . [Details] | |
| (2021) | 'A Conference on Architectural Metaphors' Adam Hanna (2021) 'A Conference on Architectural Metaphors' Oxford Magazine, (429) :16-17. [Details] | |
| (2020) | 'Irish Poetry and the Law' Adam Hanna (2020) 'Irish Poetry and the Law' Honest Ulsterman, . [Details] | |
| (2019) | 'Review: Three Essay Collections by Ireland Chairs of Poetry' Adam Hanna (2019) 'Review: Three Essay Collections by Ireland Chairs of Poetry' Irish University Review, . [Details] | |
| (2018) | 'Thomas Kinsella: The Civil Servant-Poet at Mid-Century' Adam Hanna (2018) 'Thomas Kinsella: The Civil Servant-Poet at Mid-Century' Poetry Ireland Review, (124) :72-77. [Details] | |
| (2018) | 'Thomas Kinsella: The Poet and the Irish State, 1958–1968' Adam Hanna (2018) 'Thomas Kinsella: The Poet and the Irish State, 1958–1968' PN Review, (242) :35-41. [Details] | |
| (2018) | 'An Interview with Thomas Kinsella' Adam Hanna (2018) 'An Interview with Thomas Kinsella' Poetry Ireland Review, (124) :69-71. [Details] | |
| (2017) | 'Review of Robert Welch, The Cold of May Day Monday: An Approach to Irish Literary History' Adam Hanna (2017) 'Review of Robert Welch, The Cold of May Day Monday: An Approach to Irish Literary History' Irish Economic and Social History, . [Details] | |
| (2016) | 'Review: 'Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry by John Dennison'' Adam Hanna (2016) 'Review: 'Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry by John Dennison'' The Irish Review, . [Details] | |
| (2016) | 'Review: 'Hearing Heaney: The Sixth Seamus Heaney Lectures, Eugene McNulty and Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, eds'' Adam Hanna (2016) 'Review: 'Hearing Heaney: The Sixth Seamus Heaney Lectures, Eugene McNulty and Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, eds'' Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, . [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'Review: 'James Fenton, Yellow Tulips'' Adam Hanna (2014) 'Review: 'James Fenton, Yellow Tulips'' Shearsman, . [Details] | |
| (2010) | 'Review: ‘Jefferson Holdridge, The Poetry of Paul Muldoon’' Adam Hanna (2010) 'Review: ‘Jefferson Holdridge, The Poetry of Paul Muldoon’' Irish Studies Review, . [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'Review: 'John Redmond, Poetry and Privacy: Questioning Public Interpretations of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry'' Adam Hanna (2014) 'Review: 'John Redmond, Poetry and Privacy: Questioning Public Interpretations of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry'' New Welsh Review, . [Details] | |
| (2013) | 'Review: 'Eugene McNulty, The Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival’' Adam Hanna (2013) 'Review: 'Eugene McNulty, The Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival’' Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, . [Details] | |
| (2013) | 'Review: 'Heather Laird (ed.), Daniel Corkery’s Cultural Criticism: Selected Writings’' Adam Hanna (2013) 'Review: 'Heather Laird (ed.), Daniel Corkery’s Cultural Criticism: Selected Writings’' Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, . [Details] | |
| (2012) | 'Review: ‘Micheal O’Siadhail, Tongues’' Adam Hanna (2012) 'Review: ‘Micheal O’Siadhail, Tongues’' Irish Studies Review, . [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'Review: ‘Tom Paulin, The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer’' Adam Hanna (2009) 'Review: ‘Tom Paulin, The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer’' Irish Studies Review, . [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'Review: ‘Micheal O’Siadhail, Globe’' Adam Hanna (2009) 'Review: ‘Micheal O’Siadhail, Globe’' Irish Studies Review, . [Details] | |
| (2007) | 'Review: ‘Arthur Aughey, The Politics of Northern Ireland’' Arthur Aughey (2007) 'Review: ‘Arthur Aughey, The Politics of Northern Ireland’' Irish Studies Review, . [Details] |
Foreword
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2024) | Foreword to Lunulae by Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Adam Hanna (2024) Foreword to Lunulae by Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Chapel Hill, NC: Foreword [Details] |
Newspaper Articles
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2018) | 'Notes in Seamus Heaney archive suggest Gibraltar shootings influenced his work'. Adam Hanna (2018) 'Notes in Seamus Heaney archive suggest Gibraltar shootings influenced his work'. Newspaper Articles [Details] |
Bibliography
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2018) | Medbh McGuckian: A Narrative Bibliography. Adam Hanna (2018) Medbh McGuckian: A Narrative Bibliography. Oxford: Bibliography [Details] |
Professional Activities
Honours and Awards
| Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | National University of Ireland Publication Fund (€500) | National University of Ireland | |
| 2020 | Grant for online symposium 'Citizenship: An Exploration in Humanities and the Law' (€500) | College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, UCC | |
| 2020 | College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Publication Fund Award (€300) | College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, UCC | |
| 2015 | Postdoctoral Funding (two years) | Irish Research Council | |
| 2008 | Full Doctoral Funding | UK Arts and Humanities Research Council | |
| 2008 | Full Doctoral Funding | Bristol University Arts Faculty |
Professional Associations
| Association | Function | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Conference of Irish Studies | Member (Conference Organising Committee 2017-18) | 06-JUL-15 / | |
| British Association of Irish Studies | Executive Committee Member | 01-JAN-13 / | |
| International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures | Member (Conference Organising Committee 2016) | 05-MAR-12 / |
Conference Contributions
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2024) | American Conference of Irish Studies, Adam Hanna (2024) Paula Meehan Roundtable. [Oral Presentation], American Conference of Irish Studies, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick , 16-JUN-24 - 18-JUN-24. [Details] | |
| (2024) | China-Ireland Literature Forum, Adam Hanna (2024) Keynote lecture: 'Lines of Connection: Yan Ge and Ireland'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], China-Ireland Literature Forum, UCD , 15-JUL-24 - 16-JUL-24. [Details] | |
| (2023) | Smiling Public Man: Centenary Celebration of W. B. Yeats's Nobel Prize, Adam Hanna (2023) W. B. Yeats: Imagining a Nation. [Invited Oral Presentation], Smiling Public Man: Centenary Celebration of W. B. Yeats's Nobel Prize, Seanad Éireann, Leinster House, Dublin , 23-NOV-23 - 23-NOV-23. [Details] | |
| (2023) | Mapping Literary Landscapes: Contemporary Irish and Chinese Literature, Adam Hanna (2023) 'Ecology and Recent Poetry from Northern Ireland'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Mapping Literary Landscapes: Contemporary Irish and Chinese Literature, UCC , 19-SEP-23 - 20-SEP-23. [Details] | |
| (2023) | Yeats International Summer School, Adam Hanna (2023) Yeats's Stanzas, Yeats's Rooms. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Yeats International Summer School, Sligo , 01-AUG-23. [Details] | |
| (2022) | International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, Adam Hanna (2022) Rhoda Coghill's Birds. [Oral Presentation], International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, Limerick, July 2022 , 25-JUL-22 - 29-JUL-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Adam Hanna (2022) Facilitating PhD Workshop. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Limerick , 25-JUL-22 - 29-JUL-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | The Border' in Irish Literature: Vibrations, Shadows, Atmospheres, Adam Hanna (2022) Borders Project: The French Society of Irish Studies. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], The Border' in Irish Literature: Vibrations, Shadows, Atmospheres, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne AND Université de Strasbourg , 05-MAY-22 - 06-MAY-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | Law and Literature Workshop, Adam Hanna (2022) National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Law and Literature Workshop, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame , 31-MAR-22 - 01-APR-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | CACSSS Spatial Humanities Research Cluster Seminar Series, Adam Hanna (2022) Yeats's Stanzas, Yeats's Rooms. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], CACSSS Spatial Humanities Research Cluster Seminar Series, University College Cork , 23-MAR-22 - 23-MAR-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | Ekphrasis in its Contemporary and Ancient Contexts, Adam Hanna (2022) Seamus Heaney: Ekphrasis, Memory, Uncertainty. [Invited Oral Presentation], Ekphrasis in its Contemporary and Ancient Contexts, University of Durham , 21-JUN-22 - 25-JUN-22. [Details] | |
| (2021) | The Three Ages of Seamus Heaney, Adam Hanna (2021) Invited lecture to the university poetry society. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], The Three Ages of Seamus Heaney, Shanghai University (online) , 10-DEC-21 - 10-DEC-21. [Details] | |
| (2021) | Derek Mahon: A Celebration, Adam Hanna (2021) 'Rhyming Infinite with Fulfilment: Derek Mahon and the Paradoxes of Rhyme'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Derek Mahon: A Celebration, Trinity College Dublin , 19-NOV-21 - 20-NOV-21. [Details] | |
| (2021) | Seamus Heaney and Visual Art, Adam Hanna (2021) co-organiser, with Fiona Kearney (Glucksman Gallery). [Conference Organising Committee Member], Seamus Heaney and Visual Art, Glucksman Gallery (online) , 24-NOV-21 - 24-NOV-21. [Details] | |
| (2021) | Global Literature Workshop, Adam Hanna (2021) Singular, Lucent O: The Global and the Ecological in Modern Irish Poetry. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Global Literature Workshop, Shanghai University (online) , 24-SEP-21 - 24-SEP-21. [Details] | |
| (2021) | In Conversation with Julie Morrissy, Adam Hanna and Julie Morrissy (2021) A recorded conversation at the public launch of Dr Morrissy's new work. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], In Conversation with Julie Morrissy, Online , 19-MAY-21. [Details] | |
| (2021) | Justice on the Island, Adam Hanna (2021) Poetry, Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland. [Keynote Speaker], Justice on the Island, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland , 06-MAY-21. [Details] | |
| (2020) | Forum on Irish Literature Studies, Adam Hanna (2020) 'Opening the Seamus Heaney Archive'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Forum on Irish Literature Studies, Irish Studies Center, Shanghai University , 23-OCT-20 - 23-OCT-20. [Details] | |
| (2020) | Citizenship: An Exploration in Law and the Humanities, Adam Hanna (2020) I was the main organiser of this event, which was the second annual event of the Irish Network for the Legal Humanities. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Citizenship: An Exploration in Law and the Humanities, Online , 27-NOV-20 - 27-NOV-20. [Details] | |
| (2020) | State Formation, Political Violence, and Civil Disobedience: Ireland, North and South, 1919-22, Adam Hanna (2020) 'Assault and Battery of the Wind’: W. B. Yeats, Violence and the Law. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], State Formation, Political Violence, and Civil Disobedience: Ireland, North and South, 1919-22, Online, Universities Ireland History Conference . [Details] | |
| (2019) | Republic of Conscience Project: Ethical Conversations, Adam Hanna (2019) Invited contribution to a roundtable discussion on poetry and human rights. [Invited Oral Presentation], Republic of Conscience Project: Ethical Conversations, National University of Ireland, Galway , 06-DEC-19 - 06-DEC-19. [Details] | |
| (2019) | Michael Longley in Context, Adam Hanna (2019) A Symposium in Honour of Michael Longley. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Michael Longley in Context, Queen's University Belfast , 11-JUN-19 - 11-JUN-19. [Details] | |
| (2019) | Law and Literature: The Case of Ireland, Adam Hanna (2019) Co-organiser with Professor Eugene McNulty. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Law and Literature: The Case of Ireland, Dublin City University , 06-APR-19 - 06-APR-19. [Details] | |
| (2019) | American Conference of Irish Studies, Adam Hanna (2019) Chair of Poetry Roundtable: Doireann Ní Ghríofa. [Oral Presentation], American Conference of Irish Studies, Boston , 20-MAR-19 - 23-MAR-19. [Details] | |
| (2019) | American Conference of Irish Studies, Adam Hanna (2019) The Body of the Law: Women’s Rights in New Irish Poetry. [Oral Presentation], American Conference of Irish Studies, Boston , 20-MAR-19 - 23-MAR-19. [Details] | |
| (2018) | Second Annual North American Graduate Conference in Irish Studies, Adam Hanna (2018) Writing in the Margins: Irish Poetry and Space. [Keynote Speaker], Second Annual North American Graduate Conference in Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada , 01-MAR-18 - 03-MAR-18. [Details] | |
| (2018) | English Department seminar series, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Adam Hanna (2018) Seamus Heaney and the Troubles. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], English Department seminar series, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong , 30-JAN-18. [Details] | |
| (2018) | American Conference of Irish Studies, Adam Hanna (2018) Roundtable on the poetry of Bernard O'Donoghue. [Chair Sessions at Symposia], American Conference of Irish Studies, University College Cork , 21-JUN-18. [Details] | |
| (2018) | American Conference of Irish Studies, Adam Hanna (2018) Roundtable contribution on the 'Second Cities, Second Thoughts' project. [Oral Presentation], American Conference of Irish Studies, University College Cork , 19-JUN-18. [Details] | |
| (2018) | American Conference of Irish Studies, Adam Hanna (2018) Co-ordinator of the Academic Programme. [Conference Organising Committee Member], American Conference of Irish Studies, University College Cork , 18-JUN-18 - 22-JUN-18. [Details] | |
| (2018) | Art into Writing: Contemporary Poetry Inspired by Art, Adam Hanna (2018) 'Ekphrastic Poetry'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Art into Writing: Contemporary Poetry Inspired by Art, Ulster Museum, Belfast , 08-MAY-18. [Details] | |
| (2017) | Irish Prisons: Perspectives on the History and Representation of Irish Forms of Containment, Adam Hanna (2017) 'Seamus Heaney's Prisoners'. [Oral Presentation], Irish Prisons: Perspectives on the History and Representation of Irish Forms of Containment, Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast , 27-OCT-17. [Details] | |
| (2017) | Shared Futures: The First English Association Conference, Adam Hanna (2017) Border-Crossings in Northern Irish Poetry. [Oral Presentation], Shared Futures: The First English Association Conference, University of Newcastle , 06-JUL-17. [Details] | |
| (2017) | International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Adam Hanna (2017) Seamus Heaney's Versions of Justice. [Oral Presentation], International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore , 25-JUL-18. [Details] |
Committees
| Committee | Function | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Conference of Irish Studies | International Treasurer | 2023 / | |
| CACSSS Ethics Committee | Committee Member | 2022 / | |
| Second Year Committee | Head of Committee | 2022 / | |
| South Asia Regional Working Group | Committee member | 2018 / | |
| CACSSS International Committee | Committee member | 2018 / | |
| American Conference of Irish Studies 2018 conference committee | Designing the academic programme | 2017 / 2018 | |
| North America Regional Working Group | Working group member | 2017 / | |
| China Regional Working Group | Working group member | 2017 / |
Employment
| Employer | Position | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| University College Cork | Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature | 01-JAN-24 / | |
| University College Cork | Lecturer in Irish Literature | 01-SEP-17 / 31-DEC-23 | |
| Trinity College Dublin | Temporary Lecturer | 01-DEC-16 / 21-DEC-17 | |
| North East Scotland College | Lecturer | 01-SEP-14 / | |
| University of Aberdeen | Temporary Lecturer and Research Associate | 01-SEP-12 / 30-AUG-14 | |
| University of Bristol | Seminar Tutor | 01-OCT-09 / 01-SEP-12 |
Education
| Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | University of Bristol | PHD | English Literature |
Languages
| Language | Reading | Writing | Speaking | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| French | Functional | Functional | Functional |
Outreach Activities
| Description | |
|---|---|
Art into writing: contemporary poetry inspired by art: I gave this public talk at the Ulster Museum as part of an Open University outreach initiative on 8 May 2018. | |
Invited talk at Seanad Éireann to celebrate the centenary of W. B. Yeats's Nobel Prize, November 2023. | |
In 2021 I collaborated with Dr Rajinder Singh on a video installation piece, 'Spasm', a commission from the Glucksman. This work is in part inspired by the life and work of Seamus Heaney. This is a link to the work: https://www.glucksman.org/collection/digital-commissions/spasm#:~:text=Spasm%20is%20a%20new%20digital,of%2016%20short%20online%20films.&text=In%20Spasm%2C%20Singh%20explores%20minor,with%20and%20through%20the%20body. | |
Glucksman Gallery, UCC: Adviser on poetry exhibits for exhibition 'The Parted Veil: Commemoration in Photographic Practices at Glucksman Gallery, UCC (April-July 2019) |
Teaching Activities
Teaching Interests
In recent years I have given, or will soon give, invited lectures on Irish literature to students at:
Agder University, Norway (invited Erasmus lecturer) (2024)
City University of New York (2024)
Montclair University, New Jersey (2024)
Holy Cross, Massachusetts (2018 and 2022)
The German department, University College Cork (2022)
The University of Lille (2022)
Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle (2022)
The University of Sheffield (2022)
The University of Shanghai (twice) (2021)
The University of Malta (2021)
Agder University, Norway (2021)
The Law faculty, University College Cork (2020)
In collaboration with Professor Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts), I created 'Second Cities | Second Thoughts' in 2019. This is an innovative digital resource that is aimed at international students. It contains draft materials by and interviews with a range of poets. Agder University, Norway (invited Erasmus lecturer) (2024)
City University of New York (2024)
Montclair University, New Jersey (2024)
Holy Cross, Massachusetts (2018 and 2022)
The German department, University College Cork (2022)
The University of Lille (2022)
Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle (2022)
The University of Sheffield (2022)
The University of Shanghai (twice) (2021)
The University of Malta (2021)
Agder University, Norway (2021)
The Law faculty, University College Cork (2020)
University College Cork (2015-present)
I co-ordinate the following courses:
Irish Literary Revival and Modernism (third year lecture course)
Early Start: Literatures in Ireland (seminar course for visiting students)
Introduction to Irish Literature (lecture course for visiting students)
Irish Poetry Since Yeats (third year seminar course)
Northern Irish Literature and the Troubles (second year seminar course)
I contribute to the following courses:
Contemporary Irish Literature (third year lectures)
Literature in Time (first year lectures on Seamus Heaney)
MA classes on modern Irish poetry
Dissertation module (third year course)
I have supervised MA dissertations on Elizabeth Bowen, ecocriticism, place and political protest in modern Irish poetry.
I have in the past taught on these courses:
Special Topics in Creative Practice (second year lecture and seminar course)
Introduction to Modern Literature (first year lectures on Yeats and Heaney)
Trinity College Dublin (2016-17)
Yeats and Modern Irish Poetry (fourth year seminar course)
Northern Irish Literature and the Troubles’ (second year lecture course)
University of Aberdeen (2013-2014)
In addition to my role as the English Department’s Writing Support Tutor, I taught the following courses:
Controversial Classics (first year seminar course)
Encounters with Shakespeare’ (second year seminar course)
Summer Access Course - lectures on James Joyce and William Shakespeare
Academic Writing Skills Course (course co-ordinator)
University of Bristol (2009-12)
Approaches to Poetry (first year seminar course)
Contemporary Writing (first year seminar course)
Irish poetry weekend courses
Recent Postgraduates
| Graduation Year | Student Name | Institution | Degree Type | Thesis Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2028 | Gabrielle Dufrene | University College Cork | Doctor of Philosophy | An Island on a Sea of Grief: Irish Women Writers and Trauma | |
| 2026 | Chiara Valcelli | University College Cork | Doctoral Studies | Embodied Language: Dante, Joyce, and Representations of the Human Body and Mind | |
| 2025 | Clodagh Troelstra Heffernan | University College Cork | DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY | Poetics of Defiance: Protest Writing and Dissent Culture in Contemporary Working-Class Ireland | |
| 2024 | Holly Walker-Dunseith | University College Cork | PHD | Revival: Traditional Medicine in the Works of Augusta Gregory, W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge | |
| 2022 | Joseph Linehan | University College Cork | MASTER OF ARTS | “You will become like rain”: Connective fluency and the poetry of Billy Ramsell | |
| 2020 | James Stout | University College Cork | MASTER OF ARTS | Queering the Irish Short Story: Giving Voice to the Marginalised | |
| 2020 | Melanie Butler O'Reilly | University College Cork | MASTER OF ARTS | After Modernism: Philip Larkin, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot | |
| 2018 | Martha Quirke | University College Cork | Master of Arts | '"Dancing on the Edge": The Incomer and the Myth of the Irish West' | |
| 2017 | Ellen Reid | University College Cork | Master of Arts | 'Louder than the Literary: Locating the Theme of Protest in the Poetry of Sarah Clancy and Elaine Feeney' | |
| 2016 | Don Hanley | University College Cork | Master of Arts | 'Michael Hartnett and Ecopoetics' |
Research Information
External Collaborators
| Name | Organisation / Institute | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Eugene McNulty | Dublin City University | IRELAND | |
| Dr Jane Griffiths | Wadham College, Oxford University | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| Professor Paige Reynolds | College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts | U.S.A. |
Contact details
- Adam Hanna
- adam.hanna@ucc.ie
- +353-21-490-3000
- Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature
- adam.hanna@ucc.ie
- School of English and Digital Humanities
University College Cork
O'Rahilly Building, College Road
Cork, Ireland - +353 (0)21 490 3291