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Public Lecture: Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara: Vona Groarke and Kate Kennedy in Conversation
Registration will close at 14:30 on 14 October
In her award-winning memoir, Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara, Ireland Professor of Poetry, Vona Groarke traces her great-grandmother’s journey from impoverished County Sligo to New York in July 1882. In this genre-bending work, Vona weaves newspaper clippings, passenger lists, and baptismal records with sonnets, speculative dialogue and ghostly visitations to examine not only her great-grandmother’s life, but the lives of the many ‘Ellens’ who traversed the Atlantic “and made such a difference, in the United States and at home”.
Vona will read from Hereafter and discuss her creative process with Kate Kennedy
Date:
14 October 2025, 17:30
Venue:
Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details:
Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Speakers:
Vona Groarke (Ireland Professor of Poetry),
Kate Kennedy (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
eleri.watson@ell.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Booking required?:
Recommended
Booking url:
https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/public-lecture-hereafter-the-telling-life-of-ellen-ohara-vona-groarke-and-kate-kennedy-in-conv
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Belinda Clark
