# Event Details - **Event Name**: Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 01 May, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Fri, 01 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: qUCL are pleased to welcome Dr Naoise Murphy (Manchester) to discuss their new book. Chaired by Dr Juliana Demartini Brito (UCL)About this EventQueering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy ModernsEdinburgh University Press (2025)Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers – Dorothy Macardle, Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane – this book unsettles the conventional narratives of modern Irish culture. Despite attempts to impose a linear narrative of progress, feel-good accounts are clearly inadequate to the realities of contemporary Ireland.Guided by a queer refusal to move on from bad feelings, Naoise Murphy disrupts common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Lingering with unease and discomfort in the work of mid-twentieth-century women writers and the spaces they occupied, this book pays close attention to inadmissible feelings of loss, anxiety, hauntedness and melancholia. By embracing discomfort, it moves towards a less idealising form of queer studies that is more responsive to the complexity of queer history, and offers a new story of Irish culture in the twentieth century.Please refer to qUCL's Code of Conduct. All welcome but please register to attend:View accessibility information for 20 Bedford Way. For any other access requirements please email lgbtq-research@ucl.ac.ukAbout the SpeakersNaoise MurphyLeverhulme Early Career Fellow at Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, University of ManchesterNaoise Murphy is working on lesbian and transmasculine visibility in twentieth-century English fiction. Naoise has previously taught at the University of Oxford and Maynooth University. Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns is their first book.More about Naoise MurphyJuliana Demartini BritoLecturer (Teaching) in Gender and Sexuality Studies at UCL SELCS-CMIII’m currently working on feminist and queer contemporary art practices, and how they challenge academic discourse of depoliticization in post-June 2013 Brazil. My research interests include decolonial approaches to gender and sexuality and perceptions of Brazilian and wider Latin American cultures and politics.More about Juliana Demartini Brito - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/queering-twentieth-century-irish-women’s-writing-uneasy-moderns/100001981413730807 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, contests, sports, fine-arts, lgbt-pride - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fqueering-twentieth-century-irish-womens-writing-uneasy-moderns-tickets-1981413730807 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Elvin Hall, Institute of Education - **lat**: 51.5229929 - **long**: -0.1283226 - **full address**: Elvin Hall, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) (https://allevents.in/org/ucl-institute-of-advanced-studies-ias/22749917) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/3145ea37411cda76304b826ccce2744ae24695e489ce104f10312f11733bf8b2-rimg-w1200-h675-dc155f81-gmir.jpg?v=1771525495 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/7fb0989386532d1db4bae6a292bef9ca647d05c26a782ec033a0570267fb5a15-rimg-w400-h400-dc155f81-gmir.jpg?v=1771525495 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Fri, 01 May, 2026 at 05:30 pm (+01:00) - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Elvin Hall, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 GBP - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, literary-art, contests, sports, fine-arts, lgbt-pride - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/3145ea37411cda76304b826ccce2744ae24695e489ce104f10312f11733bf8b2-rimg-w1200-h675-dc155f81-gmir.jpg?v=1771525495", "startDate": "2026-05-01T17:30:00+01:00", "endDate": "2026-05-01T19:30:00+01:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/queering-twentieth-century-irish-women’s-writing-uneasy-moderns/100001981413730807", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Elvin Hall, Institute of Education", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "20 Bedford Way", "postalCode": "WC1H 0AL", "addressLocality": "London", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.5229929", "longitude": "-0.1283226" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "qUCL are pleased to welcome Dr Naoise Murphy (Manchester) to discuss their new book. 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