Press Releases23 Oct 08

Seventh Annual Swift Symposium held at St Patrick's Deanery

The seventh Dublin International Symposium on Jonathan Swift took place at St Patrick's Deanery, Dublin on Saturday 18 October with around 45 delegates from the USA, the UK and Ireland.

Speakers included Professor Claude Rawson from Yale University; Professor Sean Connolly from Queen’s University, Belfast; and Professor David Womersley from St Catherine’s College, Oxford. The meeting was chaired by Professor Robert Mahoney from the Catholic University of America. The afternoon panel included discussion on Editing Swift and, following the symposium, the Dean of St Patrick's, the Very Revd Dr Robert MacCarthy, presided over the launch of the the first volume in the Cambridge Edition of The Works of Jonathan Swift published by Cambridge University Press.

The Dean Jonathan Swift annual commemoration service took place in St Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday 19 October. The speaker was Dr Anne Enright, author and winner of the 2007 Booker Prize.

Pictured: Dr Linda Bree (Cambridge University Press); Dr Daniel Cook (Queen's College, Cambridge); and the Very Revd Dr Robert MacCarthy (Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin). Picture: Mark Bowyer