Eve Patten is Associate Professor and Head of the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin, where she lectures on modern British and Irish writing. Her previous publications include Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (2004), That Island Never Found (2007) and Literatures of War (2008), and her monograph Imperial Refugee: The Wartime Fiction of Olivia Manning was published in spring 2012 by Cork University Press. She is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin and Vice Chair of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Literature.

Irish scholar Pete Shirlow will present a lecture posing the question: “The End of Ulster Loyalism?” on Friday, October 5 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.