玛丽·弗雷泽-巴尔达萨雷英语教授露西·麦克迪亚米德（Lucy McDiarmid）最近在爱尔兰举办了三场重要的受邀讲座。

In September, she spoke at the Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering in Gort, Co Galway, Ireland, on the topic “Emotions and Behaviours in Fairy Legends Collected by Lady Gregory.”

In July, she lectured on “The Poetry of Hair: W. B. Yeats, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, & Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill” at the Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, Ireland.

And in June, she was one of  seven scholars invited to speak at a Queen’s University Belfast symposium celebrating the 80th birthday of Michael Longley, honored as the  Ireland Professor of Poetry (2007) and as the recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (2001).  Professor McDiarmid’s lecture was titled  “Longley Reclining.”