LitFest Talks

Friday 2 March
The Dream and the Reality Partnership Event

Fr Pat O’Malley, a graduate of University College, Cork, will focus on the theme of the Irish language revival in Ireland and his own role in that movement in this lecture organised with Irish Arts Foundation. A concert follows the lecture, with a number of guest musicians featuring - in particular Co. Waterford Hiberno-Jazzers Dylan Bible (guitar) and Amanda Fardy (vocals), who are in the photo.

Dia dhár réiteach! Cá ndeacha an Aisling? (Máirtín Ó Cadhain)

8pm Shire Oak Room, HEART Centre, Bennett Road
Free
http://www.heartcentre.org.uk/

Monday 12 March
Pig’s Head Stew, La Chingada, and Mexican Chavs Abroad

Rosalind Harvey (pictured) will look at the challenges and joys of literary translation. She has lived in Lima and in Norwich, where she fell in love with Spanish and with translation respectively. She has co-translated and worked solo on various Spanish and Latin American fiction. Her translation of Juan Pablo Villalobos‟s Down the Rabbit Hole was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. In autumn last year she was one of the first translators-in-residence at the Free Word Centre in London.

7.15pm Library, North Lane
£3
http://wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/rosalind-harvey
http://bit.ly/z4SMsR

Wednesday 14 March
The Origins of Yorkshire Dialects

Dr. Barrie M Rhodes is a published linguist and expert member of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, established in 1897 and the world's oldest still-existing society of its kind. He will explore how our own regional language varieties came about. Dialects are not simply degraded forms of the "standard‟ language. They are valid forms of English in their own right. It has been said that a "standard‟ language is simply a dialect “...with an army and a navy”.

7.30pm New Headingley Club, St Michael‟s Road
£4
http://www.yorkshiredialectsociety.org.uk/

Wednesday 27 March
Experimental Languages - Elvish and Newspeak

The Elvish invented by Tolkien, Orwell‟s Newspeak and Joyce‟sFinnegans Wake will be topics in this lighthearted look at the futuristic and experimental languages that figured in some of the best known works of literature in the last century, with one foot in the Headingley locality and another in international modernism. Dr Richard Brown from the University of Leeds will preside.

7.15pm Library, North Lane
£3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvish_languages
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html
http://www.finwake.com/1024chapter1/1024finn1.htm