ESSAY COMPETITION

(The George Moore Association)

Essay Guidelines

Word Limit: 3000 including the ‘Works Cited’ list.

Recommended Style: MLA Author-Page Style

Times New Roman, 12 pt., double spacing

New Submission Deadline: 26th April 2024

The prize will be presented at the conference.

Please include a cover page with your name and the selected topic, and send the completed essay to both:

Dr Mary Pierse: piersemary@gmail.com

and

Dr Kathryn Laing: kathryn.laing@mic.ul.ie

Select ONE of the following topics:

With almost exclusive reference to George Moore and texts by him (one or two), treat of his importance as a writer.

‘Reflect on the relevance and importance of George Moore texts in the context of the fin-de-siecle period’.

‘George Moore’s writings: Insights for the twenty-first century’.

SEMINAR IN THE HUGH LANE GALLERY ON 23RD FEBRUARY 2024

George Moore in Dublin was moderated by Dr Brendan Fleming, a graduate of the University of Oxford where his doctoral thesis focused on the writings of George Moore.

Programme

10am Welcome Jessica O’Donnell, Head of Education and Community Outreach, Hugh Lane Gallery and Dr Brendan Fleming, Moderator
10.10am ‘Ireland’s Debt to George Moore – a personal appraisal’, Peter Costello, author, critic and editor.
10.45am ‘George Moore and Hugh Lane’s Gallery of Modern Art’, Logan Sisley, acting Head of Collections, HLG
11.20am Dr Noreen Doody will launch George Moore: Spheres of Influence, eds. Kathryn Laing
and Mary Pierse, Liverpool University Press
11.30am Break
11.55am ‘ “A place to escape from”: almost home – George Moore’s Dublin’, Dr Noreen Doody, former senior lecturer at the School of English, Dublin City University and lecturer on Irish writing of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
12.30pm Break
1.50pm ‘George Moore and the British Impressionist Painter Clara Christian McCarthy’, Adrian Frazier, emeritus professor of University of Galway and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
2.30pm The programme concludes with a recital by Una Hunt, internationally renowned pianist of work by Michele Esposito (1855-1929), Augusta Holmès (1847-1903), Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849). Introduced by Dr Mary Pierse, Trustee, The George Moore Association and co-editor with Kathryn Laing of George Moore: Spheres of Influence (Liverpool University Press).

writings of George Moore.

Featured in some of the photos below is distinguished pianist, renowned musicologist and good friend of the GMA, Una Hunt, who has recently been elected to the Royal Irish Academy.