The UCD Aesthetic: Celebrating 150 Years of UCD Writers

With specially commissioned pieces by Colm Tóibín, Joseph O’Connor, Declan Kiberd and Caroline Walsh, among others, these lively and thought-provoking essays collectively comprise a unique survey of 150 years of achievement in Irish writing. The UCD Aesthetic is that rare thing: Irish writers on the writers who made them.

The publishing of this landmark book reinforces the central theme of the UCD 150th celebrations: the unequalled influence that UCD has had on the literary, economic, social, political, scientific, academic and legal development of Ireland throughout the past 150 years, and the continuation of this influence into the future.

UCD 150 has been marked by a calendar of events and activities, of which this book is one, planned to celebrate 150 years of Ireland's premier university.

Full details of the UCD 150 programme are available on the UCD website www.ucd.ie/150.