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Report: Visiting Lecture Exchange, Paris May 2017, Diarmuid Cawley
Report: Visiting Lecture Exchange, Paris May 2017, Diarmuid Cawley
Reports
A report of a lecture on wine and wine language given to French culinary and hospitality students at the Pôle Universitaire de Gastronomie, a subsidiary of Université de Cergy-Pontoise in Paris, 2017.
George Moore : Cultural Tourist In France, Eamon Maher
George Moore : Cultural Tourist In France, Eamon Maher
Books/Chapters
Ofall the Irish writers ofthe nineteenth and twentieth centuries, George Moore (I 8S 2.-1933) is the one who was most embedded in French literature, painting and culture. Taking the strongly autobiographical Confessions ofa YoungMan as its main focal point, this chapter will examine Moore's love affair with France and the influence this exerted on his literary and artistic evolution. In Confessions, we read the extent ofMoore's attraction to Paris: '[ ... ] my thoughts reverted to France, which always haunted me; and which now possessed me with the sweet and magnetic influence ofhome.'l Moore clearly had a deep appreciation ofFrance …