Search Results for 'Justin Tonra'
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‘A cursory glance at his career gives us some sense of his stardom’
HE WAS Ireland’s first literary celebrity; he moved in exciting political and artistic circles; he was a best selling writer; a political satirist; a biographer, and above all a celebrated lyricist, admired by Hector Berlioz.
On St Valentine’s Day, poetry straight from the heart...or from the heart’s data
If the heart could speak, what would it say? A new project at NUI Galway, launching on Valentine’s Day, aims to address this question with an unconventional approach to producing poetry. The project, Eververse, combines methods and tools from literary studies and computer science to automatically generate poetry that corresponds to a person’s biometric data, that is how fast their heart is beating, how deeply they are sleeping, and so on.
‘Salty’ and ‘sustaining’ Cúirt programme unveiled at House Hotel
“A great wave of salty, sustaining literary fare” was how guest speaker Vincent Woods vividly described the joys of Cúirt at the launch of this year’s programme, at the House Hotel on Tuesday evening. The venue was thronged as Galway’s readers and writers turned out in force for the occasion.
Local research science sheds light on 250-year-old literary controversy
The social networks behind one of the most famous literary controversies of all time have been uncovered using modern complexity science. Now, multi-disciplinary research from the National University of Ireland Galway, Coventry University and University of Oxford has explored the mathematical properties of contested poems.
