Member Profile: Fran Brearton
06 June 2018Fran Brearton, author and Professor of Modern Poetry, was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy on 25 May 2018.
Fran Brearton is professor of Modern Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast. She is a leading critic and author. Her publications, including The Great War in Irish poetry and Reading Michael Longley, have established her as a figure of major influence in the world of modern Irish poetry, an influence reflected in her work with the QUB Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry (including as director) and the Heaney Legacy Centre.