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Lecture 2 - A Terrible Beauty: The Birth of Two Nations
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As World War 1 began in 1914, Ireland put to one side its differences with Britain as it fought for ‘King and Empire’, hoping for the return of ‘Home Rule’ at war’s end. But this was to be a temporary state of affairs. Between 1916 and 1923 ‘a terrible beauty was born’, as Yeats so memorably put it. Rebellion, the partition of Ireland and the consequent Civil War saw two separate states emerge, north and south. Ruskin wrote it was the art of a country, not its deeds or words, that was a more trustworthy guide to its history. Was this a piece of Victorian romanticism? The final lecture of this series will test this theory in an attempt to make sense of the recent past.
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Tom Duncan was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied, successively, Music and then History of Art with Ancient History and Archaeology. He moved to the United States in 1980 to research Late Antiquity and the Early Church. This formative experience brought him to Cambridge, England in 1984 to complete a Ph D on the influence of Early Christian Art on Baroque Painting in Rome. A period as a university lecturer followed, together with many invitations to lecture to organisations such as The Art Fund and The Arts Society (formerly NADFAS). Consequently, he began to lead tours over twenty years ago and in 1999, together with Stephen Brook, founded CICERONI Travel, now one of the UK's most respected independent cultural travel companies. When not lecturing or travelling, he devotes most of his time to gardening, music and opera, the other great interests in his life.
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