Radvan Markus, PhDSenior lecturer in the Irish language and literature. Author of Echoes of the Rebellion: The Year 1798 in Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Drama (2015) and co-editor of Ar an Imeall i Lár an Domhain (2021), Tradition and Modernity (2014), Boundary Crossings (2012), and The Politics of Irish Writing (2010). He has published numerous articles and essays on Czech-Irish relations and various Irish-language authors of the 20th century, including Pádraic Ó Conaire, Flann O’Brien, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, and Breandán Ó hEithir. His monograph on Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Carnabhal na Marbh: Cré na Cille agus Litríocht an Domhain is to be published by Leabhar Breac in 2022. Markus’s Czech translation of Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille (2017) received the prestigious Magnesia Litera award, his other translations from Irish include Ó Cadhain’s An Eochair (2021), short stories of Pádraic Ó Conaire and the novel L’Attaque by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc. He edited Muž, který vybouchl (2016), a selection of short stories by various Irish-language authors, translated by students and graduates of the department. Since 2020, he is the secretary of the European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies (EFACIS). Apart from his academic work, Markus is also an active musician, performing Irish traditional music in the band Conamara Chaos, which he founded in 2017.bibliography (December 2022)
Radvan Markus welcomes thesis proposals in the following areas:
BA: Irish literature and studies, representations of history in literature
MA: Modern Irish literature, Irish studies, representations of history in literature
With James Little. “Coercive Confinement and Irish Languages: Ó Cadhain, Behan, Heaney, Okorie.” Rise 5.2 (2022): 19-37.
“Micheál mac Liammóir, the Irish Language, and the Idea of Freedom.” A Stage of Emancipation: Change and Progress at the Dublin Gate Theatre, eds. Marguérite Corporaal and Ruud van den Beuken (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021).
“The Internationalist Dramaturgy of Hilton Edwards and Micheál mac Liammóir.” With Joan Fitzpatrick Dean. Cultural Convergences: The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960, eds. Ondřej Pilný, Ruud van den Beuken, Ian R. Walsh (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
“The Irish Language and the Pursuit of Freedom.” Litteraria Pragensia 30.59 (2020).
“Ireland of the East and Bohemia of the West: Reflections of the Czech Language Revival in the Irish Press at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies 6.2 (2019): 138–149
“The Prison of Language: Brian O’Nolan, An Béal Bocht, and Language Determinism.” The Parish Review 4.1 (2018): 29-38.
“The Carnivalesque against Entropy: Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille.” Litteraria Pragensia 28.55 (2018): 56-69.
“John Millington Synge and Pádraic Ó Conaire: Unexpected Fellow Travellers between Romanticism, Realism and Beyond.” AUC Philologica: Prague Studies in English 1 (2016): 55-68.