The Centre is pleased to welcome Andrew Carpenter, Emeritus Professor of Literature at University College Dublin.  Prof. Carpenter will present a seminar on “Verse Chapbooks in the Irish Provinces, 1770-1800: Textual Transmission, Printing and Circulation,” a subject on which he has worked extensively as part of his work in editing Verse in English from Eighteenth Century Ireland (Cork University Press, 1998) and other projects.  The seminar will take place on Tuesday, 18 March at 4 pm in Central Library Seminar Room 3 on the first floor.  Drinks and nibbles will accompany his talk.