Csilla Bertha

Csilla Bertha

CSILLA BERTHA, Debrecen University, Hungary, honorary chair of the Hungarian Yeats Society, author of Yeats the Playwright (in Hungarian), co-author of Worlds Visible and Invisible, co-edited several volumes on Irish literature, most recently Mirror up to Theatre (2015 Irish University Review special issue). She publishes widely in English and Hungarian on Yeats, contemporary Irish drama, sites of memory in drama, and interart relations in theatre. She has also edited Hungarian poetry in English translation, Homeland in the Heights (Budapest, 2000) and with Donald E. Morse has co-translated Transylvanian Hungarian plays, including the five published as Silenced Voices (Dublin, 2008).

‘THE HAPPENING OF TRUTH’ – EDITING AN ANTHOLOGY ON THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION

The 1956 Revolution, the most glorious chapter of twentieth-century Hungarian history despite its quick and brutal crushing, is regarded worldwide as unequivocally beautiful, valuable, and exemplary. It is an event about which most people in Western countries have heard at least something. An English-language anthology of Hungarian poems and prose

SAYING WHAT COULD NOT BE SAID: CSABA LÁSZLÓFFY’S THE HERETIC

A prolific Hungarian poet, fiction-writer, essayist and playwright, Csaba Lászlóffy (1938–2015), member of the Hungarian ethnic minority in Romania, lived part of his life under the dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu, in a world that strongly resembled that pictured in George Orwell’s 1984. Hungarians living inside the Romanian borders had to endure