Biographicon is a cultural psychogeography of the Northern Enlightenment
“The Goths fancied that the souls of the illustrious dead were transmuted into flame; and that tomb-fires ascended from the graves of heroes, which became stars in the firmament. Such a transmutation the eminent really undergo by the record of their lives: thenceforth, like the lamps in cities, they blaze in the eyes of men, and guide the steps of each successive passenger along the nobler paths of human life.”
Declan McCormack was invited to give a paper about the Durham Theatre Company and its impact on the region to the Georgian North Group at Durham University (26.6.25).
Richmond Players on the Boards
Declan McCormack was invited to give a talk to the Richmond Civic Society about Samuel Butler’s Theatre Company at the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire (5.3.25). Declan provided research material and advised on the Butler Company for the theatre’s new museum and visitor centre ’The Georgian Theatre Experience’ which won a White Rose Award upon opening. The ‘White Rose’ is the largest tourism event of its kind in the UK.
Canny Cunningham
Declan McCormack was invited by the North East Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies to give a paper on the Irish actor and poet John Cunningham at Newcastle University (6.12.24).
While strolling between the Tees and Tweed the actor John Cunningham wrote the greatest pastoral poems of the late-eighteenth century but who has heard of him today?