The 2025-26 season of the Fund for Irish Studies includes the following events:
- September 12, 2025 — Award-winning writer Anne Enright
- October 3 — Writer and editor Sinéad Gleeson
- October 30 (Thursday) — Award-winning film & TV director Aoife Kelleher screens her feature documentary, Mrs. Robinson
- November 14 — A conversation with acclaimed actor and writer/director Olwen Fouéré, in a continued partnership with the Abbey Theatre
- February 8, 2026 — (Event canceled due to unforeseen circumstances) Musician Matt Molloy, member of traditional Irish folk band The Chieftains
- March 20 — The Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture: critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole and journalist Sam McBride debate the issues raised in their co-authored work, For and Against a United Ireland
- April 10 — Biographer and editor Merlin Holland gives a lecture on “After Oscar: Wilde between the li(n)es”
- Thursday, April 23, 4:10 p.m. — Writer John Banville presents the opening keynote live via Zoom on “Fiction and the Dream” as part of the (De)Stabilizing Nabakov conference presented by Princeton’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, cosponsored by the Fund for Irish Studies
Events are free and open to the public.
For all 2025-26 events, free tickets will be required. Tickets generally go on sale 3-4 weeks before the event date. Reserve tickets through University Ticketing.
All events begin at 4:30 p.m. in the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau St. in Princeton, New Jersey, unless noted otherwise.
Event details and dates are subject to change.
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