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SUMMARY:2026 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture: “For and Against a United Ireland”
DESCRIPTION:Co-authors Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride debate the points in their recent book\, For and Against a United Ireland\, as the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture. Part of the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series. The Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox\, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater & Music Theater\, and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nAbout the Guests\nPhoto credit: Nick Bradshaw / The Irish Times\nFintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is a columnist for The Irish Times and advising editor of The New York Review of Books. He also writes for The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. From 2012 to 2024\, he was Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare\, George Bernard Shaw\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. His books on politics include the bestsellers We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland (which was named by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2022); Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain; and Ship of Fools. He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, the Orwell Prize\, the European Press Prize and the Robert Silvers Prize for Journalism. He has recently been appointed official biographer of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. In 2023\, O’Toole was named an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2024 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. \n  \nPhoto credit: Conor Mulhern\nSam McBride is an author and journalist specialising in Northern Irish politics. He is Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph and the Dublin-based Sunday Independent. He also writes on Northern Ireland for the Economist. He is a former political editor of the Belfast News Letter and has made a documentary film for the BBC on the Northern Bank robbery. \nSam’s first book\, Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite\, became a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. \nHis second book\, For and Against a United Ireland\, co-written with Fintan O’Toole\, was published in October 2025 by the Royal Irish Academy and was shortlisted in the An Post Irish Book of the Year Awards. \nSam is a regular broadcaster\, providing analysis for local\, national and international audiences on developments in Northern Ireland. He lives in Belfast with his wife and two young children. \nTickets & Details\nFree tickets required. Should the event sell out\, there will be a wait line at the event to fill any empty seats. \nReserve tickets through University Ticketing\nReach University Ticketing by email at tixhelp@princeton.edu or by phone at 609-258-9220. \nDirections\nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater\, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/2026-robert-fagles-memorial-lecture-for-and-against-a-united-ireland/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Lecture
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Olwen Fouéré
DESCRIPTION:Olwen Fouéré\, an award-winning Irish actor\, writer and director of theater\, film\, music\, and visual arts\, and frequent collaborator with Ireland’s Abbey Theatre\, will perform two monologues and be in conversation with Jane Cox\, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater and Music Theater. Fouéré will discuss her career as an actor onstage\, as well as in film and television\, and other aspects of her work. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox\, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater & Music Theater\, and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nFouéré will also join an informal lunch conversation on November 13 (open to University community). \nTickets & Details\nFree tickets required. Should the event sell out\, there will be a wait line at the event to fill any empty seats. \nReserve tickets through University Ticketing\nReach University Ticketing by email at tixhelp@princeton.edu or by phone at 609-258-9220. \nDirections\nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater\, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date. \n  \nAbout Olwen Fouéré\n\n \nOlwen Fouéré. Photo by Rich Gilligan. \n\nOlwen Fouéré is an actor\, writer and director in theatre\, film\, music and the visual Arts. Her most recent stage appearances include The Boy by Marina Carr at the Abbey Theatre and the highly acclaimed production of The President by Thomas Bernhard at the Gate Theatre in Dublin co-produced by Sydney Theatre Company\, iGirl (Abbey Theatre); Nous l’Europe\, Banquet des Peuples (Avignon Festival); Blood Wedding (Young Vic Theatre); Ballyturk (Abbey Theatre\, St Ann’s Warehouse). Other work of note includes riverrun — her adaptation of the voice of the river in Finnegans Wake — which premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival 2013 and toured internationally; Lessness (Barbican International Beckett Festival); and a legendary production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé directed by Steven Berkoff (Gate Theatre\, Dublin 1988-93). \nIn 1980 she formed Operating Theatre\, an avant-garde theatre company and band\, with composer Roger Doyle. They recently staged a reunion concert at the National Concert Hall as part of Musictown 2025 produced by Foggy Notions. \nHer film and television credits include The Watchers; All You Need is Death; The Actor; The Northman; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022); Violet Gibson The Woman Who Shot Mussolini; Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald; Sea Fever; Mandy; This Must Be The Place; The Survivalist; The Tourist S2; The Crown S5; Holding; Derry Girls S3. \nHer numerous awards include an Irish Times Special Tribute Award\, the Edinburgh Festival Archangel\, and an Honorary Doctorate from Dublin City University for her outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-olwen-fouere/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Ruth McGowan & Derbhle Crotty from the Abbey Theatre
DESCRIPTION:The Abbey Theatre’s Ruth McGowan\, literary and new work director\, and\, Derbhle Crotty\, actor and associate artist\, will be in conversation around writing and performing in Ireland\, moderated by Fund for Irish Studies Co-chair Jane Cox. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Cox and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nAbout the Guest Artists\nRuth McGowan. Photo credit: Hazel Coonagh\nRuth McGowan joined the Abbey Theatre in the new role of Literary & New Work Director in 2023\, working with playwrights and theater makers to generate future work for both stages of Ireland’s National Theatre. She works closely with artists\, designing and delivering bespoke dramaturgical and practical supports to a dynamic range of commissions and ideas in development. Working as a dramaturg\, programmer and producer since 2009\, McGowan has built creative partnerships and championed new work across performance disciplines. She has produced world premieres in festival fields\, above pubs\, and in historic theaters from Letterkenny to the Lower East Side. In addition\, McGowan was Artistic Director & CEO of Dublin Fringe Festival from 2018-2023. McGowan sits on Dublin City Council’s Arts & Culture Advisory Group. She holds a B.Ed with English from St Patrick’s College\, Drumcondra\, and an M.Phil in Theatre and Performance from Trinity College Dublin. \n  \nDerbhle Crotty. Photo courtesy the artist.\nIn a career spanning 33 years\, Derbhle Crotty has acted on most of the main stages of Ireland and the UK\, including those of the Abbey Theatre\, Royal Shakespeare Company\, National Theatre\, Druid\, Royal Court and Bristol Old Vic. She has played title roles in Hecuba\, Portia Coughlan\, Miss Julie\, and Henry IV\, and she has played Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard and Arkadina in The Seagull. Derbhle has twice won the Best Actress award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards and is a recipient of the Ian Charleson Award. An associate of the Abbey Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company\, she is also a member of the Druid Ensemble. \nTickets & Details\nThe conversation is free & open to the public; advance tickets required. Tickets also available at the door prior to the start of the event. \nGet tickets through University Ticketing \nDirections\nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater\, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/conversation-with-ruth-mcgowan-derbhle-crotty-from-the-abbey-theatre/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with the Abbey Theatre: Caitríona McLaughlin and Jen Coppinger
DESCRIPTION:In a new partnership with Ireland’s Abbey Theatre\, Fund for Irish Studies Co-chair and Director of the Program in Theater & Music Theater Jane Cox moderates a conversation on running a national theater with the Abbey’s Artistic Director Caitríona McLaughlin and Head of Producing Jen Coppinger. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Cox and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nAbout the Guest Artists\nCaitríona McLaughlin/ Photo credit: Richard Gilligan\nCaitríona McLaughlin is currently Artistic Director / Co-Director of the Abbey Theatre. Recent productions include Audrey or Sorrow by Marina Carr (in a co-production with Landmark Productions); The Weir by Conor McPherson; Translations by Brian Friel (an Abbey Theatre and Lyric Theatre\, Belfast co-production) and winner of “Best Play Revival” at the 2022 UK Theatre Awards; and iGirl by Marina Carr. \nMcLaughlin was previously Associate Director at the Abbey Theatre from 2017-2020\, where her productions included: The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh; Citysong by Dylan Coburn Gray; On Raftery’s Hill by Marina Carr; and Two Pints by Roddy Doyle. She also worked with theatre and opera companies on both sides of the border\, including Wexford Opera\, HotForTheatre\, Irish National Opera\, The Local Group\, and Landmark Productions. \nPrior to moving into directing\, McLaughlin worked as a drama facilitator in Northern Ireland with young people and in conflict resolution. In London\, she directed numerous productions\, focusing primarily on new writing\, and collaborated with the Royal Court in sourcing and developing a new theatre space. She was awarded a Clore Fellowship in 2007 and subsequently spent six summers with LAByrinth Theatre Company in New York developing new plays and directing a number of plays including Killers and other Family\, as well as plays at Atlantic Theatre\, Rattlestick\, and Bard Summerscape. \nJen Coppinger. Photo courtesy of Jen Coppinger\nJen Coppinger joined the Abbey Theatre as Head of Producing in January 2018. She produces the shows that are performed both at the Abbey Theatre\, on its Abbey and Peacock stages\, as well as touring shows out of the Abbey. She also fosters the relationships that lead to the co-production of work and is responsible for new theater work\, touring work and productions of existing plays. \nPreviously\, Coppinger worked as Producer for HotForTheatre\, TheEmergencyRoom and United Fall as well as with independent artists such as Kevin Barry\, Paul Curley\, Jody O’Neill\, Shane O’Reilly\, Raymond Scannell and Dylan Tighe. She has toured work extensively in Ireland and internationally including a production of riverrun at the Lewis Center for the Arts in 2014. \nCoppinger was Project Manager for the Laureate for Irish Fiction Anne Enright from 2015-2018 for the Arts Council of Ireland\, and she was Manager of Rough Magic Seeds. She was Chairperson of Youth Theatre Ireland and United Fall and has sat on the boards of Theatre Forum\, Dublin Fringe Festival\, and Recovery through Art\, Drama and Education (RADE). \nAdmission & Details\nThe lecture is free and open to the public; no advance tickets or registration required. \nDirections\nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater\, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-the-abbey-theatre-caitriona-mclaughlin-and-jen-coppinger/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Screening Ireland: A Life in Film with Lenny Abrahamson
DESCRIPTION:Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Fintan O’Toole interviews Academy Award-nominated and Irish Film and Television Award-winning director Lenny Abrahamson on his career in film. Abrahamson is director of the critically acclaimed 2015 film Room\, starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay\, nominated for four Academy Awards\, including Best Picture. He also directed Normal People\, a 12-episodes series for BBC\, Hulu and RTE\, adapted by and based on Sally Rooney’s Man Booker longlisted novel of the same name\, for which he earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. \nAbout the Artist\nLenny Abrahamson is the director of the critically-acclaimed film Room\, starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards\, including Best Picture. Some of Abrahamson’s other work includes: Garage\, Adam and Paul\, What Richard Did\, The Little Stranger and Frank. \nRecently\, Abrahamson directed Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends\, a 12-episode\, 30-minute series for BBC and Hulu starring Alison Oliver and Joe Alwyn. He also directed Normal People\, a 12-episodes series for BBC\, Hulu and RTE\, adapted by and based on Sally Rooney’s Man Booker long-listed novel of the same name that was released in 2020\, for which he was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. \nTickets & Details\nThe event is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. \nCOVID-19 Guidance + Updates\nPer Princeton University policy\, all guests must either be fully vaccinated\, or have recently tested negative (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen test within 8 hours of the scheduled visit) and be prepared to show proof if asked\, or wear a face covering when indoors and around others. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is wheelchair accessible. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date. \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/screening-ireland-a-life-in-film-with-lenny-abrahamson/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Roddy Doyle and Fintan O’Toole
DESCRIPTION:Irish novelist\, dramatist\, and screenwriter Roddy Doyle joins in conversation with scholar and critic Fintan O’Toole. Professor Paul Muldoon opens the virtual event with an introduction. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Register and join the lecture via Zoom Webinar. \nREGISTER FOR THE LECTURE \nNOTE: A recording will not be available to share with the public following the event. \n  \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe event includes live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and connect directly to the captioned event through StreamText. Reference these instructions for using StreamText (PDF). \nIf you are in need of other access accommodations in order to participate in this event\, please contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of the event date. \n  \n\nThe Fund for Irish Studies affords all Princeton students\, and the community at large\, a wider and deeper sense of the languages\, literatures\, drama\, visual arts\, history\, politics\, and economics not only of Ireland but of “Ireland in the world.” The series is produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts and the 2021-22 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon and Fintan O’Toole. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies is generously sponsored by the Durkin Family Trust and the James J. Kerrigan\, Jr. ’45 and Margaret M. Kerrigan Fund for Irish Studies.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/conversation-with-roddy-doyle-and-fintan-otoole/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Virtual Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180406T130000
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SUMMARY:Screening of Song of Granite by Pat Collins
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 6\, 2018\n1:00 p.m.\nPrinceton Garden Theatre\, 160 Nassau St.\, Princeton\nFREE and open to the public \nAcclaimed filmmaker Pat Collins will screen and discuss his feature film\, Song of Granite\, a portrayal of the life of sean nós singer Joe Heaney and his music\, on Friday\, April 6 at 1:00 p.m. at the Princeton Garden Theater\, 160 Nassau Street. An audience discussion with the filmmaker will follow the screening. The event\, which is free and open to the public\, is presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University. Guests should note that this event is earlier in the day than usual for Fund for Irish Studies Series events. \nJoe Heaney was widely regarded as the greatest practitioner of sean-nòs\, a form of traditional unaccompanied Irish singing. Shaped by the myths\, fables\, and songs of his upbringing in the west of Ireland\, his emergence as a gifted artist came at a personal cost. Heaney was said to have a repertoire of over 500 songs in his memory. He became a star in the American folk music revival of the 1960s\, first at the Newport Folk Festival and then in various cities across the country\, where he performed to sold-out crowds. \nThe film provides a portrait of the artist\, covering his childhood in Connemara in the 1930s\, his travels throughout the U.K. and U.S. in the 1960s\, and then his reflection on his past and his legacy as an elderly man in the U.S. Collins’ film does not attempt to cover all the details about the singer’s life but rather mirror’s Heaney’s reputation as an elusive and enigmatic man. The film features performances by Colm Seoighe\, Macdara Ó Fátharta\, Jaren Cerf\, Lisa O’Neill\, Damien Dempsey\, and sean nós singers Mícheál Ó Chonfhaola and Pól Ó Ceannabháin\, and black and white cinematography by Richard Kendrick. Song of Granite had its world premiere at the 2017 South by Southwest Film Festival and was Ireland’s official entry as Best Foreign Language Film in the 2018 Academy Awards. The film is presented in both English and subtitled Gaelic. Learn more at http://songofgranite.oscilloscope.net/ \nSteve Greene of Indiewire notes that the film\, “delivers a profile of not just a singer but the country that made him…Song of Granite is a stirring solemn tribute.” \nCollins\, who directed and co-wrote the film\, has been making films since 1998 and has directed over 30 films\, including feature films\, documentaries and short experimental works. He has made documentaries on the writers Michael Hartnett\, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill\, and John McGahern\, and he co-directed a documentary on Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.  In 2012\, he completed the feature film Silence\, which had its international premiere at the London Film Festival and was distributed by Element Films in Ireland and New Wave Films. Song of Granite is his second dramatic feature film.  \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, chaired by Princeton professor Clair Wills\, affords all Princeton students\, and the community at large\, a wider and deeper sense of the languages\, literatures\, drama\, visual arts\, history\, politics\, and economics not only of Ireland but of “Ireland in the world.” The series is co-produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts. The spring 2018 edition of the series is organized by Fintan O’Toole as acting chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. \nThe final event in the 2017-18 series will feature Alvin Jackson\, the Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh\, who will present a lecture\, “John Redmond and Edward Carson:  Bloodshed\, Borders and the Union State\,” on April 27. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies is generously sponsored by the Durkin Family Trust and the James J. Kerrigan\, Jr. ’45 and Margaret M. Kerrigan Fund for Irish Studies.  \n To learn more about the more than 100 public performances\, exhibitions\, readings\, screenings\, concerts\, lectures and special events\, presented each year by the Lewis Center for the Arts\, most of them free\, visit arts.princeton.edu.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/screening-song-granite-pat-collins/
LOCATION:Princeton Garden Theatre\, 160 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Film screening
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SUMMARY:Iarla Ó Lionáird and Donnacha Dennehy perform and discuss their recent collaboration on a new opera\, Hunger
DESCRIPTION:Belknap Teaching Fellow Iarla Ó Lionáird and Assistant Professor of Music Donnacha Dennehy\, two faculty members at Princeton University\, will discuss and perform excerpts of Dennehy’s new opera\, Hunger\, on Friday\, November 18. The discussion and performance will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2016-17 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, this event is free and open to the public. \nHunger\, which premiered earlier this year starring O’Lionáird and recently completed a run at the BAM Next Wave Festival\, is based on diaries and personal accounts from the period of the Great Famine in Ireland (1845-52). A departure from conventions in which the ensemble is concealed in the orchestra pit\, the work integrates the players with the action and storytelling taking place on stage. The production includes video of present-day thinkers who consider the conditions that led to the famine and their implications for inequality in our own time. The Great Famine was a time of major upheaval\, the historical significance of which is well documented. At least one million people died and yet another million emigrated. Less well-recorded are accounts of those who directly witnessed and suffered through the famine. At the heart of Dennehy’s Hunger are personal\, contemporaneous stories that introduce new dimensions in the tragedy of the famine. The opera also addresses the complex issues of governance and economic policy by complementing these personal\, historical voices with video interviews of contemporary economists and political philosophers\, such as Noam Chomsky and Paul Krugman. The opera not only recounts history as it happened\, but also addresses the current socioeconomic problems of the recent global economic crisis. \nDennehy is an assistant professor of music at Princeton. He has received commissions from Dawn Upshaw\, the Kronos Quartet\, Alarm Will Sound\, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra\, Bang On A Can\, Joanna MacGregor\, the Percussion Group of the Hague\, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. His recent opera\,  The Last Hotel (2015)\, met with critical acclaim in the U.K. when it premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival and has had runs at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York\, the Dublin Theatre Festival\, and the Royal Opera in London. His new piece for Nadia Sirota and viol consort will premiere at Symphony Space in 2016 and is being recorded for future release by Bedroom Community. Dennehy’s collaborations include pieces with the writer Enda Walsh\, the choreographers Yoshiko Chuma and Shobana Jeyasingh\, and the visual artist John Gerrard. In 2010\, his single-movement orchestral piece Crane was recommended by the International Rostrum of Composers. Dennehy is the founder of Ireland’s renowned music group Crash Ensemble. Alongside the singers Upshaw and O’Lionáird\, Crash Ensemble is featured on the 2011 Nonesuch release of Dennehy’s music\, entitled Grá agus Bás. Releases of Dennehy’s music include a RTE Lyric FM portrait CD of his orchestral music and a number of works by NMC Records in London and Cantaloupe in New York. Previously a tenured lecturer at Trinity College Dublin\, Dennehy was appointed a Global Scholar at Princeton University in 2012. He was has also served as composer-in-residence for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in Texas (2013-14). He joined the music faculty at Princeton University in 2014. \nÓ Lionáird is a Belknap Teaching Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and in Music and Irish Studies at Princeton. An Irish musician with a focus on traditional sean-nós style\, he has carved a long and unique career in music in Ireland and internationally. From his iconic early recording of the vision song “Aisling Gheal” as a young boy to his groundbreaking recordings with Dublin’s Crash Ensemble\, he has been widely recognized for his artistic ambition within the Irish music fraternity. Ó Lionáird has worked internationally with renowned composers Nico Muhly\, Gavin Bryars\, Dan Trueman\, and David Lang. He has also performed and recorded with artists such as Peter Gabriel\, Robert Plant\, Nick Cave\, and Sinead O’Connor. Ó Lionáird’s unique singing style has carried him to stages and concert halls all over the world\, from New York’s Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. His film credits include The Gangs of New York\, Hotel Rwanda\, and most recently as a featured vocalist in the films Calvary and Brooklyn. He is also the vocalist of the critically acclaimed Irish/American band The Gloaming. At Princeton\, Ó Lionáird is teaching the fall 2016 course\, “Sound and Place\,” and plans are underway for him to co-teach a spring 2017 course entitled “Introduction to Irish Studies.”
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/iarla-o-lionaird-donnacha-dennehy-perform-discuss-recent-collaboration-new-opera-hunger/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Concert,Conversation
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Filmmaker Mary McGuckian
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Mary McGuckian discusses her new film about Irish designer and architect Eileen Gray on Friday\, December 11 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The conversation is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. Free and open to the public. \nLearn more about the Eileen Gray Project\, The Price of Desire. Below\, McGuckian speaks with Shane O’Toole about the film:
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-filmmaker-mary-mcguckian/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Novelist Eimear McBride
DESCRIPTION:Novelist Eimear McBride talks about her recent prize-winning book\, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing\, on Friday\, October 9 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The event is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. Free and open to the public. \n\n\n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-novelist-eimear-mcbride/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Enda Walsh in Conversation with Michael Cadden
DESCRIPTION:Enda Walsh is a playwright and screenwriter who shot to fame when he won both the George Devine Award and the Stewart Parker Award in 1997 with his play Disco Pigs. In 2007 and 2008 Enda won Fringe First Awards at two consecutive Edinburgh Festivals for his plays The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom. The former led the Guardian to name him “one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre.” In 2011 Once\, Enda’s adaptation of the film by John Carney\, opened off-broadway. Critically acclaimed it moved to Broadway in 2012\, where it picked up eight Tony Awards\, including Best Book for Enda. The West End run of Once opened in April 2013. \nSince his initial success as a playwright\, Enda has gone on to write for the screen. His 2008 biopic\, Hunger\, told the story of the final days of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands and won a host of awards\, including the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Heartbeat Award at the Dinard International Film Festival. It was nominated for seven BIFAs (including Best Screenplay)\, six British Film and Television Awards (including Best Screenplay and Best Independent Film) and BAFTA’s Outstanding British Film Award 2009.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/enda-walsh/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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