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SUMMARY:Merlin Holland Lectures on “After Oscar: Wilde between the li(n)es”
DESCRIPTION:After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal by Merlin Holland\nBiographer and editor Merlin Holland\, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde\, gives a lecture entitled “After Oscar: Wilde between the li(n)es.” Holland is author of the recently published book After Oscar: the Legacy of a Scandal in which he shares more details regarding Wilde’s relationships\, reputation and family history. In his talk\, Holland will give an account of the extraordinary posthumous ‘life’ of Oscar Wilde\, exploring many of the myths\, exaggerations and inventions which have been created on his account for more than a century after his death. At the event\, books will be available to purchase and have signed. \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. \nAbout Merlin Holland\nPhoto courtesy Merlin Holland\nMerlin Holland\, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde\, is an author living in France. For the last forty years he has been researching his grandfather’s life and works and writes\, lectures and broadcasts regularly on the subject. His publications include Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess\, the first complete\, verbatim record of the libel trial which ultimately brought Oscar Wilde to ruin and social disgrace\, and The Wilde Album\, a pictorial biography of Oscar Wilde which has now been translated into seven European languages. He is also the co-editor of The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde as well as the editor of an abridged and commentated version of Oscar’s letters\, Oscar Wilde: a Life in Letters and author of Conversations with Oscar Wilde\, a series of imaginary conversations between Holland and his grandfather. He has just published an account of his grandfather’s ‘posthumous life’\, After Oscar: the Legacy of a Scandal showing how Oscar has caused even more trouble dead than alive. It traces the extraordinary fluctuations in his reputation\, the history of his surviving family and the quarrels between his friends and enemies for decades after his death. After Oscar’s conviction in 1895\, his wife\, Constance\, and their two sons were forced to move abroad and change their name to Holland. The family has never reverted to the name Wilde. \nTickets & Details\nThe event is free and open to the public. Free tickets are required through University Ticketing. There will be a wait line at the event to fill any empty seats. \nGet 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/merlind-holland-lectures-on-after-oscar-wilde-between-the-lines/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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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:Lecture on “Unmasking Conspiracy: Philip Graves and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion” by Fintan O’Toole
DESCRIPTION:Fintan O’Toole notes that we live in an age of conspiracy theory and fake news\, but emphasizes these are not new phenomena. He contends the most toxic forgery of all time is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion\, which falsely purports to be the record of secret meetings of Jewish leaders plotting to take over the world. It was used as the basis for the most violent antisemitic propaganda of the 20th century and continues to circulate today. \nIn 1921\, the Irish journalist Philip Graves was the first writer to expose The Protocols as a fake and to show how it was manufactured. Graves\, who came from a very distinguished literary family\, used the techniques of literary criticism to analyze the text of The Protocols and published his findings in the London Times. \nO’Toole points out that Graves is now largely forgotten\, but in this lecture\, in memory of the great scholar-poet Robert Fagles\, O’Toole tells the story of how Graves revealed the truth. He argues that what Graves managed to do is not merely of historical importance. It resonates very strongly with contemporary dilemmas and shows that critical skills are not marginal—they are vital to the survival of democracy and decency. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nAbout Fintan O’Toole\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 the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare\, George Bernard Shaw\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. O’Toole’s 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. \nTickets & Details\nTickets for the lecture are currently sold out. \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/lecture-on-unmasking-conspiracy-philip-graves-and-the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion-by-fintan-otoole/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:“A History of Ireland in 10 Poems” by Paul Muldoon
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon\, Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Creative Writing\, offers a brief survey of Irish history from earliest times to the present day through the prism of his own poems. \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. \nAbout Paul Muldoon\nPhoto credit: Christine Harris\nPaul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast\, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He is the author of fifteen collections of poetry including Joy in Service on Rue Tagore\, published by FSG and Faber and Faber in 2024. Among his awards are the 1972 Eric Gregory Award\, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award\, the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize\, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize\, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize\, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry\, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award\, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize\, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry\, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize\, the 2017 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry\, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \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-history-of-ireland-in-10-poems-by-paul-muldoon/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Robert Spoo on “James Joyce’s Ulysses in New York"
DESCRIPTION:“James Joyce’s Ulysses in New York: A Counterfactual View from Fifth Avenue” \nJames Joyce’s Ulysses was famously first published as a book in 1922 in Paris\, France\, by the American bookseller Sylvia Beach (who had lived in Princeton as a young woman and is buried here). The centenary of this momentous literary event has recently been celebrated throughout the world. But what if Ulysses the book had first been published\, not in Paris\, but in New York\, New York? After all\, it came close to happening just that way. The history of Ulysses—and of New York’s role in modernist literature—would have been vastly different had Joyce’s masterpiece debuted from Fifth Avenue or West 40th Street rather than the rue de l’Odéon in Paris. \nThis talk by Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters\, will perform the thought experiment of substituting New York for Paris as the birthplace of the unexpurgated Ulysses. Along the way\, a lively cast of characters will take the stage: lavish patrons\, overworked lawyers\, timid and courageous publishers\, a shameless literary pirate\, censors and smuthounds\, and the famous Irish author himself. Spoo co-chairs the 2024-25 Fund for Irish Studies Series with Jane Cox\, Director of the Program in Theater & Music Theater in the Lewis Center. \nAbout Robert Spoo\nPhoto credit: Sarah Malone\nRobert Spoo is the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters at Princeton University. Previously\, he held an endowed chair in Law at the University of Tulsa\, where he was also Professor of English and edited the James Joyce Quarterly. He earned his Ph.D. in English at Princeton and his J.D. from Yale Law School. Spoo’s research and teaching merge interdisciplinary interests in literature\, law\, and theories of intellectual property and the public domain. His writing focuses on modern Irish figures\, notably James Joyce and Oscar Wilde\, and he is actively involved in the law-and-literature movement within modernist studies. Pairing his academic career with work as a practicing lawyer\, he has assisted scholars\, writers\, and creative artists with the challenges of copyright and fair use and served as co-counsel in a groundbreaking lawsuit to free scholars from unwarranted copyright threats by the Estate of James Joyce. His books include James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus’s Nightmare (Oxford University Press\, 1994); Without Copyrights: Piracy\, Publishing\, and the Public Domain (Oxford University Press\, 2013); Modernism and the Law (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2018); and (with Omar Pound) Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens: A Tragic Friendship\, 1910-1912 (Duke University Press\, 1988) and Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity\, 1945-1946 (Oxford University Press\, 1999). Spoo is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2016-2017; a Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Fellowship at Princeton for 2020-2021; and an Oklahoma Center for the Humanities Fellowship for 2022-2023. \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/lecture-by-robert-spoo-on-james-joyces-ulysses-in-new-york/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Fintan O'Toole: "Dracula and Home Rule: History\, Horror and A Dream of Reconciliation"
DESCRIPTION:Fintan O’Toole delivers the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture entitled\, “Dracula and Home Rule: History\, Horror and a Dream of Reconciliation.” Bram Stoker’s Dracula may not be the greatest of Irish novels but it is certainly the one that has had the most influence on global popular culture. The novel is set in Transylvania and in England. Ireland is not mentioned and none of the characters is Irish. But in this lecture O’Toole suggests that Stoker\, as a supporter of the contemporary cause of Home Rule for Ireland is\, among other things\, trying to create a myth in which the recurring divisions of Irish history\, the undead antagonisms between Protestant and Catholic\, are finally laid to rest. In the face of a greater evil\, Stoker’s characters must bring Catholic and Protestant\, peasant and aristocrat\, tradition and modernity\, together. The stake through Dracula’s heart is also an imaginary end of Irish history. \nO’Toole will be introduced by Jane Cox\, Director of the Program in Theater & Music Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts. \nAbout Fintan O’Toole\nPhoto by Ben Russell\nFintan O’Toole’s books on politics include the recent best sellers We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland and Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare\, George Bernard Shaw\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. He regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. In 2011\, The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, Journalist of the Year in 2010\, the Orwell Prize\, and the European Press Prize. O’Toole’s History of Ireland in 100 Objects\, which covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years\, is currently the basis for Ireland’s postage stamps. 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. \nTickets & 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/lecture-by-fintan-otoole-dracula-and-home-rule-history-horror-and-a-dream-of-reconciliation/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture & Reading by Louise Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer Louise Kennedy presents “Trespasses: Fact\, Fiction and Memory\,” a lecture based on her bestselling novel Trespasses\, which won the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year\, the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year\, and the McKitterick Prize. Kennedy will read from the book and examine her use of news reports\, family lore and her own childhood memories in creating a fictional account of ordinary lives blighted by sectarian and class conflict. \nKennedy will be introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole. \nPart of the fall 2023 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nAbout Louise Kennedy\nPhoto courtesy Louise Kennedy\nKennedy grew up a few miles from Belfast. She holds a PhD from Queens University Belfast\, where she was an inaugural Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow in 2021. Her short story collection\, The End of the World is a Cul de Sac\, won the John McGahern Prize and will be published in the U.S. in December 2023. Her novel\, Trespasses\, was a number one bestseller in 2022 in the U.K. and won the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year\, the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year\, and the McKitterick Prize\, and it was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. Before starting her writing career\, she spent almost thirty years working as a chef. She lives in Sligo\, Ireland. \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nDirections\nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-reading-by-louise-kennedy/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Reading
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SUMMARY:Lecture & Reading by Barry McCrea
DESCRIPTION:Barry McCrea. Photo by Francesco Giannone\nPrinceton University’s Fund for Irish Studies continues its 2023-2024 series with a talk and reading by Barry McCrea\, an award-winning writer and the Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole will introduce McCrea at the event on October 27 at 4:30 p.m. at the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The reading is free and open to the public; no tickets are required. The theater is an accessible venue\, and guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week prior to the event date. \nAt Princeton\, McCrea will deliver a brief talk on “Language and the Irish Novel” followed by a reading from his current novel-in-progress\, Miracle at Thorn Island. \nAs a novelist and scholar of comparative literature\, McCrea is the author of three books. His debut novel\, The First Verse\, won the 2006 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ fiction and a Barnes & Noble “Discover Award.” Published in 2011\, his academic book In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens\, Conan Doyle\, Joyce\, and Proust won Columbia University’s Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication in the Humanities. McCrea’s last book\, Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth Century Ireland and Europe\, was awarded the 2016 René Wellek Prize for an outstanding book in the discipline of comparative literature. As the Keough Family Chair and Concurrent Professor of English\, Irish Language and Literature\, as well as Romance Languages and Literatures at Notre Dame\, he teaches seminars on topics such as James Joyce\, the modern European novel\, and modern Irish poetry on the university’s campuses in Indiana\, Rome\, and Dublin. McCrea received his undergraduate degree from Trinity College Dublin and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 2004. \nInvited by Princeton’s Humanities Council\, McCrea spent the spring of 2018 on campus as a Faber Fellow in Comparative Literature\, teaching an advanced undergraduate course entitled “Class\, Desire\, and the Novel.” \nPart of the 2023-24 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nDirections\nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-reading-by-barry-mccrea/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Reading
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Diarmaid Ferriter
DESCRIPTION:Diarmaid Ferriter\, Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin\, lectures on “Faith\, Reason and Betrayal: The Irish Civil War.” Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole. \nPart of the fall 2023 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nOn the occasion of the centenary of the end of the Irish Civil War\, Ferriter’s lecture will assess the nature\, impact and legacy of the war\, with a particular emphasis on the light shed by recently released archival material on the lives that were fractured as a result of the conflict. The talk draws from his 2021 publication\, Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War\, which The Irish Times calls “Absorbing … A fascinating exploration of the Civil War and its impact on Ireland and Irish politics.” \nPhoto courtesy Diarmaid Ferriter\nFerriter is one of Ireland’s best-known historians. He is Full Professor and Chair of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin and author of numerous books\, including The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004)\, Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (2009)\, Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (2012)\, The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics (2019) and Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War (2021). He is a regular television and radio broadcaster and a weekly columnist with The Irish Times. In 2019 he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy. \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nDirections\nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-diarmaid-ferriter/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Mary Burke: “Race\, Politics\, and Irish-America: A Gothic History”
DESCRIPTION:Photo courtesy Mary Burke\nProfessor of English at the University of Connecticut Mary Burke presents a talk that draws from her new book\, Race\, Politics\, and Irish-America: A Gothic History (Oxford University Press\, March 2023). Burke examines the cultural legacies of the forcibly transported Irish\, the Scots-Irish\, and post-Famine Catholic immigrants through the words and lives of Black and white writers and public figures in the Americas\, from Andrew Jackson to Grace Kelly and the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole. \nBurke’s first book with Oxford University Press was a cultural history of the indigenous Irish Traveller minority. Her collaboration with Tramp Press on a new edition of The Horse of Selene\, Traveller novelist Juanita Casey’s lost classic\, will launch in the U.S. in late April. Burke’s work has been featured or published with James Joyce Quarterly\, NPR\, the Irish Times\, RTÉ\, and Faber. She has served on Fulbright’s Screening Committee for Ireland and is a former NEH Irish Studies Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast\, she was awarded a fall 2022 Long Room Hub Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin for her book in progress\, Bohemian Ireland. \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture 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. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-mary-burke-race-politics-and-irish-america-a-gothic-history/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Elizabeth Boyle: “Fierce Appetites: Lessons from My Year of Untamed Thinking”
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Boyle\, Lecturer in Early Irish at Maynooth University in Ireland\, presents a lecture based on her Irish Times bestseller Fierce Appetites. In this collection of personal essays\, which was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2022\, Boyle uses her historical learning to grapple with the raw and urgent questions she faces\, questions that have bedeviled people in every age. She writes on grief\, addiction\, family breakdown\, the complexities of motherhood\, love and sex\, memory\, class\, education\, travel (and staying put) with unflinching honesty\, deep compassion and occasional dark humor. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letter Fintan O’Toole. \nElizabeth Boyle. Photo by Bob Foyers\nBoyle is Lecturer in Early Irish at Maynooth University\, Ireland\, where she specializes in the intellectual\, cultural and religious history of pre-modern Ireland. Her academic publications include the 2021 monograph History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland\, in addition to numerous journal articles. She is the author of the Irish Times bestseller Fierce Appetites\, a collection of personal essays which was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2022. \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture 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. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-elizabeth-boyle-fierce-appetites-lessons-from-my-year-of-untamed-thinking/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Fintan O'Toole — “Uneasy Peace: The Good Friday Agreement 25 Years On”
DESCRIPTION:Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letter Fintan O’Toole delivers the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture\, “Uneasy Peace: The Good Friday Agreement 25 Years On.” \nIn his lecture\, O’Toole examines Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement\, which was signed on April 10\, 1998. The Good Friday Agreement\, also known as the Belfast Agreement\, was a political deal designed to bring an end to 30 years of violent conflict in Northern Ireland\, known as the Troubles. The agreement established three “strands” of administrative relationships: the creation of the Northern Ireland Assembly\, an elected assembly responsible for local matters; an arrangement for cross-border cooperation between the governments of Ireland and Northern Ireland; and continued consultation between the British and Irish governments. Over the past 25 years\, the deal has touched on every aspect of life in Northern Ireland. \nO’Toole will explore the success of the deal\, not just in ending the conflict\, but in radically reimagining “the Irish question.” He will suggest that it contains the seeds of a much more open and pluralist sense of identity—one that has been undermined by Brexit and the difficulties it creates for Northern Ireland. He will consider whether the promise of a more fluid sense of belonging can be sustained in the coming years. \nO’Toole’s books on politics include the recent best sellers We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland and Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare\, George Bernard Shaw\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. He regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. In 2011\, The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, Journalist of the Year in 2010\, the Orwell Prize\, and the European Press Prize. O’Toole’s History of Ireland in 100 Objects\, which covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years\, is currently the basis for Ireland’s postage stamps. He has recently been appointed official biographer of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. \nAbout Fintan O’Toole\nPhoto by Ben Russell\nFintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is a columnist for The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg ’53 visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. He also contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. 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; Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain; Ship of Fools; and Enough is Enough. In 2011\, The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, and Journalist of the Year in 2010\, the Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize. O’Toole’s History of Ireland in 100 Objects\, which covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years\, is currently the basis for Ireland’s postage stamps. He has recently been appointed official biographer of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney.   \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture 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 visitors are expected to be either fully vaccinated\, have recently received and prepared to show proof of a negative COVID test (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen within 8 hours of the scheduled visit)\, or agree to 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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-fintan-otoole-uneasy-peace-the-good-friday-agreement-25-years-on/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Dr. Geraldine Parsons — "The Quiet Girls of Early Ireland: Women in Medieval Irish Literature"
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Geraldine Parsons\, Senior Lecturer in Celtic and Gaelic and Head of Subject at the University of Glasgow\, Scotland\, lectures on “The Quiet Girls of Early Ireland: Women in Medieval Irish Literature.” \nFinn Cycle\, or fiannaíocht\, literature was the most enduringly popular branch of Irish-language literature from the early Middle Ages until recent times. It prioritizes the exploration of male perspectives and experiences: its tales and poems present two different timelines united by the prominence of men. One is the hyper-masculine warrior culture of ancient Ireland; the other is populated by the male ecclesiastics\, warriors and kings of Christian Ireland’s medieval Golden Age. The afterlives of these texts too suggest an enduring appeal among audiences typically gendered male: the oldest surviving manuscript to contain only this corpus of work was commissioned in the 1620s\, by an Irish captain in the Spanish army\, and written by male scribes. An association between this literature and Irish military culture\, as well as the tradition of soldiery among Scottish Highlanders\, continues today. Parsons’ talk will seek to complicate the gender history of the Finn Cycle\, by recovering women’s roles in its production and in the narratives themselves. \nPhoto courtesy Geraldine Parsons\nDr. Geraldine Parsons is Senior Lecturer in Celtic and Gaelic and Head of Subject at the University of Glasgow\, Scotland. Her research focuses on medieval Irish literature\, with a particular interest in the material concerning the legendary hero Finn mac Cumaill (later Fionn Mac Cumhaill/McCool) that formed the most popular branch of Irish-language literature from about the twelfth century down to recent times. Her work is often concerned with the great text at the heart of this corpus\, Acallam na Senórach (‘The Colloquy of the Ancients’)\, composed c.1225; this is the subject of a monograph currently in progress. Other interests include the reception of medieval Irish literature in modern Ireland and eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic reflexes of the fíanaigecht tradition. Her recent publications include The Gaelic Finn Tradition II (editors S.J. Arbuthnot\, G. Parsons & S. Ní Mhurchú\, Four Courts\, 2022); the article “Ancient Ireland” in The Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats (editors L. Arrington and M. Campbell\, Oxford University Press\, 2023); and an article co-authored with M. Mac Craith\, “Reformation\, Conquest and Exile 1534–1611 | An Reifirméisean\, an Concas Eilíseach agus Deoraíocht thar lear 1534–1611” in Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern (editors B. Ó Conchubhair and S. Fisher\, Wake Forest University Press\, 2022). Parsons has held visiting fellowships and professorships at Balliol College\, the University of Connecticut\, and Oxford. She is the recipient of a 2022-23 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. \nIntroduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Fintan O’Toole. Part of the spring 2023 Fund for Irish Studies lecture 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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-dr-geraldine-parsons/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:“Listen to the Land Speak” with Manchán Magan
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling writer and documentary-maker Manchán Magan presents a lecture entitled “Listen to the Land Speak: Lost Wisdom of the Land and Language of Ireland\,” based on his recently published book of the same title. Inspired by language\, landscape and mythology\, Magan explores the insight and hidden wisdom native Irish culture offers to the people of Ireland and the world. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Fintan O’Toole. \nPhoto courtesy Manchán Magan\nManchán Magan is a writer and documentary-maker. He has written two novels in addition to books on his travels in Africa\, India and South America. He writes occasionally for The Irish Times\, reports on travel for various radio programs in Ireland\, and has presented dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4\, RTÉ and the Travel Channel. His books Thirty-Two Words For Field (2020) and Tree Dogs\, Banshee Fingers and Other Words For Nature (2021) are acclaimed bestsellers. His latest book\, Listen to the Land Speak\, was published in October 2022 \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/listen-to-the-land-speak-with-manchan-magan/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:“Low the sun; short its course”: Tracing the Celtic ritual cycle through music\, manuscript and performance
DESCRIPTION:This lecture-recital by Helen Phelan\, Professor of Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance\, University of Limerick\, Ireland\, explores the musical and ritualistic evidence for the emergence and continuity of the Celtic ritual cycle\, with a focus on the rituals of Imbolc and Samhain\, a precursor of Halloween. \nRitual traditions are frequently transmitted through a combination of sanctioned and sanctified “official’ sources\, as well as the songs\, stories and performances of living communities. The emergence of an agrarian ritual cycle in Ireland\, punctuated by four quarter days\, is strongly associated with the traditions and practices of the Iron Age Celts\, but its roots and shoots can be located in much earlier and later historical periods. \nThis presentation traces the evidence for this ritual cycle in both medieval manuscript sources as well as folkloric traditions. Focusing on music (particularly medieval Irish chant) and story (including the hagiographies or lives of the saints)\, it suggests a dynamic\, syncretic understanding of ritual\, moving fluidly between prehistoric\, pre-Christian and Celtic Christian practices. It concludes with a proposal concerning the influence of this ritual tradition on contemporary ritual creativity. \nAbout Helen Phelan\nPhoto courtesy Helen Phelan\nHelen Phelan is Professor of Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance\, University of Limerick\, Ireland. Her research focuses on the relationship between music\, ritual\, and migration. She is an Irish Research Council recipient for her work on singing and the rituals of new migrant communities in Ireland and is founder and co-chair of the Singing and Social Inclusion research group at University of Limerick. Her most recent research\, funded by the Health Research Institute\, brings together an interdisciplinary research team to explore singing\, health and well-being with culturally diverse communities. Her recent publications include the monograph Singing the Rite to Belong: Music\, Ritual and the New Irish (Oxford University Press) and The Artist and Academia (Routledge)\, co-edited with Graham Welch. \n  \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/low-the-sun-short-its-course-tracing-the-celtic-ritual-cycle-through-music-manuscript-and-performance/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Recital
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Susan McKay on “From Triumphalism to Desperation — the Fall of Ulster Unionism”
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Derek Speirs\nJournalist Susan McKay discusses her new book\, Northern Protestants – On Shifting Ground (Blackstaff Press 2021)\, which is a collection of almost 100 interviews with politicians\, community workers\, religious leaders\, former paramilitary members\, young people\, business people\, and other citizens of Northern Ireland from County Antrim to the city of Londonderry\, McKay’s hometown. In this follow-up to her book Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People\, first published 21 years ago\, McKay shares that in 2021 unionists in Ireland attempted to celebrate the centenary of Northern Ireland and then in 2022 they collapsed its government. Political unionism is hardening into a nostalgia for the sectarian state that the Good Friday Agreement dismantled\, but McKay’s book explores the surprising diversity of thought among people from a Protestant background who are impatient with narrowness\, open to new ideas\, and welcoming of the potential for political change. Northern Protestants — On Shifting Ground was described by the Observer as “a fascinating and constantly thought-provoking book” and The Irish Times said it was “vital reading in all senses of the word.” \nMcKay’s journalism has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, London Review of Books\, the Guardian/Observer and The Irish Times. McKay is currently writer-in-residence with Sligo Libraries\, working on a project about the legacies of the partition of Ireland in the North West. She is also writing a book about borders for which she received an Arts Council of Northern Ireland major individual award. \nTickets & Details\nThis event will take place in-person (please note the change from past virtual lectures) and is free and open to the public. Advance tickets required; reserve tickets through University Ticketing. \nThe event will not also be streamed or recorded via Zoom. \nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater and find other venue information for 185 Nassau Street. \nCOVID-19 Guidance + Updates\nPer Princeton University policy\, all guests are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to the maximum extent\, which now includes a COVID booster shot for all eligible to receive it\, and to wear a mask when indoors. Please note that speakers may be unmasked while presenting. \nAccessibility\nThe event space is wheelchair accessible. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are asked 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/lecture-by-susan-mckay-on-from-triumphalism-to-desperation-the-fall-of-ulster-unionism/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture by Fintan O'Toole
DESCRIPTION:Photo courtesy Fintan O’Toole\nScholar and critic Fintan O’Toole delivers the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on “A Century of Partition” as part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is a columnist for The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg ’53 visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. \nIn 1921\, Ireland was divided by the formation of Northern Ireland as a new political entity in the Protestant-dominated northeastern part of the island. This led to the creation of two sectarian states\, each dominated by a single religious culture. The production by the revolutionary James Connolly that partition would create “a carnival of reaction” on both sides of the Border was not far wrong. The Troubles of 1968-1998 served merely to deepen the divide. But Brexit has raised new questions about the future of the UK and therefore of Partition. The contradictions that were frozen in 1921 have emerged anew in 2021. \nFintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is a columnist for The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg ’53 visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. He also contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. His books on politics include the best sellers Ship of Fools\, Enough is Enough and The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism. In 2011\, The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, and Journalist of the Year in 2010\, the Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize. O’Toole’s History of Ireland in 100 Objects\, which covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years\, is currently the basis for Ireland’s postage stamps. His most recent book is Judging Shaw: The Radicalism of GBS\, published by the Royal Irish Academy\, and he is the official biographer of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Join the lecture via Zoom Webinar; registration required. \nREGISTER FOR THE LECTURE \nThis event is recorded for archival purposes only and will not be available for viewing after the event. \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe event includes live closed captions in English. If 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 2020-21 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon. \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 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/robert-fagles-memorial-lecture-by-fintan-otoole/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Laurence Cox
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Wendy Cox\nAssociate professor of sociology at National University of Ireland Maynooth\, Dr. Laurence Cox lectures on “Irish Hobo\, Buddhist Monk\, Anti-colonial Celebrity: The Strange Story of U Dhammaloka/Laurence Carroll” as part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nLaurence Carroll / U Dhammaloka (1856-1914) was a Dublin-born emigrant\, US hobo and Pacific sailor who became a Buddhist monk in Burma and an anti-colonial celebrity active from Sri Lanka to Japan. In this lecture\, Cox\, co-author of  The Irish Buddhist: the Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire (Oxford 2020)\, looks at some of the most dramatic moments in Dhammaloka’s extraordinary life and explores how he brought his Irish and American experience to bear on religion\, race and the challenge to Empire in Asia. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Join the lecture via Zoom Webinar; registration required. \nREGISTER FOR THE LECTURE \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe event includes live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Zoom Webinar and access captions or connect directly to the captioned event through StreamText using the link below. \nJOIN THE CAPTIONED EVENT \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  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORK\nLaurence Cox is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and associate researcher at the Collège d’Etudes Mondiales\, Paris. One of Europe’s leading specialists on social movements\, his work on U Dhammaloka and other early western Buddhists in Asia is well known as part of the transnational scholarly rethinking of how Buddhism became a global religion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nCox has been an invited speaker from Kyoto University to CUNY Graduate Center and from the European University Institute to Ruskin College Oxford. He is founding editor of the global social movement research journal Interface and has twice guest-edited Contemporary Buddhism. In the spirit of Dhammaloka\, he has also been a street musician and hitchhiked across Europe\, trains activists in the Catalan Pyrenees and runs hot tubs on Dartmoor for Buddhist meditation retreats. \nCox is co-author\, with Alicia Turner and Brian Bocking\, of The Irish Buddhist: the Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire (Oxford University Press\, 2020). He has published over 160 scholarly works: his ten books include Buddhism and Ireland; A Buddhist Crossroads: Pioneer Western Buddhists and Asian Networks 1860 – 1960; Ireland’s New Religious Movements; and Why Social Movements Matter. With Brian Bocking and Yoshinaga Shin’ichi\, he also rediscovered the first Buddhist mission to Europe\, led by the Irishman Charles Pfoundes in 1889-92. \nLearn more: \n\nWall Street Journal Book Review: The Irish Buddhist\nIrish Independent Book Review: The Irish Buddhist\nDublin Review of Books: “Not a Gentleman” — The Irish Buddhist\nListen to the New Books Network podcast with the authors of The Irish Buddhist\nThe Dhammaloka Project\n\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 2020-21 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon. \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 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-laurence-cox/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:“Fiddle Strings\, Airplane Wings and Humanizing Technology”
DESCRIPTION:Paul Muldoon introduces a lecture by award winning technology\, innovation and creativity executive Domhnaill Hernon. In his lecture\, “Fiddle strings\, airplane wings and humanizing technology\,” Hernon will share some of his personal history\, discuss the merits of fusing art and technology\, play some tunes\, and talk about Irish tradition in music and in particular where he comes from in County Sligo\, Ireland. \nDOMHNAILL HERNON is an award-winning technology\, innovation and creativity executive. He received an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Aerodynamics from the University of Limerick and an executive M.B.A. from Dublin City University\, Ireland. He previously led research organizations and developed and executed strategies to overcome the “innovation valley of death.” He is currently as Head of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T) at Nokia Bell Labs\, which is a new initiative he founded to fuse art and engineering/science to develop solutions that humanize technology. His work has been featured in Wired Magazine\, Times Square\, SXSW\, Nasdaq\, MWC and Inspirefest\, to name just a few\, and he advises cultural programs globally.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fiddle-strings-airplane-wings-and-humanizing-technology/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:"Dronehenge": An Illustrated Talk by Anthony Murphy
DESCRIPTION:Paul Muldoon introduces an illustrated talk by author and photographer Anthony Murphy. In his lecture\, “Dronehenge\,” Murphy will discuss his 2018 discovery that has radically changed our view of the Neolithic landscape of Brú na Bóinne. \nANTHONY MURPHY is a journalist\, author\, photographer\, astronomer and tour guide who lives in Drogheda\, at the gateway to Ireland’s historic Boyne Valley. He has been researching\, photographing and writing about the ancient megalithic monuments of the Boyne Valley and their associated mythology\, cosmology and alignments for the past 20 years. He is the author of five books\, with a sixth due to be published November 2019 and a seventh in production. \nIn 2018\, Anthony achieved international recognition when he discovered a previously unknown late Neolithic henge and other monuments close to Newgrange at the Unesco World Heritage Site of Brú na Bóinne. He has been consulted as an expert on Brú na Bóinne by various international media including the History Channel\, National Geographic and Britain’s Channel 4. \nLearn more:\nwww.mythicalireland.com\nwww.facebook.com/mythicalireland/\n101 Facts about New Grange\nBooks by Murphy on Amazon\ntwitter.com/mythicalireland \n  \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-anthony-murphy/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Irish Emigrant Girls in New York
DESCRIPTION:Irish scholar Maureen Murphy lectures on “Irish Emigrant Girls in New York” as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nIn the James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ. \nFREE and open to the public. \n\nPhoto courtesy Maureen Murphy\nMaureen O’Rourke Murphy is the Joseph L. Dionne Professor of Curriculum and Teaching in the School of Education\, Health\, and Human Services at Hofstra University\, in Hempstead\, New York. A past president of the American Conference for Irish Studies and a past chair of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures\, Murphy was one of the six senior editors of the prizewinning Dictionary of Irish Biography published in nine volumes and online by the Royal Irish Academy and Cambridge University Press in 2009. Murphy directed the New York State Great Irish Famine Curriculum Project (2001)\, which won the National Conference for the Social Studies Excellence Award in 2002; she was the historian of the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City. She is currently the historian\, with John Ridge\, of the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary/Watson House Project.  \nMurphy edited Irish Literature: A Reader (1987\, rev. ed. 2006)\, with James MacKillop. She also edited Asenath Nicholson’s Annals of the Famine in Ireland (1998) and Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger (2002). She edited Annie O’Donnell’s Your Fondest Annie in 2005. Her biography of Asenath Nicholson\, Compassionate Stranger: Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine was published in 2016.  \nMurphy  has been awarded honorary degrees by the State University of New York at Cortland and by the National University of Ireland.  She received the President of Ireland’s Award for Service in 2015.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/irish-emigrant-girls-in-new-york/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Myth of Paternity: James Joyce and his father
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Colm Tóibín lectures on “The Myth of Paternity: James Joyce and his father” as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies event series. Tóibín’s latest book\, Mad\, Bad\, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde\, Yeats\, and Joyce\, was published in 2018. \nIn the James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ. \nFREE and open to the public. \n  \n\nBestselling author Colm Tóibín. Photo courtesy www.colmtoibin.com\nColm Tóibín is the author of nine novels\, including The Blackwater Lightship; The Master\, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn\, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster\, as well as two story collections. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. Three times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize\, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/the-myth-of-paternity-james-joyce-and-his-father/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Escaping from History: The Dreamworld of Brexit
DESCRIPTION:Noted Irish scholar and critic Fintan O’Toole presents the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on “Escaping from History: The Dreamworld of Brexit” as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nIn the James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ. \nFREE and open to the public. \n  \n\nPhoto by Larry Levanti\n Fintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is a columnist for The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg ’53 visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. He also contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. His books on politics include the best sellers Ship of Fools and Enough is Enough. In 2011\, The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, and Journalist of the Year in 2010\, the Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize. O’Toole’s History of Ireland in 100 Objects\, which covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years\, is currently the basis for Ireland’s postage stamps. His most recent book is Judging Shaw: The Radicalism of GBS\, published by the Royal Irish Academy\, and he has recently been appointed official biographer of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney.  
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/escaping-from-history-the-dreamworld-of-brexit/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Alvin Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 27\, 2018\n4:30 p.m.\nEast Pyne 010\nFREE and open to the public \nAcclaimed Irish historian and scholar Alvin Jackson will conclude the spring 2018 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series by giving a lecture\, entitled “John Redmond and Edward Carson: Bloodshed\, Borders and the Union State\,” on Friday\, April 27 at 4:30 p.m. in East Pyne Room 010 on the Princeton University campus.  The lecture is free and open to the public. \nJohn Redmond and Edward Carson are two of the biggest names in modern Irish history. At the peak of their careers as senior members of the British parliament\, they were locked together in combat over the issue of Home Rule. That conflict led to an outcome that neither of them wanted: the partition of Ireland and the creation of a border that\, with Brexit\, again poses apparently insoluble problems. Jackson’s book\, Judging Redmond and Carson\, was recently published by the Royal Irish Academy. \nJackson is the Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh.  He studied Modern History at Corpus Christi College and Nuffield College\, Oxford\, and completed a D.Phil. in 1986. Previously\, Jackson was a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow; Lecturer in Modern History at University College Dublin; Professor of Modern Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast; and the John Burns Visiting Professor at Boston College\, Massachusetts. At the University of Edinburgh\, Jackson has served as Head of the School of History\, Classics and Archaeology and recently as Dean of Research and Deputy Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science. Jackson’s research has been supported by three major national awards – a British Academy Research Readership in the Humanities (2000)\, a British Academy-Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (2009)\, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2014). He is an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Member of the Academia Europaea.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-alvin-jackson/
LOCATION:East Pyne 010\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Fintan O’Toole Lectures on “Brexit\, Ireland and the Rise of English Nationalism”
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 2\, 2018\n4:30 p.m.\nEast Pyne 010\, Princeton University campus\nFREE and open to the public \nTheater critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole gives the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on “Brexit\, Ireland and the rise of English nationalism\,” at 4:30 p.m. This event is free but there is limited seating on a first-come\, first-seated basis. \n\nIrish theater critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole will present the 2018 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture\, entitled “Brexit\, Ireland and the Rise of English Nationalism\,” on Friday\, March 2 at 4:30 p.m. in East Pyne Room 010 on the Princeton University campus. Part of the 2017-18 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, this event is free and open to the public. \nO’Toole’s writing on Brexit\, the prospective withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union\, has won both the European Press Prize and the George Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2017. \n“Brexit\, Ireland and the Rise of English Nationalism” explores the roots of Brexit in the unacknowledged crisis of English identity\, the threat it poses to the hard-won peace in Northern Ireland\, and the reasons why Ireland will not follow its nearest neighbor out of the European Union. \nFintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is a columnist for The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg ’53 visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. He also contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. His books on politics include the best sellers Ship of Fools and Enough is Enough. In 2011\, The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, and Journalist of the Year in 2010\, the Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize. O’Toole’s History of Ireland in 100 Objects\, which covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years\, is currently the basis for Ireland’s postage stamps. His most recent book is Judging Shaw: The Radicalism of GBS\, published by the Royal Irish Academy\, and he has recently been appointed official biographer of Seamus Heaney.   \nRobert Fagles\, for whom the annual Memorial Lecture is named\, was a member of the Princeton faculty for 42 years in the Department of Comparative Literature and a renowned translator of Greek classics. His critically acclaimed translations of Homer’s “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” became bestsellers. \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 O’Toole as acting chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. \n To learn more about the more than 100 public performances\, exhibitions\, readings\, screenings\, concerts\, lectures and special events\, most of them free\, presented each year by the Lewis Center for the Arts\, visit arts.princeton.edu.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fintan-otoole-lectures-brexit-ireland-rise-english-nationalism/
LOCATION:East Pyne 010\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Mary Daly Lectures on “An Irish solution? Contraception\, the Catholic Church and Irish Society 1960-1983”
DESCRIPTION:Mary Daly\, Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin\, will present a lecture on “An Irish solution? Contraception\, the Catholic Church and Irish Society 1960-1983″ as part of the 2016-2017 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University on Friday\, April 14 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. This event is free and open to the public. \nDrawn from her extensive research\, Daly’s lecture will explore Irish family planning and the role of the Catholic Church\, focusing on legal and social developments including the impact of Roe v. Wade on Irish debates. \nMary Daly was elected as the first female President of the Royal Irish Academy in its 229-year history in 2014. She is one of Ireland’s most prominent senior historians and is a member of the government’s Expert Advisory Group on Commemorations. She is emeritus professor of history at University College Dublin (UCD) and served for seven years as Principal of UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies; she has also held visiting positions at Harvard University and Boston College. She has served on Ireland’s National Archives Advisory Council\, the Irish Manuscripts Commission\, and the Higher Education Authority. In 2015 she was appointed as a member of the Commission of Inquiry into Mother and Baby Homes. Daly was involved in the commemoration of the sesquicentenary of the great famine 1995-97\, and with Dr. Margaret O’Callaghan she directed a research project on the Golden Jubilee of the 1916 Rising\, resulting in the publication of a major edited work: 1916 in 1966: Commemorating the Easter Rising (2007). Over the course of her career\, Daly has researched widely and published prolifically\, notably: Dublin\, the Deposed Capital: A Social and Economic History\, 1860-1914 (1984); Women and Work in Ireland (1997); The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland\, 1920-1973 (2006); with Theo Hoppen\, Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond (2011) and most recently Sixties Ireland: Reshaping the Economy\, State and Society\, 1957 – 1973 (2016). With Eugenio Biagini she is co-editor of The Cambridge History of Modern Ireland\, which will be published in May 2017. She is a graduate of UCD and Oxford University and a member of the Acadaemia Europaea.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/mary-daly-lectures-irish-solution-contraception-catholic-church-irish-society-1960-1983/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T180000
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SUMMARY:Irish scholar and theater critic Fintan O’Toole delivers the 2017 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture: “If It Wasn’t for the Irish and Jews”
DESCRIPTION:Irish theater critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole will present the 2017 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture entitled “If It Wasn’t for the Irish and Jews” on Friday\, February 17 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 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. \n“If It Wasn’t for the Irish and Jews” explores these ethnic groups as two of the world’s greatest diasporic cultures. Their histories have shared themes of dispossession\, discrimination and self-assertion. O’Toole considers how the two cultures have interacted\, from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to struggles for religious emancipation\, and from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Abie’s Irish Rose. \nFintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, has written for The Irish Times\, New York Daily News\, Sunday Tribune (Dublin)\, and In Dublin Magazine. His books on theater span a wide range of topics\, from his biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan to theater currently appearing on Irish stages. He is the assistant editor\, a columnist\, and a feature writer for The Irish Times. He also contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. In 2011\, The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, and Journalist of the Year in 2010 from TV3 Media Awards. O’Toole’s most recent project\, History of Ireland in 100 Objects\, covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years\, and has been published in book form by the Royal Irish Academy. \nO’Toole will be co-teaching a new course\, “Introduction to Irish Studies\,” with Clair Wills\, Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies\, this spring. He will also be co-teaching a Princeton Atelier course with actor Lisa Dwan\, “Ill Seen Ill Said: Staging a Beckett Text\,” examining Samuel Beckett’s prose writings\, specifically the novel Ill Seen Ill Said\, and challenging students to find myriad ways to dramatize a work that wasn’t initially meant for the stage. \nRobert Fagles\, for whom the annual Memorial Lecture is named\, was a member of the Princeton faculty for 42 years in the Department of Comparative Literature and a renowned translator of Greek classics. His critically acclaimed translations of Homer’s “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” became bestsellers.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/irish-scholar-theater-critic-fintan-otoole-delivers-2017-robert-fagles-memorial-lecture-wasnt-irish-jews/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Richard Kearney and Sheila Gallagher on “Recovering 1916 in Images and Stories”
DESCRIPTION:Writer Richard Kearney and artist Sheila Gallagher will perform their celebrated multimedia talk “Twinsome Minds: Recovering 1916 in Images and Stories” at 4:30 p.m. on Friday\, December 9 in the 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. \n“Twinsome Minds: Recovering 1916 in Images and Stories” is a transformative multimedia performance that reimagines the narratives of “twinned” pairs of people who ended up on different sides in 1916. Focusing on Dublin’s Easter Rising and the Belgium front in World War I\, the talk combines history\, legend\, imagination\, and memory to present a reinterpreted portrait of an integral period in Irish history. “Twinsome Minds” features text by Kearney\, screen projections by Gallagher\, and an original score by Dana Lyn. \nKearney is a writer\, professor\, and cultural organizer of several international projects\, most recently “Exchanging Stories\, Changing History” (Guestbookproject.org). He has written two novels\, Sam’s Fall and Walking at Sea Level\, which have been translated into several languages\, and a volume of poetry\, Angel of Patrick’s Hill. He has also written several books on the role of imagination and narrative in Irish culture\, literature\, and the arts\, most notably The Irish Mind (1984)\, Transitions: Narratives in Modern Irish Culture (1988)\, Post Nationalist Ireland: Culture\, Philosophy\, Politics (1998)\, and Navigations: Collected Irish Essays (1976-2006). As a member of the Irish Arts Council\, chair of the University College Dublin Film School\, and public intellectual and broadcaster\, he is actively involved in organizing many national and international cultural projects. \nGallagher is an interdisciplinary artist\, curator\, and professor of art at Boston College. She works in many media including video\, smoke\, drawing\, animation\, live flowers\, and light projections. She has had numerous solo exhibitions and has exhibited widely at commercial galleries\, museums\, and universities in the U.S. and internationally\, including the Moving Image Festival in London\, The Institute of Contemporary Art\, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston\, Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas\, and the Dodge Gallery in New York City. Gallagher is the co-curator of the Becker Collection\, a private archive of Civil War drawings\, currently touring the U.S. Together with Kearney\, she co-directs the Guestbook Project. \n\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. Sponsorship also provided by Culture Ireland.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/richard-kearney-sheila-gallagher-recovering-1916-images-stories/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Fund for Irish Studies presents Lisa Dwan on “Performing Beckett”
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Dwan\, internationally acclaimed Irish actress\, will give a talk entitled “Performing Beckett” on Friday\, September 16 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2016-17 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nIn “Performing Beckett\,” Dwan will discuss her recent performances of Samuel Beckett’s plays\, which have met critical acclaim and have sold out at venues from London’s Royal Court Theatre to New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music. Dwan’s one-woman show has featured three of Beckett’s works: Rockaby\, Footfalls\, and Not I. She has been performing Beckett since 2005 and was coached by Beckett’s muse\, Billie Whitelaw\, who collaborated with the author for 25 years and for whom he wrote some of his most experimental plays. \nLisa Dwan has worked extensively in theatre\, film\, and television both internationally and in her native Ireland. Her film credits include Oliver Twist\, Tailor of Panama\, and Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain. In 2012\, she adapted\, produced\, and performed the critically acclaimed one-woman play Beside the Sea at the Southbank Centre and on tour\, and starred in Goran Bregović’s Margot\, Diary of an Unhappy Queen at the Barbican. She recently performed in Ramin Gray’s production of Illusions by Ivan Viripaev at the Bush Theatre. Originally from Coosan\, Athlone\, County Westmeath\, Ireland\, she currently lives in London.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fund-irish-studies-presents-lisa-dwan-performing-beckett/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Matthew Campbell on “Volunteer Poetics: Irish and British Poetry in 1916”
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Campbell\, Professor of Literature at the University of York\, will give a talk entitled “Volunteer Poetics: Irish and British Poetry in 1916” on Friday\, March 25 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2015-16 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nIn “Volunteer Poetics: Irish and British poetry in 1916\,” Campbell will examine the poetry that emerged from Ireland in the time of violence and militarism leading up to the Irish Civil War and the poets who produced it\, Yeats in particular. This topic builds on his larger research of nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry from Ireland and Britain. \nCampbell is the author of Irish Poetry under the Union\, 1801–1924 (2013) and Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry (1999). He is also an editor of The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (2003). Most of Campbell’s work explores British and Irish poetry of the last two centuries\, with particular interest in the history of the sounds of poems. More recently\, he has been researching the invention of the distinctive music\, prosody\, and language of Irish poetry in English from 1801 to 1921 and beyond. Campbell publishes regularly on contemporary Irish poetry as well as on Romantic poetry\, Celticism\, elegy\, and war writing. He holds a B.A. from Trinity College Dublin and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, chaired by Princeton Professor Clair Wills\, provides all Princeton students\, and the community at large\, with 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.”
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/volunteer-poetics-irish-and-british-poetry-in-1916/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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