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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210205T173000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190308T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190308T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190222T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190222T180000
DTSTAMP:20260413T063049
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180427T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180427T180000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180302T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180302T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170414T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170414T163000
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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
DTSTAMP:20260413T063049
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161209T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161209T163000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T180000
DTSTAMP:20260413T063049
CREATED:20161006T122814Z
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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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SUMMARY:Fund for Irish Studies Lecture on Ireland & Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:James Shapiro\, the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, lectures on Ireland and Shakespeare on Friday\, March 4 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is given in conjunction with Princeton University’s Ireland and Shakespeare Symposium on March 5. This event and the symposium are presented with support from Princeton’s English Department and The David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Fund. \nThe lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. Free and open to the public.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fund-for-irish-studies-lecture-on-ireland-shakespeare/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T180000
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CREATED:20160121T190756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160128T154100Z
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SUMMARY:Fund for Irish Studies Lecture by Fintan O'Toole on “Carnival and Ruin: Looting in the 1916 Rising “
DESCRIPTION:Theatre critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole will present the 2016 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture entitled\, “Carnival and Ruin: Looting in the 1916 Rising\,” on Friday\, February 12 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. \nPhoto courtesy Fintan O’Toole\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. \nO’Toole’s most recent project\, History of Ireland in 100 Objects\, covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years. It has been published in book form by the Royal Irish Academy and as an application for iPad\, iPhone and Android devices. \nThe lecture\, presented in recognition of the 1916 uprising or Easter Rising\, considers the armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week\, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the intent to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was heavily engaged in World War I. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fund-for-irish-studies-lecture-on-carnival-and-ruin-looting-in-the-1916-rising/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Claire Connolly: “The Holyhead Road”
DESCRIPTION:Professor of English at University College Cork Claire Connolly lectures on “The Holyhead Road” on Friday\, November 13 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. Free and open to the public. \nClaire Connolly is Professor of Modern English in UCC. Her research and teaching interests include Irish writing; the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries;  romanticism in Ireland\, Scotland and Wales; Welsh-Irish cultural exchanges; and Ireland and cultural theory. Claire Connolly was formerly a professor at Cardiff University and has been a visiting professor in Irish Studies at Boston College (2002-3) and Concordia University\, Montreal (Fall 2011). She is Vice Chair (Ireland) of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature; and Co-Director of the Wales-Ireland Research Network.  \nLearn about Professor Connolly’s work in this video from University College Cork:
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/claire-connolly-the-holyhead-road/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150918T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150918T163000
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SUMMARY:Ian McBride on “Truth and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland”
DESCRIPTION:Professor of History at Kings College\, London\, Ian McBride presents a lecture entitled “Truth and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland” on Friday\, September 18 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. Free and open to the public. \nMcBride has written on various aspects of modern Irish history\, including the role of the historian in national memory. His forthcoming works includeIrish Political Writings 1: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (2016) and The Princeton History of Modern Ireland (2015)\, co-edited with Richard Bourke. Other books includeEighteenth Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves (2009)\,Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century (1998)\, and The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology (1997). \nMcBride’s current research centers on eighteenth century Ireland and the role of historians in making sense of the Northern Ireland conflict. His talk will focus on debates over truth and reconciliation in Northern Ireland since 1998 and the relationship between political violence\, representations of the past\, and professional historiography. Given that the Good Friday Agreement is often presented as a pathway to peace for other conflicts\, the political and moral dilemmas presented by these subjects have an audience well beyond Ireland. \nMcBride is currently Professor of Irish and British History at King’s College\, London and Patrick B. O’Donnell Visiting Professor of Irish Studies at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies\, University of Notre Dame. Having earned his B.A. at Jesus College\, University of Oxford\, and his Ph.D. from the University of London\, he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the British Association for Irish Studies.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/ian-mcbride-on-truth-and-reconciliation-in-northern-ireland/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150417T180000
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SUMMARY:Poulomi Saha: “Easter Risings: The Irish Insurrection in India”
DESCRIPTION:Scholar Poulomi Saha will give a lecture on “Easter Risings: The Irish Insurrection in India” on Friday\, April 17\, at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The talk is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public. \nPoulomi Saha is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she teaches courses in postcolonial studies\, gender and sexuality theory\, and ethnic American literature. Her research and teaching spans eastward and forward from the late 19th century decline of British colonial rule in the Indian Ocean through to the Pacific and the rise of American global power and domestic race relations in the 20th century. Her focus is in developing an expansive view of empire and what constitutes Anglophone literature\, routed not primarily through Great Britain and Western Europe\, but rather through circuits of affiliation and encounter between Asia and the Americas. \nShe is currently completing her first monograph\, Imperial Attachments: Gender\, Nation\, and the Sciences of Subjectivity in Colonial and Postcolonial Bengal\, an interdisciplinary study that examines East Bengal from the late 19th century to the contemporary moment\, in which she fundamentally challenges the narrative of political modernity offered by postcolonial studies. Her work as been published in differences and The Journal of Modern Literature. Saha earned her B.A. in International Relations and English from Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. \nHer lecture\, based on her current research\, will examine the Bengali uprisings of 1930\, which were inspired by the Irish Republican Army’s Easter Rising rebellion of 1916\, an act that sparked movements in other regions of the world to overthrow British colonial rule. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, chaired by Princeton professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon\, 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.” \nThe final event in this season’s Fund for Irish Studies series is a concert of traditional Irish songs by Ghost Trio\, cosponsored with Princeton’s Department of Music\, on May 1.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/poulomi-saha-easter-risings-the-irish-insurrection-in-india/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150410T163000
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SUMMARY:Regina Ui Chollatain: “A ‘New’ Gaelic League Idea: Douglas Hyde 100 Years On”
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 10\, Irish and Celtic studies scholar Regina Uí Chollatáin will present a lecture on “A ‘New’ Gaelic League Idea: Douglas Hyde 100 Years On” at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The lecture\, part of the Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, is free and open to the public. \nRegina Uí Chollatáin is a native of Donegal who began her career in education as a primary teacher in schools in Donegal\, Laois\, and Ceatharlach. She is now a senior lecturer at University College Dublin on the Revival period\, modern Irish literature\, and contemporary Irish writing and critical theory\, with a focus on Irish language journalism\, print and broadcast media\, and film studies. She also serves as the Vice Principal Director of the Graduate School. She is the author of four books\, including An Claidheamh Soluis agus Fáinne an Lae 1899-1932 (2004) and Iriseoirí Pinn na Gaeilge (2008). In 2003\, Chollatáin was awarded the National University of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Léann na Gaeilge/an Léann Ceilteach\, and was appointed Ireland Canada University Foundation Senior Visiting Professor 2011-12. She was a national tutor for Organising In-Service Training for Language and Technology in Education\, a project for which she won the European Label Award for Innovation in Language Teaching and Learning in 2004. She was also awarded the Lil Nic Dhonncha Prize and the Dhonncha Sullivan Medal in 1999\, 2001\, and 2002. She was the recipient in 2008 of the Oireachtas award for journalistic criticism for the Gaelic column in Iriseoirí Pinn na Gaeilge. \nDouglas Hyde\, the subject of Chollatáin’s lecture\, was a scholar of the Irish language who served as the first president of Ireland from 1938 to 1945. He was a leading figure in the Gaelic revival and first president of the Gaelic League\, one of the most influential cultural organizations in Ireland at the time. He dedicated his life to preserving the native Irish language\, and his contributions to the cause of Irish language\, history\, music\, and literature led W.B. Yeats to proclaim him the source of the Irish literary renaissance that continues to this day.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/regina-ui-chollatain-new-gaelic-league-idea-douglas-hyde-100-years/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150213T163000
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SUMMARY:Fintan O'Toole: “Unspeakable Horror: How Ireland Fought the Great War”
DESCRIPTION:Theatre critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole will present the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture entitled\, “Unspeakable Horror: How Ireland Fought the Great War\,” on Friday\, February 13 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nFintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is a theatre critic and scholar. As a drama critic\, O’Toole 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 Assistant Editor\, columnist and 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. The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals” in 2011. 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. \nO’Toole’s most recent project\, History of Ireland in 100 Objects\, covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years. It has been published in book form by the Royal Irish Academy and as an application for iPad\, iPhone and Android devices. \nO’Toole is a Visiting Lecturer in Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. His professorship is made possible through funding from Leonard L. Milberg\, Princeton Class of 1953\, a generous supporter of the arts and cultural studies who in 2011 donated an extensive collection of prose by Irish writers to the University\, including more than 1\,700 books\, manuscripts\, portraits\, audio-visual materials and other items that illustrate the richness and vitality of Irish writing from 1798 to the present. Milberg’s donation of the Irish prose collection was made in Fagles’ honor. \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/fintan-otoole-unspeakable-horror-ireland-fought-great-war/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141205T163000
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SUMMARY:Tristram Hunt: “The Socialism of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: Robert Noonan and the Modern Labour Party”
DESCRIPTION:Historian and broadcaster Tristram Hunt will present a lecture entitled\, “The Socialism of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: Robert Noonan and the Modern Labour Party\,” on Friday\, December 5 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nTristram Hunt is the author of The English Civil War: At First Hand; Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City; and the award-winning biography\, The Frock-coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels. Between 2001 and 2010\, Hunt combined his post as Senior Lecturer in British History at Queen Mary\, University of London\, with work as a history broadcaster\, presenting over fifteen radio and television programs for the BBC and Channel 4 in England. During this period he also served as a trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund\, the Heritage Lottery Fund\, and the Centre for Cities think-tank. He has made regular contributions to The Guardian and The Observer. \nHunt received his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Cambridge\, before serving as an Exchange Fellow at the University of Chicago\, and returning to Cambridge to complete his doctoral thesis on Victorian civic pride. He is Shadow Secretary of State for Education and a member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central. He is a trustee of the History of Parliament Trust and fellow of the Royal Historical Society. \nHunt will discuss Robert Noonan’s semi-autobiographical novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists\, written under the pseudonym Robert Tressell. A literary depiction of the indignities of poverty\, the book tells a story of workers in a fictional English coastal town\, among them the novel’s hero\, Frank Owen. Through a series of lunchtime lectures\, Owen provides the ideological backbone of the story\, and\, through him\, Noonan pioneered a previously unrecorded sense of working-class humanity and illustrated the nature and promise of socialism\, the novel’s ultimate ambition. Today\, according to Hunt\, this classic novel still resonates with socialist ideology\, yet a more circumspect reading reveals a complicated portrayal of working-class solidarity. For Noonan the only real way to achieve political progress was for a properly educated\, implicitly middle-class elite to drag the blighted working class towards the socialist future. The uncomfortable political reality behind the novel leads us to ask\, according to Hunt\, whether the novel simply fosters working-class consciousness or does it justify the leadership of a socialist elite? \nAn edition of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists\, with an introduction by Hunt\, was published in 2004 by Penguin Classics.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/tristram-hunt-socialism-ragged-trousered-philanthropists-robert-noonan-modern-labour-party/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Charles Fanning: “Banish the Bushwah! Why We Ought to Read James T. Farrell”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Emeritus of English and History at Southern Illinois University Charles Fanning will give a lecture in the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University entitled\, “Banish the Bushwah! Why We Ought to Read James T. Farrell\,” on Friday\, November 14 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public. \nCharles Fanning\, a joint appointee in English and History at Southern Illinois University\, earned his Ph.D. in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. His research combines intellectual and literary history\, especially related to Irish-American immigrants. Among his 12 books is Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years (1978)\, which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians. Professor Fanning was named Southern Illinois University Outstanding Scholar in 2004. \nJames T. Farrell (1904-1979)\, the subject of Fanning’s talk\, was a socially engaged writer who penned one of the classics of American fiction\, the “Studs Lonigan” trilogy. Born into a working-class Irish-American Catholic family in Chicago\, Farrell drew upon his background to write novels and short stories about the Irish community on the South Side of Chicago. He is noted as an influence on the work of Norman Mailer. Farrell’s most famous character\, the Irish-American streetwise Studs Lonigan\, shared many of his creator’s own life experiences. The trilogy was made into a film in 1960 and an Emmy Award-winning television miniseries in 1979.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/charles-fanning-banish-bushwah-read-james-t-farrell/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141017T163000
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SUMMARY:Daithi O'Ceallaigh: “From the Belfast Bunker: Behind the Scenes in the Peace Process”
DESCRIPTION:Former Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom Daithi O’Ceallaigh will present a lecture entitled\, “From the Belfast Bunker: Behind the Scenes in the Peace Process\,” on Friday\, October 17 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nDaithi O’Ceallaigh’s distinguished diplomatic career spans more than 35 years. Having graduated from University College Dublin\, he and his wife Antoinette spent three years as volunteer teachers in Zambia before joining the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1973. He went on to assume posts in Moscow\, London\, Belfast\, New York\, Finland and Estonia before serving as Ambassador to London for six years from 2001. He was subsequently appointed Ambassador to the UN\, World Trade Organization\, and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. \nO’Ceallaigh retired from the Foreign Service in 2009. He was appointed to serve as Chairman of the Press Council of Ireland for a three-year term in 2010 and was reconfirmed for a second term in 2013. He is currently Director General (part-time) of the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin. \nDrawing upon his extensive career in diplomacy\, O’Ceallaigh will discuss the complex negotiations that lay behind the Irish peace process\, a process in which he played an active role. Mr O’Ceallaigh will discuss the often invisible role played by civil servants in securing a civil society.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/daithi-oceallaigh-belfast-bunker-behind-scenes-peace-process/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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