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.
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 … Continue reading "Richard Kearney and Sheila Gallagher on “Recovering 1916 in Images and Stories”"
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 … Continue reading "Irish scholar and theater critic Fintan O’Toole delivers the 2017 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture: “If It Wasn’t for the Irish and Jews”"
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.
Friday, March 2, 2018 4:30 p.m. East Pyne 010, Princeton University campus FREE and open to the public Theater 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. Irish … Continue reading "Fintan O’Toole Lectures on “Brexit, Ireland and the Rise of English Nationalism”"
Friday, April 27, 2018 4:30 p.m. East Pyne 010 FREE and open to the public Acclaimed 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 … Continue reading "Lecture by Alvin Jackson"
Noted Irish writer and theater critic Fintan O’Toole presents the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on “Escaping from History: The Dreamworld of Brexit”
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. In the James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ. FREE and … Continue reading "The Myth of Paternity: James Joyce and his father"
Irish scholar Maureen Murphy lectures on "Irish Emigrant Girls in New York" as part of the Fund for Irish Studies series.
Paul Muldoon introduces an illustrated talk by author and photographer Anthony Murphy. In his lecture, tentatively titled “Dronehenge,” Murphy will discuss his 2018 discovery that has radically changed our view of the Neolithic landscape of Brú na Bóinne.
