BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University - ECPv6.6.4.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://fis.princeton.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20190812T141008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191008T135712Z UID:1545-1574440200-1574445600@fis.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20190131T020159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T144338Z UID:1508-1553877000-1553882400@fis.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190308T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190308T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20190201T151612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190226T202906Z UID:1511-1552062600-1552068000@fis.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190222T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190222T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20190124T200334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T135843Z UID:1505-1550853000-1550858400@fis.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180427T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180427T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20180122T150934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180419T233602Z UID:1453-1524846600-1524852000@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Alvin-Jackson-by-Johnny-Bambury.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180302T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180302T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20180103T205032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180301T183504Z UID:1443-1520008200-1520013600@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/otoole-300x2251.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170414T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170414T163000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20170404T180149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170404T180149Z UID:1433-1492187400-1492187400@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/mary-daly.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20170203T191218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170203T191218Z UID:1425-1487349000-1487354400@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/otoole-300x2251.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161209T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161209T163000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20161205T145044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161205T154410Z UID:1421-1481301000-1481301000@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/richard-and-sheila-600.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20161006T122814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T122814Z UID:1410-1474043400-1474048800@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Lisa-Dwan-courtesy-of-Lisa-Dwan.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160325T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160325T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20160121T191220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160321T141716Z UID:1383-1458923400-1458928800@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/matthew-campbell.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20160121T190902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160121T190902Z UID:1381-1457109000-1457114400@fis.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20160121T190756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160128T154100Z UID:1380-1455294600-1455300000@fis.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151113T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151113T163000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20150921T164414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150921T164414Z UID:1375-1447432200-1447432200@fis.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150918T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150918T163000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20150921T161747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150921T161747Z UID:1368-1442593800-1442593800@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ian_McBride_7308-683x1024.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150417T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150417T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20150521T185030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150521T185051Z UID:1359-1429288200-1429293600@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Poulomi-Saha-courtesy-Saha.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150410T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150410T163000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20150331T150500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150331T150507Z UID:1351-1428683400-1428683400@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/regina-ui-chollatain.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150213T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150213T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20150130T164209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150319T190347Z UID:1343-1423845000-1423850400@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/otoole-300x2251.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141205T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141205T163000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20141118T160331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141118T160331Z UID:1337-1417797000-1417797000@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Tristram-Hunt-by-YuiMok-PA.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141114T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141114T163000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20141023T171817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141023T171939Z UID:1332-1415982600-1415982600@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Charles-Fanning-headshot-courtesy-of-Charles-Fanning.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141017T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141017T163000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20141015T195028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141015T195714Z UID:1327-1413563400-1413563400@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/daithi-o-ceallaigh2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140912T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140912T163000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20140827T173709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140827T173709Z UID:1310-1410539400-1410539400@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Emily Mark-Fitzgerald: "Commemorating the Irish Famine" DESCRIPTION:Art historian Emily Mark-Fitzgerald will open the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University with a lecture entitled\, “Commemorating the Irish Famine\,” on Friday\, September 12 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. \nMark-Fitzgerald\, of University College\, Dublin\, is the author of Commemorating the Irish Famine:  Memory and the Monument (Liverpool University Press\, 2013)\, a book exploring the history of the 1840s Irish Famine in visual representation\, commemoration and collective memory from the 19th century until the present\, explaining why since the 1990s the Famine past has come to matter so much in the present.  She has also launched a website that catalogues a sample of photographic records and information related to these commemorative monuments in Australia\, Canada\, Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Britain and the United States – www.irishfaminememorials.com. \nMark-FitzGerald speaks regularly and publishes on the subject of public art\, memory and commemoration\, museology and the visual culture of migration/diaspora\, and contemporary Irish and international art.  She is the recipient of major fellowships and research funding from the U.S.-Ireland Alliance (Mitchell Scholarship)\, Mellon Foundation/Social Science Research Council\, Humanities Institute of Ireland\, Royal Hibernian Academy\, Royal Irish Academy\, Irish Research Council\, and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. \nSince 2003 she has taught in University College\, Dublin’s School of Art History and Cultural Policy\, where she was appointed Permanent Lecturer in 2008.  Her teaching and research span both art history and cultural policy at the undergraduate and post-graduate level\, informed by previous professional experience as an arts manager and an interest in visual art\, its institutions and the public sphere. \nMark-FitzGerald holds a B.A. in Art History and Spanish from the University of Southern California\, an M.A. in Arts Administration from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Art History from University College Dublin.  She is a founding editor of Artefact: the Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians and the Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/emily-mark-fitzgerald-commemorating-irish-famine/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542 CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/t4_1285030754.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140328T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140328T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20140310T202426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140328T172750Z UID:1275-1396024200-1396029600@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Erskine Childers DESCRIPTION:Writer and historian Erskine Childers will present a lecture entitled\, “The Riddle of Erskine Childers\,” on Friday\, March 28 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street.  The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies.  The event is free and open to the public. \nChilders will talk about his great-grandfather Robert Erskine Childers\, a major figure in the Irish revolution.  A writer and political activist\, Robert Erskine Childers was born in London and educated at Haileybury College and Trinity College\, Cambridge\, where he argued against Irish Home Rule.  From 1895 to 1910 he was a clerk in the House of Commons.  He served in both the Boer War and the First World War before settling in Ireland in 1919\, by then wholly committed to the goal of Irish independence.  He used his own yacht\, the Asgard\, to supply arms to the Irish volunteers at Howth in 1914.  In 1921 he was appointed director of publicity for the Irish Republican Army and in 1922 he was court‐martialled for possession of a revolver and executed by a Free State firing squad.   \nAs a writer\, the elder Childers is remembered for The Riddle of the Sands (1903)\, often described as the first example of spy fiction\, a novel about two British yachtsmen sailing in the Baltic who discover German preparations for an invasion of England.  The book was a sensational bestseller and drew attention to the menace of an enemy yet to be acknowledged.  Childers was the son of the Victorian Oriental scholar Robert Childers and father of Erskine Hamilton Childers\, who became the fourth president of Ireland. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/erskine-childers/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/q6d9NAZt.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140228T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140228T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20140210T202152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140226T174417Z UID:1269-1393605000-1393610400@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Fintan O'Toole DESCRIPTION:Irish theater critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole will present the 2014 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture\, entitled “Mr. Bloom and the Buddha\,” on Friday\, February 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the 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.  The event is free and open to the public. \nO’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is teaching at Princeton this semester including the course\, “Ghosts\, Vampires\, and Zombies in Irish Theatre and Literature.”  Robert 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. \nIn the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture\, O’Toole will focus on a looted Burmese statue of the Buddha that sits\, largely forgotten\, in a corner of the National Museum in Dublin. But it has a strange and significant presence in James Joyce’s Ulysses\, where it features twice.  O’Toole will show how a neglected object can help us to understand some key things about Joyce’s masterpiece\, not least the relationship between Leopold Bloom and his unfaithful wife\, Molly. \nAs 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 app for iPad\, iPhone and Android devices. \nO’Toole’s visiting 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. \n  \n  URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fintan-otoole/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/fintan158.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131108T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131108T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20131017T161845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T161845Z UID:129-1383928200-1383933600@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation with Musician and Filmmaker Philip King DESCRIPTION:Philip King is a curator and producer of bespoke cultural events\, and a film director\, writer\, musician\, broadcaster\, commentator and contributor to national and international forums on the role and contribution of culture and arts in a world where we are more connected and more isolated than ever before. \nIn 1987\, with writer and director Nuala O’Connor\, he produced for BBC Television the groundbreaking and National Primetime Emmy award-winning series Bringing It All Back Home\, the story of Irish Music and America\, its extraordinary odyssey from kitchen to dancehall\, from concert platform to international rock stadium and back featuring performances from Bono\, The Everly Brothers\, Ricky Skaggs\, Emmylou Harris and Elvis Costello. \nSince 1991\, King has directed and produced numerous series\, documentaries and events exploring Irish music and its international influence\, including The Juliet Letters (1993)\, featuring Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet. In 1994 came A River of Sound\, a seven part documentary on the changing course of Irish traditional music for RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland. In 1997\, King co‐produced the soundtrack for the feature film This Is My Father starring Aidan Quinn\, James Caan and John Cusack. In 1998 he directed The Joshua Tree\, a Classic Albums documentary on the making of U2’s album of the same name. \nAs a documentarian\, he has photographed every important Irish musician over the last 25 years. \nKing conceived and created Other Voices ‐ Songs From a Room  in 2002. Originally presented by The Frames frontman Glen Hansard\, and now hosted by Aidan Gillen (The Wire and Game of Thrones)\, the series has been through 11 iterations and has captured bare and intimate performances from Amy Winehouse\, The National\, Elbow\, Ellie Goulding\, Glen Hansard\, Damien Rice\, Jarvis Cocker\, Snow Patrol\, Ryan Adams\, Florence and The Machine\, Marina & The Diamonds\, Laura Marling and many many more. \nIn 2011\, Other Voices travelled to New York City to the heart of the East Village for what The New York Times called “Two Sides Of The Atlantic Meet In New York City”. \nOn certain nights in the tiny town of Dingle\, Ireland\, residents can hear the strains of music coming from an ancient church\, with musicians from around the world having made the long journey to the Western most edge of the country. And on other nights – the local fisherman will swear by this – you can hear the distant sounds of Manhattan traffic leaping across the Atlantic into the mists just off the coast. Those two sounds\, one improbable and the other probably mythic\, came together for two nights late last week when ‘Other Voices’ came to NewYork. \nDavid Carr – New York Times – November 1 2011 \n2012/13 saw the most dramatic evolution of Other Voices to date. It branched into a multi-location\, globally streamed event with some of the biggest names in music taking to three separate stages in St. James’ Dingle\, The Glassworks in Derry/Londonderry and Wilton’s Music Hall in London. \nKing conceived and curated two large scale productions during the last 12 months. In August 2012\, a large scale production brought Notre Dame: A Welcome Home to a live audience of 10\,000 and the show was streamed and televised live to an international audience of 5 million. \nIn March 2013\, King directed Glaoch: The President’s Call\, a television production commissioned by The President of Ireland\, Michael D. Higgins. The program celebrated an abundance of Irish music\, literature\, art and culture and was presented to the world on St. Patrick’s Day 2013. \nPhilip is currently developing Other Voices America. He continues to tour with his band Scullion and presents a weekly radio show\, South Wind Blows\, from RTÉ studios in West Kerry. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/philip-king/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Philip-King-headshot1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130927T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130927T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20130927T201230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130927T201230Z UID:25-1380299400-1380304800@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Amy Martin on “The Origins of Irish Internationalism" DESCRIPTION:(Princeton\, NJ)  Historian and professor of British and Irish literature Amy Martin will present a lecture entitled\, “The Origins of Irish Internationalism: Violence and Terror in Ireland\, India and Jamaica\, 1857-1870” on Friday\, September 27 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street.  The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies.  The event is free and open to the public. \nMartin is an associate professor in the English Department at Mount Holyoke College and also lectures at summer programs in Dublin for the Notre Dame Irish Studies Seminar and the James Joyce Summer School.  Her research topics range from post-colonial theory and Victorian studies to British imperial nationalism and the corresponding Irish anticolonial nationalism. Among Martin’s publications are Blood Transfusions: Representing Irish Immigration\, the English Working Class\, and Revolutionary Possibility in the Work of Carlyle and Engels (2004)\, and the book Alter-nations: Nationalisms\, Terror\, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (2012)\, as well as papers published in various journals.  Martin received her undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College and continued her studies at Columbia University\, where she received her Ph.D. \nStemming from her current project\, a book that examines internationalism and critiques of empire in nineteenth century Ireland\, Martin recently published an article on the subject entitled\, Representing the “Indian Revolution” of 1857: Towards a Genealogy of Irish Internationalist Anticolonialism in the Field Day Review.  Her lecture will explore related conflicts in Jamaica and Ireland itself\, and reflect on the development of modern ideas of terrorism and the state in Irish thought based on colonial situations in the three nations.  Martin’s scholarly work has been described as “impressive\,” “indispensable\,” and having an “immediate and lasting impact both on Irish Studies and on Victorian Studies.” \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, celebrating its fifteenth anniversary season and 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. \nInformation on the entire 2013-2014 Fund for Irish Studies series can be found at fisprinceton.wpengine.com.  Other events scheduled in the series include: \n\nKevin Barry\, reading from his short story collection “Dark Lies the Island\,” October 11\nPerformance by Irish jazz singer Christine Tobin of her award-winning settings of poems by W. B. Yeats\, “Sailing to Byzantium\,” October 18\nPhilip King on “The Irish Song Lyric from Tom Moore to Christy Moore\,” November 8\nTony Award-winning playwright Enda Walsh in conversation with Senior Lecturer in Theater and Lewis Center Chair Michael Cadden\, November 15\n\nIn addition\, the Fund for Irish Studies will recognize this anniversary season by hosting a daylong symposium on Irish culture\, politics\, history\, and life in April 2014. \nTo learn more about the over 100 events presented each year by the Lewis Center for the Arts\, visit princeton.edu/arts. \n\nLink to photo: https://lca.sharefile.com/d/sd8818db37b84aa08 \nPhoto caption: As part of a series presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton\, historian and scholar of British and Irish literature Amy Martin will lecture on “The Origins of Irish Internationalism: Violence and Terror in Ireland\, India and Jamaica\, 1857-1870” \nPhoto credit:  Photo by Paul Schnaittacher URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/amy-martin-lecture-on-the-origins-of-irish-internationalism-violence-and-terror-in-ireland-india-and-jamaica-1857-1870%e2%80%b3/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/martin-190x3001.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130920T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130920T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20130927T221627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130927T221627Z UID:49-1379694600-1379700000@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Marilynn Richtarik on “Stewart Parker: The Playwright in His Place” DESCRIPTION:Professor and historian of British and Irish literature Marilynn Richtarik will present a lecture entitled\, “Stewart Parker: The Playwright in his Place\,” on Friday\, September 20 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public. \nRichtarik received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University in American History and Literature\, but focused her research on British works at Oxford University\, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar\, receiving her Doctorate of Philosophy in 1992. Her interests lie in Northern Irish theatre and drama\, and the tumultuous intersection of the country’s politics and arts. In addition to several program notes for American\, British\, and Irish productions of the plays of Stewart Parker\, Richtarik’s publications include Acting Between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980-1984 (1995)\, Counterparts: James Joyce and Stewart Parker (1998)\, and ‘Ireland\, the Continuous Past’: Stewart Parker’s Belfast History Plays (2000). She has contributed to Bullán\, Modern Drama\, and appeared on Ireland’s RTE Radio One. \nFollowing from her 2012 biography\, Stewart Parker: A Life\, Richtarik’s lecture will explore the brief but storied career of playwright\, poet\, and cultural critic Stewart Parker (1941-1988). A writer whose works spanned from a column on popular music in The Irish Times\, to poetry\, essays\, and plays for television\, radio\, and the stage\, Parker is\, according to Richtarik\, a figure wholly at the influence of the turbulent forces at play in his native Belfast. An Irish Times review described Richtarik’s biography as\, “[one] you can trust; it also captures an important chapter of Irish cultural life.” \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, celebrating its 15th anniversary season and 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.” \nInformation on the full 2013-2014 Fund for Irish Studies series can be found at fisprinceton.wpengine.com. Other lectures scheduled in the series include: \n\nAmy Martin on “The Origins of Irish Internationalism: Violence and Terror in Ireland\, India and Jamaica\, 1857-1870\,” September 27\nKevin Barry\, reading from his book Dark Lies the Island\, City of Bohane\, October 11\nPerformance by Irish jazz singer Christine Tobin of her award-winning settings of poems by W. B. Yeats\, “Sailing to Byzantium\,” October 18\nPhilip King on “The Irish Song Lyric from Tom Moore to Christy Moore\,” November 8\nTony Award-winning playwright Enda Walsh in conversation with Senior Lecturer in Theater and Lewis Center Chair Michael Cadden\, November 15\n\nIn addition\, the Fund for Irish Studies will recognize this anniversary season by hosting a daylong symposium on Irish culture\, politics\, history\, and life in April 2014. \n  \nTo learn more about the over 100 events presented each year by the Lewis Center for the Arts\, visit www.princeton.edu/arts. \n  \nLink to photo: https://lca.sharefile.com/d/s5b6b5a9cd1c4af68\nPhoto caption: Literary historian Marilynn Richtarik lectures on “Stewart Parker: The Playwright in His Place” as part of a series presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton.\nPhoto credit: Photo courtesy of Marilynn Richtarik URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/literary-historian-marilynn-richtarik-opens-fall-2013-lecture-series-with-lecture-on-stewart-parker-the-playwright-in-his-place/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/richtarik-214x3001.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130419T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130419T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20131002T133352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131002T133352Z UID:73-1366389000-1366394400@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:R.F. Foster on "Making a Revolutionary Generation in Ireland" DESCRIPTION:Bestselling scholar of Irish history R.F. Foster will present a lecture on “Making a Revolutionary Generation in Ireland\, 1890-1916\,” on Friday\, April 19 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street.  Foster’s lecture will cap a year-long series of events presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies.  The event is free and open to the public. \nR. F. Foster\, the Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford\, is widely known as the author ofModern Ireland: 1600-1972\, his broad\, transformative volume of that nation’s history.  Declared by the Irish Independent as “the best single-volume history of modern Ireland of our time\,” Modern Ireland has been a bestseller since its first publication in 1988 and was listed by The Guardian as one of the top 10 books on Irish history.  A well-known critic and broadcaster as well as history scholar\, Foster’s work focuses on Irish cultural\, social and political history of the modern period. \nFoster’s numerous publications include biographies of the poet W.B. Yeats and politicians Charles Stewart Parnell and Lord Randolph Churchill\, numerous essays on Irish culture\, and The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland (1989).  His book\, The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland (2001)\, won the Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism in 2003. Foster’s most recent book\, Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances\, was published by Oxford in 2011 and presents a re-reading of Irish literary history throughout the nineteenth century.  In 2009 Foster was elected to a three-year Wolfson Foundation Research Chair in order to write a book about the Irish revolutionary generation of 1890-1920.  He will be focusing on this research in his lecture on April 19. \nOver the course of his career\, Foster has held visiting fellowships at St. Anthony’s College\, Oxford\, the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\, and Princeton University.  He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989\, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1986\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1992\, and an honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2011.  His honorary degrees include those from the University of Aberdeen; The Queen’s University of Belfast; Trinity College\, Dublin; the National University of Ireland; and Queen’s University\, Canada\, \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.”  Its mission is to coordinate and expand existing courses taught by present members of the faculty and to offer a series of public lectures\, literary readings\, conferences\, exhibitions\, screenings and theatrical performances. \n[hr] \nLink to photo:   https://lca.sharefile.com/d/s90fe5e281654389b \nPhoto caption:  R. F. Foster\, the Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford\, will lecture on “Making a Revolutionary Generation in Ireland\, 1890-1916” as part of a series presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton. \nPhoto credit:  Photo courtesy of Hertford College\, Oxford. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/r-f-foster/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/foster-oxford1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130308T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130308T180000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20131017T172437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T172437Z UID:138-1362760200-1362765600@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:2013 Robert Fagles Memorial lecture by Fintan O'Toole DESCRIPTION:O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is teaching at Princeton this semester including the course\, “Modern Irish Theatre: Oscar Wilde to Martin McDonagh to Riverdance.”  Robert 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 best-sellers. \nIn the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture\, O’Toole suggests that the true legacy of Irish Catholic thought lies in three profound ideas\, each of which was declared a heresy by the official Church. \nAs 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.  In 2011\, O’Toole was named one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals” by The Observer.  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\, will cover 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years.  It will be published as a conventional book by the Royal Irish Academy and will also be available as a free iPad and iPhone application. \nO’Toole’s visiting 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. \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.”   Its mission is to coordinate and expand existing courses taught by present members of the faculty and to offer a series of public lectures\, literary readings\, conferences\, exhibitions\, screenings and theatrical performances. \nUpcoming lectures in the series include: \n\n2012 Tony Award-winner Enda Walsh “In Conversation with Lewis Center Chair and Senior Lecturer in Theater Michael Cadden\,” April 5\nPerformance by Len Graham and Brian O’Hairt of “In Two Minds:  Songs\, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition\,” April 12\nR.F. Foster on “Making a Revolutionary Generation in Ireland\, 1890-1916\,” April 19\n\nIn addition\, the Program in Theater will present a production of Woman and Scarecrow by Irish dramatist Marina Carr on March 8 through 15\, the powerful story of a woman facing death\, who looks back over her life and asks what could have been. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/2013-robert-fagles-memorial-lecture-by-fintan-otoole/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/fintan158.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130215T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130215T170000 DTSTAMP:20260722T124536 CREATED:20131017T172242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T172242Z UID:136-1360945800-1360947600@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Author John Kelly on the Irish Famine's Historical Impact DESCRIPTION:Author John Kelly will present a lecture entitled\, “How the Irish Famine Invented the Modern World” on Friday\, February 15 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public. \nKelly is the author of ten books that meld history\, science and human behavior. His most recent book\, The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People (Henry Holt in U.S.\, Faber and Faber in U.K.\, 2012)\, chronicles the events and circumstances surrounding the Great Irish Potato Famine\, one of the epic tragedies of modern times.  The book was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and selected as a Cultural Highlight of 2012 by The Irish Times.  In a review\, The Economist called the book\, “An engrossing narrative of the famine\, vividly detailing Victorian society and the historical phenomena (natural and man-made) that converged to form the disaster.” \nKelly’s lecture will explore the ways in which the Great Famine of the 1840s was a definitive force in the shaping of the modern world and what that historical event can tell us about  starvation and food distribution today.  He examines the direct effects of this tragedy not only in Ireland and Britain but also around the whole of mid-19th-century Europe. \nKelly’s previous book\, The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death\, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (2005)\, was a national bestseller.  He is currently working on\, The Year of No Summer: The British Decision Not to Surrender in 1940\, for Scribner. \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.”   Its mission is to coordinate and expand existing courses taught by present members of the faculty and to offer a series of public lectures\, literary readings\, conferences\, exhibitions\, screenings and theatrical performances. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/author-john-kelly-on-the-irish-famines-historical-impact/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Kelly-headshot-creditLauraPedrick-212x300.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR