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.
In 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.
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.
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.
Martin’s lecture is drawn from her current book project: a study of the internationalism central to Irish nationalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the lecture, she will explore Irish writings on the Sepoy rebellion in India and the Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica. By comparing events in these locations to the history of colonialism in Ireland, nationalist writers develop a theory of empire and specifically of imperial violence.
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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.
Writer and historian Erskine Childers, the great-grandson of the Irish revolutionary of the same name, presents a lecture entitled "The Riddle of Erskine Childers."
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. … Continue reading "Emily Mark-Fitzgerald: “Commemorating the Irish Famine”"
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 … Continue reading "Daithi O’Ceallaigh: “From the Belfast Bunker: Behind the Scenes in the Peace Process”"
