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SUMMARY:Reading by Sinéad Gleeson
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling writer and editor Sinéad Gleeson (Hagstone\, Constellations) reads from her work as part of the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series. Books will be available to purchase and have signed at the event\, which is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books. \nAbout Sinéad Gleeson\nPhoto credit: Brid O’Donovan\nSinéad Gleeson’s debut novel\, Hagstone\, was published in 2024 by 4th Estate and longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. Her essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. Translated into several languages\, Constellations was also shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize\, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize\, and the Michel Déon Prize. She is the editor of four anthologies including The Art of the Glimpse\, the award-winning The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers\, and The Glass Shore: Short Stories. Gleeson has engaged in multi-disciplinary collaborations with artists and musicians\, including commissions from The Wellcome Collection\, the RHA Gallery\, BBC\, Rua Red Gallery and Frieze. She is co-editor with Kim Gordon of This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox\, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater & Music Theater\, and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nTickets & Details\nFree tickets required.  \nReserve tickets through University Ticketing\nReach University Ticketing by email at tixhelp@princeton.edu or by phone at 609-258-9220. \nDirections\nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater\, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-sinead-gleeson/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Reading by Niall Williams
DESCRIPTION:A reading by Irish novelist and playwright Niall Williams\, author of several novels\, including This is Happiness\, History of the Rain\, and the recently published Time of the Child. Cosponsored by Princeton’s Humanities Council and Department of English. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nAbout Niall Williams\nPhoto Credit: John Kelly\nNiall Williams was born in Dublin. He is the author of ten novels\, including History of the Rain\, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize\, and Four Letters of Love\, which will soon be a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan\, Helena Bonham Carter\, and Gabriel Byrne. His 2019 novel\, This Is Happiness\, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Book of the Year and longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize. His latest novel\, Time of the Child\, was published in the U.S. in November. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare\, Ireland. \nAdmission & Details\nThe reading is free and open to the public; no advance tickets or registration required. \nDirections\nGet directions to Labyrinth Bookstore\, located at 122 Nassau Street in Princeton. \nAccessibility\nLabyrinth Books is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-niall-williams/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Reading by Colm Tóibín
DESCRIPTION:International bestselling and award-winning writer Colm Tóibín reads from his work as part of the 2024-25 Fund for Irish Studies Series. Tóibín is the author of 11 novels including Long Island\, The Heather Blazing\, Nora Webster\, House of Names\, The Blackwater Lightship (shortlisted for the BookerPrize)\, The Master\, and Brooklyn\, which was made into a film starring Saoirse Ronan that garnered four Academy Award nominations\, including Best Picture. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox\, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater & Music Theater\, and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nTickets & Details\nTickets for the reading are currently sold out. \nDirections\nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater\, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date. \nAbout Colm Tóibín\nPhoto credit: Reynaldo Rivera\nThe Irish writer Colm Tóibín grew up in a home where\, he once said\, there was “a great deal of silence”. He has since made a career of talking to the world through his many volumes of fiction and non-fiction\, drama\, and poetry. \nThe newest of Tóibín’s eleven novels is Long Island (Simon & Schuster\, May 7\, 2024). A New York Times bestseller\, the book was chosen for Oprah’s Book Club and received star reviews from Kirkus\, Publishers Weekly\, and Booklist. In their rave review the Star Tribune called the novel “a wonder\, rich with yearning and regret.” Long Island continues the story of Eilis Lacey\, first introduced in his acclaimed novel Brooklyn. \nAn international bestseller\, Brooklyn is the unforgettable story a young Irish immigrant and the complications surrounding love and family which she finds in the early 1950s. Brooklyn was given the Costa Novel Award\, while The Observer named it one of “The 10 best historical novels.” In 2019\, the book was ranked 51st on The Guardian‘s list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. In 2015\, Tóibín’s celebrated novel was turned into a film starring Saoirse Ronan which garnered four Academy Award nominations\, including Best Picture. \nTóibín is also the author of The Heather Blazing\, Nora Webster\, House of Names\, and The Blackwater Lightship. The latter was shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Prize and the Booker Prize\, and it was later made into a film starring Angela Lansbury. \nHis fifth novel\, The Master\, is a fictional account of the inner life of the American writer Henry James. It was awarded the International Dublin Literary Award\, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction\, Stonewall Book Award\, and Lambda Literary Award. The New Yorker noted the novel’s portrait of a creative mind at work struck other writers as uncanny\, while Cynthia Ozick praised Tóibín’s “writer’s wizardry.” Tóibín’s devotion to James led him to author All A Novelist Needs: Colm Tóibín on Henry James\, a collection of critical essays. \nMore recently\, Tóibín’s longtime interest in the German writer Thomas Mann led him to write The Magician\, a New York Times Notable Book which was named the Best Book of the Year by NPR\, Washington Post\, and Wall Street Journal. Time magazine stated\, Tóibín had crafted “a complex but empathetic portrayal of a writer in a lifelong battle against his innermost desires\, his family\, and the tumultuous times they endure.” The Magician was given the Rathbones Folio Prize. \nTóibín’s literary conversation with the world explores a number of significant themes: the nature of Irish society\, living in exile\, the legacy of Catholicism\, the process of creativity\, and the preservation of personal identity\, especially when confronted by loss. \nColm Tóibín (pronounced “cuh-lem toe-bean”) is many things—not only a novelist\, but also a short story writer\, essayist\, journalist\, critic\, playwright and poet. Among his works of non-fiction are The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels Since 1950 (with Carmen Callil)\, a book on the Irish revival\, Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush\, New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families\, Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature\, and A Guest at the Feast: Essays. His 2015 book\, On Elizabeth Bishop\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Among the books he has edited is The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction. His book of poetry is titled Vinegar Hill. His newest work of non-fiction is On James Baldwin (Brandeis University Press\, August 2\, 2024)\, on the works of James Baldwin and their influence on his writing. \nOver the years\, Tóibín’s plays have been staged in Ireland and on Broadway. The Testament of Mary\, which Tóibín based on his novella of the same name\, was nominated for three Tony Awards\, including Best Play. \nTóibín has been honored with the E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Irish PEN Award for contribution to Irish literature\, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award\, Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement\, Premio Malaparte (Italy)\, Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award\, David Cohen Prize for Literature\, and the Bodley Medal. In 2022 the Arts Council of Ireland appointed him Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024. In 2024 he received the Medal of Honor for Achievement in Literature from the National Arts Club. \nTóibín is Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He has curated exhibits for the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan\, and\, with his agent\, Peter Straus\, runs a small publishing imprint in Dublin\, Tuskar Rock Press. \nColm Tóibín lives in Ireland and the United States.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-colm-toibin-sp-25/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Reading by Caoilinn Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Robin Christian\nAward-winning writer Caoilinn Hughes (The Wild Laughter) reads from her work\, including an excerpt from her forthcoming novel\, The Alternatives. An unforgettable family portrait\, The Alternatives follows four Irish sisters who were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties and living disparate lives\, three are brought unexpectedly together in search of one sister who doesn’t want to be found. \nHughes will be introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole. \nPart of the fall 2023 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nAbout Caoilinn Hughes\nCaoilinn Hughes is the author of The Wild Laughter (2020)\, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award\, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize\, and was a finalist for three other awards. Her first novel\, Orchid & the Wasp (2018)\, won the Collyer Bristow Prize\, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award\, and was a finalist for four other awards. Her poetry book\, Gathering Evidence (2014)\, won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award. For her short fiction\, she has been awarded The Moth Short Story Prize\, the Irish Book Awards’ Story of the Year 2020\, and an O.Henry Prize. She has been Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and Maastricht University in the Netherlands\, and she holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington\, New Zealand. Her third novel\, The Alternatives\, is forthcoming from Riverhead in April 2024. She will be a Cullman Fellow at New York Public Library for 2023-2024. \nTickets & Details\nThe reading is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nDirections\nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater\, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is wheelchair accessible. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-caoilinn-hughes/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Lecture & Reading by Louise Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer Louise Kennedy presents “Trespasses: Fact\, Fiction and Memory\,” a lecture based on her bestselling novel Trespasses\, which won the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year\, the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year\, and the McKitterick Prize. Kennedy will read from the book and examine her use of news reports\, family lore and her own childhood memories in creating a fictional account of ordinary lives blighted by sectarian and class conflict. \nKennedy will be introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole. \nPart of the fall 2023 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nAbout Louise Kennedy\nPhoto courtesy Louise Kennedy\nKennedy grew up a few miles from Belfast. She holds a PhD from Queens University Belfast\, where she was an inaugural Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow in 2021. Her short story collection\, The End of the World is a Cul de Sac\, won the John McGahern Prize and will be published in the U.S. in December 2023. Her novel\, Trespasses\, was a number one bestseller in 2022 in the U.K. and won the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year\, the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year\, and the McKitterick Prize\, and it was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. Before starting her writing career\, she spent almost thirty years working as a chef. She lives in Sligo\, Ireland. \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nDirections\nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is wheelchair accessible. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-reading-by-louise-kennedy/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Reading
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SUMMARY:Lecture & Reading by Barry McCrea
DESCRIPTION:Barry McCrea. Photo by Francesco Giannone\nPrinceton University’s Fund for Irish Studies continues its 2023-2024 series with a talk and reading by Barry McCrea\, an award-winning writer and the Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole will introduce McCrea at the event on October 27 at 4:30 p.m. at the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The reading is free and open to the public; no tickets are required. The theater is an accessible venue\, and guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week prior to the event date. \nAt Princeton\, McCrea will deliver a brief talk on “Language and the Irish Novel” followed by a reading from his current novel-in-progress\, Miracle at Thorn Island. \nAs a novelist and scholar of comparative literature\, McCrea is the author of three books. His debut novel\, The First Verse\, won the 2006 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ fiction and a Barnes & Noble “Discover Award.” Published in 2011\, his academic book In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens\, Conan Doyle\, Joyce\, and Proust won Columbia University’s Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication in the Humanities. McCrea’s last book\, Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth Century Ireland and Europe\, was awarded the 2016 René Wellek Prize for an outstanding book in the discipline of comparative literature. As the Keough Family Chair and Concurrent Professor of English\, Irish Language and Literature\, as well as Romance Languages and Literatures at Notre Dame\, he teaches seminars on topics such as James Joyce\, the modern European novel\, and modern Irish poetry on the university’s campuses in Indiana\, Rome\, and Dublin. McCrea received his undergraduate degree from Trinity College Dublin and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 2004. \nInvited by Princeton’s Humanities Council\, McCrea spent the spring of 2018 on campus as a Faber Fellow in Comparative Literature\, teaching an advanced undergraduate course entitled “Class\, Desire\, and the Novel.” \nPart of the 2023-24 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nDirections\nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is wheelchair accessible. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-reading-by-barry-mccrea/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Reading
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SUMMARY:The News from Dublin: A Reading by Colm Tóibín
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Reynaldo Revera\nIn a special event for the Fund for Irish Studies\, the acclaimed novelist\, playwright and poet Colm Tóibín will read\, for the first time\, a new story\, “The News from Dublin\,” and some recent poems. Colm Tóibín is one of the most widely acclaimed and admired of contemporary novelists. Born in Enniscorthy\, Ireland\, in 1955\, he has won the LA Times Novel of the Year for The Master; the Costa Novel of the Year for Brooklyn; and the Hawthornden Prize for Nora Webster. His short story collections include Mothers and Sons\, winner of the Edge Hill Prize. His most recent novel is The Magician. He has recently published his first collection of poems\, Vinegar Hill\, described by The New York Times as “A meditative probe into the language of ordinary days.” \nRead the full press release on the Lewis Center for the Arts’ website. \nJoin the Event\nThe reading is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater and find other venue information for 185 Nassau Street. \nCOVID-19 Guidance + Updates\nPer Princeton University policy\, all guests must either be fully vaccinated\, or have recently tested negative (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen test within 8 hours of the scheduled visit) and be prepared to show proof if asked\, or wear a face covering when indoors and around others. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is wheelchair accessible. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-colm-toibin/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Reading by Danielle McLaughlin
DESCRIPTION:Photo courtesy Danielle McLaughlin\nThe Fund for Irish Studies presents a reading by Windham-Campbell Prize-winning fiction writer Danielle McLaughlin\, whose debut novel The Art of Falling was published in the U.S. February 2021 by Random House. In 2019 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. Introduced by Professor Fintan O’Toole. \nDanielle’s debut collection of short stories\, Dinosaurs On Other Planets\, was published in Ireland in 2015 by The Stinging Fly Press and in the U.K\, the U.S. and Canada by John Murray and Random House in 2016. The collection was shortlisted for the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2015 in the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year category and won the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection 2016. In 2019 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. She was Writer in Residence at University College Cork in Ireland for 2018-2019. She was the winner of the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award in 2019. \nDanielle’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Irish Times\, Southword\, The Penny Dreadful and in The Stinging Fly. They have also appeared in various anthologies\, such as the Bristol Prize Anthology\, the Fish Anthology and the 2014 Davy Byrnes Anthology\, and have been broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4. She has won various awards for her short fiction\, including the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition\, the From the Well Short Story Competition\, The Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize\, The Merriman Short Story Competition in memory of Maeve Binchy\, and the Dromineer Literary Festival Short Story Competition. Danielle was awarded an Arts Council Bursary in 2013. \nTickets & Details\nThis event will take place in-person (please note the change from past virtual lectures) and is free and open to the public. Advance tickets required; reserve tickets through University Ticketing. \nThe event will not also be streamed or recorded via Zoom. \nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater and find other venue information for 185 Nassau Street. \nCOVID-19 Guidance + Updates\nPer Princeton University policy\, all guests are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to the maximum extent\, which now includes a COVID booster shot for all eligible to receive it\, and to wear a mask when indoors. Please note that speakers may be unmasked while presenting. \nAccessibility\nThe event space is wheelchair accessible. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are asked to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-danielle-mclaughlin/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:"History of Ireland in 100 (and More) Words" with Máire ní Mhaonaigh and Sharon Arbuthnot
DESCRIPTION:Authors Máire ní Mhaonaigh and Sharon Arbuthnot present on “A History of Ireland in 100 (and More) Words\,” with an introduction by Professor Paul Muldoon\, as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nPhoto courtesy Maire Ni Mhaonaigh\nMáire Ní Mhaonaigh is Professor of Celtic and Medieval Studies at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and a Fellow of St John’s College. She works at the interface of history and literature\, her research focusing on medieval constructions of the past. She has published widely on medieval Irish literature and history and on Ireland’s place in the wider world. She has contributed chapters to the Cambridge History of Irish Literature and to the recent multi-volume Cambridge History of Ireland. Among other recent publications are a co-authored volume\, Norse-Gaelic Contacts in a Viking World (with Colmán Etchingham\, Jón Vidar Sigurðsson and Elizabeth Ashman Rowe\, 2019)\, exploring the cultural and political connections between Norse and Gaelic speakers in the high Middle Ages; and A History of Ireland in 100 Words (co-written with Sharon Arbuthnot and Greg Toner\, 2019) illuminating aspects of Ireland’s past through the development of words. She co-led a project on the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language which resulted in a revised and augmented version of that resource\, eDIL 2019; and she is currently directing research on the landscape history of medieval Ireland\, ‘Mapping the Medieval Mind: Ireland’s Literary Landscapes in a Global Space’\, illuminating medieval dinnshenchas\, a literature of place (a Leverhulme Trust project 2020-2025). She chairs the board of the School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies\, and serves on many other bodies\, including the editorial board of Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures and the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (Hamburg). \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Register and join the lecture via Zoom Webinar. \nREGISTER FOR THE LECTURE \nNOTE: A recording will not be available to share with the public following the event. \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe event includes live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and connect directly to the captioned event through StreamText. Reference these instructions for using StreamText (PDF). \nIf you are in need of other access accommodations in order to participate in this event\, please contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of the event date. \n  \n\nThe Fund for Irish Studies affords all Princeton students\, and the community at large\, a wider and deeper sense of the languages\, literatures\, drama\, visual arts\, history\, politics\, and economics not only of Ireland but of “Ireland in the world.” The series is produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts and the 2021-22 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon and Fintan O’Toole. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/history-of-ireland-in-100-and-more-words-with-maire-ni-mhaonaigh-and-sharon-arbuthnot/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Reading,Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Reading by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Patrick Redmond\nPrinceton University’s Fund for Irish Studies presents a reading by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin\, award-winning poet and translator\, Ireland Professor of Poetry 2016-19\, and Professor emeritus in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin\, on December 4 at 4:30 p.m. online via Zoom. The reading is free and open to the public. \nEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is the author of numerous poetry collections including The Mother House (2020); The Boys of Bluehill (2015)\, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection; The Sun-fish (2010)\, which won the International Griffin Poetry Prize; Selected Poems (2009); The Magdalene Sermon (1989)\, which was selected as one of the three best poetry volumes of the year by the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Poetry Book Prize Committee; and Acts and Monuments (1966)\, which won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. She translated two books by the Romanian poet Ileana Malancioiu\, The Legend of the Walled-Up Wife (2012) and After the Raising of Lazarus (2005)\, as well as Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s The Water Horse (2001)\, co-translated with Medbh McGuckian. Ní Chuilleanáin’s work has been featured in several anthologies\, including The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’​​​​​​​s Poetry\, 1967–2000 (1999)\, edited by Peggy O’Brien. Since 1975 she has edited the literary magazine Cyphers\, and she has also edited Poetry Ireland Review. \nNí Chuilleanáin’s honors include the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry in 1973; O’Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry from the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1992; and election to Aosdána in 1996. The Sun-fish was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2009 and received the Griffin International Poetry Prize in Toronto in 2010. The Boys of Bluehill was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the Pigott Prize. The Mother House received the Irish Times/Poetry Now Award in 2020. \nNí Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942\, educated at University College\, Cork\, and at Oxford. She is a Fellow and Professor emeritus in the School of English\, Trinity College\, Dublin. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies affords all Princeton students\, and the community at large\, a wider and deeper sense of the languages\, literatures\, drama\, visual arts\, history\, politics\, and economics not only of Ireland but of “Ireland in the world.” The series is co-produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts and organized by Paul Muldoon\, Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities\, Founding Chair of the Lewis Center\, Director of the Princeton Atelier\, and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Join the symposium via Zoom Webinar; registration required. \nREGISTER AND JOIN THE READING \n  \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe reading includes live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and connect directly to the captioned event through StreamText. Reference these instructions for using StreamText (PDF). \nCONNECT TO THE CAPTIONED EVENT \nIf you are in need of other access accommodations in order to participate in this event\, please contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of the event date. \n  \n\nThe Fund for Irish Studies affords all Princeton students\, and the community at large\, a wider and deeper sense of the languages\, literatures\, drama\, visual arts\, history\, politics\, and economics not only of Ireland but of “Ireland in the world.” The series is produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts and the 2020-21 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies is generously sponsored by the Durkin Family Trust and the James J. Kerrigan\, Jr. ’45 and Margaret M. Kerrigan Fund for Irish Studies. \n  \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-eilean-ni-chuilleanain/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Reading,Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Reading and conversation with novelist John Banville
DESCRIPTION:Photo by by Douglas Banville\nAward-winning Irish novelist John Banville reads from his work followed by a conversation with Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities Paul Muldoon on Friday\, September 20. The event will take place at the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street on the Princeton University Campus at 4:30 p.m. The reading and conversation are free and open to the public as a part of Princeton University’s 2019-20 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nBorn and raised in Wexford\, Ireland\, Banville studied at Christian Brothers schools and St. Peter’s College before he began his career as an author. Banville worked as a clerk at Aer Lingus\, Ireland’s national airline\, a sub-editor at The Irish Press\, and the Literary Editor of The Irish Times. Amidst Banville’s long and successful career in journalism\, he began his career as a novelist. \nIn 1970\, Banville published a short story collection and a novella\, John Lankin\, before publishing his first novel\, Nightspawn\, in 1971. Other novels by Banville include Birchwood (1973)\, The Book of Evidence (1989)\, Ghosts (1993)\, The Sea (2005)\, The Infinities (2009)\, and Mrs. Osmond (2017). Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City (2003) is Banville’s non-fiction book\, in which he tells the story of Prague’s people and history throughout the years. \nBanville has won several awards for his writing\, including the Allied Irish Banks fiction prize\, the American-Irish Foundation award\, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize\, and the Guardian Fiction Prize. Banville won the Man Booker Prize for The Sea\, the Franz Kafka Prize\, the Prince of Asturias Award\, the Austrian State Prize for Literature\, and the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature. The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Ghosts was shortlisted the Whitbread Fiction Prize. Banville also has written several crime novels\, some of which have been developed for production on BBC\, under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. \nPaul Muldoon. Photo by Denise Applewhite.\nMuldoon is a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of the Princeton Atelier. He was born in 1951 in County Armagh\, Northern Ireland\, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen’s University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States\, where he is now Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton and Founding Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. In 2007 he was appointed Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford\, where he is an honorary Fellow of Hertford College. \nMuldoon’s main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973)\, Mules (1977)\, Why Brownlee Left (1980)\, Quoof (1983)\, Meeting The British (1987)\, Madoc: A Mystery (1990)\, The Annals of Chile (1994)\, Hay (1998)\, Poems 1968-1998 (2001)\, Moy Sand and Gravel (2002)\, Horse Latitudes (2006)\, Maggot (2010)\, One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (2015)\, and Poems 1968-2014 (2016). \nA Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize\, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize\, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize\, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry\, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award\, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize\, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry\, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.” \nThe Fund for Irish Studies affords all Princeton students\, and the community at large\, a wider and deeper sense of the languages\, literatures\, drama\, visual arts\, history\, politics\, and economics not only of Ireland but of “Ireland in the world.” The series is co-produced by the Lewis Center of the Arts and the 2019-20 edition of the series is organized by Muldoon and Senior Lecturer in Theater Michael Cadden. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-and-conversation-with-novelist-john-banville/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Anne Enright: A Reading
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer Anne Enright reads from her work as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies event series. \nIn the James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ. \nFREE and open to the public. \n  \n\nPhoto by Hugh Chaloner\nAnne Enright Anne Enright was born in Dublin in 1962\, and she lives there still. She has written six novels\, two books of short stories and a book of essays about motherhood. Her work appears in many publications including The New Yorker and The Paris Review. Key awards include The Man Booker Prize (2007)\, The Andrew Carnegie medal for Excellence in Fiction (2012) and the Irish Novel of the year (2008 and 2016). Anne was the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015-2018) and has recently been appointed Professor of Fiction at UCD.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/anne-enright-a-reading/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Reading by Sally Rooney
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 9\, 2018\n4:30 p.m.\nEast Pyne 010\nFREE and open to the public \nIrish author Sally Rooney\, winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award\, reads from her work. \n\nIrish novelist Sally Rooney will present a reading on Friday\, March 9 at 4:30 p.m. in East Pyne 010 on the Princeton University campus. The reading\, which is free and open to the public\, is presented by the Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University. \nSally Rooney’s debut novel Conversations with Friends was published in 2017 and was selected by The Sunday Times\, The Guardian\, Observer\, Daily Telegraph\, and Evening Standard as a Book of the Year. The novel has been longlisted for the 2018 International Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the 2017 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award: Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year\, and the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers Choice Award. Rooney was the winner of the 2017 Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award. Born in Mayo and now living in Dublin\, she is the editor of the literary magazine The Stinging Fly\, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Dublin Review and elsewhere. Her new novel\, Normal People\, is being published in September. \nA review of Conversations with Friends in The New Yorker states\, “She [Rooney] writes with a rare\, thrilling confidence\, in a lucid and exacting style uncluttered with the sort of steroidal imagery and strobe flashes of figurative language that so many dutifully literary novelists employ.” \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-sally-rooney/
LOCATION:East Pyne 010\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:A Reading and Performance by Paul Muldoon with guest appearances by Iarla Ó Lionáird and Dan Trueman
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 23\, 2018\n4:30 p.m.\nWallace Theater\, Lewis Arts complex\nFREE and open to the public \nTo mark the publication of his new volume Lamentations and the performance in Princeton of Olagón\, Paul Muldoon gives a special reading with guest appearances by Irish singer Iarla Ó Lionáird and Princeton University Professor of Music Dan Trueman. \n\nPulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon will present a reading from his recent poetry collections joined by acclaimed singer Iarla Ó Lionáird and composer Dan Trueman\, in celebration of Muldoon’s latest volume Lamenations and the three artists’ collaboration with Eighth Blackbird\, Olagón: a Cantata in Doublespeak. The reading\, presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies\, will take on place on Friday\, February 23 at 4:30 p.m. in the Wallace Theater located at the Lewis Arts complex on the Princeton campus. This event is free and open to the public. Performances of Olagón are being presented on February 22 through 24. \nMuldoon will be reading from his recently published collection Lamentations\, which presents a translation of a classic Irish poem from the 18th-century and re-envisions the haunted narratives within. He will also read from his lauded Selected Poems 1968-2014\, work selected from the past 45 years and drawn from 12 individual collections by the poet\, hailed by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney as “one of the era’s true originals.” \n The reading will include appearances by two of Muldoon’s recent collaborators on Olagón: a Cantata in Doublespeak. This new work is an evening-length collaboration between the Grammy Award-winning sextet Eighth Blackbird\, Muldoon\, Ó Lionáird\, and Trueman. With text written by Muldoon in both English and Irish and based on the classic Irish tale Táin Bó Cúailnge\, the cantata paints a narrative of hardship in contemporary Ireland with traditional music\, such as sean nós\, performed by Ó Lionáird and with stage direction by Mark DiChiazza. Performances will be held on February 22\, 23 and 24 at 8:00 p.m. also in the Wallace Theater. Hosted by the Princeton Department of Music\, Eighth Blackbird will be in residence at Princeton Sound Kitchen from February 20 through 26. \nPaul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh\, Northern Ireland\, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen’s University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States\, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University and was founding chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. In 2007 he was appointed Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford\, where he is an honorary Fellow of Hertford College. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996. Other awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize\, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize\, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize\, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry\, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award\, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize\, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry\, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.” \nIarla Ó Lionáird has carved a long and unique career in music in Ireland. From his iconic early recording of the vision song Aisling Gheal as a young boy to his groundbreaking recordings with Dublin’s Crash Ensemble\, he has shown a breadth of artistic ambition. He has worked with a number of composers internationally\, including Nico Muhly\, Donnacha Dennehy\, Dan Trueman\, Gavin Bryars and David Lang\, and he has performed and recorded with such artists as Peter Gabriel\, Robert Plant\, Nick Cave and Sinead O’Connor. His unique singing style has carried him to stages and concert halls all over the world\, from New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to the Sydney Opera House\, London’s Royal Albert Hall and beyond. His film credits extend from The Gangs of New York to Hotel Rwanda and most recently as featured vocalist in the film Calvary starring Brendan Gleeson and the film adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn starring Saoirse Ronan. Ó Lionáird was a 2016-17 Belknap Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of Music at Princeton. \nDan Trueman is a professor of music composition in Princeton’s Department of Music\, Director of the Princeton Sound Kitchen\, and a noted fiddler and electronic musician. He co-founded the Princeton Laptop Orchestra\, the first ensemble of its size and kind that has led to the formation of similarly inspired ensembles across the world. His compositional work reflects this complex and broad range of activities\, exploring rhythmic connections between traditional dance music and machines\, for instance\, or engaging with the unusual phrasing\, tuning and ornamentation of the traditional Norwegian music while trying to discover new music that is singularly inspired by\, and only possible with\, new digital instruments that he designs and constructs. In addition to Olagón\, his current projects include a double-quartet for Sō Percussion and the JACK Quartet\, commissioned by the Barlow Foundation; the Prepared Digital Piano project; a collaborative dance project with choreographer and Princeton dance faculty member Rebecca Lazier and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Naomi Leonard; ongoing collaborations with Irish fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and guitarist Monica Mugan (Trollstilt); and a new collaborative work with Mark DeChiazza for the PRISM saxophone quartet. Trueman is the recipient of a 2016 Bessie Award\, a 2015 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship\, a 2014 Barlow Commission\, a 2010 Fulbright Fellowship\, a 2008 MacArthur Foundation “Digital Innovations” Grant\, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. \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.”
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/performance-paul-muldoon-iarla-o-lionaird/
LOCATION:Wallace Theater\, Lewis Arts complex\, 122 Alexander Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Reading by Kevin Barry from Beatlebone
DESCRIPTION:Author Kevin Barry will read from his novel Beatlebone on Friday\, April 28 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. The reading\, which is free and open to the public\, concludes the 2016-2017 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University. \nKevin Barry’s second novel\, Beatlebone\, follows a fictional John Lennon as he travels in 1978 to Dorninish\, his small private island located off the west coast of Ireland. Legendary Beatles musician John Lennon actually purchased this uninhabited property\, known as “Beatle Island” or “Hippie Island\,” and owned it until his death in 1980. Yoko Ono\, Lennon’s wife\, eventually sold the property in 1984. \nBeatlebone consists of Lennon’s conversations and adventures with his driver\, Cornelius O’Grady\, as the pair avoids pitfalls with the weather and the media to deliver Lennon to Dorninish. The Guardian calls the novel “a lyrical exploration of love\, fate and death.” Regarding Barry’s writing\, The New York Times praises his “razor-sharp prose\, powerful poetics and a dramatist’s approach to dialogue unencumbered by punctuation.”Kevin Barry’s second novel\, Beatlebone\, follows a fictional John Lennon as he travels in 1978 to Dorninish\, his small private island located off the west coast of Ireland. Legendary Beatles musician John Lennon actually purchased this uninhabited property\, known as “Beatle Island” or “Hippie Island\,” and owned it until his death in 1980. Yoko Ono\, Lennon’s wife\, eventually sold the property in 1984. \nIn addition to Beatlebone\, Kevin Barry is the author of the novel City Of Bohane and the story collections Dark Lies The Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the Author’s Club First Novel Award and the prestigious IMPAC Dublin City Literary Award for City of Bohane\, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize\, the European Union Prize for Literature\, and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2016\, he received a Lannan Foundation Literary Award. Barry’s stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, the Stinging Fly\, Best European Fiction\, and many other journals and anthologies around the world. He also works as a screenwriter and a playwright.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-kevin-barry-beatlebone/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Anne Enright
DESCRIPTION:Anne Enright\, the first Fiction Laureate of Ireland\, will give a reading from her latest novel\, The Green Road\, on Friday\, April 8 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. \nAnne Enright is an Irish writer whose work includes six novels\, three short story collections\, and one nonfiction book. She was awarded the Man Booker prize for her fourth novel\, The Gathering (2007). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, she has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature\, the 2001 Encore Award\, the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year\, and the 2012 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in literature. Her stories and essays have been featured widely\, including in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, the London Review of Books\, The Dublin Review and The Irish Times. In 2011\, the Irish Academic Press published Anne Enright (Visions and Revisions: Irish Writers in Their Time)\, a collection of essays on Enright’s work. \nThe Green Road was published by Norton in 2015 and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. It follows Rosaleen\, matriarch of the Madigan family\, and her four children\, who as adults have come back to rural Ireland for a last Christmas before their childhood home is sold. Spanning thirty years\, the novel traces back through the Madigans’ lives as they fight\, fracture and fall in love. James Wood in his review of the novel for The New Yorker said of Enright\, “she is a rich\, lyrical prose writer\, who cascades among novelties—again and again\, she finds the unexpected adjective\, the just noun…The Green Road is true and rueful\, as terribly adult in its clarity as its battered Madigans.” \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.”  This event is the last in the 2015-16 series\, which will resume in the fall.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/anne-enright/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Glenn Patterson reads from his work
DESCRIPTION:Irish novelist Glenn Patterson will read from his work on March 27 at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Part of the Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nGlenn Patterson was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland and is best known as a novelist\, though he is also a documentary filmmaker and journalist. \nIn his novels\, his recurring theme is reassessment of the past and the complexity of history. His work has been called political\, though he attributes this to a deep sense of place that pervades his novels. “Belfast is my city. That is where my imagination is most alive\,” he says. “You feel almost shaped\, yourself as a human being\, by the buildings that are around you. It’s just unavoidable that the political backdrop is featured in the novels.” \nPatterson’s most recent novel is The Rest Just Follows. Fat Lad (1992) was shortlisted for the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award. His other novels include The Mill for Grinding Old People (2012)\, That Which Was (2004)\, Number 5 (2003)\, The International (1999)\, Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (1995)\, and Burning Your Own\, which won the 1988 Betty Trask Award and the 1989 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His memoir\, Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times was published in 2008. He received the 2006 Arts Council Northern Ireland Major Individual Artist Award. \nPatterson has been a writer-in-residence at the University of East Anglia and the University College Cork\, and he is currently teaching in the M.A. Program in Creative Writing at Queen’s University\, Belfast. \nIn addition to his novels\, Patterson also makes documentaries for the BBC\, has written plays and stories for Radio 3 and Radio 4\, and co-wrote the screenplay of the 2013 film Good Vibrations\, which was about the music scene in Belfast during the late 1970s. His articles and essays have appeared in The Guardian\, Observer\, Sunday Times\, Independent\, Irish Times\, and Dublin Review. Lapsed Protestant\, a collection of his non-fiction\, was published in 2006. Here\, a new collection of his writing for newspapers and radio\, will be published this year.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/glenn-patterson-reads-work/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Reading
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Kevin Barry Reads from "Dark Lies the Island"
DESCRIPTION:Author Kevin Barry will read from his new short story collection\, Dark Lies the Island\, on Friday\, October 11 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street.  The reading is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies.  The event is free and open to the public. \nBarry’s first collection of short stories\, There are Little Kingdoms\, was published in 2007 and received the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature\, awarded yearly to an Irish writer under the age of 40.  With descriptions of the everyday painted with colorful local language\, his stories examine the transformational and dark forces that may lie within seemingly comic or mundane persons and interactions\, often grounded in the country towns and cities of his homeland.  City of Bohane\, Barry’s debut novel published in 2011\, depicts a fictional west Irish town in dystopian 2053.  Described by Barry as “written in Technicolor\,” the book offers a startling treatment of a future without technology where gangs and vice rule the streets.  City of Bohane received the Author’s Club First Novel Award\, as well as the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. \nDark Lies the Island (2012)\, his second book of short stories\, expands upon the author’s gift for witty observation\, and one story\, “Beer Trip to Llandudno” was selected for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. \nBarry’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, the Granta Book of the Irish Short Story\, Best European Fiction\, and many other journals and anthologies around the world.  He also works as a screenwriter and a playwright.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/author-kevin-barry-reads-from-his-new-short-story-collection-dark-lies-the-island/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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