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March 2018
Reading by Sally Rooney
Irish author Sally Rooney, winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, reads from her work.
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Anne Enright: A Reading
Award-winning writer Anne Enright reads from her work as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies event series. In the James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ. FREE and open to the public. Photo by Hugh Chaloner Anne 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…
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Reading and conversation with novelist John Banville
Photo by by Douglas Banville Award-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…
Find out more »December 2020
Reading by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Professor emeritus in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin and winner of the 2020 Irish Times/Poetry Now Award, reads her poetry as part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series.
Find out more »October 2021
“History of Ireland in 100 (and More) Words” with Máire ní Mhaonaigh and Sharon Arbuthnot
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. FREE and open to public; register and join via Zoom Webinar.
Find out more »April 2022
Reading by Danielle McLaughlin
The Fund for Irish Studies presents a reading by Windham-Campbell Prize-winning fiction writer Danielle McLaughlin on April 8, 2022.
Find out more »September 2022
The News from Dublin: A Reading by Colm Tóibín
Photo by Reynaldo Revera In 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…
Find out more »October 2023
Lecture & Reading by Barry McCrea
Award-winning writer Barry McCrea will give a brief talk on “Language and the Irish Novel” followed by a reading from his novel-in-progress Miracle at Thorn Island. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole.
Find out more »November 2023
Lecture & Reading by Louise Kennedy
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.
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Reading by Caoilinn Hughes
Award-winning writer Caoilinn Hughes (The Wild Laughter) reads from her work, including an excerpt from her forthcoming novel, The Alternatives. No tickets required.
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