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SUMMARY:Lecture by Fintan O'Toole on "Open Secrets: Ulysses at 100"
DESCRIPTION:Photo courtesy Fintan O’Toole\nFintan O’Toole\, Princeton University’s Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters\, delivers the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on “Open Secrets: Ulysses at 100″ as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nJames Joyce’s revolutionary novel Ulysses was published 100 years ago in February 1922. In its initial review of the book\, The New York Times declared Ulysses “the most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the twentieth century.” Through a stream of consciousness writing style\, Joyce follows Stephen Dedalus\, a 22-year-old aspiring poet and teacher\, and Leopold Bloom\, a 38-year-old Jewish advertising agent\, as they go about nineteen hours of daily life in Dublin\, Ireland. Both men grapple with themes of religion\, philosophy\, remorse\, and mortality. In his lecture\, O’Toole asks why the book still matters today. It is\, he suggests\, one of the best explorations we have of the way the local is also universal; of the fluidity of identity; of the fusion of body and mind; and of the possibility of living beyond tragedy. \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 Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney.   \nTickets & Details\nThe virtual lecture\, presented via Zoom Webinar\, is free and open to the public; registration required. Register for the lecture on Zoom Webinar \nA recording will not be available to share with the public following the event. \nAccessibility\nThe event will include live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and connect to the captioned event through StreamText. Attendees 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/robert-fagles-memorial-lecture-by-fintan-otoole-2022/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220128T163000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Poet James Longenbach on W.B. Yeats
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Adam Fenster\nPrinceton University’s Fund for Irish Studies presents a lecture by James Longenbach on W.B. Yeats and his poem “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” on Friday\, January 28\, the 83rd anniversary of Yeats’ death\, at 4:30 p.m. via Zoom Webinar. Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and Co-chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Paul Muldoon will provide a welcome and introduction. The event is part of the 2021-2022 lecture series\, which will continue virtually for the next few events. \nLongenbach will give an account of William Butler Yeats’ (1865-1939) poem\, discussing how it assumed its shape\, and\, more importantly\, the influence of that shape on subsequent long poems written throughout the 20th century. Yeats won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” was part of his first collection of poems published after the Nobel Prize: The Tower (1928). The Tower contains other long poems that contemplate the state of politics in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence\, the mortality of man\, and the temporariness of the world\, such as “Sailing to Byzantium\,” “Meditations in Time of Civil War\,” and “The Tower.” Like many of the poems in the collection\, “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” is divided into six parts of unequal length with differing meters and rhyme schemes in each part. Titled after and written about the first year of the Irish War of Independence\, the poem grasps at the idealism and nostalgia for “law”\, “habits”\, and “public opinion” destroyed by war and violence. \nLongenbach\, a poet and literary critic who received his Ph.D. from Princeton University\, is the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester\, where he teaches courses on modern and contemporary American poetry\, British and American modernism\, James Joyce\, Shakespeare\, and creative writing. His most recent poetry collections include Forever (W.W. Norton\, 2021) and The Lyric Now (University of Chicago\, 2020). Longenbach has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Mellon Fellow. \nTickets & Details\nPlease note that this first event of the spring series will remain virtual via Zoom webinar.  \nThe virtual lecture is free and open to the public; registration required. Register for the Zoom webinar \nA 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 to the captioned event through StreamText. Attendees 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-by-poet-james-longenbach/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T163000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Cian T. McMahon
DESCRIPTION:Cian T. McMahon\, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Honors College at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, lectures on “The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Famine” with introduction by Paul Muldoon\, Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and Co-chair of the Fund for Irish Studies\, as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nMcMahon will discuss his new book\, The Coffin Ship (NYU Press\, 2021)\, which analyzes letters and diaries of Irish immigrants who fled Ireland during the Great Famine. The Great Irish Famine occurred from 1845 to 1855 as a result of a potato blight that destroyed the Lumper potato crop\, robbing more than one-third of the Irish population of its most substantial means of sustenance. According to RTE News\, the national news and public broadcaster in Ireland\, over a million people died due to the extensive food shortage and subsequent epidemics\, and a further 1.25 million people fled Ireland\, with over 900\,000 Irish immigrants arriving in New York City alone. For McMahon\, the standard story of Ireland’s Great Famine exodus is one of tired clichés\, half-truths\, and dry statistics. The Coffin Ship focuses on the journey across the Atlantic\, an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience. His transnational history examines the dynamic social networks and connections to the worldwide Irish diaspora that the emigrants built while voyaging overseas. In his book\, McMahon makes an argument for placing the sailing ship alongside the tenement and the factory floor as a central\, dynamic element of Irish migration history. \nCian T. McMahon is an associate professor in the Department of History and Honors College at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, where he teaches courses focusing on society and culture in modern Ireland\, immigration and identity in American history\, and great migrations in human history. His first book\, The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race\, Nation\, and the Popular Press\, 1840-1880 (University of North Carolina Press\, 2015)\, won honorable mention for the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book from the American Conference of Irish Studies. He is a member of the American Conference for Irish Studies\, the Immigration & Ethnic History Society\, and the American Historical Association. \nJoin the Event\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Register for the lecture and join via Zoom Webinar. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-cian-t-mcmahon/
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Brendan O'Leary
DESCRIPTION:Brendan O’Leary\, Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania\, presents “Irish Reunification: Prospects & Feasible Models\,” a lecture drawn from his book-in-progress on questions and issues surrounding the idea of a unification of the island of Ireland. Introduced by Fintan O’Toole. \nBrendan O’Leary is a US\, Irish and European Union citizen. Since 2003\, he has served as the Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania—previously he had been Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics & Political Science. He is the author\, co-author and co-editor of 28 books\, and the author or co-author of over 650 articles\, chapters\, encyclopedia articles\, miscellaneous publications\, and op-eds. A Treatise on Northern Ireland (three volumes) was published in 2019. It won the 2020 James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize of the American Conference of Irish Studies for the best book in History and Social Science\, and the paperback versions were issued the same year. A Member of the US Council on Foreign Relations and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy\, O’Leary was the inaugural winner of the Juan Linz Prize of the International Political Science Association for the study of multinational societies\, federalism\, and democratization. He is also a founding member of ARINS (Analyzing and Researching Ireland\, North and South)\, sponsored by the Royal Irish Academy and the University of Notre Dame. O’Leary has been a political and constitutional advisor\, especially on power-sharing\, to the United Nations\, the European Union\, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq\, and during the Irish peace process to the Governments of the UK and Ireland\, and the British Labour Party. His degrees are from the University of Oxford (1981\, PPE\, BA (hons) first class)\, and the London School of Economics & Political Science (PhD\, Robert McKenzie Memorial Prize). He grew up in Nigeria\, Sudan\, and Northern Ireland. \nJoin the Event\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Register for the lecture and join via Zoom Webinar. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-brendan-oleary/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Nicholas Allen
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Allen\, director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia\, discusses poet Seamus Heaney’s later works\, one of several Irish writers covered in his latest book\, Ireland\, Literature and the Coast: Seatangled. Introduced by Lecturer in Theater Fintan O’Toole as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nPhoto courtesy Nicholas Allen\nNicholas Allen is the director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts\, where he holds an endowed Professorship in the Humanities. His latest book\, Ireland\, Literature\, and the Coast: Seatangled\, was published in December 2020 by Oxford University Press. He has been the Burns Visiting Scholar at Boston College and has received many grants and awards\, including from the Mellon Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Irish Research Council. \n  \nJoin the Event\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Register for the lecture and join via Zoom Webinar. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-nicholas-allen/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211001T163000
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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
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Roddy Doyle and Fintan O’Toole
DESCRIPTION:Irish novelist\, dramatist\, and screenwriter Roddy Doyle joins in conversation with scholar and critic Fintan O’Toole. Professor Paul Muldoon opens the virtual event with an introduction. \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. \n  \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/conversation-with-roddy-doyle-and-fintan-otoole/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Virtual Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T180000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED — Lecture by Alan Hayden
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. \nAlan Hayden (University College\, Dublin) lectures on “Irish Archaeology Now” as part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-alan-hayden/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T173000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Tara Guissin-Stubbs
DESCRIPTION:Scholar Tara Guissin-Stubbs\, Associate Professor in English Literature and Director of Studies in English Literature and Creative Writing at Oxford University\, lectures on “Symbols from Within\, and Symbols from Without: The Celtic Revival and the Harlem Renaissance” as part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nThis talk considers James Weldon Johnson’s assertion in his Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) that the black poet needs to find ‘symbols from within rather than symbols from without’ in order to find a suitable form; in so doing\, Johnson contends\, the poet will be doing ‘something like what Synge did for the Irish’. It will discuss overlaps between the Celtic Revival and the Harlem Renaissance\, to try to understand just what Johnson meant\, and what this means for us now. \nPhoto courtesy Tara Guissin-Stubbs\nGuissin-Stubbs is an associate professor in English literature\, and director of studies in English literature and creative writing at Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education\, and dean of Kellogg College\, Oxford. She is the author of a range of publications on Irish and American literature\, poetry\, and transatlantic culture\, including American Literature and Irish Culture\, 1910–1955: The Politics of Enchantment (2012); Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture with Doug Haynes (2017); and her most recent monograph\, The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion (2020). She is also the book reviews editor for the open access journal International Yeats Studies and a senior fellow of the Rothermere American Institute\, Oxford. Her next book project will build on her public engagement work on poetry and structure\, which discovers analogies for poetry within nature and visual art to find new ways of thinking about poetry\, and to break down some of its mystique. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Join the lecture via Zoom Webinar; registration required. \nREGISTER FOR THE LECTURE \nThis event is recorded for archival purposes only and will not be available for viewing after the event. \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe event will include live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and view captions or 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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-tara-guissin-stubbs/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201204T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201204T173000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201120T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201120T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091432
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Patrick Radden Keefe
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author and staff writer at The New Yorker Patrick Radden Keefe delivers a lecture on “Say Nothing: A true Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” as part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nKeefe’s talk focuses on his international bestseller\, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland\, his true crime narrative on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath. He uses the abduction and murder case of Jean McConville\, a 38-year-old mother of ten who was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders\, as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by violent guerrilla warfare\, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. \nKeefe’s work at The New Yorker has received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and twice been nominated for the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Say Nothing received the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade. Keefe is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change. His new book about the Sackler family and the opioid crisis will be published next year. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Join the symposium via Zoom Webinar; registration required. \nREGISTER ON ZOOM \nACCESSIBILITY\nIf you are in need of 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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-patrick-radden-keefe/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Symposium on "The 175th Anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s Tour of Ireland"
DESCRIPTION:On November 13\, Professor of History Christine Kinealy (Quinnipiac University)\, author Colum McCann (author of TransAtlantic)\, and Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies Autumn Womack (Princeton University) lead a symposium on “The 175th Anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s Tour of Ireland\,” moderated by Paul Muldoon\, Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University. Part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nThe symposium explores the four months Douglass spent in Ireland in 1845\, an experience he described as “transformative.” Douglass was an American social reformer\, abolitionist\, orator\, writer\, statesman\, and former enslaved person. Of his time in Ireland\, Douglass reported that for the first time in his life he felt like a man\, and not a chattel. He became a spokesperson for the abolition movement during his Irish tour\, but by the time he left the country in early January 1846\, he believed that the cause of the enslaved was the cause of the oppressed everywhere. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Join the symposium via Zoom Webinar; registration required. \nREGISTER ON ZOOM \nACCESSIBILITY\nIf you are in need of 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\nABOUT THE GUEST SCHOLARS\nChristine Kinealy is Professor of History and Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University. At Trinity College Dublin\, she completed her doctorate on the introduction of the Poor Law to Ireland. She then worked in educational and research institutes in Dublin\, Belfast and Liverpool. \nShe has published extensively on the impact of the Great Irish Famine and has lectured on the relationship between poverty and famine in India\, Spain\, Canada\, France\, Finland and New Zealand. She also has spoken to invited audiences in the British Parliament and in the U.S. Congress. \nBased in the United States since 2007\, she was named one of the most influential Irish Americans in 2011 by “Irish America” Magazine. In 2013\, she received the Holyoke\, Mass. St. Patrick’s Day Parade’s Ambassador Award. In March 2014\, she was inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame. \n  \nColum McCann is the award-winning author of three collections of short stories and seven novels\, including his most recent work\, Apeirogon (2020). His bestselling novel\, Let the Great World Spin (2009)\, won worldwide acclaim including the 2009 National Book Award in the U.S\, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China\, the International Impac Award 2011\, a literary award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and several other major international literary prizes. His novel TransAtlantic was also an international sensation and became an immediate New York Times best-seller on its release in 2013. It\, too\, garnered several international awards including the Mondello Citta de Palermo Prize in Italy. \nBorn and raised in Dublin\, Ireland\, he is the recipient of international honors including a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French government\, election to the Irish arts academy\, several European awards\, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China\, and an Oscar nomination. In 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts. His work has been published in over 40 languages. He is the co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organisation\, Narrative 4\, and he teaches at the MFA program in Hunter College. He lives in New York with his wife\, Allison\, and their family. \n  \nAutumn Womack is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. She earned a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and an MA from The University of Maryland\, College Park. Womack’s research is located at the intersection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literary culture\, visual studies\, and print culture. She is currently at work on two book projects. The first\, Un-discipling Data: Race\, Visuality\, and the Making of African American Literary Aesthetics\, 1880-1930 charts the relationship between emergent visual technologies – such as photography\, motion pictures\, and social surveys — and black literary and intellectual culture. The Reprint Revolution\, her second book project\, considers the circulation politics and practices that brought many nineteenth-century African American literary texts into the marketplace in the 1960s. At Princeton she teaches classes on 19th and 20th century African American literature and the history of race and media. In keeping with her investment in archival research\, her course “Toni Morrison and the Ethics of Reading” makes extensive use of the University’s collections. Womack has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, including a postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University’s Department of English and a faculty fellowship at Penn State’s Center for the History of Information. \nProfessor Womack’s work has been published in Black Camera: An International Film Journal\, American Literary History\, Women and Performance\, J19: A Journal of 19th Century Americanists\, andThe Paris Review of Books. An essay on the cultural history of Arno Press and the utility of the black past is forthcoming in American Literary History\, while new essays on Frederick Douglass\, W.E.B. DuBois\, and the pre-history of data visualization will appear in edited volumes. She serves on the editorial board of The Langston Hughes Review and Aster(ix) Journal. \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/symposium-on-the-175th-anniversary-of-frederick-douglasss-tour-of-ireland/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Symposium,Virtual Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:"Sweet Dancers: An Illustrated Talk on Irish Dance" by Deirdre Mulrooney
DESCRIPTION:Photo of Deirdre Mulrooney by Ishmael Claxton\nDeirdre Mulrooney\, dance historian\, documentary filmmaker\, author of Irish Moves\, an illustrated history of dance and physical theatre in Ireland\, and host of Dance Ireland’s 30th Anniversary podcasts presents a virtual illustrated talk on Irish Dance. Followed by an audience Q&A. \nas a part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public; no registration required. \nJoin the lecture on Zoom\nMeeting ID: 971 9158 0361 \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nDeirdre is author of Irish Moves\, an illustrated history of dance and physical theatre in Ireland (2006)\, and Orientalism\, Orientation\, and The Nomadic Work of Pina Bausch (2002). Deirdre has contributed to anthologies\, and to several books on theatre and dance. A dance historian\, as well as her feature radio documentary and short dance film reclaiming Lucia Joyce’s modern dance career\, Deirdre has a forthcoming long scholarly essay on the subject. She hosted Dance Ireland’s 30th Anniversary podcasts. She is a sporadic contributor to RTE Sunday Miscellany\, and has penned multifarious Arts journalism and writing over many years. Deirdre produces and directs her own creative film documentaries including ‘Dance Emergency’ (TG4)\, ‘1943 – A Dance Odyssey’ (RTE)\, the short dance film ‘Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity’\, ‘TRUE NORTH’\, and many more BAI-funded\, commissioned\, and Indie projects with her own production company\, Out There Productions. In addition to her original academic work\, teaching\, broadcasting\, and original feature radio documentaries\, Deirdre occasionally curates exhibitions. Deirdre curated Mother Tongue at Kilkee’s Cultúrlann Sweeney\, which is scheduled to travel to UCD Festival\, where she is a UCD Creative Fellow. \nABOUT THE FUND FOR IRISH STUDIES\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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/sweet-dancers-illustrated-talk-on-irish-dance-deirdre-mulrooney/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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