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SUMMARY:John Banville Lectures on “Fiction and the Dream”
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Irish novelist John Banville delivers the keynote address\, “Fiction and the Dream\,” of the (De)Destabilizing Nabokov international conference on writer Vladimir Nabokov being held at Princeton University\, organized by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Banville’s address will be presented via Zoom. Free registration for the conference is required to receive the Zoom link. \nThe address is cosponsored by and a part of the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series\, 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. \nPresented by Princeton University’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. \nAdmission & Details\nThe event and conference are free and open to the public. Registration required. \nRegister for the (De)Destabilizing Nabokov Conference
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/john-banville-lectures-on-fiction-and-the-dream/
LOCATION:McCosh 50
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Merlin Holland Lectures on “After Oscar: Wilde between the li(n)es”
DESCRIPTION:After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal by Merlin Holland\nBiographer and editor Merlin Holland\, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde\, gives a lecture entitled “After Oscar: Wilde between the li(n)es.” Holland is author of the recently published book After Oscar: the Legacy of a Scandal in which he shares more details regarding Wilde’s relationships\, reputation and family history. In his talk\, Holland will give an account of the extraordinary posthumous ‘life’ of Oscar Wilde\, exploring many of the myths\, exaggerations and inventions which have been created on his account for more than a century after his death. At the event\, books will be available to purchase and have signed. \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. \nAbout Merlin Holland\nPhoto courtesy Merlin Holland\nMerlin Holland\, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde\, is an author living in France. For the last forty years he has been researching his grandfather’s life and works and writes\, lectures and broadcasts regularly on the subject. His publications include Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess\, the first complete\, verbatim record of the libel trial which ultimately brought Oscar Wilde to ruin and social disgrace\, and The Wilde Album\, a pictorial biography of Oscar Wilde which has now been translated into seven European languages. He is also the co-editor of The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde as well as the editor of an abridged and commentated version of Oscar’s letters\, Oscar Wilde: a Life in Letters and author of Conversations with Oscar Wilde\, a series of imaginary conversations between Holland and his grandfather. He has just published an account of his grandfather’s ‘posthumous life’\, After Oscar: the Legacy of a Scandal showing how Oscar has caused even more trouble dead than alive. It traces the extraordinary fluctuations in his reputation\, the history of his surviving family and the quarrels between his friends and enemies for decades after his death. After Oscar’s conviction in 1895\, his wife\, Constance\, and their two sons were forced to move abroad and change their name to Holland. The family has never reverted to the name Wilde. \nTickets & Details\nThe event is free and open to the public. Free tickets are required through University Ticketing. There will be a wait line at the event to fill any empty seats. \nGet 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/merlind-holland-lectures-on-after-oscar-wilde-between-the-lines/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:2026 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture: “For and Against a United Ireland”
DESCRIPTION:Co-authors Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride debate the points in their recent book\, For and Against a United Ireland\, as the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture. Part of the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series. The 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. \nAbout the Guests\nPhoto credit: Nick Bradshaw / The Irish Times\nFintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is a columnist for The Irish Times and advising editor of The New York Review of Books. He also writes for The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. From 2012 to 2024\, he was Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare\, George Bernard Shaw\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. His books on politics include the bestsellers We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland (which was named by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2022); Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain; and Ship of Fools. He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, the Orwell Prize\, the European Press Prize and the Robert Silvers Prize for Journalism. He has recently been appointed official biographer of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. In 2023\, O’Toole was named an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2024 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. \n  \nPhoto credit: Conor Mulhern\nSam McBride is an author and journalist specialising in Northern Irish politics. He is Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph and the Dublin-based Sunday Independent. He also writes on Northern Ireland for the Economist. He is a former political editor of the Belfast News Letter and has made a documentary film for the BBC on the Northern Bank robbery. \nSam’s first book\, Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite\, became a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. \nHis second book\, For and Against a United Ireland\, co-written with Fintan O’Toole\, was published in October 2025 by the Royal Irish Academy and was shortlisted in the An Post Irish Book of the Year Awards. \nSam is a regular broadcaster\, providing analysis for local\, national and international audiences on developments in Northern Ireland. He lives in Belfast with his wife and two young children. \nTickets & Details\nFree tickets required. Should the event sell out\, there will be a wait line at the event to fill any empty seats. \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/2026-robert-fagles-memorial-lecture-for-and-against-a-united-ireland/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Lecture
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Olwen Fouéré
DESCRIPTION:Olwen Fouéré\, an award-winning Irish actor\, writer and director of theater\, film\, music\, and visual arts\, and frequent collaborator with Ireland’s Abbey Theatre\, will perform two monologues and be in conversation with Jane Cox\, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater and Music Theater. Fouéré will discuss her career as an actor onstage\, as well as in film and television\, and other aspects of her work. \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. \nFouéré will also join an informal lunch conversation on November 13 (open to University community). \nTickets & Details\nFree tickets required. Should the event sell out\, there will be a wait line at the event to fill any empty seats. \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. \n  \nAbout Olwen Fouéré\n\n \nOlwen Fouéré. Photo by Rich Gilligan. \n\nOlwen Fouéré is an actor\, writer and director in theatre\, film\, music and the visual Arts. Her most recent stage appearances include The Boy by Marina Carr at the Abbey Theatre and the highly acclaimed production of The President by Thomas Bernhard at the Gate Theatre in Dublin co-produced by Sydney Theatre Company\, iGirl (Abbey Theatre); Nous l’Europe\, Banquet des Peuples (Avignon Festival); Blood Wedding (Young Vic Theatre); Ballyturk (Abbey Theatre\, St Ann’s Warehouse). Other work of note includes riverrun — her adaptation of the voice of the river in Finnegans Wake — which premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival 2013 and toured internationally; Lessness (Barbican International Beckett Festival); and a legendary production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé directed by Steven Berkoff (Gate Theatre\, Dublin 1988-93). \nIn 1980 she formed Operating Theatre\, an avant-garde theatre company and band\, with composer Roger Doyle. They recently staged a reunion concert at the National Concert Hall as part of Musictown 2025 produced by Foggy Notions. \nHer film and television credits include The Watchers; All You Need is Death; The Actor; The Northman; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022); Violet Gibson The Woman Who Shot Mussolini; Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald; Sea Fever; Mandy; This Must Be The Place; The Survivalist; The Tourist S2; The Crown S5; Holding; Derry Girls S3. \nHer numerous awards include an Irish Times Special Tribute Award\, the Edinburgh Festival Archangel\, and an Honorary Doctorate from Dublin City University for her outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-olwen-fouere/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T163000
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SUMMARY:Aoife Kelleher screens Mrs. Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning filmmaker\, writer\, and lecturer Aoife Kelleher will screen her feature documentary Mrs. Robinson. Unfolding a story about female leadership\, human rights activism and climate action\, Mrs. Robinson tells the inspirational life story of change-maker Mary Robinson: Ireland’s first female President\, a pioneering U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights\, and the successor of Nelson Mandela as Chair of The Elders. The film was nominated for the George Morrison Feature Documentary Award at the 2025 Irish Film & Television Awards. A Q&A with the filmmaker will follow the screening. \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. Should the event sell out\, there will be a wait line at the event to fill any empty seats. \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. \n  \nAbout Aoife Kelleher\n\n \nPhoto credit: Rachel Lysaght \n\nAoife Kelleher is a distinguished filmmaker\, writer\, and lecturer from Dublin\, Ireland. \nHer debut film\, One Million Dubliners\, about Glasnevin Cemetery\, Ireland’s celebrated necropolis\, received numerous awards and screened internationally. \nShe has worked in current affairs programming for RTÉ\, Ireland’s national broadcaster\, and made documentaries for RTÉ\, Sky\, ARTE\, and the British Film Institute. \nHer feature documentary Mrs. Robinson\, about former Irish President and current Chair of The Elders\, Mary Robinson\, was nominated for the George Morrison Feature Documentary award at the 2025 Irish Film & Television Awards. Her most recent film\, Testimony\, about the Justice For Magdalenes campaign on behalf of the survivors of Ireland’s institutions\, premiered at the 2025 Dublin International Film Festival\, where it won the award for Best Human Rights Film. \nShe lectures in Film & Broadcasting and Journalism in the School of Media at Technological University Dublin.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/aoife-kelleher-screens-mrs-robinson/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film screening
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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 Anne Enright
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer Anne Enright reads from her latest novel\, The Wren\, The Wren\, to kick off the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series. Enright is the author of 8 novels\, 2 short story collections and a selection of essays\, forthcoming in April 2026. Books will be available for purchase at the event\, which is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books. \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. \nAbout Anne Enright\nPhoto credit: Ruth Connolly\nOne of Ireland’s leading writers\, Anne Enright lives in Dublin\, where she was born in 1962. The author of eight novels\, two books of short stories and many essays\, Enright was the first Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015-2018). Awards include the Man Booker Prize (2007)\, The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction (2011)\, The Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters (2025) and The Windham Campbell Prize (2025). A contributor to The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books and The London Review of Books\, her selected essays Attention will be published in April 2026 by W.W. Norton. She is currently Professor of Fiction at University College Dublin. \nTickets & Details\nTickets are 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-anne-enright/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Lecture on “Unmasking Conspiracy: Philip Graves and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion” by Fintan O’Toole
DESCRIPTION:Fintan O’Toole notes that we live in an age of conspiracy theory and fake news\, but emphasizes these are not new phenomena. He contends the most toxic forgery of all time is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion\, which falsely purports to be the record of secret meetings of Jewish leaders plotting to take over the world. It was used as the basis for the most violent antisemitic propaganda of the 20th century and continues to circulate today. \nIn 1921\, the Irish journalist Philip Graves was the first writer to expose The Protocols as a fake and to show how it was manufactured. Graves\, who came from a very distinguished literary family\, used the techniques of literary criticism to analyze the text of The Protocols and published his findings in the London Times. \nO’Toole points out that Graves is now largely forgotten\, but in this lecture\, in memory of the great scholar-poet Robert Fagles\, O’Toole tells the story of how Graves revealed the truth. He argues that what Graves managed to do is not merely of historical importance. It resonates very strongly with contemporary dilemmas and shows that critical skills are not marginal—they are vital to the survival of democracy and decency. \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 Fintan O’Toole\nPhoto credit: Nick Bradshaw / The Irish Times\nFintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is a columnist for The Irish Times and advising editor of The New York Review of Books. He also writes for The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. From 2012 to 2024\, he was the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare\, George Bernard Shaw\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. O’Toole’s books on politics include the bestsellers We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland\, which was named by The New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2022; Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain; and Ship of Fools. He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, the Orwell Prize\, the European Press Prize and the Robert Silvers Prize for Journalism. He has recently been appointed official biographer of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. In 2023\, O’Toole was named an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2024\, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. \nTickets & Details\nTickets for the lecture 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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-on-unmasking-conspiracy-philip-graves-and-the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion-by-fintan-otoole/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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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:Conversation with Ruth McGowan & Derbhle Crotty from the Abbey Theatre
DESCRIPTION:The Abbey Theatre’s Ruth McGowan\, literary and new work director\, and\, Derbhle Crotty\, actor and associate artist\, will be in conversation around writing and performing in Ireland\, moderated by Fund for Irish Studies Co-chair Jane Cox. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Cox and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nAbout the Guest Artists\nRuth McGowan. Photo credit: Hazel Coonagh\nRuth McGowan joined the Abbey Theatre in the new role of Literary & New Work Director in 2023\, working with playwrights and theater makers to generate future work for both stages of Ireland’s National Theatre. She works closely with artists\, designing and delivering bespoke dramaturgical and practical supports to a dynamic range of commissions and ideas in development. Working as a dramaturg\, programmer and producer since 2009\, McGowan has built creative partnerships and championed new work across performance disciplines. She has produced world premieres in festival fields\, above pubs\, and in historic theaters from Letterkenny to the Lower East Side. In addition\, McGowan was Artistic Director & CEO of Dublin Fringe Festival from 2018-2023. McGowan sits on Dublin City Council’s Arts & Culture Advisory Group. She holds a B.Ed with English from St Patrick’s College\, Drumcondra\, and an M.Phil in Theatre and Performance from Trinity College Dublin. \n  \nDerbhle Crotty. Photo courtesy the artist.\nIn a career spanning 33 years\, Derbhle Crotty has acted on most of the main stages of Ireland and the UK\, including those of the Abbey Theatre\, Royal Shakespeare Company\, National Theatre\, Druid\, Royal Court and Bristol Old Vic. She has played title roles in Hecuba\, Portia Coughlan\, Miss Julie\, and Henry IV\, and she has played Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard and Arkadina in The Seagull. Derbhle has twice won the Best Actress award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards and is a recipient of the Ian Charleson Award. An associate of the Abbey Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company\, she is also a member of the Druid Ensemble. \nTickets & Details\nThe conversation is free & open to the public; advance tickets required. Tickets also available at the door prior to the start of the event. \nGet tickets through University Ticketing \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/conversation-with-ruth-mcgowan-derbhle-crotty-from-the-abbey-theatre/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with the Abbey Theatre: Caitríona McLaughlin and Jen Coppinger
DESCRIPTION:In a new partnership with Ireland’s Abbey Theatre\, Fund for Irish Studies Co-chair and Director of the Program in Theater & Music Theater Jane Cox moderates a conversation on running a national theater with the Abbey’s Artistic Director Caitríona McLaughlin and Head of Producing Jen Coppinger. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Cox and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nAbout the Guest Artists\nCaitríona McLaughlin/ Photo credit: Richard Gilligan\nCaitríona McLaughlin is currently Artistic Director / Co-Director of the Abbey Theatre. Recent productions include Audrey or Sorrow by Marina Carr (in a co-production with Landmark Productions); The Weir by Conor McPherson; Translations by Brian Friel (an Abbey Theatre and Lyric Theatre\, Belfast co-production) and winner of “Best Play Revival” at the 2022 UK Theatre Awards; and iGirl by Marina Carr. \nMcLaughlin was previously Associate Director at the Abbey Theatre from 2017-2020\, where her productions included: The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh; Citysong by Dylan Coburn Gray; On Raftery’s Hill by Marina Carr; and Two Pints by Roddy Doyle. She also worked with theatre and opera companies on both sides of the border\, including Wexford Opera\, HotForTheatre\, Irish National Opera\, The Local Group\, and Landmark Productions. \nPrior to moving into directing\, McLaughlin worked as a drama facilitator in Northern Ireland with young people and in conflict resolution. In London\, she directed numerous productions\, focusing primarily on new writing\, and collaborated with the Royal Court in sourcing and developing a new theatre space. She was awarded a Clore Fellowship in 2007 and subsequently spent six summers with LAByrinth Theatre Company in New York developing new plays and directing a number of plays including Killers and other Family\, as well as plays at Atlantic Theatre\, Rattlestick\, and Bard Summerscape. \nJen Coppinger. Photo courtesy of Jen Coppinger\nJen Coppinger joined the Abbey Theatre as Head of Producing in January 2018. She produces the shows that are performed both at the Abbey Theatre\, on its Abbey and Peacock stages\, as well as touring shows out of the Abbey. She also fosters the relationships that lead to the co-production of work and is responsible for new theater work\, touring work and productions of existing plays. \nPreviously\, Coppinger worked as Producer for HotForTheatre\, TheEmergencyRoom and United Fall as well as with independent artists such as Kevin Barry\, Paul Curley\, Jody O’Neill\, Shane O’Reilly\, Raymond Scannell and Dylan Tighe. She has toured work extensively in Ireland and internationally including a production of riverrun at the Lewis Center for the Arts in 2014. \nCoppinger was Project Manager for the Laureate for Irish Fiction Anne Enright from 2015-2018 for the Arts Council of Ireland\, and she was Manager of Rough Magic Seeds. She was Chairperson of Youth Theatre Ireland and United Fall and has sat on the boards of Theatre Forum\, Dublin Fringe Festival\, and Recovery through Art\, Drama and Education (RADE). \nAdmission & Details\nThe lecture 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 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/a-conversation-with-the-abbey-theatre-caitriona-mclaughlin-and-jen-coppinger/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:“A History of Ireland in 10 Poems” by Paul Muldoon
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon\, Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Creative Writing\, offers a brief survey of Irish history from earliest times to the present day through the prism of his own poems. \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. \nAbout Paul Muldoon\nPhoto credit: Christine Harris\nPaul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast\, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He is the author of fifteen collections of poetry including Joy in Service on Rue Tagore\, published by FSG and Faber and Faber in 2024. Among his awards are the 1972 Eric Gregory Award\, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award\, the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize\, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize\, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize\, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry\, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award\, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize\, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry\, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize\, the 2017 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry\, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \nAdmission & Details\nThe lecture 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 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/a-history-of-ireland-in-10-poems-by-paul-muldoon/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Robert Spoo on “James Joyce’s Ulysses in New York"
DESCRIPTION:“James Joyce’s Ulysses in New York: A Counterfactual View from Fifth Avenue” \nJames Joyce’s Ulysses was famously first published as a book in 1922 in Paris\, France\, by the American bookseller Sylvia Beach (who had lived in Princeton as a young woman and is buried here). The centenary of this momentous literary event has recently been celebrated throughout the world. But what if Ulysses the book had first been published\, not in Paris\, but in New York\, New York? After all\, it came close to happening just that way. The history of Ulysses—and of New York’s role in modernist literature—would have been vastly different had Joyce’s masterpiece debuted from Fifth Avenue or West 40th Street rather than the rue de l’Odéon in Paris. \nThis talk by Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters\, will perform the thought experiment of substituting New York for Paris as the birthplace of the unexpurgated Ulysses. Along the way\, a lively cast of characters will take the stage: lavish patrons\, overworked lawyers\, timid and courageous publishers\, a shameless literary pirate\, censors and smuthounds\, and the famous Irish author himself. Spoo co-chairs the 2024-25 Fund for Irish Studies Series with Jane Cox\, Director of the Program in Theater & Music Theater in the Lewis Center. \nAbout Robert Spoo\nPhoto credit: Sarah Malone\nRobert Spoo is the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters at Princeton University. Previously\, he held an endowed chair in Law at the University of Tulsa\, where he was also Professor of English and edited the James Joyce Quarterly. He earned his Ph.D. in English at Princeton and his J.D. from Yale Law School. Spoo’s research and teaching merge interdisciplinary interests in literature\, law\, and theories of intellectual property and the public domain. His writing focuses on modern Irish figures\, notably James Joyce and Oscar Wilde\, and he is actively involved in the law-and-literature movement within modernist studies. Pairing his academic career with work as a practicing lawyer\, he has assisted scholars\, writers\, and creative artists with the challenges of copyright and fair use and served as co-counsel in a groundbreaking lawsuit to free scholars from unwarranted copyright threats by the Estate of James Joyce. His books include James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus’s Nightmare (Oxford University Press\, 1994); Without Copyrights: Piracy\, Publishing\, and the Public Domain (Oxford University Press\, 2013); Modernism and the Law (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2018); and (with Omar Pound) Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens: A Tragic Friendship\, 1910-1912 (Duke University Press\, 1988) and Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity\, 1945-1946 (Oxford University Press\, 1999). Spoo is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2016-2017; a Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Fellowship at Princeton for 2020-2021; and an Oklahoma Center for the Humanities Fellowship for 2022-2023. \nAdmission & Details\nThe lecture 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 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/lecture-by-robert-spoo-on-james-joyces-ulysses-in-new-york/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Fintan O'Toole: "Dracula and Home Rule: History\, Horror and A Dream of Reconciliation"
DESCRIPTION:Fintan O’Toole delivers the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture entitled\, “Dracula and Home Rule: History\, Horror and a Dream of Reconciliation.” Bram Stoker’s Dracula may not be the greatest of Irish novels but it is certainly the one that has had the most influence on global popular culture. The novel is set in Transylvania and in England. Ireland is not mentioned and none of the characters is Irish. But in this lecture O’Toole suggests that Stoker\, as a supporter of the contemporary cause of Home Rule for Ireland is\, among other things\, trying to create a myth in which the recurring divisions of Irish history\, the undead antagonisms between Protestant and Catholic\, are finally laid to rest. In the face of a greater evil\, Stoker’s characters must bring Catholic and Protestant\, peasant and aristocrat\, tradition and modernity\, together. The stake through Dracula’s heart is also an imaginary end of Irish history. \nO’Toole will be introduced by Jane Cox\, Director of the Program in Theater & Music Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts. \nAbout Fintan O’Toole\nPhoto by Ben Russell\nFintan O’Toole’s books on politics include the recent best sellers We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland and Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare\, George Bernard Shaw\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. He regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. In 2011\, The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, 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. He has recently been appointed official biographer of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. In 2023\, O’Toole was named an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture 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 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/lecture-by-fintan-otoole-dracula-and-home-rule-history-horror-and-a-dream-of-reconciliation/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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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:Lecture by Diarmaid Ferriter
DESCRIPTION:Diarmaid Ferriter\, Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin\, lectures on “Faith\, Reason and Betrayal: The Irish Civil War.” 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. \nOn the occasion of the centenary of the end of the Irish Civil War\, Ferriter’s lecture will assess the nature\, impact and legacy of the war\, with a particular emphasis on the light shed by recently released archival material on the lives that were fractured as a result of the conflict. The talk draws from his 2021 publication\, Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War\, which The Irish Times calls “Absorbing … A fascinating exploration of the Civil War and its impact on Ireland and Irish politics.” \nPhoto courtesy Diarmaid Ferriter\nFerriter is one of Ireland’s best-known historians. He is Full Professor and Chair of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin and author of numerous books\, including The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004)\, Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (2009)\, Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (2012)\, The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics (2019) and Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War (2021). He is a regular television and radio broadcaster and a weekly columnist with The Irish Times. In 2019 he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy. \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-by-diarmaid-ferriter/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Mary Burke: “Race\, Politics\, and Irish-America: A Gothic History”
DESCRIPTION:Photo courtesy Mary Burke\nProfessor of English at the University of Connecticut Mary Burke presents a talk that draws from her new book\, Race\, Politics\, and Irish-America: A Gothic History (Oxford University Press\, March 2023). Burke examines the cultural legacies of the forcibly transported Irish\, the Scots-Irish\, and post-Famine Catholic immigrants through the words and lives of Black and white writers and public figures in the Americas\, from Andrew Jackson to Grace Kelly and the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole. \nBurke’s first book with Oxford University Press was a cultural history of the indigenous Irish Traveller minority. Her collaboration with Tramp Press on a new edition of The Horse of Selene\, Traveller novelist Juanita Casey’s lost classic\, will launch in the U.S. in late April. Burke’s work has been featured or published with James Joyce Quarterly\, NPR\, the Irish Times\, RTÉ\, and Faber. She has served on Fulbright’s Screening Committee for Ireland and is a former NEH Irish Studies Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast\, she was awarded a fall 2022 Long Room Hub Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin for her book in progress\, Bohemian Ireland. \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \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-by-mary-burke-race-politics-and-irish-america-a-gothic-history/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Elizabeth Boyle: “Fierce Appetites: Lessons from My Year of Untamed Thinking”
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Boyle\, Lecturer in Early Irish at Maynooth University in Ireland\, presents a lecture based on her Irish Times bestseller Fierce Appetites. In this collection of personal essays\, which was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2022\, Boyle uses her historical learning to grapple with the raw and urgent questions she faces\, questions that have bedeviled people in every age. She writes on grief\, addiction\, family breakdown\, the complexities of motherhood\, love and sex\, memory\, class\, education\, travel (and staying put) with unflinching honesty\, deep compassion and occasional dark humor. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letter Fintan O’Toole. \nElizabeth Boyle. Photo by Bob Foyers\nBoyle is Lecturer in Early Irish at Maynooth University\, Ireland\, where she specializes in the intellectual\, cultural and religious history of pre-modern Ireland. Her academic publications include the 2021 monograph History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland\, in addition to numerous journal articles. She is the author of the Irish Times bestseller Fierce Appetites\, a collection of personal essays which was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2022. \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \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-by-elizabeth-boyle-fierce-appetites-lessons-from-my-year-of-untamed-thinking/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Fintan O'Toole — “Uneasy Peace: The Good Friday Agreement 25 Years On”
DESCRIPTION:Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letter Fintan O’Toole delivers the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture\, “Uneasy Peace: The Good Friday Agreement 25 Years On.” \nIn his lecture\, O’Toole examines Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement\, which was signed on April 10\, 1998. The Good Friday Agreement\, also known as the Belfast Agreement\, was a political deal designed to bring an end to 30 years of violent conflict in Northern Ireland\, known as the Troubles. The agreement established three “strands” of administrative relationships: the creation of the Northern Ireland Assembly\, an elected assembly responsible for local matters; an arrangement for cross-border cooperation between the governments of Ireland and Northern Ireland; and continued consultation between the British and Irish governments. Over the past 25 years\, the deal has touched on every aspect of life in Northern Ireland. \nO’Toole will explore the success of the deal\, not just in ending the conflict\, but in radically reimagining “the Irish question.” He will suggest that it contains the seeds of a much more open and pluralist sense of identity—one that has been undermined by Brexit and the difficulties it creates for Northern Ireland. He will consider whether the promise of a more fluid sense of belonging can be sustained in the coming years. \nO’Toole’s books on politics include the recent best sellers We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland and Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare\, George Bernard Shaw\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. He regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. In 2011\, The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, 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. He has recently been appointed official biographer of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. \nAbout Fintan O’Toole\nPhoto by Ben Russell\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\, George Bernard Shaw\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. His books on politics include the bestsellers We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland; Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain; 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. He has recently been appointed official biographer of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney.   \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. \nCOVID-19 Guidance + Updates\nPer Princeton University policy\, all visitors are expected to be either fully vaccinated\, have recently received and prepared to show proof of a negative COVID test (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen within 8 hours of the scheduled visit)\, or agree to 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/lecture-by-fintan-otoole-uneasy-peace-the-good-friday-agreement-25-years-on/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Screening of Documentary Lyra and Discussion with Director Alison Millar
DESCRIPTION:Critically acclaimed filmmaker Alison Millar screens her 2021 award-winning documentary film\, Lyra\, an emotive\, intimate portrait of the life and death of Belfast journalist Lyra Mckee\, who was murdered by the New IRA the day before Good Friday\, April 2019. The film seeks answers to her senseless killing through Lyra’s own work and words. Lyra runs approximately 90 minutes and will be followed by a 30-minute discussion with Millar moderated by Fintan O’Toole\, Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. \n\nPart of the spring 2023 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \n\n\nAbout the film Lyra\nLyra tells the story of McKee’s tragic death by a stray bullet during New IRA riots in Derry\, Northern Ireland. Attending a riot in the Creggan estate near where she lived\, McKee had been reporting events as they unfolded via Twitter\, even in the final moments before she was shot in the head. Her death caused outrage throughout Ireland and beyond\, and Millar recalls\, “The whole of Ireland came to a standstill when she was killed.” The powerful film\, which is narrated by McKee’s own voice\, conveys with heart-wrenching irony that the determined young journalist became a victim of the very violence she wrote about in the hopes of reaching a new generation with the truth of affairs in post-conflict Ireland. \nMillar\, a colleague and close friend of McKee\, was approached by the McKee family following her death to create a film that would share the story of the inspiring young journalist with the wider world. Using McKee’s own interview tape recordings along with audio rescued from voice notes\, mobile phone recordings\, and home videos\, Millar and her team pieced together a film that historically places McKee’s death while powerfully fleshing out the passion\, curiosity and ambition that characterized her life and work. \nSince its release\, the documentary has won numerous awards including the Audience Award at the 2022 Cork International Film Festival\, the Tim Hetherington Award at the 2022 Sheffield Doc Festival\, the Gryphon Award GEX Doc at Italy’s Giffoni Film Festival\, and Best Feature Documentary at Achill Island Film Festival. \n\nAbout Alison Millar\n\n \nPhoto by Jess Lowe \n\nMillar is a critically acclaimed filmmaker with a reputation for making emotionally compelling films. She began her producing and directing career at the National Film and Television School in the U.K. in the mid 1990s. Since then\, she has produced over 40 films for British and Irish television and has won a BAFTA\, IFTA\, Prix Italia and numerous other awards. In 2010 Millar founded Erica Starling Productions\, an independent documentary production company based in Belfast. In addition to Lyra\, her other award-winning documentary features or series include Lee Miller — A Life on the Frontline; Arena: The Changin’ Times of Ike White; The Disappeared; Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist; Searching for Shergar; Dispatches: Kids in Crisis; Love and Death in City Hall; the series Find Me a Family; and The World: The Shame of the Catholic Church. \nTickets & Details\nThe event is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. \nCOVID-19 Guidance + Updates\nPer Princeton University policy\, all visitors are expected to be either fully vaccinated\, have recently received and prepared to show proof of a negative COVID test (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen within 8 hours of the scheduled visit)\, or agree to 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/screening-of-documentary-lyra-and-discussion-with-director-alison-millar/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film screening
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Dr. Geraldine Parsons — "The Quiet Girls of Early Ireland: Women in Medieval Irish Literature"
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Geraldine Parsons\, Senior Lecturer in Celtic and Gaelic and Head of Subject at the University of Glasgow\, Scotland\, lectures on “The Quiet Girls of Early Ireland: Women in Medieval Irish Literature.” \nFinn Cycle\, or fiannaíocht\, literature was the most enduringly popular branch of Irish-language literature from the early Middle Ages until recent times. It prioritizes the exploration of male perspectives and experiences: its tales and poems present two different timelines united by the prominence of men. One is the hyper-masculine warrior culture of ancient Ireland; the other is populated by the male ecclesiastics\, warriors and kings of Christian Ireland’s medieval Golden Age. The afterlives of these texts too suggest an enduring appeal among audiences typically gendered male: the oldest surviving manuscript to contain only this corpus of work was commissioned in the 1620s\, by an Irish captain in the Spanish army\, and written by male scribes. An association between this literature and Irish military culture\, as well as the tradition of soldiery among Scottish Highlanders\, continues today. Parsons’ talk will seek to complicate the gender history of the Finn Cycle\, by recovering women’s roles in its production and in the narratives themselves. \nPhoto courtesy Geraldine Parsons\nDr. Geraldine Parsons is Senior Lecturer in Celtic and Gaelic and Head of Subject at the University of Glasgow\, Scotland. Her research focuses on medieval Irish literature\, with a particular interest in the material concerning the legendary hero Finn mac Cumaill (later Fionn Mac Cumhaill/McCool) that formed the most popular branch of Irish-language literature from about the twelfth century down to recent times. Her work is often concerned with the great text at the heart of this corpus\, Acallam na Senórach (‘The Colloquy of the Ancients’)\, composed c.1225; this is the subject of a monograph currently in progress. Other interests include the reception of medieval Irish literature in modern Ireland and eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic reflexes of the fíanaigecht tradition. Her recent publications include The Gaelic Finn Tradition II (editors S.J. Arbuthnot\, G. Parsons & S. Ní Mhurchú\, Four Courts\, 2022); the article “Ancient Ireland” in The Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats (editors L. Arrington and M. Campbell\, Oxford University Press\, 2023); and an article co-authored with M. Mac Craith\, “Reformation\, Conquest and Exile 1534–1611 | An Reifirméisean\, an Concas Eilíseach agus Deoraíocht thar lear 1534–1611” in Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern (editors B. Ó Conchubhair and S. Fisher\, Wake Forest University Press\, 2022). Parsons has held visiting fellowships and professorships at Balliol College\, the University of Connecticut\, and Oxford. She is the recipient of a 2022-23 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. \nIntroduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Fintan O’Toole. Part of the spring 2023 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nTickets & Details\nThe event is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 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/lecture-by-dr-geraldine-parsons/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:“Listen to the Land Speak” with Manchán Magan
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling writer and documentary-maker Manchán Magan presents a lecture entitled “Listen to the Land Speak: Lost Wisdom of the Land and Language of Ireland\,” based on his recently published book of the same title. Inspired by language\, landscape and mythology\, Magan explores the insight and hidden wisdom native Irish culture offers to the people of Ireland and the world. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Fintan O’Toole. \nPhoto courtesy Manchán Magan\nManchán Magan is a writer and documentary-maker. He has written two novels in addition to books on his travels in Africa\, India and South America. He writes occasionally for The Irish Times\, reports on travel for various radio programs in Ireland\, and has presented dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4\, RTÉ and the Travel Channel. His books Thirty-Two Words For Field (2020) and Tree Dogs\, Banshee Fingers and Other Words For Nature (2021) are acclaimed bestsellers. His latest book\, Listen to the Land Speak\, was published in October 2022 \nTickets & Details\nThe event is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 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/listen-to-the-land-speak-with-manchan-magan/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:“Low the sun; short its course”: Tracing the Celtic ritual cycle through music\, manuscript and performance
DESCRIPTION:This lecture-recital by Helen Phelan\, Professor of Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance\, University of Limerick\, Ireland\, explores the musical and ritualistic evidence for the emergence and continuity of the Celtic ritual cycle\, with a focus on the rituals of Imbolc and Samhain\, a precursor of Halloween. \nRitual traditions are frequently transmitted through a combination of sanctioned and sanctified “official’ sources\, as well as the songs\, stories and performances of living communities. The emergence of an agrarian ritual cycle in Ireland\, punctuated by four quarter days\, is strongly associated with the traditions and practices of the Iron Age Celts\, but its roots and shoots can be located in much earlier and later historical periods. \nThis presentation traces the evidence for this ritual cycle in both medieval manuscript sources as well as folkloric traditions. Focusing on music (particularly medieval Irish chant) and story (including the hagiographies or lives of the saints)\, it suggests a dynamic\, syncretic understanding of ritual\, moving fluidly between prehistoric\, pre-Christian and Celtic Christian practices. It concludes with a proposal concerning the influence of this ritual tradition on contemporary ritual creativity. \nAbout Helen Phelan\nPhoto courtesy Helen Phelan\nHelen Phelan is Professor of Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance\, University of Limerick\, Ireland. Her research focuses on the relationship between music\, ritual\, and migration. She is an Irish Research Council recipient for her work on singing and the rituals of new migrant communities in Ireland and is founder and co-chair of the Singing and Social Inclusion research group at University of Limerick. Her most recent research\, funded by the Health Research Institute\, brings together an interdisciplinary research team to explore singing\, health and well-being with culturally diverse communities. Her recent publications include the monograph Singing the Rite to Belong: Music\, Ritual and the New Irish (Oxford University Press) and The Artist and Academia (Routledge)\, co-edited with Graham Welch. \n  \nTickets & Details\nThe event is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 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/low-the-sun-short-its-course-tracing-the-celtic-ritual-cycle-through-music-manuscript-and-performance/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Recital
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Screening Ireland: A Life in Film with Lenny Abrahamson
DESCRIPTION:Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Fintan O’Toole interviews Academy Award-nominated and Irish Film and Television Award-winning director Lenny Abrahamson on his career in film. Abrahamson is director of the critically acclaimed 2015 film Room\, starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay\, nominated for four Academy Awards\, including Best Picture. He also directed Normal People\, a 12-episodes series for BBC\, Hulu and RTE\, adapted by and based on Sally Rooney’s Man Booker longlisted novel of the same name\, for which he earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. \nAbout the Artist\nLenny Abrahamson is the director of the critically-acclaimed film Room\, starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards\, including Best Picture. Some of Abrahamson’s other work includes: Garage\, Adam and Paul\, What Richard Did\, The Little Stranger and Frank. \nRecently\, Abrahamson directed Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends\, a 12-episode\, 30-minute series for BBC and Hulu starring Alison Oliver and Joe Alwyn. He also directed Normal People\, a 12-episodes series for BBC\, Hulu and RTE\, adapted by and based on Sally Rooney’s Man Booker long-listed novel of the same name that was released in 2020\, for which he was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. \nTickets & Details\nThe event is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 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. \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/screening-ireland-a-life-in-film-with-lenny-abrahamson/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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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
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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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
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Susan McKay on “From Triumphalism to Desperation — the Fall of Ulster Unionism”
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Derek Speirs\nJournalist Susan McKay discusses her new book\, Northern Protestants – On Shifting Ground (Blackstaff Press 2021)\, which is a collection of almost 100 interviews with politicians\, community workers\, religious leaders\, former paramilitary members\, young people\, business people\, and other citizens of Northern Ireland from County Antrim to the city of Londonderry\, McKay’s hometown. In this follow-up to her book Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People\, first published 21 years ago\, McKay shares that in 2021 unionists in Ireland attempted to celebrate the centenary of Northern Ireland and then in 2022 they collapsed its government. Political unionism is hardening into a nostalgia for the sectarian state that the Good Friday Agreement dismantled\, but McKay’s book explores the surprising diversity of thought among people from a Protestant background who are impatient with narrowness\, open to new ideas\, and welcoming of the potential for political change. Northern Protestants — On Shifting Ground was described by the Observer as “a fascinating and constantly thought-provoking book” and The Irish Times said it was “vital reading in all senses of the word.” \nMcKay’s journalism has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, London Review of Books\, the Guardian/Observer and The Irish Times. McKay is currently writer-in-residence with Sligo Libraries\, working on a project about the legacies of the partition of Ireland in the North West. She is also writing a book about borders for which she received an Arts Council of Northern Ireland major individual award. \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/lecture-by-susan-mckay-on-from-triumphalism-to-desperation-the-fall-of-ulster-unionism/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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