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Lecture & Reading by Louise Kennedy

James Stewart Film Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

Award-winning writer Louise Kennedy presents “Trespasses: Fact, Fiction and Memory,” a lecture based on her bestselling novel Trespasses, which won the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year, the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, and the McKitterick Prize. Kennedy will read from the book and examine her use of news reports, family lore and her own childhood memories in creating a fictional account of ordinary lives blighted by sectarian and class conflict.

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Reading by Caoilinn Hughes

James Stewart Film Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

Award-winning writer Caoilinn Hughes (The Wild Laughter) reads from her work, including an excerpt from her forthcoming novel, The Alternatives. No tickets required.

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Lecture by Fintan O’Toole: “Dracula and Home Rule: History, Horror and A Dream of Reconciliation”

James Stewart Film Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

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. … Continue reading "Lecture by Fintan O’Toole: “Dracula and Home Rule: History, Horror and A Dream of Reconciliation”"

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Lecture by Robert Spoo on “James Joyce’s Ulysses in New York”

James Stewart Film Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

Robert Spoo, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and co-chair of the Fund for Irish Studies, lectures on “James Joyce’s Ulysses in New York: A Counterfactual View from Fifth Avenue."

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“A History of Ireland in 10 Poems” by Paul Muldoon

James Stewart Film Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

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. Free with no tickets required.

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A Conversation with the Abbey Theatre: Caitríona McLaughlin and Jen Coppinger

James Stewart Film Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

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.

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Conversation with Ruth McGowan & Derbhle Crotty from the Abbey Theatre

James Stewart Film Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

In the second conversation under 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 discussion on running a national theater with the Abbey’s Literary and New Work Director Ruth McGowan and Associate Artist Derbhle Crotty.

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Reading by Colm Tóibín

James Stewart Film Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

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 … Continue reading "Reading by Colm Tóibín"

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Reading by Niall Williams

Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

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. Free; no tickets required.

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Lecture on “Unmasking Conspiracy: Philip Graves and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion” by Fintan O’Toole

James Stewart Film Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

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 … Continue reading "Lecture on “Unmasking Conspiracy: Philip Graves and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion” by Fintan O’Toole"

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