Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy will present a lecture entitled, “Grá Agus Bás: Love and Death” on Friday, December 7 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
Author John Kelly will present a lecture entitled, “How the Irish Famine Invented the Modern World” on Friday, February 15 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
In the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture, O'Toole suggests that the true legacy of Irish Catholic thought lies in three profound ideas, each of which was declared a heresy by the official Church.
Len Graham and Brian Ó hAirt, two award-winning proponents of Irish traditional arts, will give a performance of “In Two Minds: Songs, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition,” on Friday, April 12, at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
Bestselling scholar of Irish history R.F. Foster will present a lecture on “Making a Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1916,” on Friday, April 19 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Foster’s lecture will cap a year-long series of events presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
A Gathering to honor the generosity of Leonard L. Milberg ’53.
Professor and historian of British and Irish literature Marilynn Richtarik will present a lecture entitled, “Stewart Parker: The Playwright in his Place,” on Friday, September 20 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
Martin’s lecture is drawn from her current book project: a study of the internationalism central to Irish nationalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the lecture, she will explore Irish writings on the Sepoy rebellion in India and the Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica. By comparing events in these locations to the history of colonialism in Ireland, nationalist writers develop a theory of empire and specifically of imperial violence.
Author Kevin Barry will read from his new short story collection, Dark Lies the Island, on Friday, October 11 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The reading is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
Jazz singer and composer Christine Tobin will give a performance of “Sailing to Byzantium,” her award-winning musical settings of poems by W.B. Yeats, on Friday, October 18, at 4:30 p.m. in the Frist Theatre at the Frist Campus Center. The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
