Eve Patten is Associate Professor and Head of the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin, where she lectures on modern British and Irish writing. Her previous publications include Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (2004), That Island Never Found (2007) and Literatures of War (2008), and her monograph Imperial Refugee: The Wartime Fiction of Olivia Manning was published in spring 2012 by Cork University Press. She is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin and Vice Chair of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Literature.

Irish scholar Pete Shirlow will present a lecture posing the question: “The End of Ulster Loyalism?” on Friday, October 5 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.

Fionna Barber is Principal Lecturer for Contextual Studies at the Manchester School of Art, England. Originally from Portadown, Co. Armagh, she also taught in the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Ulster in Belfast, before moving to Manchester in 1993.

(Princeton, NJ) Irish historian and biographer Judith Hill will present a lecture entitled, “Brickbats and Love: Lady Gregory’s Encounter with America on the Abbey Theatre Tour of 1911-12” on Friday, November 9 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.

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.