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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
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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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SUMMARY:Lecture by Fintan O'Toole on "Open Secrets: Ulysses at 100"
DESCRIPTION:Photo courtesy Fintan O’Toole\nFintan O’Toole\, Princeton University’s Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters\, delivers the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on “Open Secrets: Ulysses at 100″ as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nJames Joyce’s revolutionary novel Ulysses was published 100 years ago in February 1922. In its initial review of the book\, The New York Times declared Ulysses “the most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the twentieth century.” Through a stream of consciousness writing style\, Joyce follows Stephen Dedalus\, a 22-year-old aspiring poet and teacher\, and Leopold Bloom\, a 38-year-old Jewish advertising agent\, as they go about nineteen hours of daily life in Dublin\, Ireland. Both men grapple with themes of religion\, philosophy\, remorse\, and mortality. In his lecture\, O’Toole asks why the book still matters today. It is\, he suggests\, one of the best explorations we have of the way the local is also universal; of the fluidity of identity; of the fusion of body and mind; and of the possibility of living beyond tragedy. \nFintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is a columnist for The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg ’53 visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. He also contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\, and Thomas Murphy. His books on politics include the best sellers Ship of Fools and Enough is Enough. In 2011\, The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, and Journalist of the Year in 2010\, the Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize. O’Toole’s History of Ireland in 100 Objects\, which covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years\, is currently the basis for Ireland’s postage stamps. His most recent book is Judging Shaw: The Radicalism of GBS\, published by the Royal Irish Academy\, and he has recently been appointed official biographer of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney.   \nTickets & Details\nThe virtual lecture\, presented via Zoom Webinar\, is free and open to the public; registration required. Register for the lecture on Zoom Webinar \nA recording will not be available to share with the public following the event. \nAccessibility\nThe event will include live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and connect to the captioned event through StreamText. Attendees in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/robert-fagles-memorial-lecture-by-fintan-otoole-2022/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Poet James Longenbach on W.B. Yeats
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Adam Fenster\nPrinceton University’s Fund for Irish Studies presents a lecture by James Longenbach on W.B. Yeats and his poem “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” on Friday\, January 28\, the 83rd anniversary of Yeats’ death\, at 4:30 p.m. via Zoom Webinar. Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and Co-chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Paul Muldoon will provide a welcome and introduction. The event is part of the 2021-2022 lecture series\, which will continue virtually for the next few events. \nLongenbach will give an account of William Butler Yeats’ (1865-1939) poem\, discussing how it assumed its shape\, and\, more importantly\, the influence of that shape on subsequent long poems written throughout the 20th century. Yeats won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” was part of his first collection of poems published after the Nobel Prize: The Tower (1928). The Tower contains other long poems that contemplate the state of politics in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence\, the mortality of man\, and the temporariness of the world\, such as “Sailing to Byzantium\,” “Meditations in Time of Civil War\,” and “The Tower.” Like many of the poems in the collection\, “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” is divided into six parts of unequal length with differing meters and rhyme schemes in each part. Titled after and written about the first year of the Irish War of Independence\, the poem grasps at the idealism and nostalgia for “law”\, “habits”\, and “public opinion” destroyed by war and violence. \nLongenbach\, a poet and literary critic who received his Ph.D. from Princeton University\, is the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester\, where he teaches courses on modern and contemporary American poetry\, British and American modernism\, James Joyce\, Shakespeare\, and creative writing. His most recent poetry collections include Forever (W.W. Norton\, 2021) and The Lyric Now (University of Chicago\, 2020). Longenbach has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Mellon Fellow. \nTickets & Details\nPlease note that this first event of the spring series will remain virtual via Zoom webinar.  \nThe virtual lecture is free and open to the public; registration required. Register for the Zoom webinar \nA recording will not be available to share with the public following the event. \nAccessibility\nThe event includes live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and connect to the captioned event through StreamText. Attendees in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-poet-james-longenbach/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Cian T. McMahon
DESCRIPTION:Cian T. McMahon\, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Honors College at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, lectures on “The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Famine” with introduction by Paul Muldoon\, Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and Co-chair of the Fund for Irish Studies\, as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nMcMahon will discuss his new book\, The Coffin Ship (NYU Press\, 2021)\, which analyzes letters and diaries of Irish immigrants who fled Ireland during the Great Famine. The Great Irish Famine occurred from 1845 to 1855 as a result of a potato blight that destroyed the Lumper potato crop\, robbing more than one-third of the Irish population of its most substantial means of sustenance. According to RTE News\, the national news and public broadcaster in Ireland\, over a million people died due to the extensive food shortage and subsequent epidemics\, and a further 1.25 million people fled Ireland\, with over 900\,000 Irish immigrants arriving in New York City alone. For McMahon\, the standard story of Ireland’s Great Famine exodus is one of tired clichés\, half-truths\, and dry statistics. The Coffin Ship focuses on the journey across the Atlantic\, an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience. His transnational history examines the dynamic social networks and connections to the worldwide Irish diaspora that the emigrants built while voyaging overseas. In his book\, McMahon makes an argument for placing the sailing ship alongside the tenement and the factory floor as a central\, dynamic element of Irish migration history. \nCian T. McMahon is an associate professor in the Department of History and Honors College at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, where he teaches courses focusing on society and culture in modern Ireland\, immigration and identity in American history\, and great migrations in human history. His first book\, The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race\, Nation\, and the Popular Press\, 1840-1880 (University of North Carolina Press\, 2015)\, won honorable mention for the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book from the American Conference of Irish Studies. He is a member of the American Conference for Irish Studies\, the Immigration & Ethnic History Society\, and the American Historical Association. \nJoin the Event\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Register for the lecture and join via Zoom Webinar. \nNOTE: A recording will not be available to share with the public following the event. \nAccessibility\nThe event includes live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and connect directly to the captioned event through StreamText. Reference these instructions for using StreamText (PDF). \nIf you are in need of other access accommodations in order to participate in this event\, please contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-cian-t-mcmahon/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Brendan O'Leary
DESCRIPTION:Brendan O’Leary\, Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania\, presents “Irish Reunification: Prospects & Feasible Models\,” a lecture drawn from his book-in-progress on questions and issues surrounding the idea of a unification of the island of Ireland. Introduced by Fintan O’Toole. \nBrendan O’Leary is a US\, Irish and European Union citizen. Since 2003\, he has served as the Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania—previously he had been Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics & Political Science. He is the author\, co-author and co-editor of 28 books\, and the author or co-author of over 650 articles\, chapters\, encyclopedia articles\, miscellaneous publications\, and op-eds. A Treatise on Northern Ireland (three volumes) was published in 2019. It won the 2020 James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize of the American Conference of Irish Studies for the best book in History and Social Science\, and the paperback versions were issued the same year. A Member of the US Council on Foreign Relations and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy\, O’Leary was the inaugural winner of the Juan Linz Prize of the International Political Science Association for the study of multinational societies\, federalism\, and democratization. He is also a founding member of ARINS (Analyzing and Researching Ireland\, North and South)\, sponsored by the Royal Irish Academy and the University of Notre Dame. O’Leary has been a political and constitutional advisor\, especially on power-sharing\, to the United Nations\, the European Union\, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq\, and during the Irish peace process to the Governments of the UK and Ireland\, and the British Labour Party. His degrees are from the University of Oxford (1981\, PPE\, BA (hons) first class)\, and the London School of Economics & Political Science (PhD\, Robert McKenzie Memorial Prize). He grew up in Nigeria\, Sudan\, and Northern Ireland. \nJoin the Event\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Register for the lecture and join via Zoom Webinar. \nNOTE: A recording will not be available to share with the public following the event. \nAccessibility\nThe event includes live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and connect directly to the captioned event through StreamText. Reference these instructions for using StreamText (PDF). \nIf you are in need of other access accommodations in order to participate in this event\, please contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-brendan-oleary/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Nicholas Allen
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Allen\, director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia\, discusses poet Seamus Heaney’s later works\, one of several Irish writers covered in his latest book\, Ireland\, Literature and the Coast: Seatangled. Introduced by Lecturer in Theater Fintan O’Toole as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nPhoto courtesy Nicholas Allen\nNicholas Allen is the director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts\, where he holds an endowed Professorship in the Humanities. His latest book\, Ireland\, Literature\, and the Coast: Seatangled\, was published in December 2020 by Oxford University Press. He has been the Burns Visiting Scholar at Boston College and has received many grants and awards\, including from the Mellon Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Irish Research Council. \n  \nJoin the Event\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Register for the lecture and join via Zoom Webinar. \nNOTE: A recording will not be available to share with the public following the event. \nAccessibility\nThe event includes live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and connect directly to the captioned event through StreamText. Reference these instructions for using StreamText (PDF). \nIf you are in need of other access accommodations in order to participate in this event\, please contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-nicholas-allen/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:"History of Ireland in 100 (and More) Words" with Máire ní Mhaonaigh and Sharon Arbuthnot
DESCRIPTION:Authors Máire ní Mhaonaigh and Sharon Arbuthnot present on “A History of Ireland in 100 (and More) Words\,” with an introduction by Professor Paul Muldoon\, as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. \nPhoto courtesy Maire Ni Mhaonaigh\nMáire Ní Mhaonaigh is Professor of Celtic and Medieval Studies at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and a Fellow of St John’s College. She works at the interface of history and literature\, her research focusing on medieval constructions of the past. She has published widely on medieval Irish literature and history and on Ireland’s place in the wider world. She has contributed chapters to the Cambridge History of Irish Literature and to the recent multi-volume Cambridge History of Ireland. Among other recent publications are a co-authored volume\, Norse-Gaelic Contacts in a Viking World (with Colmán Etchingham\, Jón Vidar Sigurðsson and Elizabeth Ashman Rowe\, 2019)\, exploring the cultural and political connections between Norse and Gaelic speakers in the high Middle Ages; and A History of Ireland in 100 Words (co-written with Sharon Arbuthnot and Greg Toner\, 2019) illuminating aspects of Ireland’s past through the development of words. She co-led a project on the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language which resulted in a revised and augmented version of that resource\, eDIL 2019; and she is currently directing research on the landscape history of medieval Ireland\, ‘Mapping the Medieval Mind: Ireland’s Literary Landscapes in a Global Space’\, illuminating medieval dinnshenchas\, a literature of place (a Leverhulme Trust project 2020-2025). She chairs the board of the School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies\, and serves on many other bodies\, including the editorial board of Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures and the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (Hamburg). \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Register and join the lecture via Zoom Webinar. \nREGISTER FOR THE LECTURE \nNOTE: A recording will not be available to share with the public following the event. \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe event includes live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and connect directly to the captioned event through StreamText. Reference these instructions for using StreamText (PDF). \nIf you are in need of other access accommodations in order to participate in this event\, please contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of the event date. \n  \n\nThe Fund for Irish Studies affords all Princeton students\, and the community at large\, a wider and deeper sense of the languages\, literatures\, drama\, visual arts\, history\, politics\, and economics not only of Ireland but of “Ireland in the world.” The series is produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts and the 2021-22 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon and Fintan O’Toole. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies is generously sponsored by the Durkin Family Trust and the James J. Kerrigan\, Jr. ’45 and Margaret M. Kerrigan Fund for Irish Studies.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/history-of-ireland-in-100-and-more-words-with-maire-ni-mhaonaigh-and-sharon-arbuthnot/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Reading,Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Roddy Doyle and Fintan O’Toole
DESCRIPTION:Irish novelist\, dramatist\, and screenwriter Roddy Doyle joins in conversation with scholar and critic Fintan O’Toole. Professor Paul Muldoon opens the virtual event with an introduction. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Register and join the lecture via Zoom Webinar. \nREGISTER FOR THE LECTURE \nNOTE: A recording will not be available to share with the public following the event. \n  \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe event includes live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and connect directly to the captioned event through StreamText. Reference these instructions for using StreamText (PDF). \nIf you are in need of other access accommodations in order to participate in this event\, please contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of the event date. \n  \n\nThe Fund for Irish Studies affords all Princeton students\, and the community at large\, a wider and deeper sense of the languages\, literatures\, drama\, visual arts\, history\, politics\, and economics not only of Ireland but of “Ireland in the world.” The series is produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts and the 2021-22 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon and Fintan O’Toole. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies is generously sponsored by the Durkin Family Trust and the James J. Kerrigan\, Jr. ’45 and Margaret M. Kerrigan Fund for Irish Studies.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/conversation-with-roddy-doyle-and-fintan-otoole/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:CANCELED — Lecture by Alan Hayden
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. \nAlan Hayden (University College\, Dublin) lectures on “Irish Archaeology Now” as part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-alan-hayden/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Tara Guissin-Stubbs
DESCRIPTION:Scholar Tara Guissin-Stubbs\, Associate Professor in English Literature and Director of Studies in English Literature and Creative Writing at Oxford University\, lectures on “Symbols from Within\, and Symbols from Without: The Celtic Revival and the Harlem Renaissance” as part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nThis talk considers James Weldon Johnson’s assertion in his Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) that the black poet needs to find ‘symbols from within rather than symbols from without’ in order to find a suitable form; in so doing\, Johnson contends\, the poet will be doing ‘something like what Synge did for the Irish’. It will discuss overlaps between the Celtic Revival and the Harlem Renaissance\, to try to understand just what Johnson meant\, and what this means for us now. \nPhoto courtesy Tara Guissin-Stubbs\nGuissin-Stubbs is an associate professor in English literature\, and director of studies in English literature and creative writing at Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education\, and dean of Kellogg College\, Oxford. She is the author of a range of publications on Irish and American literature\, poetry\, and transatlantic culture\, including American Literature and Irish Culture\, 1910–1955: The Politics of Enchantment (2012); Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture with Doug Haynes (2017); and her most recent monograph\, The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion (2020). She is also the book reviews editor for the open access journal International Yeats Studies and a senior fellow of the Rothermere American Institute\, Oxford. Her next book project will build on her public engagement work on poetry and structure\, which discovers analogies for poetry within nature and visual art to find new ways of thinking about poetry\, and to break down some of its mystique. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Join the lecture via Zoom Webinar; registration required. \nREGISTER FOR THE LECTURE \nThis event is recorded for archival purposes only and will not be available for viewing after the event. \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe event will include live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Webinar and view captions or connect directly to the captioned event through StreamText. Reference these instructions for using StreamText (PDF). \nIf you are in need of other access accommodations in order to participate in this event\, please contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-tara-guissin-stubbs/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Screening of Filmed Version of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
DESCRIPTION:“The situation is one of the strangest in the whole history of theatre.”\n—Katherine Worth\, scholar \n Something has occurred. And now Winnie can’t leave—can’t see anyone—can’t move—is perpetually stuck. There is little to do but brush her teeth and maintain hope. \n \nWatch the trailer for HAPPY DAYS by Samuel Beckett from wildprojectTV. \n Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days (One of the most unforgettable plays in the modern canon” — The New York Times) is the ultimate emblem of perseverance. In the iconic playwright’s lifelong pursuit to illuminate consciousness on stage\, Beckett devised Winnie: a tour de force of charm and grit\, helplessly buried up to her waist in the ground. She endures the wearisome humdrum of endless\, interchangeable days. And now\, speaking to an audience who has faced a year of quarantine\, the play endures too. \nTo commemorate the play’s 60th anniversary\, New York’s the wild project and director Nico Krell are revitalizing this mammoth\, mysterious work. In an exception allowed only during the global pandemic\, the performance will be recorded and broadcast online\, delicately translated to the screen by a team of artists working on the cutting edge of digital theatre. \nKrell is a Princeton alumnus\, Class of 2018\, and the production features alumni Tessa Albertson\, Class of 2020\, as Winnie\, and Jake Austin Robertson\, Class of 2015\, as her husband Willie. Alumni Jules Peiperl is costume designer and Stanley Mathabane is sound designer\, both members of the Class of 2017. \nPresented by The Wild Project in the East Village\, New York City\, in association with Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The Wild Project\, a nonprofit theater company and venue\, was founded in 2007 to support the diverse independent theater\, film\, music\, visual arts and spoken-word artists of New York City. The organization has presented and produced theater that seeks to enrich\, educate\, and unify its East Village community in an environmentally responsible green space\, devoting specific initiatives to supporting LGBTQ+ artists and projects and those of people of color.  \nBeckett (1906 –1989) was an Irish novelist\, playwright\, short story writer\, theater director\, poet\, and literary translator. His idiosyncratic work offers a bleak\, tragi-comic outlook on existence and experience\, often coupled with dark comedy. Beckett is considered one of the last modernist writers and one of the key figures of the “theater of the absurd.” He is perhaps best-known for his 1953 play\, Waiting for Godot. In 1969 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. The film will be preceded by an introduction with director Krell and Princeton Professor and Fund for Irish Studies Chair Paul Muldoon. The event will take place on Zoom Webinar; advance registration required. \nREGISTER FOR THE EVENT \nThis event is recorded for archival purposes only and will not be available for viewing after the event. \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe film will be closed captioned and the introduction will be live captioned in English. If you are in need of other other access accommodations in order to participate in this event\, please contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of the event date. \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/screening-of-filmed-version-of-happy-days-by-samuel-beckett/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Film screening,Performance
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