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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220128T163000
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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/
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211001T163000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T163000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T173000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T163000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210226T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210226T173000
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SUMMARY:Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture by Fintan O'Toole
DESCRIPTION:Photo courtesy Fintan O’Toole\nScholar and critic Fintan O’Toole delivers the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on “A Century of Partition” as part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. 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. \nIn 1921\, Ireland was divided by the formation of Northern Ireland as a new political entity in the Protestant-dominated northeastern part of the island. This led to the creation of two sectarian states\, each dominated by a single religious culture. The production by the revolutionary James Connolly that partition would create “a carnival of reaction” on both sides of the Border was not far wrong. The Troubles of 1968-1998 served merely to deepen the divide. But Brexit has raised new questions about the future of the UK and therefore of Partition. The contradictions that were frozen in 1921 have emerged anew in 2021. \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\, Enough is Enough and The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism. 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 is the official biographer of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. \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 includes live closed captions in English. If 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 2020-21 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon. \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. \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/robert-fagles-memorial-lecture-by-fintan-otoole/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Laurence Cox
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Wendy Cox\nAssociate professor of sociology at National University of Ireland Maynooth\, Dr. Laurence Cox lectures on “Irish Hobo\, Buddhist Monk\, Anti-colonial Celebrity: The Strange Story of U Dhammaloka/Laurence Carroll” as part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nLaurence Carroll / U Dhammaloka (1856-1914) was a Dublin-born emigrant\, US hobo and Pacific sailor who became a Buddhist monk in Burma and an anti-colonial celebrity active from Sri Lanka to Japan. In this lecture\, Cox\, co-author of  The Irish Buddhist: the Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire (Oxford 2020)\, looks at some of the most dramatic moments in Dhammaloka’s extraordinary life and explores how he brought his Irish and American experience to bear on religion\, race and the challenge to Empire in Asia. \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 \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe event includes live closed captions in English. Patrons can join the Zoom Webinar and access captions or connect directly to the captioned event through StreamText using the link below. \nJOIN THE CAPTIONED EVENT \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  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORK\nLaurence Cox is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and associate researcher at the Collège d’Etudes Mondiales\, Paris. One of Europe’s leading specialists on social movements\, his work on U Dhammaloka and other early western Buddhists in Asia is well known as part of the transnational scholarly rethinking of how Buddhism became a global religion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nCox has been an invited speaker from Kyoto University to CUNY Graduate Center and from the European University Institute to Ruskin College Oxford. He is founding editor of the global social movement research journal Interface and has twice guest-edited Contemporary Buddhism. In the spirit of Dhammaloka\, he has also been a street musician and hitchhiked across Europe\, trains activists in the Catalan Pyrenees and runs hot tubs on Dartmoor for Buddhist meditation retreats. \nCox is co-author\, with Alicia Turner and Brian Bocking\, of The Irish Buddhist: the Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire (Oxford University Press\, 2020). He has published over 160 scholarly works: his ten books include Buddhism and Ireland; A Buddhist Crossroads: Pioneer Western Buddhists and Asian Networks 1860 – 1960; Ireland’s New Religious Movements; and Why Social Movements Matter. With Brian Bocking and Yoshinaga Shin’ichi\, he also rediscovered the first Buddhist mission to Europe\, led by the Irishman Charles Pfoundes in 1889-92. \nLearn more: \n\nWall Street Journal Book Review: The Irish Buddhist\nIrish Independent Book Review: The Irish Buddhist\nDublin Review of Books: “Not a Gentleman” — The Irish Buddhist\nListen to the New Books Network podcast with the authors of The Irish Buddhist\nThe Dhammaloka Project\n\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 2020-21 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon. \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. \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-laurence-cox/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Reading by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Patrick Redmond\nPrinceton University’s Fund for Irish Studies presents a reading by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin\, award-winning poet and translator\, Ireland Professor of Poetry 2016-19\, and Professor emeritus in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin\, on December 4 at 4:30 p.m. online via Zoom. The reading is free and open to the public. \nEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is the author of numerous poetry collections including The Mother House (2020); The Boys of Bluehill (2015)\, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection; The Sun-fish (2010)\, which won the International Griffin Poetry Prize; Selected Poems (2009); The Magdalene Sermon (1989)\, which was selected as one of the three best poetry volumes of the year by the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Poetry Book Prize Committee; and Acts and Monuments (1966)\, which won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. She translated two books by the Romanian poet Ileana Malancioiu\, The Legend of the Walled-Up Wife (2012) and After the Raising of Lazarus (2005)\, as well as Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s The Water Horse (2001)\, co-translated with Medbh McGuckian. Ní Chuilleanáin’s work has been featured in several anthologies\, including The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’​​​​​​​s Poetry\, 1967–2000 (1999)\, edited by Peggy O’Brien. Since 1975 she has edited the literary magazine Cyphers\, and she has also edited Poetry Ireland Review. \nNí Chuilleanáin’s honors include the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry in 1973; O’Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry from the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1992; and election to Aosdána in 1996. The Sun-fish was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2009 and received the Griffin International Poetry Prize in Toronto in 2010. The Boys of Bluehill was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the Pigott Prize. The Mother House received the Irish Times/Poetry Now Award in 2020. \nNí Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942\, educated at University College\, Cork\, and at Oxford. She is a Fellow and Professor emeritus in the School of English\, Trinity College\, Dublin. \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 co-produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts and organized by Paul Muldoon\, Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities\, Founding Chair of the Lewis Center\, Director of the Princeton Atelier\, and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Join the symposium via Zoom Webinar; registration required. \nREGISTER AND JOIN THE READING \n  \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe reading 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). \nCONNECT TO THE CAPTIONED EVENT \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 2020-21 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon. \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. \n  \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-eilean-ni-chuilleanain/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Reading,Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Patrick Radden Keefe
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author and staff writer at The New Yorker Patrick Radden Keefe delivers a lecture on “Say Nothing: A true Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” as part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nKeefe’s talk focuses on his international bestseller\, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland\, his true crime narrative on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath. He uses the abduction and murder case of Jean McConville\, a 38-year-old mother of ten who was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders\, as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by violent guerrilla warfare\, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. \nKeefe’s work at The New Yorker has received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and twice been nominated for the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Say Nothing received the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade. Keefe is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change. His new book about the Sackler family and the opioid crisis will be published next year. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Join the symposium via Zoom Webinar; registration required. \nREGISTER ON ZOOM \nACCESSIBILITY\nIf you are in need of 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 2020-21 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon. \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/lecture-by-patrick-radden-keefe/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Symposium on "The 175th Anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s Tour of Ireland"
DESCRIPTION:On November 13\, Professor of History Christine Kinealy (Quinnipiac University)\, author Colum McCann (author of TransAtlantic)\, and Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies Autumn Womack (Princeton University) lead a symposium on “The 175th Anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s Tour of Ireland\,” moderated by Paul Muldoon\, Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University. Part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nThe symposium explores the four months Douglass spent in Ireland in 1845\, an experience he described as “transformative.” Douglass was an American social reformer\, abolitionist\, orator\, writer\, statesman\, and former enslaved person. Of his time in Ireland\, Douglass reported that for the first time in his life he felt like a man\, and not a chattel. He became a spokesperson for the abolition movement during his Irish tour\, but by the time he left the country in early January 1846\, he believed that the cause of the enslaved was the cause of the oppressed everywhere. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Join the symposium via Zoom Webinar; registration required. \nREGISTER ON ZOOM \nACCESSIBILITY\nIf you are in need of 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 2020-21 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon. \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. \n\nABOUT THE GUEST SCHOLARS\nChristine Kinealy is Professor of History and Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University. At Trinity College Dublin\, she completed her doctorate on the introduction of the Poor Law to Ireland. She then worked in educational and research institutes in Dublin\, Belfast and Liverpool. \nShe has published extensively on the impact of the Great Irish Famine and has lectured on the relationship between poverty and famine in India\, Spain\, Canada\, France\, Finland and New Zealand. She also has spoken to invited audiences in the British Parliament and in the U.S. Congress. \nBased in the United States since 2007\, she was named one of the most influential Irish Americans in 2011 by “Irish America” Magazine. In 2013\, she received the Holyoke\, Mass. St. Patrick’s Day Parade’s Ambassador Award. In March 2014\, she was inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame. \n  \nColum McCann is the award-winning author of three collections of short stories and seven novels\, including his most recent work\, Apeirogon (2020). His bestselling novel\, Let the Great World Spin (2009)\, won worldwide acclaim including the 2009 National Book Award in the U.S\, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China\, the International Impac Award 2011\, a literary award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and several other major international literary prizes. His novel TransAtlantic was also an international sensation and became an immediate New York Times best-seller on its release in 2013. It\, too\, garnered several international awards including the Mondello Citta de Palermo Prize in Italy. \nBorn and raised in Dublin\, Ireland\, he is the recipient of international honors including a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French government\, election to the Irish arts academy\, several European awards\, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China\, and an Oscar nomination. In 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts. His work has been published in over 40 languages. He is the co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organisation\, Narrative 4\, and he teaches at the MFA program in Hunter College. He lives in New York with his wife\, Allison\, and their family. \n  \nAutumn Womack is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. She earned a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and an MA from The University of Maryland\, College Park. Womack’s research is located at the intersection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literary culture\, visual studies\, and print culture. She is currently at work on two book projects. The first\, Un-discipling Data: Race\, Visuality\, and the Making of African American Literary Aesthetics\, 1880-1930 charts the relationship between emergent visual technologies – such as photography\, motion pictures\, and social surveys — and black literary and intellectual culture. The Reprint Revolution\, her second book project\, considers the circulation politics and practices that brought many nineteenth-century African American literary texts into the marketplace in the 1960s. At Princeton she teaches classes on 19th and 20th century African American literature and the history of race and media. In keeping with her investment in archival research\, her course “Toni Morrison and the Ethics of Reading” makes extensive use of the University’s collections. Womack has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, including a postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University’s Department of English and a faculty fellowship at Penn State’s Center for the History of Information. \nProfessor Womack’s work has been published in Black Camera: An International Film Journal\, American Literary History\, Women and Performance\, J19: A Journal of 19th Century Americanists\, andThe Paris Review of Books. An essay on the cultural history of Arno Press and the utility of the black past is forthcoming in American Literary History\, while new essays on Frederick Douglass\, W.E.B. DuBois\, and the pre-history of data visualization will appear in edited volumes. She serves on the editorial board of The Langston Hughes Review and Aster(ix) Journal. \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/symposium-on-the-175th-anniversary-of-frederick-douglasss-tour-of-ireland/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Symposium,Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:"Sweet Dancers: An Illustrated Talk on Irish Dance" by Deirdre Mulrooney
DESCRIPTION:Photo of Deirdre Mulrooney by Ishmael Claxton\nDeirdre Mulrooney\, dance historian\, documentary filmmaker\, author of Irish Moves\, an illustrated history of dance and physical theatre in Ireland\, and host of Dance Ireland’s 30th Anniversary podcasts presents a virtual illustrated talk on Irish Dance. Followed by an audience Q&A. \nas a part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nJOIN THE EVENT\nThis virtual event is free and open to the public; no registration required. \nJoin the lecture on Zoom\nMeeting ID: 971 9158 0361 \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nDeirdre is author of Irish Moves\, an illustrated history of dance and physical theatre in Ireland (2006)\, and Orientalism\, Orientation\, and The Nomadic Work of Pina Bausch (2002). Deirdre has contributed to anthologies\, and to several books on theatre and dance. A dance historian\, as well as her feature radio documentary and short dance film reclaiming Lucia Joyce’s modern dance career\, Deirdre has a forthcoming long scholarly essay on the subject. She hosted Dance Ireland’s 30th Anniversary podcasts. She is a sporadic contributor to RTE Sunday Miscellany\, and has penned multifarious Arts journalism and writing over many years. Deirdre produces and directs her own creative film documentaries including ‘Dance Emergency’ (TG4)\, ‘1943 – A Dance Odyssey’ (RTE)\, the short dance film ‘Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity’\, ‘TRUE NORTH’\, and many more BAI-funded\, commissioned\, and Indie projects with her own production company\, Out There Productions. In addition to her original academic work\, teaching\, broadcasting\, and original feature radio documentaries\, Deirdre occasionally curates exhibitions. Deirdre curated Mother Tongue at Kilkee’s Cultúrlann Sweeney\, which is scheduled to travel to UCD Festival\, where she is a UCD Creative Fellow. \nABOUT THE FUND FOR IRISH STUDIES\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 2020-21 edition of the series is organized by Paul Muldoon. \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/sweet-dancers-illustrated-talk-on-irish-dance-deirdre-mulrooney/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:“Fiddle Strings\, Airplane Wings and Humanizing Technology”
DESCRIPTION:Paul Muldoon introduces a lecture by award winning technology\, innovation and creativity executive Domhnaill Hernon. In his lecture\, “Fiddle strings\, airplane wings and humanizing technology\,” Hernon will share some of his personal history\, discuss the merits of fusing art and technology\, play some tunes\, and talk about Irish tradition in music and in particular where he comes from in County Sligo\, Ireland. \nDOMHNAILL HERNON is an award-winning technology\, innovation and creativity executive. He received an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Aerodynamics from the University of Limerick and an executive M.B.A. from Dublin City University\, Ireland. He previously led research organizations and developed and executed strategies to overcome the “innovation valley of death.” He is currently as Head of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T) at Nokia Bell Labs\, which is a new initiative he founded to fuse art and engineering/science to develop solutions that humanize technology. His work has been featured in Wired Magazine\, Times Square\, SXSW\, Nasdaq\, MWC and Inspirefest\, to name just a few\, and he advises cultural programs globally.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fiddle-strings-airplane-wings-and-humanizing-technology/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:"Dronehenge": An Illustrated Talk by Anthony Murphy
DESCRIPTION:Paul Muldoon introduces an illustrated talk by author and photographer Anthony Murphy. In his lecture\, “Dronehenge\,” Murphy will discuss his 2018 discovery that has radically changed our view of the Neolithic landscape of Brú na Bóinne. \nANTHONY MURPHY is a journalist\, author\, photographer\, astronomer and tour guide who lives in Drogheda\, at the gateway to Ireland’s historic Boyne Valley. He has been researching\, photographing and writing about the ancient megalithic monuments of the Boyne Valley and their associated mythology\, cosmology and alignments for the past 20 years. He is the author of five books\, with a sixth due to be published November 2019 and a seventh in production. \nIn 2018\, Anthony achieved international recognition when he discovered a previously unknown late Neolithic henge and other monuments close to Newgrange at the Unesco World Heritage Site of Brú na Bóinne. He has been consulted as an expert on Brú na Bóinne by various international media including the History Channel\, National Geographic and Britain’s Channel 4. \nLearn more:\nwww.mythicalireland.com\nwww.facebook.com/mythicalireland/\n101 Facts about New Grange\nBooks by Murphy on Amazon\ntwitter.com/mythicalireland \n  \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-anthony-murphy/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Reading and conversation with novelist John Banville
DESCRIPTION:Photo by by Douglas Banville\nAward-winning Irish novelist John Banville reads from his work followed by a conversation with Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities Paul Muldoon on Friday\, September 20. The event will take place at the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street on the Princeton University Campus at 4:30 p.m. The reading and conversation are free and open to the public as a part of Princeton University’s 2019-20 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nBorn and raised in Wexford\, Ireland\, Banville studied at Christian Brothers schools and St. Peter’s College before he began his career as an author. Banville worked as a clerk at Aer Lingus\, Ireland’s national airline\, a sub-editor at The Irish Press\, and the Literary Editor of The Irish Times. Amidst Banville’s long and successful career in journalism\, he began his career as a novelist. \nIn 1970\, Banville published a short story collection and a novella\, John Lankin\, before publishing his first novel\, Nightspawn\, in 1971. Other novels by Banville include Birchwood (1973)\, The Book of Evidence (1989)\, Ghosts (1993)\, The Sea (2005)\, The Infinities (2009)\, and Mrs. Osmond (2017). Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City (2003) is Banville’s non-fiction book\, in which he tells the story of Prague’s people and history throughout the years. \nBanville has won several awards for his writing\, including the Allied Irish Banks fiction prize\, the American-Irish Foundation award\, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize\, and the Guardian Fiction Prize. Banville won the Man Booker Prize for The Sea\, the Franz Kafka Prize\, the Prince of Asturias Award\, the Austrian State Prize for Literature\, and the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature. The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Ghosts was shortlisted the Whitbread Fiction Prize. Banville also has written several crime novels\, some of which have been developed for production on BBC\, under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. \nPaul Muldoon. Photo by Denise Applewhite.\nMuldoon is a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of the Princeton Atelier. He was born in 1951 in County Armagh\, Northern Ireland\, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen’s University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States\, where he is now Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton and Founding Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. In 2007 he was appointed Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford\, where he is an honorary Fellow of Hertford College. \nMuldoon’s main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973)\, Mules (1977)\, Why Brownlee Left (1980)\, Quoof (1983)\, Meeting The British (1987)\, Madoc: A Mystery (1990)\, The Annals of Chile (1994)\, Hay (1998)\, Poems 1968-1998 (2001)\, Moy Sand and Gravel (2002)\, Horse Latitudes (2006)\, Maggot (2010)\, One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (2015)\, and Poems 1968-2014 (2016). \nA Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize\, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize\, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize\, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry\, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award\, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize\, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry\, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.” \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 co-produced by the Lewis Center of the Arts and the 2019-20 edition of the series is organized by Muldoon and Senior Lecturer in Theater Michael Cadden. \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/reading-and-conversation-with-novelist-john-banville/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:“The Making of The Hunger"
DESCRIPTION:Donnacha M. Dennehy (composer) and Iarla Ó Lionáird (singer) discuss the creation of their new music-theater piece on the Famine in Ireland. Introduced by Lecturer in Theater  Michael Cadden\, the event is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Department of Music. \nThe Hunger premiered in 2016 starring O’Lionáird at BAM Next Wave Festival. It is based on diaries and personal accounts from the period of the Great Famine in Ireland (1845-52). A departure from conventions in which the ensemble is concealed in the orchestra pit\, the work integrates the players with the action and storytelling taking place on stage. The production includes video of present-day thinkers who consider the conditions that led to the famine and their implications for inequality in our own time. \nThe Great Famine was a time of major upheaval\, the historical significance of which is well documented. At least one million people died and yet another million emigrated. Less well-recorded are accounts of those who directly witnessed and suffered through the famine. At the heart of Dennehy’s The Hunger are personal\, contemporaneous stories that introduce new dimensions in the tragedy of the famine. The Hunger also addresses the complex issues of governance and economic policy by complementing these personal\, historical voices with video interviews of contemporary economists and political philosophers\, such as Noam Chomsky and Paul Krugman. The piece not only recounts history as it happened\, but also addresses the current socioeconomic problems of the recent global economic crisis. \nComposer Donnacha Dennehy. Photo courtesy of the artist.\nDennehy is a professor of music at Princeton. His music has been featured in festivals and venues around the world\, such as the Edinburgh International Festival\, Royal Opera House London\, Carnegie Hall New York\, The Barbican London\, The Wigmore Hall London\, BAM New York\, Tanglewood Festival\, Holland Festival\, Kennedy Center\, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the UK\, Dublin Theatre Festival\, ISCM World Music Days\, Bang On A Can\, Ultima Festival in Oslo\, Musica Viva Lisbon\, the Saarbrucken Festival\, and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. He has received commissions from Dawn Upshaw\, the Kronos Quartet\, Alarm Will Sound\, Bang On A Can\, Third Coast Percussion\, Icebreaker (London)\, the Doric String Quartet (London)\, Contact (Toronto)\, Lucilin (Luxembourg)\, Orkest de Ereprijs (Netherlands)\, Fidelio Trio\, Percussion Group of the Hague\, RTE National Symphony Orchestra\, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra\, BBC Ulster Orchestra and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players\, among others. Collaborations include pieces with the writers Colm Tóibín (The Dark Places) and Enda Walsh (including the opera The Last Hotel\, and a forthcoming opera The Second Violinist)\, the choreographers Yoshiko Chuma and Shobana Jeyasingh\, and the visual artist John Gerrard.  Dennehy founded Crash Ensemble\, Ireland’s now-renowned new music group\, in 1997. Alongside the singers Dawn Upshaw and Iarla O’Lionáird\, Crash Ensemble features on the 2011 Nonesuch release of Dennehy’s music\, entitled Grá agus Bás.  NPR named it one of its “50 favorite albums’’ (in any genre) of 2011. He joined the music faculty at Princeton in 2014. \nSinger Iarla Ó Lionáird. Photo courtesy of the artist.\nÓ Lionáird is a global scholar at Princeton in the Department of Music and Irish Studies and in 2016 was a Belknap Teaching Fellow in the Council of the Humanities. He has carved a long and unique career in music in Ireland. From his iconic early recording of the vision song Aisling Gheal as a young boy to his ground-breaking recordings with Dublin’s Crash Ensemble\, he has been widely recognized. In addition to Dennehy\, he has worked with a stellar cast of composers internationally\, including Nico Muhly\, Dan Trueman\, Gavin Bryars and David Lang\, and he has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Peter Gabriel\, Robert Plant\, Nick Cave and Sinead O’Connor. His unique singing style has carried him to stages and concert halls all over the world\, from New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to the Sydney Opera House\, London’s Royal Albert Hall and beyond. His film credits include The Gangs of New York\, Hotel Rwanda\, and most recently as featured vocalist in the film Calvary starring Brendan Gleeson and the film adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn starring Saoirse Ronan. \nOn September 17\, Princeton Sound Kitchen\, the University’s lab for new music by composition faculty and staff\, will present a program of new works including a concert version of The Hunger performed by Ó Lionáird\, soprano Katherine Manley\, and the ensemble Alarm Will Sound. The concert\, at 8:00 p.m. at Richardson Auditorium\, is free and open to the public\, however advance tickets are recommended (available at https://music.princeton.edu/events/alarm-will-sound.) \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. \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/the-making-of-the-hunger/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Anne Enright: A Reading
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer Anne Enright reads from her work as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies event series. \nIn the James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ. \nFREE and open to the public. \n  \n\nPhoto by Hugh Chaloner\nAnne Enright Anne Enright was born in Dublin in 1962\, and she lives there still. She has written six novels\, two books of short stories and a book of essays about motherhood. Her work appears in many publications including The New Yorker and The Paris Review. Key awards include The Man Booker Prize (2007)\, The Andrew Carnegie medal for Excellence in Fiction (2012) and the Irish Novel of the year (2008 and 2016). Anne was the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015-2018) and has recently been appointed Professor of Fiction at UCD.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/anne-enright-a-reading/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Sinead O’Shea presents a screening of her documentary film\, A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot\, at the Princeton Garden Theatre. Screening followed by discussion with writer/director O’Shea and Irish scholar and critic Fintan O’Toole. \nAt the Princeton Garden Theatre\, 160 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ. \nFREE and open to the public. \nPresented as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies event series; please note different location and time than other series events. \nABOUT THE FILM\nOne night Majella O’Donnell took her teenage son Philly to be shot in both legs. Majella\, Philly and his shooters all live within an extraordinary community in Derry\, Northern Ireland. The “Troubles” officially ended in 1998 but this community is still at war. They do not accept the government or police. All this happens within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. How do you bring your son to be shot? What happens afterwards? How does family life continue? How does a community respond? When do wars really end? For five years Sinéad O’Shea has filmed this shocking portrait of a post conflict society. Watch the trailer \n  \n\nDirector Sinead O’Shea\nSinead O’Shea is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. \nHer first feature documentary A Mother Brings her Son to be Shot premiered at the London Film Festival and was one of the most successful documentary releases in Irish cinemas of 2018. The Oscar nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer is executive producer. \nA Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot won a Special Mention Award at the Warsaw Film Festival and has been nominated for a FACT Award at CPH:DOX\, Copenhagen\, Maysles Observational Documentary Award at the Belfast Film Festival and Best Feature Documentary at the EBS Documentary Film Festival in South Korea and the Budapest Film Festival. \nPreviously Sinead covered Ireland for The New York Times. She has also directed and produced films with Al Jazeera English\, BBC\, Channel 4 and RTE. She won an Irish Media Justice Award for Lives in Limbo with The Irish Times and an IFTA for Sampler with RTE. In 2018 Sinead was named as one of the top 10 European female filmmakers to watch by the European Film Promotion network and Sydney Film Festival. \nAt present Sinead is developing her first drama feature. She is also developing further documentary work on post conflict situations with the help of Screen Ireland and contributes to the Guardian and The New York Times.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/a-mother-brings-her-son-to-be-shot/
LOCATION:Princeton Garden Theatre\, 160 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film screening
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Irish Emigrant Girls in New York
DESCRIPTION:Irish scholar Maureen Murphy lectures on “Irish Emigrant Girls in New York” as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nIn the James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ. \nFREE and open to the public. \n\nPhoto courtesy Maureen Murphy\nMaureen O’Rourke Murphy is the Joseph L. Dionne Professor of Curriculum and Teaching in the School of Education\, Health\, and Human Services at Hofstra University\, in Hempstead\, New York. A past president of the American Conference for Irish Studies and a past chair of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures\, Murphy was one of the six senior editors of the prizewinning Dictionary of Irish Biography published in nine volumes and online by the Royal Irish Academy and Cambridge University Press in 2009. Murphy directed the New York State Great Irish Famine Curriculum Project (2001)\, which won the National Conference for the Social Studies Excellence Award in 2002; she was the historian of the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City. She is currently the historian\, with John Ridge\, of the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary/Watson House Project.  \nMurphy edited Irish Literature: A Reader (1987\, rev. ed. 2006)\, with James MacKillop. She also edited Asenath Nicholson’s Annals of the Famine in Ireland (1998) and Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger (2002). She edited Annie O’Donnell’s Your Fondest Annie in 2005. Her biography of Asenath Nicholson\, Compassionate Stranger: Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine was published in 2016.  \nMurphy  has been awarded honorary degrees by the State University of New York at Cortland and by the National University of Ireland.  She received the President of Ireland’s Award for Service in 2015.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/irish-emigrant-girls-in-new-york/
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:The Myth of Paternity: James Joyce and his father
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Colm Tóibín lectures on “The Myth of Paternity: James Joyce and his father” as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies event series. Tóibín’s latest book\, Mad\, Bad\, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde\, Yeats\, and Joyce\, was published in 2018. \nIn the James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ. \nFREE and open to the public. \n  \n\nBestselling author Colm Tóibín. Photo courtesy www.colmtoibin.com\nColm Tóibín is the author of nine novels\, including The Blackwater Lightship; The Master\, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn\, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster\, as well as two story collections. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. Three times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize\, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/the-myth-of-paternity-james-joyce-and-his-father/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Escaping from History: The Dreamworld of Brexit
DESCRIPTION:Noted Irish scholar and critic Fintan O’Toole presents the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on “Escaping from History: The Dreamworld of Brexit” as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies series. \nIn the James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ. \nFREE and open to the public. \n  \n\nPhoto by Larry Levanti\n Fintan 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.  
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/escaping-from-history-the-dreamworld-of-brexit/
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:Lecture by Alvin Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 27\, 2018\n4:30 p.m.\nEast Pyne 010\nFREE and open to the public \nAcclaimed Irish historian and scholar Alvin Jackson will conclude the spring 2018 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series by giving a lecture\, entitled “John Redmond and Edward Carson: Bloodshed\, Borders and the Union State\,” on Friday\, April 27 at 4:30 p.m. in East Pyne Room 010 on the Princeton University campus.  The lecture is free and open to the public. \nJohn Redmond and Edward Carson are two of the biggest names in modern Irish history. At the peak of their careers as senior members of the British parliament\, they were locked together in combat over the issue of Home Rule. That conflict led to an outcome that neither of them wanted: the partition of Ireland and the creation of a border that\, with Brexit\, again poses apparently insoluble problems. Jackson’s book\, Judging Redmond and Carson\, was recently published by the Royal Irish Academy. \nJackson is the Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh.  He studied Modern History at Corpus Christi College and Nuffield College\, Oxford\, and completed a D.Phil. in 1986. Previously\, Jackson was a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow; Lecturer in Modern History at University College Dublin; Professor of Modern Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast; and the John Burns Visiting Professor at Boston College\, Massachusetts. At the University of Edinburgh\, Jackson has served as Head of the School of History\, Classics and Archaeology and recently as Dean of Research and Deputy Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science. Jackson’s research has been supported by three major national awards – a British Academy Research Readership in the Humanities (2000)\, a British Academy-Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (2009)\, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2014). He is an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Member of the Academia Europaea.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-alvin-jackson/
LOCATION:East Pyne 010\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Screening of Song of Granite by Pat Collins
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 6\, 2018\n1:00 p.m.\nPrinceton Garden Theatre\, 160 Nassau St.\, Princeton\nFREE and open to the public \nAcclaimed filmmaker Pat Collins will screen and discuss his feature film\, Song of Granite\, a portrayal of the life of sean nós singer Joe Heaney and his music\, on Friday\, April 6 at 1:00 p.m. at the Princeton Garden Theater\, 160 Nassau Street. An audience discussion with the filmmaker will follow the screening. The event\, which is free and open to the public\, is presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University. Guests should note that this event is earlier in the day than usual for Fund for Irish Studies Series events. \nJoe Heaney was widely regarded as the greatest practitioner of sean-nòs\, a form of traditional unaccompanied Irish singing. Shaped by the myths\, fables\, and songs of his upbringing in the west of Ireland\, his emergence as a gifted artist came at a personal cost. Heaney was said to have a repertoire of over 500 songs in his memory. He became a star in the American folk music revival of the 1960s\, first at the Newport Folk Festival and then in various cities across the country\, where he performed to sold-out crowds. \nThe film provides a portrait of the artist\, covering his childhood in Connemara in the 1930s\, his travels throughout the U.K. and U.S. in the 1960s\, and then his reflection on his past and his legacy as an elderly man in the U.S. Collins’ film does not attempt to cover all the details about the singer’s life but rather mirror’s Heaney’s reputation as an elusive and enigmatic man. The film features performances by Colm Seoighe\, Macdara Ó Fátharta\, Jaren Cerf\, Lisa O’Neill\, Damien Dempsey\, and sean nós singers Mícheál Ó Chonfhaola and Pól Ó Ceannabháin\, and black and white cinematography by Richard Kendrick. Song of Granite had its world premiere at the 2017 South by Southwest Film Festival and was Ireland’s official entry as Best Foreign Language Film in the 2018 Academy Awards. The film is presented in both English and subtitled Gaelic. Learn more at http://songofgranite.oscilloscope.net/ \nSteve Greene of Indiewire notes that the film\, “delivers a profile of not just a singer but the country that made him…Song of Granite is a stirring solemn tribute.” \nCollins\, who directed and co-wrote the film\, has been making films since 1998 and has directed over 30 films\, including feature films\, documentaries and short experimental works. He has made documentaries on the writers Michael Hartnett\, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill\, and John McGahern\, and he co-directed a documentary on Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.  In 2012\, he completed the feature film Silence\, which had its international premiere at the London Film Festival and was distributed by Element Films in Ireland and New Wave Films. Song of Granite is his second dramatic feature film.  \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, chaired by Princeton professor Clair Wills\, 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 co-produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts. The spring 2018 edition of the series is organized by Fintan O’Toole as acting chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. \nThe final event in the 2017-18 series will feature Alvin Jackson\, the Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh\, who will present a lecture\, “John Redmond and Edward Carson:  Bloodshed\, Borders and the Union State\,” on April 27. \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.  \n To learn more about the more than 100 public performances\, exhibitions\, readings\, screenings\, concerts\, lectures and special events\, presented each year by the Lewis Center for the Arts\, most of them free\, visit arts.princeton.edu.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/screening-song-granite-pat-collins/
LOCATION:Princeton Garden Theatre\, 160 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Film screening
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SUMMARY:Reading by Sally Rooney
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 9\, 2018\n4:30 p.m.\nEast Pyne 010\nFREE and open to the public \nIrish author Sally Rooney\, winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award\, reads from her work. \n\nIrish novelist Sally Rooney will present a reading on Friday\, March 9 at 4:30 p.m. in East Pyne 010 on the Princeton University campus. The reading\, which is free and open to the public\, is presented by the Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University. \nSally Rooney’s debut novel Conversations with Friends was published in 2017 and was selected by The Sunday Times\, The Guardian\, Observer\, Daily Telegraph\, and Evening Standard as a Book of the Year. The novel has been longlisted for the 2018 International Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the 2017 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award: Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year\, and the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers Choice Award. Rooney was the winner of the 2017 Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award. Born in Mayo and now living in Dublin\, she is the editor of the literary magazine The Stinging Fly\, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Dublin Review and elsewhere. Her new novel\, Normal People\, is being published in September. \nA review of Conversations with Friends in The New Yorker states\, “She [Rooney] writes with a rare\, thrilling confidence\, in a lucid and exacting style uncluttered with the sort of steroidal imagery and strobe flashes of figurative language that so many dutifully literary novelists employ.” \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, chaired by Princeton professor Clair Wills\, 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 co-produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts. The spring 2018 edition of the series is organized by O’Toole as acting chair of the Fund for Irish Studies.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-sally-rooney/
LOCATION:East Pyne 010\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Fintan O’Toole Lectures on “Brexit\, Ireland and the Rise of English Nationalism”
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 2\, 2018\n4:30 p.m.\nEast Pyne 010\, Princeton University campus\nFREE and open to the public \nTheater critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole gives the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on “Brexit\, Ireland and the rise of English nationalism\,” at 4:30 p.m. This event is free but there is limited seating on a first-come\, first-seated basis. \n\nIrish theater critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole will present the 2018 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture\, entitled “Brexit\, Ireland and the Rise of English Nationalism\,” on Friday\, March 2 at 4:30 p.m. in East Pyne Room 010 on the Princeton University campus. Part of the 2017-18 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, this event is free and open to the public. \nO’Toole’s writing on Brexit\, the prospective withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union\, has won both the European Press Prize and the George Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2017. \n“Brexit\, Ireland and the Rise of English Nationalism” explores the roots of Brexit in the unacknowledged crisis of English identity\, the threat it poses to the hard-won peace in Northern Ireland\, and the reasons why Ireland will not follow its nearest neighbor out of the European Union. \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 Seamus Heaney.   \nRobert Fagles\, for whom the annual Memorial Lecture is named\, was a member of the Princeton faculty for 42 years in the Department of Comparative Literature and a renowned translator of Greek classics. His critically acclaimed translations of Homer’s “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” became bestsellers. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, chaired by Princeton professor Clair Wills\, 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 co-produced by the Lewis Center for the Arts. The spring 2018 edition of the series is organized by O’Toole as acting chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. \n To learn more about the more than 100 public performances\, exhibitions\, readings\, screenings\, concerts\, lectures and special events\, most of them free\, presented each year by the Lewis Center for the Arts\, visit arts.princeton.edu.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fintan-otoole-lectures-brexit-ireland-rise-english-nationalism/
LOCATION:East Pyne 010\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:A Reading and Performance by Paul Muldoon with guest appearances by Iarla Ó Lionáird and Dan Trueman
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 23\, 2018\n4:30 p.m.\nWallace Theater\, Lewis Arts complex\nFREE and open to the public \nTo mark the publication of his new volume Lamentations and the performance in Princeton of Olagón\, Paul Muldoon gives a special reading with guest appearances by Irish singer Iarla Ó Lionáird and Princeton University Professor of Music Dan Trueman. \n\nPulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon will present a reading from his recent poetry collections joined by acclaimed singer Iarla Ó Lionáird and composer Dan Trueman\, in celebration of Muldoon’s latest volume Lamenations and the three artists’ collaboration with Eighth Blackbird\, Olagón: a Cantata in Doublespeak. The reading\, presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies\, will take on place on Friday\, February 23 at 4:30 p.m. in the Wallace Theater located at the Lewis Arts complex on the Princeton campus. This event is free and open to the public. Performances of Olagón are being presented on February 22 through 24. \nMuldoon will be reading from his recently published collection Lamentations\, which presents a translation of a classic Irish poem from the 18th-century and re-envisions the haunted narratives within. He will also read from his lauded Selected Poems 1968-2014\, work selected from the past 45 years and drawn from 12 individual collections by the poet\, hailed by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney as “one of the era’s true originals.” \n The reading will include appearances by two of Muldoon’s recent collaborators on Olagón: a Cantata in Doublespeak. This new work is an evening-length collaboration between the Grammy Award-winning sextet Eighth Blackbird\, Muldoon\, Ó Lionáird\, and Trueman. With text written by Muldoon in both English and Irish and based on the classic Irish tale Táin Bó Cúailnge\, the cantata paints a narrative of hardship in contemporary Ireland with traditional music\, such as sean nós\, performed by Ó Lionáird and with stage direction by Mark DiChiazza. Performances will be held on February 22\, 23 and 24 at 8:00 p.m. also in the Wallace Theater. Hosted by the Princeton Department of Music\, Eighth Blackbird will be in residence at Princeton Sound Kitchen from February 20 through 26. \nPaul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh\, Northern Ireland\, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen’s University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States\, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University and was founding chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. In 2007 he was appointed Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford\, where he is an honorary Fellow of Hertford College. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996. Other awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize\, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize\, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize\, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry\, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award\, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize\, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry\, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.” \nIarla Ó Lionáird has carved a long and unique career in music in Ireland. From his iconic early recording of the vision song Aisling Gheal as a young boy to his groundbreaking recordings with Dublin’s Crash Ensemble\, he has shown a breadth of artistic ambition. He has worked with a number of composers internationally\, including Nico Muhly\, Donnacha Dennehy\, Dan Trueman\, Gavin Bryars and David Lang\, and he has performed and recorded with such artists as Peter Gabriel\, Robert Plant\, Nick Cave and Sinead O’Connor. His unique singing style has carried him to stages and concert halls all over the world\, from New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to the Sydney Opera House\, London’s Royal Albert Hall and beyond. His film credits extend from The Gangs of New York to Hotel Rwanda and most recently as featured vocalist in the film Calvary starring Brendan Gleeson and the film adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn starring Saoirse Ronan. Ó Lionáird was a 2016-17 Belknap Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of Music at Princeton. \nDan Trueman is a professor of music composition in Princeton’s Department of Music\, Director of the Princeton Sound Kitchen\, and a noted fiddler and electronic musician. He co-founded the Princeton Laptop Orchestra\, the first ensemble of its size and kind that has led to the formation of similarly inspired ensembles across the world. His compositional work reflects this complex and broad range of activities\, exploring rhythmic connections between traditional dance music and machines\, for instance\, or engaging with the unusual phrasing\, tuning and ornamentation of the traditional Norwegian music while trying to discover new music that is singularly inspired by\, and only possible with\, new digital instruments that he designs and constructs. In addition to Olagón\, his current projects include a double-quartet for Sō Percussion and the JACK Quartet\, commissioned by the Barlow Foundation; the Prepared Digital Piano project; a collaborative dance project with choreographer and Princeton dance faculty member Rebecca Lazier and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Naomi Leonard; ongoing collaborations with Irish fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and guitarist Monica Mugan (Trollstilt); and a new collaborative work with Mark DeChiazza for the PRISM saxophone quartet. Trueman is the recipient of a 2016 Bessie Award\, a 2015 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship\, a 2014 Barlow Commission\, a 2010 Fulbright Fellowship\, a 2008 MacArthur Foundation “Digital Innovations” Grant\, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, chaired by Princeton professor Clair Wills\, 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.”
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/performance-paul-muldoon-iarla-o-lionaird/
LOCATION:Wallace Theater\, Lewis Arts complex\, 122 Alexander Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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