Performance by Award-Winning Musicians Brían Ó hAirt and Len Graham — “The Road Taken: Songs, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition”

Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall Princeton, NJ, United States

Len Graham and Brían Ó hAirt, two award-winning musicians and proponents of Irish traditional arts, will present a performance entitled “The Road Taken: Songs, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition” on Friday, October 14 at 4:30 p.m. in Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall on the Princeton University campus. Part of the 2016-17 Fund for … Continue reading "Performance by Award-Winning Musicians Brían Ó hAirt and Len Graham — “The Road Taken: Songs, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition”"

Iarla Ó Lionáird and Donnacha Dennehy perform and discuss their recent collaboration on a new opera, Hunger

James M. Stewart '32 Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton

Belknap Teaching Fellow Iarla Ó Lionáird and Assistant Professor of Music Donnacha Dennehy, two faculty members at Princeton University, will discuss and perform excerpts of Dennehy’s new opera, Hunger, on Friday, November 18. The discussion and performance will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2016-17 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University, this event is free and open to the public.

Richard Kearney and Sheila Gallagher on “Recovering 1916 in Images and Stories”

James M. Stewart '32 Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton

Writer Richard Kearney and artist Sheila Gallagher will perform their celebrated multimedia talk “Twinsome Minds: Recovering 1916 in Images and Stories” at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, December 9 in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2016-17 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University, this event is free … Continue reading "Richard Kearney and Sheila Gallagher on “Recovering 1916 in Images and Stories”"

Irish scholar and theater critic Fintan O’Toole delivers the 2017 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture: “If It Wasn’t for the Irish and Jews”

James M. Stewart '32 Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton

Irish theater critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole will present the 2017 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture entitled “If It Wasn’t for the Irish and Jews” on Friday, February 17 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2016-17 Fund for Irish Studies series … Continue reading "Irish scholar and theater critic Fintan O’Toole delivers the 2017 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture: “If It Wasn’t for the Irish and Jews”"

Mary Daly Lectures on “An Irish solution? Contraception, the Catholic Church and Irish Society 1960-1983”

James M. Stewart '32 Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton

Mary Daly, Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin, will present a lecture on “An Irish solution? Contraception, the Catholic Church and Irish Society 1960-1983" as part of the 2016-2017 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University on Friday, April 14 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. This event is free and open to the public.

Reading by Kevin Barry from Beatlebone

James M. Stewart '32 Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton

Author Kevin Barry will read from his novel Beatlebone on Friday, April 28 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The reading, which is free and open to the public, concludes the 2016-2017 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University. Kevin Barry’s second … Continue reading "Reading by Kevin Barry from Beatlebone"

A Reading and Performance by Paul Muldoon with guest appearances by Iarla Ó Lionáird and Dan Trueman

Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts complex 122 Alexander Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

Friday, February 23, 2018 4:30 p.m. Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts complex FREE and open to the public To 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. … Continue reading "A Reading and Performance by Paul Muldoon with guest appearances by Iarla Ó Lionáird and Dan Trueman"

Fintan O’Toole Lectures on “Brexit, Ireland and the Rise of English Nationalism”

East Pyne 010 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States

Friday, March 2, 2018 4:30 p.m. East Pyne 010, Princeton University campus FREE and open to the public Theater 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. Irish … Continue reading "Fintan O’Toole Lectures on “Brexit, Ireland and the Rise of English Nationalism”"

Reading by Sally Rooney

East Pyne 010 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States

Irish author Sally Rooney, winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, reads from her work.