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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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SUMMARY:Reading by Kevin Barry from Beatlebone
DESCRIPTION: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. \nKevin Barry’s second novel\, Beatlebone\, follows a fictional John Lennon as he travels in 1978 to Dorninish\, his small private island located off the west coast of Ireland. Legendary Beatles musician John Lennon actually purchased this uninhabited property\, known as “Beatle Island” or “Hippie Island\,” and owned it until his death in 1980. Yoko Ono\, Lennon’s wife\, eventually sold the property in 1984. \nBeatlebone consists of Lennon’s conversations and adventures with his driver\, Cornelius O’Grady\, as the pair avoids pitfalls with the weather and the media to deliver Lennon to Dorninish. The Guardian calls the novel “a lyrical exploration of love\, fate and death.” Regarding Barry’s writing\, The New York Times praises his “razor-sharp prose\, powerful poetics and a dramatist’s approach to dialogue unencumbered by punctuation.”Kevin Barry’s second novel\, Beatlebone\, follows a fictional John Lennon as he travels in 1978 to Dorninish\, his small private island located off the west coast of Ireland. Legendary Beatles musician John Lennon actually purchased this uninhabited property\, known as “Beatle Island” or “Hippie Island\,” and owned it until his death in 1980. Yoko Ono\, Lennon’s wife\, eventually sold the property in 1984. \nIn addition to Beatlebone\, Kevin Barry is the author of the novel City Of Bohane and the story collections Dark Lies The Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the Author’s Club First Novel Award and the prestigious IMPAC Dublin City Literary Award for City of Bohane\, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize\, the European Union Prize for Literature\, and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2016\, he received a Lannan Foundation Literary Award. Barry’s stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, the Stinging Fly\, Best European Fiction\, and many other journals and anthologies around the world. He also works as a screenwriter and a playwright.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-kevin-barry-beatlebone/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Mary Daly Lectures on “An Irish solution? Contraception\, the Catholic Church and Irish Society 1960-1983”
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDrawn from her extensive research\, Daly’s lecture will explore Irish family planning and the role of the Catholic Church\, focusing on legal and social developments including the impact of Roe v. Wade on Irish debates. \nMary Daly was elected as the first female President of the Royal Irish Academy in its 229-year history in 2014. She is one of Ireland’s most prominent senior historians and is a member of the government’s Expert Advisory Group on Commemorations. She is emeritus professor of history at University College Dublin (UCD) and served for seven years as Principal of UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies; she has also held visiting positions at Harvard University and Boston College. She has served on Ireland’s National Archives Advisory Council\, the Irish Manuscripts Commission\, and the Higher Education Authority. In 2015 she was appointed as a member of the Commission of Inquiry into Mother and Baby Homes. Daly was involved in the commemoration of the sesquicentenary of the great famine 1995-97\, and with Dr. Margaret O’Callaghan she directed a research project on the Golden Jubilee of the 1916 Rising\, resulting in the publication of a major edited work: 1916 in 1966: Commemorating the Easter Rising (2007). Over the course of her career\, Daly has researched widely and published prolifically\, notably: Dublin\, the Deposed Capital: A Social and Economic History\, 1860-1914 (1984); Women and Work in Ireland (1997); The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland\, 1920-1973 (2006); with Theo Hoppen\, Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond (2011) and most recently Sixties Ireland: Reshaping the Economy\, State and Society\, 1957 – 1973 (2016). With Eugenio Biagini she is co-editor of The Cambridge History of Modern Ireland\, which will be published in May 2017. She is a graduate of UCD and Oxford University and a member of the Acadaemia Europaea.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/mary-daly-lectures-irish-solution-contraception-catholic-church-irish-society-1960-1983/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T180000
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SUMMARY:Words for Music\, Perhaps: A Day-long Symposium on Irish Lyric and Song
DESCRIPTION:“Words for Music\, Perhaps” features panel discussions by renowned scholars Matt Campbell\, Aileen Dillane\, Paul Hamilton\, Barry McCrea\, Maureen McLane\, Paul Muldoon\, Diarmuid Ó Giolláin\, Iarla O’Lionaird\, and Dan Trueman\, along with musical performances by guest artists John Burkhalter\, David Kellett\, and Dasha Koltunyuk. The panel begins at 9:45 a.m. on Friday\, March 31\, in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street. Free and open to the public. \nEVENT SCHEDULE*:\n9:45 AM | INTRODUCTION \n9:50-11:30 AM | PANEL 1 — NINETEENTH CENTURY SONG \nMatt Campbell (University of York) — “Authentic Dross\, from Bunting and Moore to Petrie and Joyce”\nPaul Hamilton (Queen Mary\, London) — “Irish Melodies: Thomas Moore’s lyrical politics in the context of European Romanticism”\nMaureen McLane (NYU) — “Ballad Mediality and ‘World Literature’: From 18th C. Antiquarians to Spotify”\nDiarmuid Ó Giolláin (Notre Dame) — “Thomas Crofton Croker and the Irish Lament” \n12:00-12:45 PM | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE \nThomas Moore’s songs — John Burkhalter\, David Kellett\, Dasha Koltunyuk \n12:50-1:50 PM | BREAK \n2:00-3:30 PM | PANEL 2 — TWENTIETH CENTURY IRISH SONG \nDr. Aileen Dillane (University of Limerick) — “Structures of Feeling in Contemporary Irish Song: Old Themes\, New Voices”\nBarry McCrea (University of Notre Dame) — “Sean Ó Riordáin: The Irish Language as Lyrical Longing”\nPaul Muldoon (Princeton) — “The One Burden: Yeats and Song” \n4:30-6:00 PM | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE \nOlagón\, A Cantata In Doublespeak — Paul Muldoon\, Iarla Ó Lionáird\, Dan Trueman \n*schedule subject to change \n  \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/words-music-perhaps-day-long-symposium-irish-lyric-song/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T180000
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SUMMARY:Irish scholar and theater critic Fintan O’Toole delivers the 2017 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture: “If It Wasn’t for the Irish and Jews”
DESCRIPTION: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 at Princeton University\, this event is free and open to the public. \n“If It Wasn’t for the Irish and Jews” explores these ethnic groups as two of the world’s greatest diasporic cultures. Their histories have shared themes of dispossession\, discrimination and self-assertion. O’Toole considers how the two cultures have interacted\, from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to struggles for religious emancipation\, and from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Abie’s Irish Rose. \nFintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, has written for The Irish Times\, New York Daily News\, Sunday Tribune (Dublin)\, and In Dublin Magazine. His books on theater span a wide range of topics\, from his biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan to theater currently appearing on Irish stages. He is the assistant editor\, a columnist\, and a feature writer for The Irish Times. He also contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. In 2011\, The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, and Journalist of the Year in 2010 from TV3 Media Awards. O’Toole’s most recent project\, History of Ireland in 100 Objects\, covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years\, and has been published in book form by the Royal Irish Academy. \nO’Toole will be co-teaching a new course\, “Introduction to Irish Studies\,” with Clair Wills\, Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies\, this spring. He will also be co-teaching a Princeton Atelier course with actor Lisa Dwan\, “Ill Seen Ill Said: Staging a Beckett Text\,” examining Samuel Beckett’s prose writings\, specifically the novel Ill Seen Ill Said\, and challenging students to find myriad ways to dramatize a work that wasn’t initially meant for the stage. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/irish-scholar-theater-critic-fintan-otoole-delivers-2017-robert-fagles-memorial-lecture-wasnt-irish-jews/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Richard Kearney and Sheila Gallagher on “Recovering 1916 in Images and Stories”
DESCRIPTION: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 and open to the public. \n“Twinsome Minds: Recovering 1916 in Images and Stories” is a transformative multimedia performance that reimagines the narratives of “twinned” pairs of people who ended up on different sides in 1916. Focusing on Dublin’s Easter Rising and the Belgium front in World War I\, the talk combines history\, legend\, imagination\, and memory to present a reinterpreted portrait of an integral period in Irish history. “Twinsome Minds” features text by Kearney\, screen projections by Gallagher\, and an original score by Dana Lyn. \nKearney is a writer\, professor\, and cultural organizer of several international projects\, most recently “Exchanging Stories\, Changing History” (Guestbookproject.org). He has written two novels\, Sam’s Fall and Walking at Sea Level\, which have been translated into several languages\, and a volume of poetry\, Angel of Patrick’s Hill. He has also written several books on the role of imagination and narrative in Irish culture\, literature\, and the arts\, most notably The Irish Mind (1984)\, Transitions: Narratives in Modern Irish Culture (1988)\, Post Nationalist Ireland: Culture\, Philosophy\, Politics (1998)\, and Navigations: Collected Irish Essays (1976-2006). As a member of the Irish Arts Council\, chair of the University College Dublin Film School\, and public intellectual and broadcaster\, he is actively involved in organizing many national and international cultural projects. \nGallagher is an interdisciplinary artist\, curator\, and professor of art at Boston College. She works in many media including video\, smoke\, drawing\, animation\, live flowers\, and light projections. She has had numerous solo exhibitions and has exhibited widely at commercial galleries\, museums\, and universities in the U.S. and internationally\, including the Moving Image Festival in London\, The Institute of Contemporary Art\, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston\, Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas\, and the Dodge Gallery in New York City. Gallagher is the co-curator of the Becker Collection\, a private archive of Civil War drawings\, currently touring the U.S. Together with Kearney\, she co-directs the Guestbook Project. \n\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. Sponsorship also provided by Culture Ireland.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/richard-kearney-sheila-gallagher-recovering-1916-images-stories/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T180000
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SUMMARY:Iarla Ó Lionáird and Donnacha Dennehy perform and discuss their recent collaboration on a new opera\, Hunger
DESCRIPTION: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. \nHunger\, which premiered earlier this year starring O’Lionáird and recently completed a run at the BAM Next Wave Festival\, 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. The 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 Hunger are personal\, contemporaneous stories that introduce new dimensions in the tragedy of the famine. The opera 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 opera not only recounts history as it happened\, but also addresses the current socioeconomic problems of the recent global economic crisis. \nDennehy is an assistant professor of music at Princeton. He has received commissions from Dawn Upshaw\, the Kronos Quartet\, Alarm Will Sound\, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra\, Bang On A Can\, Joanna MacGregor\, the Percussion Group of the Hague\, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. His recent opera\,  The Last Hotel (2015)\, met with critical acclaim in the U.K. when it premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival and has had runs at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York\, the Dublin Theatre Festival\, and the Royal Opera in London. His new piece for Nadia Sirota and viol consort will premiere at Symphony Space in 2016 and is being recorded for future release by Bedroom Community. Dennehy’s collaborations include pieces with the writer Enda Walsh\, the choreographers Yoshiko Chuma and Shobana Jeyasingh\, and the visual artist John Gerrard. In 2010\, his single-movement orchestral piece Crane was recommended by the International Rostrum of Composers. Dennehy is the founder of Ireland’s renowned music group Crash Ensemble. Alongside the singers Upshaw and O’Lionáird\, Crash Ensemble is featured on the 2011 Nonesuch release of Dennehy’s music\, entitled Grá agus Bás. Releases of Dennehy’s music include a RTE Lyric FM portrait CD of his orchestral music and a number of works by NMC Records in London and Cantaloupe in New York. Previously a tenured lecturer at Trinity College Dublin\, Dennehy was appointed a Global Scholar at Princeton University in 2012. He was has also served as composer-in-residence for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in Texas (2013-14). He joined the music faculty at Princeton University in 2014. \nÓ Lionáird is a Belknap Teaching Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and in Music and Irish Studies at Princeton. An Irish musician with a focus on traditional sean-nós style\, he has carved a long and unique career in music in Ireland and internationally. 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 been widely recognized for his artistic ambition within the Irish music fraternity. Ó Lionáird has worked internationally with renowned composers Nico Muhly\, Gavin Bryars\, Dan Trueman\, and David Lang. He has also performed and recorded with artists such as Peter Gabriel\, Robert Plant\, Nick Cave\, and Sinead O’Connor. Ó Lionáird’s unique singing style has carried him to stages and concert halls all over the world\, from New York’s Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. His film credits include The Gangs of New York\, Hotel Rwanda\, and most recently as a featured vocalist in the films Calvary and Brooklyn. He is also the vocalist of the critically acclaimed Irish/American band The Gloaming. At Princeton\, Ó Lionáird is teaching the fall 2016 course\, “Sound and Place\,” and plans are underway for him to co-teach a spring 2017 course entitled “Introduction to Irish Studies.”
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/iarla-o-lionaird-donnacha-dennehy-perform-discuss-recent-collaboration-new-opera-hunger/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Concert,Conversation
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SUMMARY:Performance by Award-Winning Musicians Brían Ó hAirt and Len Graham — “The Road Taken: Songs\, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition”
DESCRIPTION: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 Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. Taplin Auditorium is a different location than where Irish Studies Series events are usually held. \nGraham and Ó hAirt’s personal styles come from very disparate regions of Ireland—Graham’s ballads originate in northeastern Ulster while Ó hAirt’s lyrical sean-nós are from the Irish-speaking regions of the West. Their performance will exhibit numerous aspects of Irish culture and will include dance music on concertina and whistle\, puirt-á-beul (mouth-music)\, and sean-nós dancing. Their traditional Irish songs cover a breadth of styles and subjects: ballads\, lyric folksongs\, and music hall pieces\, which tell of love\, emigration\, politics\, and more. Through many seasons of collaboration\, the two have distilled the best of these traditions into a performance that weaves stories\, songs\, and dance that form the duo’s newest release\, The Road Taken.  \nGraham is a world-renowned Irish singer and author who was crowned as the prestigious All-Ireland Singing Champion in 1971. Since the start of his professional singing career in 1982\, he has collaborated with several legendary musicians\, poets and storytellers\, including the late John Campbell\, who shared similar passions for preserving Irish traditional arts. During the years of conflict in Northern Ireland\, Graham worked with Campbell on two albums that helped to raise awareness of shared cultural traditions across Ireland. In 2010 Graham released his most recent solo album\, Over the Hills and Far Away. He has shared his wealth of talent and knowledge about Irish song\, story\, and dance at several international literary and folk festivals\, as well as on television and radio. Throughout his career\, Graham has been recognized for his work with numerous awards\, including the 1992 Seán O’Boyle Cultural Traditions Award\, the 2008 “Keeper of the Tradition” award at the Tommy Makem Festival of Traditional Song\, and the 2011 CCÉ Bardic Award\, among others. \nÓ hAirt is the only American to have won the coveted senior title in traditional singing at the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in Listowel\, County Kerry in 2002. In his teens\, his introduction to Chicago’s Irish-speaking community allowed him to cultivate a rich understanding of the sean-nós singing tradition long before his immersion in the language while living in the Connemara region of western County Galway. This experience left him with a vast repertoire of songs and language that continues to inform and inspire his singing. Ó hAirt has taught and performed extensively in North America\, including performances at the Milwaukee Irish Festival\, the Chicago Celtic Festival\, the Ennis Trad Festival\, and Sean-nós Milwaukee\, a festival he established in 2003. In addition\, his vocal recordings have been featured on numerous radio programs in both Ireland and the U.S.\, including various NPR and RTÉ radio programs. He is also an award-winning sean-nós dancer and accomplished instrumentalist on concertina\, accordion\, and whistle. He currently lives in Portland\, Oregon\, where he teaches Irish and helps develop language-learning games for Language Hunters\, a non-profit organization.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/performance-award-winning-musicians-brian-o-hairt-len-graham-road-taken-songs-music-dance-irish-tradition/
LOCATION:Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Fund for Irish Studies presents Lisa Dwan on “Performing Beckett”
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Dwan\, internationally acclaimed Irish actress\, will give a talk entitled “Performing Beckett” on Friday\, September 16 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 at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nIn “Performing Beckett\,” Dwan will discuss her recent performances of Samuel Beckett’s plays\, which have met critical acclaim and have sold out at venues from London’s Royal Court Theatre to New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music. Dwan’s one-woman show has featured three of Beckett’s works: Rockaby\, Footfalls\, and Not I. She has been performing Beckett since 2005 and was coached by Beckett’s muse\, Billie Whitelaw\, who collaborated with the author for 25 years and for whom he wrote some of his most experimental plays. \nLisa Dwan has worked extensively in theatre\, film\, and television both internationally and in her native Ireland. Her film credits include Oliver Twist\, Tailor of Panama\, and Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain. In 2012\, she adapted\, produced\, and performed the critically acclaimed one-woman play Beside the Sea at the Southbank Centre and on tour\, and starred in Goran Bregović’s Margot\, Diary of an Unhappy Queen at the Barbican. She recently performed in Ramin Gray’s production of Illusions by Ivan Viripaev at the Bush Theatre. Originally from Coosan\, Athlone\, County Westmeath\, Ireland\, she currently lives in London.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fund-irish-studies-presents-lisa-dwan-performing-beckett/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Anne Enright
DESCRIPTION:Anne Enright\, the first Fiction Laureate of Ireland\, will give a reading from her latest novel\, The Green Road\, on Friday\, April 8 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2015-16 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nAnne Enright is an Irish writer whose work includes six novels\, three short story collections\, and one nonfiction book. She was awarded the Man Booker prize for her fourth novel\, The Gathering (2007). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, she has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature\, the 2001 Encore Award\, the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year\, and the 2012 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in literature. Her stories and essays have been featured widely\, including in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, the London Review of Books\, The Dublin Review and The Irish Times. In 2011\, the Irish Academic Press published Anne Enright (Visions and Revisions: Irish Writers in Their Time)\, a collection of essays on Enright’s work. \nThe Green Road was published by Norton in 2015 and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. It follows Rosaleen\, matriarch of the Madigan family\, and her four children\, who as adults have come back to rural Ireland for a last Christmas before their childhood home is sold. Spanning thirty years\, the novel traces back through the Madigans’ lives as they fight\, fracture and fall in love. James Wood in his review of the novel for The New Yorker said of Enright\, “she is a rich\, lyrical prose writer\, who cascades among novelties—again and again\, she finds the unexpected adjective\, the just noun…The Green Road is true and rueful\, as terribly adult in its clarity as its battered Madigans.” \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.”  This event is the last in the 2015-16 series\, which will resume in the fall.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/anne-enright/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160325T163000
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SUMMARY:Matthew Campbell on “Volunteer Poetics: Irish and British Poetry in 1916”
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Campbell\, Professor of Literature at the University of York\, will give a talk entitled “Volunteer Poetics: Irish and British Poetry in 1916” on Friday\, March 25 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2015-16 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nIn “Volunteer Poetics: Irish and British poetry in 1916\,” Campbell will examine the poetry that emerged from Ireland in the time of violence and militarism leading up to the Irish Civil War and the poets who produced it\, Yeats in particular. This topic builds on his larger research of nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry from Ireland and Britain. \nCampbell is the author of Irish Poetry under the Union\, 1801–1924 (2013) and Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry (1999). He is also an editor of The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (2003). Most of Campbell’s work explores British and Irish poetry of the last two centuries\, with particular interest in the history of the sounds of poems. More recently\, he has been researching the invention of the distinctive music\, prosody\, and language of Irish poetry in English from 1801 to 1921 and beyond. Campbell publishes regularly on contemporary Irish poetry as well as on Romantic poetry\, Celticism\, elegy\, and war writing. He holds a B.A. from Trinity College Dublin and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, chaired by Princeton Professor Clair Wills\, provides all Princeton students\, and the community at large\, with 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/volunteer-poetics-irish-and-british-poetry-in-1916/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160305T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160305T173000
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SUMMARY:Ireland and Shakespeare Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies and Lewis Center for the Arts presents the Ireland and Shakespeare Symposium\, a one-day symposium of debate and performance centered on Irish versions and adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays\, with contributions from leading Irish directors\, actors and critics: Mark Burnett\, Bradin Cormack\, Katherine Hennessey\, Garry Hynes\, Patrick Lonergan\, Barry McGovern\, Conall Morrison\, Fintan O’Toole\, Lynne Parker\, Owen Roe\, Robert Sandberg\, James Shapiro\, Clair Wills\, and Michael Wood. \nBeginning Saturday\, March 5 from 9:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street on the Princeton University campus. A pre-symposium lecture is scheduled for Friday\, March 4 at 4:30 p.m. by Columbia University Professor James Shapiro\, author of 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. \nFree and open to the public; no tickets or reservations required. \nThe symposium is presented with support from Princeton University’s English Department\, The David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Fund\, and Global Shakespeare. \nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS: \nFriday\, March 4 \n4:30 p.m. | Fund for Irish Studies Lecture: James Shapiro on “Shakespeare and Ireland”\n5:30 p.m. | Reception \nSaturday\, March 5 \n9:15 a.m. | Introduction\n9:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Staging Shakespeare in Ireland\n11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Screening of the film Mickey B\, directed by Tom Magill\n2:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Debating Shakespeare in Ireland\n4:00 – 5:30 p.m. | Performing Shakespeare in Ireland
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/ireland-and-shakespeare-a-symposium/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Symposium
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T180000
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SUMMARY:Fund for Irish Studies Lecture on Ireland & Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:James Shapiro\, the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, lectures on Ireland and Shakespeare on Friday\, March 4 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is given in conjunction with Princeton University’s Ireland and Shakespeare Symposium on March 5. This event and the symposium are presented with support from Princeton’s English Department and The David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Fund. \nThe lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. Free and open to the public.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fund-for-irish-studies-lecture-on-ireland-shakespeare/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T180000
DTSTAMP:20260520T073843
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SUMMARY:Fund for Irish Studies Lecture by Fintan O'Toole on “Carnival and Ruin: Looting in the 1916 Rising “
DESCRIPTION:Theatre critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole will present the 2016 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture entitled\, “Carnival and Ruin: Looting in the 1916 Rising\,” on Friday\, February 12 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2015-16 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nPhoto courtesy Fintan O’Toole\nFintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, has written for The Irish Times\, New York Daily News\, Sunday Tribune (Dublin)\, and In Dublin Magazine. His books on theater span a wide range of topics\, from his biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan to theater currently appearing on Irish stages. He is the assistant editor\, a columnist\, and a feature writer for The Irish Times. He also contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and other international publications. In 2011\, The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism\, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award\, and Journalist of the Year in 2010 from TV3 Media Awards. \nO’Toole’s most recent project\, History of Ireland in 100 Objects\, covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years. It has been published in book form by the Royal Irish Academy and as an application for iPad\, iPhone and Android devices. \nThe lecture\, presented in recognition of the 1916 uprising or Easter Rising\, considers the armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week\, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the intent to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was heavily engaged in World War I. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fund-for-irish-studies-lecture-on-carnival-and-ruin-looting-in-the-1916-rising/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Filmmaker Mary McGuckian
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Mary McGuckian discusses her new film about Irish designer and architect Eileen Gray on Friday\, December 11 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The conversation is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. Free and open to the public. \nLearn more about the Eileen Gray Project\, The Price of Desire. Below\, McGuckian speaks with Shane O’Toole about the film:
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-filmmaker-mary-mcguckian/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Claire Connolly: “The Holyhead Road”
DESCRIPTION:Professor of English at University College Cork Claire Connolly lectures on “The Holyhead Road” on Friday\, November 13 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. Free and open to the public. \nClaire Connolly is Professor of Modern English in UCC. Her research and teaching interests include Irish writing; the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries;  romanticism in Ireland\, Scotland and Wales; Welsh-Irish cultural exchanges; and Ireland and cultural theory. Claire Connolly was formerly a professor at Cardiff University and has been a visiting professor in Irish Studies at Boston College (2002-3) and Concordia University\, Montreal (Fall 2011). She is Vice Chair (Ireland) of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature; and Co-Director of the Wales-Ireland Research Network.  \nLearn about Professor Connolly’s work in this video from University College Cork:
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/claire-connolly-the-holyhead-road/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151009T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151009T163000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Novelist Eimear McBride
DESCRIPTION:Novelist Eimear McBride talks about her recent prize-winning book\, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing\, on Friday\, October 9 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The event is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. Free and open to the public. \n\n\n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-novelist-eimear-mcbride/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150918T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150918T163000
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SUMMARY:Ian McBride on “Truth and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland”
DESCRIPTION:Professor of History at Kings College\, London\, Ian McBride presents a lecture entitled “Truth and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland” on Friday\, September 18 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. Free and open to the public. \nMcBride has written on various aspects of modern Irish history\, including the role of the historian in national memory. His forthcoming works includeIrish Political Writings 1: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (2016) and The Princeton History of Modern Ireland (2015)\, co-edited with Richard Bourke. Other books includeEighteenth Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves (2009)\,Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century (1998)\, and The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology (1997). \nMcBride’s current research centers on eighteenth century Ireland and the role of historians in making sense of the Northern Ireland conflict. His talk will focus on debates over truth and reconciliation in Northern Ireland since 1998 and the relationship between political violence\, representations of the past\, and professional historiography. Given that the Good Friday Agreement is often presented as a pathway to peace for other conflicts\, the political and moral dilemmas presented by these subjects have an audience well beyond Ireland. \nMcBride is currently Professor of Irish and British History at King’s College\, London and Patrick B. O’Donnell Visiting Professor of Irish Studies at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies\, University of Notre Dame. Having earned his B.A. at Jesus College\, University of Oxford\, and his Ph.D. from the University of London\, he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the British Association for Irish Studies.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/ian-mcbride-on-truth-and-reconciliation-in-northern-ireland/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150501T183000
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SUMMARY:Féile Na Bealtaine: Ghost Trio
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 1\, Ghost Trio\, comprised of singer Iarla Ó Lionáird\, fiddler Cleek Schrey\, and uilleann piper Ivan Goff\, will perform a Féile Na Bealtaine or “May festival” concert of Irish songs at 4:30 p.m. at Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall on the Princeton University campus. The concert\, part of the Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University and co-sponsored by the Department of Music and Lewis Center for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nGhost Trio is the new project featuring sean nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird on harmonium\, uilleann piper Ivan Goff\, and fiddler Cleek Schrey on hardanger. The trio explores timbre in voice\, pipes and strings through innovation and experimentation. All three musicians have explored musical worlds beyond their points of origin: Ó Lionáird from the Irish-speaking region of Cork where he was a virtuoso singer as a young child; Dublin-born Goff\, all-Ireland champion\, playing the pipes in traditional bands; and Virginia native\, Schrey\, whose roots are in American traditional music. They have each pushed boundaries to offer new sonic perspectives in the way we listen to music. \nBorn in the West Cork area in 1964 as one of twelve children\, Iarla Ó Lionaird has carved a long and unique career in music in Ireland and internationally. From his iconic early recording of the vision song “Aisling Gheal” as a young boy to his groundbreaking recordings with Dublin’s Crash Ensemble and Donnacha Dennehy\, he has demonstrated a breadth of artistic ambition within the Irish music community. He has worked with many composers internationally including Nico Muhly\, Gavin Bryars\, Dan Trueman and David Lang and has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Peter Gabriel\, Robert Plant\, Nick Cave and Sinead O’Connor. His unique vocal style has carried him to stages and concert halls all over the world\, from New York’s Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. His voice has graced the silver screen also\, with film credits extending from The Gangs of New York to Hotel Rwanda and most recently as featured vocalist in the films Calvary starring Brendan Gleeson and Brooklyn starring Saoirse Ronan. He is currently the vocalist with the critically acclaimed Irish-American band The Gloaming. \nIvan Goff\, originally from Dublin and now based in Brooklyn\, plays the uilleann pipes (Irish bellows-blown pipes)\, Irish wooden flute\, and pennywhistles. Apart from solo work\, Goff has toured with Irish traditional bands Dervish\, Danú\, Lúnasa\, Téada\, The Green Fields of America with Mick Moloney\, and is a former member of the Eileen Ivers Band. He has performed duets with many traditional musicians over the years including Míchéal Ó Raghallaigh and Patrick Ourceau\, and has collaborated across many genres. His music has been featured in diverse arenas\, including the acclaimed experimental art film Cremaster 3 (directed by Matthew Barney)\, at the Guggenheim museum\, and in theatrical productions such as Peter and Wendy (Mabou Mines\, directed by Lee Breuer). Goff has worked as a soloist with composers throughout the world on various projects including a specially commissioned concerto for uilleann pipes with the Albany Symphony Orchestra and\, more recently\, a new music piece with bass clarinet and 23-piece orchestra composed by Elizabeth Hoffman. Goff has also performed in many productions including extended engagements with Riverdance (U.S. National Tour and Broadway) and Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance. Goff received his B.A. in music from Maynooth University\, his M.A. in Computer Composition and Music Technology from Queens University\, Belfast\, and his M.A. in Musicology from University College Dublin. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in music at New York University. \nDescribed by The Irish Times as “a musician utterly at one with his instrument and his music\,”Cleek Schrey is a fiddler and composer from Virginia. An active member of traditional music communities in America and Ireland he plays with the award-winning string band Bigfoot and comprises one half of a duo with the old time fiddler Stephanie Coleman\, in addition to his work with Ghost Trio. The journal Sound Post has noted that Cleek “possesses a rare combination of traits: deep respect for traditional music and the people who make it\, and an unbounded curiosity about new directions for sound.” He is currently pursuing a Masters in Music Composition at Wesleyan University. \nGhost Trio owes its name to Goff\, who has a particular affinity for the plays of Samuel Beckett\, specifically\, Beckett’s play of the same name. Beckett’s play in turn\, borrows its title (along with some musical fragments) from Beethoven’s Ghost Trio\, which was published in 1809 and is characterized by a particularly eerie sound\, which was influenced\, some say\, by the fact that Beethoven was at that time working on an opera based on Macbeth. This contemporary trio of musicians shares a profound interest in sound itself and their collaborative name “tips its hat to the ghosts that insinuate themselves into the fabric of Irish traditional music.” \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, chaired by Princeton professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon\, 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.” \nTo learn more about the over 100 events presented each year by the Lewis Center for the Arts\, visit arts.princeton.edu. To learn more about the Department of Music’s many concerts and events visit: http://www.princeton.edu/music/.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/feile-na-bealtaine-ghost-trio/
LOCATION:Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Poulomi Saha: “Easter Risings: The Irish Insurrection in India”
DESCRIPTION:Scholar Poulomi Saha will give a lecture on “Easter Risings: The Irish Insurrection in India” on Friday\, April 17\, at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The talk is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public. \nPoulomi Saha is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she teaches courses in postcolonial studies\, gender and sexuality theory\, and ethnic American literature. Her research and teaching spans eastward and forward from the late 19th century decline of British colonial rule in the Indian Ocean through to the Pacific and the rise of American global power and domestic race relations in the 20th century. Her focus is in developing an expansive view of empire and what constitutes Anglophone literature\, routed not primarily through Great Britain and Western Europe\, but rather through circuits of affiliation and encounter between Asia and the Americas. \nShe is currently completing her first monograph\, Imperial Attachments: Gender\, Nation\, and the Sciences of Subjectivity in Colonial and Postcolonial Bengal\, an interdisciplinary study that examines East Bengal from the late 19th century to the contemporary moment\, in which she fundamentally challenges the narrative of political modernity offered by postcolonial studies. Her work as been published in differences and The Journal of Modern Literature. Saha earned her B.A. in International Relations and English from Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. \nHer lecture\, based on her current research\, will examine the Bengali uprisings of 1930\, which were inspired by the Irish Republican Army’s Easter Rising rebellion of 1916\, an act that sparked movements in other regions of the world to overthrow British colonial rule. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, chaired by Princeton professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon\, 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.” \nThe final event in this season’s Fund for Irish Studies series is a concert of traditional Irish songs by Ghost Trio\, cosponsored with Princeton’s Department of Music\, on May 1.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/poulomi-saha-easter-risings-the-irish-insurrection-in-india/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150410T163000
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SUMMARY:Regina Ui Chollatain: “A ‘New’ Gaelic League Idea: Douglas Hyde 100 Years On”
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 10\, Irish and Celtic studies scholar Regina Uí Chollatáin will present a lecture on “A ‘New’ Gaelic League Idea: Douglas Hyde 100 Years On” at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The lecture\, part of the Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, is free and open to the public. \nRegina Uí Chollatáin is a native of Donegal who began her career in education as a primary teacher in schools in Donegal\, Laois\, and Ceatharlach. She is now a senior lecturer at University College Dublin on the Revival period\, modern Irish literature\, and contemporary Irish writing and critical theory\, with a focus on Irish language journalism\, print and broadcast media\, and film studies. She also serves as the Vice Principal Director of the Graduate School. She is the author of four books\, including An Claidheamh Soluis agus Fáinne an Lae 1899-1932 (2004) and Iriseoirí Pinn na Gaeilge (2008). In 2003\, Chollatáin was awarded the National University of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Léann na Gaeilge/an Léann Ceilteach\, and was appointed Ireland Canada University Foundation Senior Visiting Professor 2011-12. She was a national tutor for Organising In-Service Training for Language and Technology in Education\, a project for which she won the European Label Award for Innovation in Language Teaching and Learning in 2004. She was also awarded the Lil Nic Dhonncha Prize and the Dhonncha Sullivan Medal in 1999\, 2001\, and 2002. She was the recipient in 2008 of the Oireachtas award for journalistic criticism for the Gaelic column in Iriseoirí Pinn na Gaeilge. \nDouglas Hyde\, the subject of Chollatáin’s lecture\, was a scholar of the Irish language who served as the first president of Ireland from 1938 to 1945. He was a leading figure in the Gaelic revival and first president of the Gaelic League\, one of the most influential cultural organizations in Ireland at the time. He dedicated his life to preserving the native Irish language\, and his contributions to the cause of Irish language\, history\, music\, and literature led W.B. Yeats to proclaim him the source of the Irish literary renaissance that continues to this day.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/regina-ui-chollatain-new-gaelic-league-idea-douglas-hyde-100-years/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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