BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University - ECPv6.6.4.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://fis.princeton.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20170425T175421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T175421Z UID:1436-1493397000-1493402400@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/kevin-barry-couresty-winter-papers.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170414T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170414T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20170404T180149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170404T180149Z UID:1433-1492187400-1492187400@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/mary-daly.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T094500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20170306T144805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170327T144903Z UID:1428-1490953500-1490983200@fis.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20170203T191218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170203T191218Z UID:1425-1487349000-1487354400@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/otoole-300x2251.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161209T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161209T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20161205T145044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161205T154410Z UID:1421-1481301000-1481301000@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/richard-and-sheila-600.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20161101T171723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161101T171831Z UID:1418-1479486600-1479492000@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/donnacha-dennehy-600.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161014T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161014T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20161010T122151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161010T122151Z UID:1414-1476462600-1476468000@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Len-Brian-2-600.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20161006T122814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T122814Z UID:1410-1474043400-1474048800@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Lisa-Dwan-courtesy-of-Lisa-Dwan.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20160121T192752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T143720Z UID:1384-1460133000-1460138400@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Anne-Enright-009.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160325T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160325T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20160121T191220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160321T141716Z UID:1383-1458923400-1458928800@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/matthew-campbell.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160305T091500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160305T173000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20160121T191045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160222T131410Z UID:1382-1457169300-1457199000@fis.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20160121T190902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160121T190902Z UID:1381-1457109000-1457114400@fis.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20160121T190756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160128T154100Z UID:1380-1455294600-1455300000@fis.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151211T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151211T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20150921T165953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150921T165953Z UID:1376-1449851400-1449851400@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MV5BMTc3MjkxNzg4MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjIyMTY3Mg@@._V1_UX214_CR00214317_AL_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151113T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151113T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20150921T164414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150921T164414Z UID:1375-1447432200-1447432200@fis.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151009T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151009T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20150921T162220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150921T162220Z UID:1370-1444408200-1444408200@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/mt0414McBride-Eimear.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150918T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150918T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20150921T161747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150921T161747Z UID:1368-1442593800-1442593800@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ian_McBride_7308-683x1024.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150501T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150501T183000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20150427T174026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150427T174026Z UID:1355-1430497800-1430505000@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ghost-trio.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150417T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150417T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20150521T185030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150521T185051Z UID:1359-1429288200-1429293600@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Poulomi-Saha-courtesy-Saha.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150410T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150410T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20150331T150500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150331T150507Z UID:1351-1428683400-1428683400@fis.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/regina-ui-chollatain.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150327T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150327T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20150319T190431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150319T190431Z UID:1348-1427473800-1427479200@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Glenn Patterson reads from his work DESCRIPTION:Irish novelist Glenn Patterson will read from his work on March 27 at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Part of the Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nGlenn Patterson was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland and is best known as a novelist\, though he is also a documentary filmmaker and journalist. \nIn his novels\, his recurring theme is reassessment of the past and the complexity of history. His work has been called political\, though he attributes this to a deep sense of place that pervades his novels. “Belfast is my city. That is where my imagination is most alive\,” he says. “You feel almost shaped\, yourself as a human being\, by the buildings that are around you. It’s just unavoidable that the political backdrop is featured in the novels.” \nPatterson’s most recent novel is The Rest Just Follows. Fat Lad (1992) was shortlisted for the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award. His other novels include The Mill for Grinding Old People (2012)\, That Which Was (2004)\, Number 5 (2003)\, The International (1999)\, Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (1995)\, and Burning Your Own\, which won the 1988 Betty Trask Award and the 1989 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His memoir\, Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times was published in 2008. He received the 2006 Arts Council Northern Ireland Major Individual Artist Award. \nPatterson has been a writer-in-residence at the University of East Anglia and the University College Cork\, and he is currently teaching in the M.A. Program in Creative Writing at Queen’s University\, Belfast. \nIn addition to his novels\, Patterson also makes documentaries for the BBC\, has written plays and stories for Radio 3 and Radio 4\, and co-wrote the screenplay of the 2013 film Good Vibrations\, which was about the music scene in Belfast during the late 1970s. His articles and essays have appeared in The Guardian\, Observer\, Sunday Times\, Independent\, Irish Times\, and Dublin Review. Lapsed Protestant\, a collection of his non-fiction\, was published in 2006. Here\, a new collection of his writing for newspapers and radio\, will be published this year. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/glenn-patterson-reads-work/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542 CATEGORIES:Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/patterson-by-michael-donald.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150213T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150213T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20150130T164209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150319T190347Z UID:1343-1423845000-1423850400@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Fintan O'Toole: “Unspeakable Horror: How Ireland Fought the Great War” DESCRIPTION:Theatre critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole will present the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture entitled\, “Unspeakable Horror: How Ireland Fought the Great War\,” on Friday\, February 13 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nFintan O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is a theatre critic and scholar. As a drama critic\, O’Toole 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 Assistant Editor\, columnist and 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. The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals” in 2011. 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. \nO’Toole is a Visiting Lecturer in Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. His professorship is made possible through funding from Leonard L. Milberg\, Princeton Class of 1953\, a generous supporter of the arts and cultural studies who in 2011 donated an extensive collection of prose by Irish writers to the University\, including more than 1\,700 books\, manuscripts\, portraits\, audio-visual materials and other items that illustrate the richness and vitality of Irish writing from 1798 to the present. Milberg’s donation of the Irish prose collection was made in Fagles’ honor. \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/fintan-otoole-unspeakable-horror-ireland-fought-great-war/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542 CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/otoole-300x2251.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141205T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141205T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20141118T160331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141118T160331Z UID:1337-1417797000-1417797000@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Tristram Hunt: “The Socialism of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: Robert Noonan and the Modern Labour Party” DESCRIPTION:Historian and broadcaster Tristram Hunt will present a lecture entitled\, “The Socialism of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: Robert Noonan and the Modern Labour Party\,” on Friday\, December 5 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nTristram Hunt is the author of The English Civil War: At First Hand; Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City; and the award-winning biography\, The Frock-coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels. Between 2001 and 2010\, Hunt combined his post as Senior Lecturer in British History at Queen Mary\, University of London\, with work as a history broadcaster\, presenting over fifteen radio and television programs for the BBC and Channel 4 in England. During this period he also served as a trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund\, the Heritage Lottery Fund\, and the Centre for Cities think-tank. He has made regular contributions to The Guardian and The Observer. \nHunt received his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Cambridge\, before serving as an Exchange Fellow at the University of Chicago\, and returning to Cambridge to complete his doctoral thesis on Victorian civic pride. He is Shadow Secretary of State for Education and a member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central. He is a trustee of the History of Parliament Trust and fellow of the Royal Historical Society. \nHunt will discuss Robert Noonan’s semi-autobiographical novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists\, written under the pseudonym Robert Tressell. A literary depiction of the indignities of poverty\, the book tells a story of workers in a fictional English coastal town\, among them the novel’s hero\, Frank Owen. Through a series of lunchtime lectures\, Owen provides the ideological backbone of the story\, and\, through him\, Noonan pioneered a previously unrecorded sense of working-class humanity and illustrated the nature and promise of socialism\, the novel’s ultimate ambition. Today\, according to Hunt\, this classic novel still resonates with socialist ideology\, yet a more circumspect reading reveals a complicated portrayal of working-class solidarity. For Noonan the only real way to achieve political progress was for a properly educated\, implicitly middle-class elite to drag the blighted working class towards the socialist future. The uncomfortable political reality behind the novel leads us to ask\, according to Hunt\, whether the novel simply fosters working-class consciousness or does it justify the leadership of a socialist elite? \nAn edition of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists\, with an introduction by Hunt\, was published in 2004 by Penguin Classics. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/tristram-hunt-socialism-ragged-trousered-philanthropists-robert-noonan-modern-labour-party/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Tristram-Hunt-by-YuiMok-PA.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141114T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141114T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20141023T171817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141023T171939Z UID:1332-1415982600-1415982600@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Charles Fanning: “Banish the Bushwah! Why We Ought to Read James T. Farrell” DESCRIPTION:Professor Emeritus of English and History at Southern Illinois University Charles Fanning will give a lecture in the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University entitled\, “Banish the Bushwah! Why We Ought to Read James T. Farrell\,” on Friday\, November 14 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public. \nCharles Fanning\, a joint appointee in English and History at Southern Illinois University\, earned his Ph.D. in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. His research combines intellectual and literary history\, especially related to Irish-American immigrants. Among his 12 books is Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years (1978)\, which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians. Professor Fanning was named Southern Illinois University Outstanding Scholar in 2004. \nJames T. Farrell (1904-1979)\, the subject of Fanning’s talk\, was a socially engaged writer who penned one of the classics of American fiction\, the “Studs Lonigan” trilogy. Born into a working-class Irish-American Catholic family in Chicago\, Farrell drew upon his background to write novels and short stories about the Irish community on the South Side of Chicago. He is noted as an influence on the work of Norman Mailer. Farrell’s most famous character\, the Irish-American streetwise Studs Lonigan\, shared many of his creator’s own life experiences. The trilogy was made into a film in 1960 and an Emmy Award-winning television miniseries in 1979. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/charles-fanning-banish-bushwah-read-james-t-farrell/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Charles-Fanning-headshot-courtesy-of-Charles-Fanning.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141017T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141017T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20141015T195028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141015T195714Z UID:1327-1413563400-1413563400@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Daithi O'Ceallaigh: “From the Belfast Bunker: Behind the Scenes in the Peace Process” DESCRIPTION:Former Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom Daithi O’Ceallaigh will present a lecture entitled\, “From the Belfast Bunker: Behind the Scenes in the Peace Process\,” on Friday\, October 17 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University\, the event is free and open to the public. \nDaithi O’Ceallaigh’s distinguished diplomatic career spans more than 35 years. Having graduated from University College Dublin\, he and his wife Antoinette spent three years as volunteer teachers in Zambia before joining the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1973. He went on to assume posts in Moscow\, London\, Belfast\, New York\, Finland and Estonia before serving as Ambassador to London for six years from 2001. He was subsequently appointed Ambassador to the UN\, World Trade Organization\, and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. \nO’Ceallaigh retired from the Foreign Service in 2009. He was appointed to serve as Chairman of the Press Council of Ireland for a three-year term in 2010 and was reconfirmed for a second term in 2013. He is currently Director General (part-time) of the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin. \nDrawing upon his extensive career in diplomacy\, O’Ceallaigh will discuss the complex negotiations that lay behind the Irish peace process\, a process in which he played an active role. Mr O’Ceallaigh will discuss the often invisible role played by civil servants in securing a civil society. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/daithi-oceallaigh-belfast-bunker-behind-scenes-peace-process/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542 CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/daithi-o-ceallaigh2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140912T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140912T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20140827T173709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140827T173709Z UID:1310-1410539400-1410539400@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Emily Mark-Fitzgerald: "Commemorating the Irish Famine" DESCRIPTION:Art historian Emily Mark-Fitzgerald will open the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University with a lecture entitled\, “Commemorating the Irish Famine\,” on Friday\, September 12 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street.  The event is free and open to the public. \nMark-Fitzgerald\, of University College\, Dublin\, is the author of Commemorating the Irish Famine:  Memory and the Monument (Liverpool University Press\, 2013)\, a book exploring the history of the 1840s Irish Famine in visual representation\, commemoration and collective memory from the 19th century until the present\, explaining why since the 1990s the Famine past has come to matter so much in the present.  She has also launched a website that catalogues a sample of photographic records and information related to these commemorative monuments in Australia\, Canada\, Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Britain and the United States – www.irishfaminememorials.com. \nMark-FitzGerald speaks regularly and publishes on the subject of public art\, memory and commemoration\, museology and the visual culture of migration/diaspora\, and contemporary Irish and international art.  She is the recipient of major fellowships and research funding from the U.S.-Ireland Alliance (Mitchell Scholarship)\, Mellon Foundation/Social Science Research Council\, Humanities Institute of Ireland\, Royal Hibernian Academy\, Royal Irish Academy\, Irish Research Council\, and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. \nSince 2003 she has taught in University College\, Dublin’s School of Art History and Cultural Policy\, where she was appointed Permanent Lecturer in 2008.  Her teaching and research span both art history and cultural policy at the undergraduate and post-graduate level\, informed by previous professional experience as an arts manager and an interest in visual art\, its institutions and the public sphere. \nMark-FitzGerald holds a B.A. in Art History and Spanish from the University of Southern California\, an M.A. in Arts Administration from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Art History from University College Dublin.  She is a founding editor of Artefact: the Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians and the Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/emily-mark-fitzgerald-commemorating-irish-famine/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542 CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/t4_1285030754.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140425T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140425T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20140317T144509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140418T201451Z UID:1283-1398443400-1398448800@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill DESCRIPTION:Fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill will perform Irish traditional music on Friday\, April 25\, at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street.  The performance is the final event in the 2013-14 series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies.  The concert is free and open to the public. \n  \n  \n“This remarkable duo has honed a ravishing repertoire by distilling the melodic essence of traditional tunes…bringing chamber music’s intensity and dynamic control to folk music.” \n(Seattle Times)\nMartin Hayes and Dennis Cahill are two of the world’s leading artists in traditional Irish music. Their adventurous\, soulful interpretations of traditional tunes are recognized the world over for their exquisite musicality and irresistible rhythm.  The New York Times calls them “a Celtic complement to Steve Reich’s Quartets and Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain.” Their latest CD\, Welcome Here Again\, captures the chemistry of their duo playing. \nFiddler Martin Hayes\, from East County Clare\, is considered one of Ireland’s most innovative and influential musicians.  He was raised in a famous musical family in rural County Clare\, and had won six All-Ireland fiddle championships by age 19.  Dennis Cahill was born and raised in Chicago to parents from County Kerry\, Ireland. He is a master guitarist whose spare\, essential accompaniment to Hayes’ fiddle is acknowledged as a major breakthrough for guitar in the Irish tradition.  The duo has toured throughout the world for almost twenty years including multiple tours to Australia\, Japan\, Italy\, Germany\, France\, Holland\, Scandinavia\, Canada\, the U.K. and Ireland as well as stops in Hong Kong\, the People’s Republic of China\, Poland and Mexico. Hayes and Cahill have recorded three critically acclaimed albums together on Green Linnet Records.  They were the featured performers at the March 17\, 2011 annual St. Patrick’s Day Congressional Luncheon playing for the President\, Vice-President\, members of Congress\, and the President of Ireland at the Capitol\, and that evening at the White House. \nIn February 2013 the duo performed a “Tiny Desk Concert” for NPR: \n \nTwo recent projects have received much attention: Masters of Tradition\, an ensemble of seven Irish virtuoisi on tour\, based on a festival Martin curates each year in County Cork; and The Gloaming\, a new Irish “supergroup” that includes singer Iarla O Lionaird (Afro Celt Sound System) and the New York downtown pianist Doveman (Thomas Bartlett). Their musical explorations have included collaborations with jazz guitarist Bill Frisell\, “new grass” duo Darol Anger and Mike Marshall\, and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. \n“Our allegiance is to the spirit of the moment\,” says Hayes of their concert appearances. “Our primary wish is that the musical experience be one that lifts our spirits and those of the audience.”\n[hr top] \nHayes & Cahill\, photographed by Derek Speirs\nMartin Hayes\, from East County Clare\, began playing the fiddle at the age of seven and went on to win six All-Ireland fiddle championships before the age of nineteen. He is the recipient of numerous awards including Folk Instrumentalist of the Year from BBC Radio\, Man of the Year from the American Irish Historical Society and Musician of the Year from TG4\, the Irish language television station. Martin has contributed music\, both original and traditional\, to modern dance performance\, theatre\, film and television. He is the artistic director of Masters of Tradition\, an annual festival in Bantry\, County Cork and functions in the same capacity for the touring production of the festival featuring other Irish music masters\, including Dennis Cahill\, which toured the U.S. in April 2012 and will tour again in March 2013. Both Martin and Dennis are part of the new Irish band\, The Gloaming\, which explores the edges of traditional Irish music. Martin also collaborates with the American classical music quartet\, Brooklyn Rider. He teaches advanced fiddle classes at festivals and music retreats and in addition to recording two solo albums\, and three duet albums with Dennis Cahill\, has produced and collaborated on recordings with other distinguished Irish musicians\, including his late father\, the esteemed fiddler P.J. Hayes. \nDennis Cahill is a master guitarist from Chicago born to Irish-speaking parents from the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry. His spare\, essential accompaniment to Martin Hayes’ fiddle is acknowledged as a major breakthrough for guitar in the Irish tradition. Besides touring with Martin Hayes for their duet performances\, Dennis is a member of the Masters of Tradition ensemble as well as an annual participant at the festival of the same name\, and plays with The Gloaming. He is a sought-after record producer where he works with musicians in his home studio in Chicago\, as well as a talented photographer (www.denniscahill.com). \n  \n  \n  URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/martin-hayes-dennis-cahill/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08542 CATEGORIES:Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/hayes-cahill.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140404T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140404T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20140310T204322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140328T172814Z UID:1277-1396629000-1396634400@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Black 47 DESCRIPTION:Admission is FREE but tickets are required.\nPlease call the McCarter Theatre Box Office at (609) 258 – 2787.\nThey played more gigs at Shea Stadium than The Beatles\, shut down the city of Hoboken\, appeared multiple times on Leno\, Letterman\, and O’Brien\, starred in a movie with their fans Matt Dillon and Danny Glover\, helped spring the Guilford Four and the Birmingham Six from British prisons\, saved an Irish immigrant church from the wrecking ball. \nAnything else? Oh yeah\, their CD IRAQ was the most popular with troops serving in Iraq\, their song The Big Fellah was featured for 3 minutes on Sons of Anarchy\, they’ve played over 2500 gigs from pubs to stadiums and released 14 CDs\, their songs are used in hundreds of high school and college history and political science courses\, and they intend disbanding on November 8th 2014\, exactly 25 years after their first gig in The Bronx. \nThen again\, Black 47 has always done it their way. Led by Irish author\, playwright\, and SiriusXM radio host\, Larry Kirwan\, Black 47 play a uniquely Irish form of rock ‘n’ roll that touches on many social and political issues\, and yet is never less than entertaining and riveting. Black 47 earned their chops playing four sets a night in New York pubs. They gained national attention for their first indie record before The Cars’ Ric Ocasek produced their second album\, Fire Of Freedom which brought them mainstream attention with MTV favorites\, Funky Ceili and Maria’s Wedding. \nThrough years of relentless touring the band’s signature eclectic sound\, socially conscious lyrics and exciting concerts paved the way for other Irish influenced bands such as Flogging Molly and The Dropkick Murphys. A band of band leaders\, Black 47 includes\, Geoff Blythe (saxophones)\, Thomas Hamlin (drums)\,\nFred Parcells (trombone/whistle)\, Joseph Mulvanerty (uilleann pipes/flutes/bodhran) & Joseph “Bearclaw” on bass. \nThis legendary Irish rock band has left a lasting legacy and they intend going out with a bang. Their final CD\, Last Call\, will be released in January. \n* This event is FREE\, but tickets are required. Please call the McCarter Theatre Center Box Office at (609) 258 – 2787.\n  URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/black-47/ LOCATION:Berlind Theatre\, McCarter Theatre Center\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Group-photo-Black-47.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140328T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140328T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20140310T202426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140328T172750Z UID:1275-1396024200-1396029600@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Erskine Childers DESCRIPTION:Writer and historian Erskine Childers will present a lecture entitled\, “The Riddle of Erskine Childers\,” on Friday\, March 28 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street.  The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies.  The event is free and open to the public. \nChilders will talk about his great-grandfather Robert Erskine Childers\, a major figure in the Irish revolution.  A writer and political activist\, Robert Erskine Childers was born in London and educated at Haileybury College and Trinity College\, Cambridge\, where he argued against Irish Home Rule.  From 1895 to 1910 he was a clerk in the House of Commons.  He served in both the Boer War and the First World War before settling in Ireland in 1919\, by then wholly committed to the goal of Irish independence.  He used his own yacht\, the Asgard\, to supply arms to the Irish volunteers at Howth in 1914.  In 1921 he was appointed director of publicity for the Irish Republican Army and in 1922 he was court‐martialled for possession of a revolver and executed by a Free State firing squad.   \nAs a writer\, the elder Childers is remembered for The Riddle of the Sands (1903)\, often described as the first example of spy fiction\, a novel about two British yachtsmen sailing in the Baltic who discover German preparations for an invasion of England.  The book was a sensational bestseller and drew attention to the menace of an enemy yet to be acknowledged.  Childers was the son of the Victorian Oriental scholar Robert Childers and father of Erskine Hamilton Childers\, who became the fourth president of Ireland. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/erskine-childers/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/q6d9NAZt.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140228T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140228T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T232425 CREATED:20140210T202152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140226T174417Z UID:1269-1393605000-1393610400@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Fintan O'Toole DESCRIPTION:Irish theater critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole will present the 2014 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture\, entitled “Mr. Bloom and the Buddha\,” on Friday\, February 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the 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.  The event is free and open to the public. \nO’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is teaching at Princeton this semester including the course\, “Ghosts\, Vampires\, and Zombies in Irish Theatre and Literature.”  Robert 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. \nIn the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture\, O’Toole will focus on a looted Burmese statue of the Buddha that sits\, largely forgotten\, in a corner of the National Museum in Dublin. But it has a strange and significant presence in James Joyce’s Ulysses\, where it features twice.  O’Toole will show how a neglected object can help us to understand some key things about Joyce’s masterpiece\, not least the relationship between Leopold Bloom and his unfaithful wife\, Molly. \nAs a drama critic\, O’Toole 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 Assistant Editor\, columnist and 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.  The Observer named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals” in 2011. 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 app for iPad\, iPhone and Android devices. \nO’Toole’s visiting professorship is made possible through funding from Leonard L. Milberg\, Princeton Class of 1953\, a generous supporter of the arts and cultural studies who in 2011 donated an extensive collection of prose by Irish writers to the University\, including more than 1\,700 books\, manuscripts\, portraits\, audio-visual materials and other items that illustrate the richness and vitality of Irish writing from 1798 to the present. Milberg’s donation of the Irish prose collection was made in Fagles’ honor. \n  \n  URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fintan-otoole/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/fintan158.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR