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-WR-CALNAME:The Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University 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:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160305T091500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160305T173000 DTSTAMP:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005446 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:20260610T005447 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:20260610T005447 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:20260610T005447 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:20260610T005447 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:20260610T005447 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140207T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140207T180000 DTSTAMP:20260610T005447 CREATED:20140109T170354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140117T160434Z UID:1263-1391790600-1391796000@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Fran O'Rourke & John Feeley DESCRIPTION:Irish classical guitarist John Feeley and Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin Fran O’ Rourke will perform “JoyceSong: Irish Songs from the Works of James Joyce\,” Irish songs with a Joyce connection on Friday\, February 7\, at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street.  The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies.  The event is free and open to the public. \n“JoyceSong” began in the Martello tower in Sandycove\, Dublin\, home to the James Joyce Museum\, where John Feeley and Fran O’Rourke performed some of Joyce’s favorite Irish songs\, accompanied by a guitar belonging to Joyce\, which was donated to the museum in 1966.  While Joyce’s interest in classical music\, especially opera\, is well-documented\, the important allusions throughout his writings to songs from the Irish tradition are less well-known.  Included in Feeley and O’Rourke’s repertoire are the forgotten air used by Joyce for his concert performance of “Salley Gardens\,” and Goldsmith’s song\, “The Jolly Pigeons\,” which Joyce taught to the actor who played Tony Lumpkin in his Zurich production of She Stoops to Conquer. \nJohn Feeley has been described by the Washington Post as “Ireland’s leading classical guitarist.” In addition to his solo and chamber music concerts\, he has performed widely with orchestras including The American Symphony at Carnegie Hall\, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland\, the Ulster Orchestra\, and the Irish Chamber Orchestra\, among others. He has won a number of prizes in international competitions\, including the Special Award for interpretation in the 1984 Mauro Giuliani competition\, Italy.  Highly regarded for his performance of new works by Irish composers\, he has regularly performed at international guitar festivals\, including the Dublin International Guitar Festival.  He has made recordings with K-Tel\, Gael-Linn Records\, CBA Classics\, Ossian Records\, Castle Communications and Blackbox Music.  He has recently retired as Professor at the Conservatory of Music\, Dublin Institute of Technology\, but continues to teach at a number of institutions. \nFran O’Rourke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin.  He is primarily interested in the tradition of classical metaphysics and has published widely on Plato\, Aristotle\, Aquinas\, and Heidegger.  His book Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas was reissued by University of Notre Dame Press (2005).   Allwisest Stagyrite: Joyce’s Quotations from Aristotle was published by the National Library of Ireland in 2005.  He is preparing for publication a collection of essays entitled Aristotelian Interpretations\, and is completing a book on James Joyce\, Aristotle\, and Aquinas.  He has lectured widely both on philosophical influences in Joyce and on Joyce’s use of song; he has performed recitals of Irish songs featured in Joyce’s work in the National Concert Hall\, Dublin (2004) and the Conservatorio\, Trieste (2008).  In 2012 he organized and sponsored the restoration of James Joyce’s guitar\, which was donated by Joyce’s friend Paul Ruggiero to the museum in 1966. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, celebrating its 15th anniversary season and chaired by Princeton professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon\, affords 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/fran-orourke-john-feeley/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131115T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131115T180000 DTSTAMP:20260610T005447 CREATED:20131111T135647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131111T135647Z UID:154-1384533000-1384538400@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Enda Walsh in Conversation with Michael Cadden DESCRIPTION:Enda Walsh is a playwright and screenwriter who shot to fame when he won both the George Devine Award and the Stewart Parker Award in 1997 with his play Disco Pigs. In 2007 and 2008 Enda won Fringe First Awards at two consecutive Edinburgh Festivals for his plays The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom. The former led the Guardian to name him “one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre.” In 2011 Once\, Enda’s adaptation of the film by John Carney\, opened off-broadway. Critically acclaimed it moved to Broadway in 2012\, where it picked up eight Tony Awards\, including Best Book for Enda. The West End run of Once opened in April 2013. \nSince his initial success as a playwright\, Enda has gone on to write for the screen. His 2008 biopic\, Hunger\, told the story of the final days of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands and won a host of awards\, including the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Heartbeat Award at the Dinard International Film Festival. It was nominated for seven BIFAs (including Best Screenplay)\, six British Film and Television Awards (including Best Screenplay and Best Independent Film) and BAFTA’s Outstanding British Film Award 2009. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/enda-walsh/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Conversation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/EWalsh.png ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131108T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131108T180000 DTSTAMP:20260610T005447 CREATED:20131017T161845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T161845Z UID:129-1383928200-1383933600@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation with Musician and Filmmaker Philip King DESCRIPTION:Philip King is a curator and producer of bespoke cultural events\, and a film director\, writer\, musician\, broadcaster\, commentator and contributor to national and international forums on the role and contribution of culture and arts in a world where we are more connected and more isolated than ever before. \nIn 1987\, with writer and director Nuala O’Connor\, he produced for BBC Television the groundbreaking and National Primetime Emmy award-winning series Bringing It All Back Home\, the story of Irish Music and America\, its extraordinary odyssey from kitchen to dancehall\, from concert platform to international rock stadium and back featuring performances from Bono\, The Everly Brothers\, Ricky Skaggs\, Emmylou Harris and Elvis Costello. \nSince 1991\, King has directed and produced numerous series\, documentaries and events exploring Irish music and its international influence\, including The Juliet Letters (1993)\, featuring Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet. In 1994 came A River of Sound\, a seven part documentary on the changing course of Irish traditional music for RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland. In 1997\, King co‐produced the soundtrack for the feature film This Is My Father starring Aidan Quinn\, James Caan and John Cusack. In 1998 he directed The Joshua Tree\, a Classic Albums documentary on the making of U2’s album of the same name. \nAs a documentarian\, he has photographed every important Irish musician over the last 25 years. \nKing conceived and created Other Voices ‐ Songs From a Room  in 2002. Originally presented by The Frames frontman Glen Hansard\, and now hosted by Aidan Gillen (The Wire and Game of Thrones)\, the series has been through 11 iterations and has captured bare and intimate performances from Amy Winehouse\, The National\, Elbow\, Ellie Goulding\, Glen Hansard\, Damien Rice\, Jarvis Cocker\, Snow Patrol\, Ryan Adams\, Florence and The Machine\, Marina & The Diamonds\, Laura Marling and many many more. \nIn 2011\, Other Voices travelled to New York City to the heart of the East Village for what The New York Times called “Two Sides Of The Atlantic Meet In New York City”. \nOn certain nights in the tiny town of Dingle\, Ireland\, residents can hear the strains of music coming from an ancient church\, with musicians from around the world having made the long journey to the Western most edge of the country. And on other nights – the local fisherman will swear by this – you can hear the distant sounds of Manhattan traffic leaping across the Atlantic into the mists just off the coast. Those two sounds\, one improbable and the other probably mythic\, came together for two nights late last week when ‘Other Voices’ came to NewYork. \nDavid Carr – New York Times – November 1 2011 \n2012/13 saw the most dramatic evolution of Other Voices to date. It branched into a multi-location\, globally streamed event with some of the biggest names in music taking to three separate stages in St. James’ Dingle\, The Glassworks in Derry/Londonderry and Wilton’s Music Hall in London. \nKing conceived and curated two large scale productions during the last 12 months. In August 2012\, a large scale production brought Notre Dame: A Welcome Home to a live audience of 10\,000 and the show was streamed and televised live to an international audience of 5 million. \nIn March 2013\, King directed Glaoch: The President’s Call\, a television production commissioned by The President of Ireland\, Michael D. Higgins. The program celebrated an abundance of Irish music\, literature\, art and culture and was presented to the world on St. Patrick’s Day 2013. \nPhilip is currently developing Other Voices America. He continues to tour with his band Scullion and presents a weekly radio show\, South Wind Blows\, from RTÉ studios in West Kerry. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/philip-king/ 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/Philip-King-headshot1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131018T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131018T180000 DTSTAMP:20260610T005447 CREATED:20131017T160313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T160313Z UID:125-1382113800-1382119200@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Irish Jazz Singer Christine Tobin DESCRIPTION:Performance of her award-winning settings of poems by W.B. Yeats next in Fund for Irish Studies Series \nJazz singer and composer Christine Tobin will give a performance of “Sailing to Byzantium\,” her award-winning musical settings of poems by W.B. Yeats\, on Friday\, October 18\, at 4:30 p.m. in the Frist Theatre at the Frist Campus Center.  The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public. \nChristine Tobin is an award-winning Irish songwriter and composer based in the U.K.\, where The Guardian has described her as “a jewel of the London jazz scene\, streets ahead of the pack.” Having recorded seven albums for Babel\, one of the U.K.’s most dynamic and creative Indie labels\, she is the recipient of several awards and accolades that praise her skills as a writer and arranger.  In 2008 she was named Best Vocalist at the BBC Jazz Awards and in December 2012 she won a British Composer Award for “Sailing to Byzantium.”  She was also shortlisted for two Parliamentary Jazz Awards this year – “Musician of the Year” and “Album of the Year.” \n[quote style=”boxed” float=”right”]Hear Tobin perform Carole King’s classic\, “So Far Away\,” in this video with accompanist Liam Noble: \n\n[/quote] \nTobin’s versatility and musical integrity have won her invitations to record and work with a long list of artists that includes\, among others\, Billy Childs and Django Bates.  She works regularly in the U.K. and international contemporary music scene\, performing at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London and recently to sell-out audiences at the Rochester International Jazz Festival in the U.S. She has also presented special features for BBC Radio 3’s cutting edge program Jazz on 3 and was a regular on Alyn Shipton’s Jazz Library during its long run on BBC Radio 3. \n“Sailing to Byzantium” is her latest work and an “unqualified masterpiece\,” according to Jazzwise Magazine.  It is a work that brings to life the lyrical magic of poetry through a sensitive setting of twelve poems by Yeats.  The poems range from his earlier works to his final collection\, featuring some of his best-loved poems\, including “When You Are Old” and “The Wild Swans at Coole.” \nInformation on the full 2013-2014 Fund for Irish Studies series can be found at fisprinceton.wpengine.com.  Upcoming lectures scheduled in the series include: \n\nPhilip King on “The Irish Song Lyric from Tom Moore to Christy Moore\,” November 8\nTony Award-winning playwright Enda Walsh in conversation with Senior Lecturer in Theater and Lewis Center Chair Michael Cadden\, November 15\n\nTo learn more about the over 100 events presented each year by the Lewis Center for the Arts\, visit princeton.edu/arts. \n\nLink to photo:   https://lca.sharefile.com/d/sf9437bd12e941cea \nPhoto caption:  Christine Tobin\, an Irish jazz singer\, will perform her award-winning settings of poems by W.B. Yeats as part of a series presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton \nPhoto credit:  Photo by Bob Barkany URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/irish-jazz-singer-christine-tobin/ LOCATION:Frist Theatre\, Frist Campus Center\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Christine-Tobin-headshot-by-Bob-Barkany1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131011T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131011T173000 DTSTAMP:20260610T005447 CREATED:20131001T203040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131001T203040Z UID:39-1381509000-1381512600@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Kevin Barry Reads from "Dark Lies the Island" DESCRIPTION:Author Kevin Barry will read from his new short story collection\, Dark Lies the Island\, on Friday\, October 11 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street.  The reading is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies.  The event is free and open to the public. \nBarry’s first collection of short stories\, There are Little Kingdoms\, was published in 2007 and received the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature\, awarded yearly to an Irish writer under the age of 40.  With descriptions of the everyday painted with colorful local language\, his stories examine the transformational and dark forces that may lie within seemingly comic or mundane persons and interactions\, often grounded in the country towns and cities of his homeland.  City of Bohane\, Barry’s debut novel published in 2011\, depicts a fictional west Irish town in dystopian 2053.  Described by Barry as “written in Technicolor\,” the book offers a startling treatment of a future without technology where gangs and vice rule the streets.  City of Bohane received the Author’s Club First Novel Award\, as well as the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. \nDark Lies the Island (2012)\, his second book of short stories\, expands upon the author’s gift for witty observation\, and one story\, “Beer Trip to Llandudno” was selected for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. \nBarry’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, the Granta Book of the Irish Short Story\, 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/author-kevin-barry-reads-from-his-new-short-story-collection-dark-lies-the-island/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Kevin-Barry-headshot-6-131.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130927T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130927T180000 DTSTAMP:20260610T005447 CREATED:20130927T201230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130927T201230Z UID:25-1380299400-1380304800@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Amy Martin on “The Origins of Irish Internationalism" DESCRIPTION:(Princeton\, NJ)  Historian and professor of British and Irish literature Amy Martin will present a lecture entitled\, “The Origins of Irish Internationalism: Violence and Terror in Ireland\, India and Jamaica\, 1857-1870” on Friday\, September 27 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. \nMartin is an associate professor in the English Department at Mount Holyoke College and also lectures at summer programs in Dublin for the Notre Dame Irish Studies Seminar and the James Joyce Summer School.  Her research topics range from post-colonial theory and Victorian studies to British imperial nationalism and the corresponding Irish anticolonial nationalism. Among Martin’s publications are Blood Transfusions: Representing Irish Immigration\, the English Working Class\, and Revolutionary Possibility in the Work of Carlyle and Engels (2004)\, and the book Alter-nations: Nationalisms\, Terror\, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (2012)\, as well as papers published in various journals.  Martin received her undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College and continued her studies at Columbia University\, where she received her Ph.D. \nStemming from her current project\, a book that examines internationalism and critiques of empire in nineteenth century Ireland\, Martin recently published an article on the subject entitled\, Representing the “Indian Revolution” of 1857: Towards a Genealogy of Irish Internationalist Anticolonialism in the Field Day Review.  Her lecture will explore related conflicts in Jamaica and Ireland itself\, and reflect on the development of modern ideas of terrorism and the state in Irish thought based on colonial situations in the three nations.  Martin’s scholarly work has been described as “impressive\,” “indispensable\,” and having an “immediate and lasting impact both on Irish Studies and on Victorian Studies.” \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, celebrating its fifteenth anniversary season and 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. \nInformation on the entire 2013-2014 Fund for Irish Studies series can be found at fisprinceton.wpengine.com.  Other events scheduled in the series include: \n\nKevin Barry\, reading from his short story collection “Dark Lies the Island\,” October 11\nPerformance by Irish jazz singer Christine Tobin of her award-winning settings of poems by W. B. Yeats\, “Sailing to Byzantium\,” October 18\nPhilip King on “The Irish Song Lyric from Tom Moore to Christy Moore\,” November 8\nTony Award-winning playwright Enda Walsh in conversation with Senior Lecturer in Theater and Lewis Center Chair Michael Cadden\, November 15\n\nIn addition\, the Fund for Irish Studies will recognize this anniversary season by hosting a daylong symposium on Irish culture\, politics\, history\, and life in April 2014. \nTo learn more about the over 100 events presented each year by the Lewis Center for the Arts\, visit princeton.edu/arts. \n\nLink to photo: https://lca.sharefile.com/d/sd8818db37b84aa08 \nPhoto caption: As part of a series presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton\, historian and scholar of British and Irish literature Amy Martin will lecture on “The Origins of Irish Internationalism: Violence and Terror in Ireland\, India and Jamaica\, 1857-1870” \nPhoto credit:  Photo by Paul Schnaittacher URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/amy-martin-lecture-on-the-origins-of-irish-internationalism-violence-and-terror-in-ireland-india-and-jamaica-1857-1870%e2%80%b3/ 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/2013/09/martin-190x3001.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130920T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130920T180000 DTSTAMP:20260610T005447 CREATED:20130927T221627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130927T221627Z UID:49-1379694600-1379700000@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Marilynn Richtarik on “Stewart Parker: The Playwright in His Place” DESCRIPTION:Professor and historian of British and Irish literature Marilynn Richtarik will present a lecture entitled\, “Stewart Parker: The Playwright in his Place\,” on Friday\, September 20 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. \nRichtarik received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University in American History and Literature\, but focused her research on British works at Oxford University\, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar\, receiving her Doctorate of Philosophy in 1992. Her interests lie in Northern Irish theatre and drama\, and the tumultuous intersection of the country’s politics and arts. In addition to several program notes for American\, British\, and Irish productions of the plays of Stewart Parker\, Richtarik’s publications include Acting Between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980-1984 (1995)\, Counterparts: James Joyce and Stewart Parker (1998)\, and ‘Ireland\, the Continuous Past’: Stewart Parker’s Belfast History Plays (2000). She has contributed to Bullán\, Modern Drama\, and appeared on Ireland’s RTE Radio One. \nFollowing from her 2012 biography\, Stewart Parker: A Life\, Richtarik’s lecture will explore the brief but storied career of playwright\, poet\, and cultural critic Stewart Parker (1941-1988). A writer whose works spanned from a column on popular music in The Irish Times\, to poetry\, essays\, and plays for television\, radio\, and the stage\, Parker is\, according to Richtarik\, a figure wholly at the influence of the turbulent forces at play in his native Belfast. An Irish Times review described Richtarik’s biography as\, “[one] you can trust; it also captures an important chapter of Irish cultural life.” \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, celebrating its 15th anniversary season and 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.” \nInformation on the full 2013-2014 Fund for Irish Studies series can be found at fisprinceton.wpengine.com. Other lectures scheduled in the series include: \n\nAmy Martin on “The Origins of Irish Internationalism: Violence and Terror in Ireland\, India and Jamaica\, 1857-1870\,” September 27\nKevin Barry\, reading from his book Dark Lies the Island\, City of Bohane\, October 11\nPerformance by Irish jazz singer Christine Tobin of her award-winning settings of poems by W. B. Yeats\, “Sailing to Byzantium\,” October 18\nPhilip King on “The Irish Song Lyric from Tom Moore to Christy Moore\,” November 8\nTony Award-winning playwright Enda Walsh in conversation with Senior Lecturer in Theater and Lewis Center Chair Michael Cadden\, November 15\n\nIn addition\, the Fund for Irish Studies will recognize this anniversary season by hosting a daylong symposium on Irish culture\, politics\, history\, and life in April 2014. \n  \nTo learn more about the over 100 events presented each year by the Lewis Center for the Arts\, visit www.princeton.edu/arts. \n  \nLink to photo: https://lca.sharefile.com/d/s5b6b5a9cd1c4af68\nPhoto caption: Literary historian Marilynn Richtarik lectures on “Stewart Parker: The Playwright in His Place” as part of a series presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton.\nPhoto credit: Photo courtesy of Marilynn Richtarik URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/literary-historian-marilynn-richtarik-opens-fall-2013-lecture-series-with-lecture-on-stewart-parker-the-playwright-in-his-place/ 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/2013/09/richtarik-214x3001.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130428T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130428T190000 DTSTAMP:20260610T005447 CREATED:20130930T181614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130930T181614Z UID:60-1367154000-1367175600@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:A Man for the Books: Honoring Leonard L. Milberg ’53 DESCRIPTION:A Gathering to honor the generosity of Leonard L. Milberg ’53. \nOpening Remarks and Reading | 1:00\nBill Gleason\, Chair\, English Department\nMichael Cadden\, Chair\, Lewis Center for the Arts \nReading\nPaul Muldoon\nHoward G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor\nin the Humanities; Professor of Creative Writing\,\nLewis Center for the Arts; Chair\, Fund for Irish Studies\,\nPrinceton University \nJewish American Writers |1:30 – 2:45\nMichael Wood\, Chair\nCharles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor\nof English and Comparative Literature\,\nPrinceton University\nLucette Lagnado\nWall Street Journal\, winner Sami Rohr Prize\nfor Jewish Literature\nGary Shteyngart\nWinner National Jewish Book Award \nPoetry | 3:00 – 4:15\nEsther Schor\, Chair\nProfessor of English\, Princeton University\nRosanna Warren\nHanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor\,\nUniversity of Chicago\nMichael Hofmann\nWinner Schlegel-Tieck Prize \nIrish Drama | 4:30 – 5:45\nFintan O’Toole\, Chair\nLeonard L. Milberg ’53 Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters\nin English and Theatre\, Princeton University\nEmily Mann\nArtistic Director\, McCarter Theatre\, Princeton\nMarina Carr\nPlaywright\, Dublin\, Ireland\nGarry Hynes\nArtistic Director\, Druid Theatre\, Galway\, Ireland \nClosing Remarks\nReception to follow \nPresented by the Department of English\, The Lewis Center for the Arts\, with Support from the Fund for Irish Studies\, The Program in American Studies\, and the Council of the Humanities. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/a-man-for-the-books/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Symposium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Milberg-Symposium-Flyer.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130419T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130419T180000 DTSTAMP:20260610T005447 CREATED:20131002T133352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131002T133352Z UID:73-1366389000-1366394400@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:R.F. Foster on "Making a Revolutionary Generation in Ireland" DESCRIPTION:Bestselling scholar of Irish history R.F. Foster will present a lecture on “Making a Revolutionary Generation in Ireland\, 1890-1916\,” on Friday\, April 19 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street.  Foster’s lecture will cap a year-long series of events presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies.  The event is free and open to the public. \nR. F. Foster\, the Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford\, is widely known as the author ofModern Ireland: 1600-1972\, his broad\, transformative volume of that nation’s history.  Declared by the Irish Independent as “the best single-volume history of modern Ireland of our time\,” Modern Ireland has been a bestseller since its first publication in 1988 and was listed by The Guardian as one of the top 10 books on Irish history.  A well-known critic and broadcaster as well as history scholar\, Foster’s work focuses on Irish cultural\, social and political history of the modern period. \nFoster’s numerous publications include biographies of the poet W.B. Yeats and politicians Charles Stewart Parnell and Lord Randolph Churchill\, numerous essays on Irish culture\, and The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland (1989).  His book\, The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland (2001)\, won the Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism in 2003. Foster’s most recent book\, Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances\, was published by Oxford in 2011 and presents a re-reading of Irish literary history throughout the nineteenth century.  In 2009 Foster was elected to a three-year Wolfson Foundation Research Chair in order to write a book about the Irish revolutionary generation of 1890-1920.  He will be focusing on this research in his lecture on April 19. \nOver the course of his career\, Foster has held visiting fellowships at St. Anthony’s College\, Oxford\, the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\, and Princeton University.  He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989\, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1986\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1992\, and an honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2011.  His honorary degrees include those from the University of Aberdeen; The Queen’s University of Belfast; Trinity College\, Dublin; the National University of Ireland; and Queen’s University\, Canada\, \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.”  Its mission is to coordinate and expand existing courses taught by present members of the faculty and to offer a series of public lectures\, literary readings\, conferences\, exhibitions\, screenings and theatrical performances. \n[hr] \nLink to photo:   https://lca.sharefile.com/d/s90fe5e281654389b \nPhoto caption:  R. F. Foster\, the Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford\, will lecture on “Making a Revolutionary Generation in Ireland\, 1890-1916” as part of a series presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton. \nPhoto credit:  Photo courtesy of Hertford College\, Oxford. URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/r-f-foster/ 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/foster-oxford1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130412T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130412T170000 DTSTAMP:20260610T005447 CREATED:20131111T141334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131111T141334Z UID:158-1365784200-1365786000@fis.princeton.edu SUMMARY:In Two Minds: Songs\, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition DESCRIPTION:Len Graham and Brian Ó hAirt\, two award-winning proponents of Irish traditional arts\, will give a performance of “In Two Minds: Songs\, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition\,” on Friday\, April 12\, at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public. \nLen Graham 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 which 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. \nLen Graham and Brian Ó hAirt\, two award-winning proponents of Irish traditional arts\, will give a performance of “In Two Minds: Songs\, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition\,” on Friday\, April 12\, at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street.  The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public. \nLen Graham 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 which 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. \nGraham 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. \nFollowing in the footsteps of Graham and such greats as Joe Heaney and Frank Harte\, Ó hAirt also claims the title of All-Ireland Singing Champion in 2002.  That same year\, Ó hAirt won the coveted Sgiath Uí Dhálaigh shield at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Listowel\, County Kerry. A talented musician and dancer\, as well as vocalist\, Ó hAirt also performs with the Chicago-based band Bua\, which released its third album\, Down the Green Fields\, in 2011. \nIn the past Ó hAirt has shared the traditions of Ireland with 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. \nGraham and Ó hAirt will combine their talents in song and dance to exhibit numerous aspects of Irish culture during their performance\, which will include dance music on concertina and whistle\, puirt-á-beul (mouth-music) and sean-nós dancing.  Their songs of Ireland handed down over generations cover a breadth of styles and subjects: ballads\, lyric folksongs and music hall pieces tell of love\, emigration\, politics and more. In addition\, Graham and Ó hAirt will demonstrate traditional sean-nós singing\, a genre for which they have both won Irish Music Awards—Graham in 2008 and Ó hAirt in 2009. \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.”  Its mission is to coordinate and expand existing courses taught by present members of the faculty and to offer a series of public lectures\, literary readings\, conferences\, exhibitions\, screenings and theatrical performances. \nThe final event in this year’s series will take place on April 19 when R.F. Foster presents a lecture entitled “Making a Revolutionary Generation in Ireland\, 1890-1916.” \nTo learn more about the over 100 events presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts each year visit princeton.edu/arts. \nLink to photo:   https://lca.sharefile.com/d/se76b17250294173b \nPhoto caption 1:  Len Graham\, an acclaimed proponent of Irish traditional arts\, will perform a selection of songs\, music and dance along with Brian Ó hAirt as part of a series presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton \nPhoto caption 2: Award-winning Irish singer\, musician and sean-nós dancer Brian Ó hAirt \nPhoto credit:  Photos courtesy of Len Graham URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/in-two-minds-songs-music-and-dance-from-the-irish-tradition/ LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States CATEGORIES:Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://fis.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BrianOhAirt-200x300.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR