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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140912T163000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140425T163000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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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
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:2013 Robert Fagles Memorial lecture by Fintan O'Toole
DESCRIPTION:O’Toole\, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals\, is teaching at Princeton this semester including the course\, “Modern Irish Theatre: Oscar Wilde to Martin McDonagh to Riverdance.”  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 best-sellers. \nIn the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture\, O’Toole suggests that the true legacy of Irish Catholic thought lies in three profound ideas\, each of which was declared a heresy by the official Church. \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.  In 2011\, O’Toole was named one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals” by The Observer.  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\, will cover 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10\,000 years.  It will be published as a conventional book by the Royal Irish Academy and will also be available as a free iPad and iPhone application. \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. \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. \nUpcoming lectures in the series include: \n\n2012 Tony Award-winner Enda Walsh “In Conversation with Lewis Center Chair and Senior Lecturer in Theater Michael Cadden\,” April 5\nPerformance by Len Graham and Brian O’Hairt of “In Two Minds:  Songs\, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition\,” April 12\nR.F. Foster on “Making a Revolutionary Generation in Ireland\, 1890-1916\,” April 19\n\nIn addition\, the Program in Theater will present a production of Woman and Scarecrow by Irish dramatist Marina Carr on March 8 through 15\, the powerful story of a woman facing death\, who looks back over her life and asks what could have been.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/2013-robert-fagles-memorial-lecture-by-fintan-otoole/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Author John Kelly on the Irish Famine's Historical Impact
DESCRIPTION:Author John Kelly will present a lecture entitled\, “How the Irish Famine Invented the Modern World” on Friday\, February 15 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. \nKelly is the author of ten books that meld history\, science and human behavior. His most recent book\, The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People (Henry Holt in U.S.\, Faber and Faber in U.K.\, 2012)\, chronicles the events and circumstances surrounding the Great Irish Potato Famine\, one of the epic tragedies of modern times.  The book was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and selected as a Cultural Highlight of 2012 by The Irish Times.  In a review\, The Economist called the book\, “An engrossing narrative of the famine\, vividly detailing Victorian society and the historical phenomena (natural and man-made) that converged to form the disaster.” \nKelly’s lecture will explore the ways in which the Great Famine of the 1840s was a definitive force in the shaping of the modern world and what that historical event can tell us about  starvation and food distribution today.  He examines the direct effects of this tragedy not only in Ireland and Britain but also around the whole of mid-19th-century Europe. \nKelly’s previous book\, The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death\, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (2005)\, was a national bestseller.  He is currently working on\, The Year of No Summer: The British Decision Not to Surrender in 1940\, for Scribner. \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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/author-john-kelly-on-the-irish-famines-historical-impact/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121207T163000
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SUMMARY:Donnacha Dennehy on “Grá Agus Bás: Love and Death”
DESCRIPTION:Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy will present a lecture entitled\, “Grá Agus Bás: Love and Death” on Friday\, December 7 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. \nDennehy is an internationally acclaimed Irish composer heralded as one of the best-known voices of his generation. Born in Dublin in 1970\, Dennehy completed undergraduate work at Trinity College in Dublin and pursued doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on a Fulbright Scholarship.  In 1997\, he co-founded the Crash Ensemble\, a renowned contemporary music ensemble for which he serves as artistic director. Dennehy’s music has been featured in such festivals as the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival\, EXPO\, Bang On A Can in New York\, and ISCM World Music Days\, among others. Currently\, Dennehy regularly lectures in music composition at Trinity College and is visiting Princeton as a 2012-13 Global Scholar in the Department of Music. \nDennehy’s lecture is based on his landmark work Grá Agus Bás\, which translates as “Love and Death” and explores those same themes. Sean-nós\, a type of unaccompanied Irish vocal music\, inspired the title piece of Dennehy’s album. Released in May 2011 from Nonesuch Records\, Grá Agus Bás features a blend of modern minimalism\, traditional Irish\, and classical influences. The album received international acclaim\, with The Guardian calling the title composition “a piece of startling freshness.” \nPairing visits to Princeton with return visits to Ireland\, Dennehy will host Princeton colleagues and students at Trinity College and present a number of events in Ireland featuring the work of Princeton faculty and students. Princeton graduate students will write major works for the Crash Ensemble and will spend time working on the piece with Crash before it premieres. \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 two-fold: 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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/donnacha-dennehy-on-gra-agus-bas-love-and-death/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121109T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121109T180000
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SUMMARY:Judith Hill on "Lady Gregory's Encounter with America"
DESCRIPTION:(Princeton\, NJ)  Irish historian and biographer Judith Hill will present a lecture entitled\, “Brickbats and Love: Lady Gregory’s Encounter with America on the Abbey Theatre Tour of 1911-12” on Friday\, November 9 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. \nBorn in London and educated at Girton College\, Cambridge\, Hill moved to Ireland in 1989 where she works as an architectural historian and biographer. Her books include The Building of Limerick (1991)\,Irish Public Sculpture: A History (1998)\, and In Search of Islands – A Life of Conor O’ Brien (2009).  She is a contributor to the Irish Arts Review\, The Irish Times\, and Times Literary Supplement. \nBased on her 2011 biography\, Lady Gregory: An Irish Life\, Hill’s lecture will explore the intersection of culture and craft that occurred when the Abbey Theatre of Dublin toured the United States during the 1911-12 season\, led by Lady Gregory\, a surprising\, yet defining\, figure of the Irish Literary Revival. Lady Augusta Gregory was founder of the Abbey Theatre; patron of W. B. Yeats; and a writer of plays\, essays\, stories\, and translations of Irish legends.  The Irish American News described Hill’s book as\, “A lively biography of this amazing person.” \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 twofold: 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.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/judith-hill-on-lady-gregorys-encounter-with-america/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Moya Brennan - The Voice of Clannad - with Family & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Moya Brennan\, a Grammy-Award winning musician\, singer\, and songwriter\, will give a concert at the Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall at Princeton University on November 5 at 5:00 p.m.  Brennan is the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning Irish band Clannad\, known around the world for its blend of musical styles with traditional Irish music. “Moya Brennan – the Voice of Clannad –with Family and Friends\,” is co-presented by the University’s Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central Series\, the Index of Christian Art\, and the Fund for Irish Studies\, is free and open to the public\, however advance ticket reservations are recommended. \nMoya Brennan\, also known by the Gaelic spelling Máire \, started her musical career at a young age\, performing at her father’s bar with her siblings\, Ciarán and Pól. Later\, their twin uncles\, Noel and Pádraig Duggan\, joined the trio\, forming the band\, Clannad\, and releasing their first album in 1973. Known for blending folk\, rock\, jazz\, ambient\, and world music genres and for incorporating Irish history and traditional Gaelic words into their lyrics\, Clannad helped define modern Irish music with their 15 studio albums released over a recording career spanning 25 years. Among these are Legend (1984)\, which won Ivor Novello and British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards\, PastPresent (1989)\, and Banba (1993)\, which reached Top 5 on the UK Charts\, and Landmarks (1997)\, which won a Grammy Award in 1999 for Best New Age Album. Enriched with lyrics celebrating Irish history and inspired by Irish music\, Landmarks has become one of the most celebrated albums in Ireland. Though no longer recording\, Clannad continues to give concerts all around the world\, from the United States to Thailand. \nBrennan has also been acclaimed as a soloist. She has released eight studio albums\, Máire (1992)\, Misty Eyed Adventures(1993)\, Perfect Time (1998)\, Whisper to the Wild Water (1999)\,Two Horizons (2003)\, An Irish Christmas (2005/2006)\,Signature (2006)\, and Heart String (2008).  She has collaborated with countless world-renowned musicians\, including Bono of U2\, who said of her voice\, “ I think Máire has one of the greatest voices the human ear has ever experienced .”  The power of her voice led to many other successes\, including working on several film soundtracks\, such as Titanic\, and performing to the largest audience to ever gather in the northern hemisphere\, a crowd of 2.7 million people in the TorVargetta outside Rome at World Youth Day in 1999. She is also widely recognized for her popularization of Irish language\, culture\, and music. This work\, along with her contributions to Clannad\, have led to her reputation as “The First Lady of Celtic Music.” \nOutside her music career\, Brennan continues to help bring Irish music and culture to worldwide attention. She is the author of two books\, the autobiographical The Other Side of the Rainbow and the collector’s item Ireland: Landscapes of God’s Peace. In 2011\, she received an Emmy award for her work on the documentary\, Music of Ireland\, a television documentary series on Irish music. \nFree tickets may be reserved through University Ticketing by calling 609.258.9220 or at the Frist Campus Center Ticket Office open Monday through Friday from 12 noon to 6 p.m. Any remaining tickets will be available at the auditorium the evening of the concert. \nLink to photo: https://lca.sharefile.com/d/s220837cc80745179\nPhoto caption:  “The First Lady of Celtic Music\,” Moya Brennan\, from the Grammy Award-winning band Clannad\, will perform in concert at Princeton University on November 5 at 5:00 p.m.\, co-presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central Series\, the Index of Christian Art in the Department of Art and Archeology\, and the Fund for Irish Studies.\nPhoto credit:  Photo by Tim Jarvis
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/moya-brennan-the-voice-of-clannad-with-family-friends/
LOCATION:Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121019T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121019T180000
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SUMMARY:Fiona Barber on "Art in Ireland Since 1910"
DESCRIPTION:Fionna Barber is Principal Lecturer for Contextual Studies at the Manchester School of Art\, England. Originally from Portadown\, Co. Armagh\, she also taught in the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Ulster in Belfast\, before moving to Manchester in 1993. A former member of the editorial panel of CIRCA art magazine she has also written catalogue essays for a number of contemporary Irish artists\, including Rita Duffy and Alice Maher.  Her recent publications include a special edition of the journal Visual Culture in Britain\, ‘After the War: visual culture in Northern Ireland since the Ceasefires’ (guest editor\, 2009). She has also contributed an essay on post-conflict memory and visual practice in Northern Ireland to the forthcoming Memory Ireland vol 3: memory cruxes: the Famine and the Troubles\, (Syracuse University Press 2013) edited by Oona Frawley and an essay on art in Ireland since the millennium to the collection The Crossings of Art (Peter Lang\, forthcoming 2013) edited by Ruben Moi\, Charles Armstrong and Brynhilldur Boyce. In 2009 she was the initiator and joint curator with Megan Johnston of the exhibition Archiving Place and Time: contemporary art from Northern Ireland since the Belfast Agreement which showed initially at the Holden Gallery\, Manchester Metropolitan University in 2009 before touring both to Millennium Court Arts Centre\, Portadown\, NI\, then to a further venue in England\, Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 2010. \nFionna Barber’s book Art in Ireland since 1910\, the first publication to cover art practice from the early years of the twentieth century until the post-millennial period\, is published by Reaktion Books\, London in early 2013.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/fiona-barber-on-art-in-ireland-since-1910/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Pete Shirlow on "The End of Ulster Loyalism?"
DESCRIPTION:Irish scholar Pete Shirlow will present a lecture posing the question: “The End of Ulster Loyalism?” on Friday\, October 5 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. \nShirlow is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Queen’s University in Belfast.  His latest book\, The End of Ulster Loyalism? was published earlier this year by Manchester University Press.  He is also the co-author of Belfast: Segregation\, Violence and the City (Pluto Press)\, Beyond the Wire (Pluto Press)\, Abandoning Historical Conflict (Manchester University Press)\, and author/co-author of over 70 book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles on conflict in Northern Ireland.  He is currently working on a major study funded by the National Institute of Health with colleagues at Notre Dame University on segregated communities in Belfast and the impact of previous and contemporary forms of sectarian violence. \nUlster loyalism is a political ideology that opposes a united Ireland.  Most loyalists support upholding Northern Ireland’s status as a constituent part of the United Kingdom. Peter Shirlow considers whether this world view may be less and less tenable. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies\, chaired by Princeton professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon\, provides 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/pete-shirlow-on-the-end-of-ulster-loyalism/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Eve Patten on "A Feverish Place"
DESCRIPTION:Eve Patten is Associate Professor and Head of the School of English at Trinity College\, Dublin\, where she lectures on modern British and Irish writing. Her previous publications include Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland(2004)\, That Island Never Found (2007) and Literatures of War (2008)\, and her monograph Imperial Refugee: The Wartime Fiction of Olivia Manning was published in spring 2012 by Cork University Press. She is a Fellow of Trinity College\, Dublin and Vice Chair of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Literature. \n 
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/eve-patten-on-a-feverish-place/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary O'Connor":MAILTO:oconnorm@princeton.edu
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