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SUMMARY:Lecture by Elizabeth Boyle: “Fierce Appetites: Lessons from My Year of Untamed Thinking”
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Boyle\, Lecturer in Early Irish at Maynooth University in Ireland\, presents a lecture based on her Irish Times bestseller Fierce Appetites. In this collection of personal essays\, which was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2022\, Boyle uses her historical learning to grapple with the raw and urgent questions she faces\, questions that have bedeviled people in every age. She writes on grief\, addiction\, family breakdown\, the complexities of motherhood\, love and sex\, memory\, class\, education\, travel (and staying put) with unflinching honesty\, deep compassion and occasional dark humor. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letter Fintan O’Toole. \nElizabeth Boyle. Photo by Bob Foyers\nBoyle is Lecturer in Early Irish at Maynooth University\, Ireland\, where she specializes in the intellectual\, cultural and religious history of pre-modern Ireland. Her academic publications include the 2021 monograph History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland\, in addition to numerous journal articles. She is the author of the Irish Times bestseller Fierce Appetites\, a collection of personal essays which was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2022. \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is wheelchair accessible. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-elizabeth-boyle-fierce-appetites-lessons-from-my-year-of-untamed-thinking/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Mary Burke: “Race\, Politics\, and Irish-America: A Gothic History”
DESCRIPTION:Photo courtesy Mary Burke\nProfessor of English at the University of Connecticut Mary Burke presents a talk that draws from her new book\, Race\, Politics\, and Irish-America: A Gothic History (Oxford University Press\, March 2023). Burke examines the cultural legacies of the forcibly transported Irish\, the Scots-Irish\, and post-Famine Catholic immigrants through the words and lives of Black and white writers and public figures in the Americas\, from Andrew Jackson to Grace Kelly and the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole. \nBurke’s first book with Oxford University Press was a cultural history of the indigenous Irish Traveller minority. Her collaboration with Tramp Press on a new edition of The Horse of Selene\, Traveller novelist Juanita Casey’s lost classic\, will launch in the U.S. in late April. Burke’s work has been featured or published with James Joyce Quarterly\, NPR\, the Irish Times\, RTÉ\, and Faber. She has served on Fulbright’s Screening Committee for Ireland and is a former NEH Irish Studies Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast\, she was awarded a fall 2022 Long Room Hub Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin for her book in progress\, Bohemian Ireland. \nTickets & Details\nThe lecture is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required. \nGet directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is wheelchair accessible. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-mary-burke-race-politics-and-irish-america-a-gothic-history/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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