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SUMMARY:Reading by Sinéad Gleeson
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling writer and editor Sinéad Gleeson (Hagstone\, Constellations) reads from her work as part of the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series. Books will be available to purchase and have signed at the event\, which is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books. \nAbout Sinéad Gleeson\nPhoto credit: Brid O’Donovan\nSinéad Gleeson’s debut novel\, Hagstone\, was published in 2024 by 4th Estate and longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. Her essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. Translated into several languages\, Constellations was also shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize\, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize\, and the Michel Déon Prize. She is the editor of four anthologies including The Art of the Glimpse\, the award-winning The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers\, and The Glass Shore: Short Stories. Gleeson has engaged in multi-disciplinary collaborations with artists and musicians\, including commissions from The Wellcome Collection\, the RHA Gallery\, BBC\, Rua Red Gallery and Frieze. She is co-editor with Kim Gordon of This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox\, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater & Music Theater\, and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nTickets & Details\nFree tickets required.  \nReserve tickets through University Ticketing\nReach University Ticketing by email at tixhelp@princeton.edu or by phone at 609-258-9220. \nDirections\nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater\, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. 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/reading-by-sinead-gleeson/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Aoife Kelleher screens Mrs. Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning filmmaker\, writer\, and lecturer Aoife Kelleher will screen her feature documentary Mrs. Robinson. Unfolding a story about female leadership\, human rights activism and climate action\, Mrs. Robinson tells the inspirational life story of change-maker Mary Robinson: Ireland’s first female President\, a pioneering U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights\, and the successor of Nelson Mandela as Chair of The Elders. The film was nominated for the George Morrison Feature Documentary Award at the 2025 Irish Film & Television Awards. A Q&A with the filmmaker will follow the screening. \nThe Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox\, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater & Music Theater\, and Robert Spoo\, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters. \nTickets & Details\nFree tickets required. Should the event sell out\, there will be a wait line at the event to fill any empty seats. \nReserve tickets through University Ticketing\nReach University Ticketing by email at tixhelp@princeton.edu or by phone at 609-258-9220. \nDirections\nGet directions to the James Stewart Film Theater\, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street. \nAccessibility\nThe James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. 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. \n  \nAbout Aoife Kelleher\n\n \nPhoto credit: Rachel Lysaght \n\nAoife Kelleher is a distinguished filmmaker\, writer\, and lecturer from Dublin\, Ireland. \nHer debut film\, One Million Dubliners\, about Glasnevin Cemetery\, Ireland’s celebrated necropolis\, received numerous awards and screened internationally. \nShe has worked in current affairs programming for RTÉ\, Ireland’s national broadcaster\, and made documentaries for RTÉ\, Sky\, ARTE\, and the British Film Institute. \nHer feature documentary Mrs. Robinson\, about former Irish President and current Chair of The Elders\, Mary Robinson\, was nominated for the George Morrison Feature Documentary award at the 2025 Irish Film & Television Awards. Her most recent film\, Testimony\, about the Justice For Magdalenes campaign on behalf of the survivors of Ireland’s institutions\, premiered at the 2025 Dublin International Film Festival\, where it won the award for Best Human Rights Film. \nShe lectures in Film & Broadcasting and Journalism in the School of Media at Technological University Dublin.
URL:https://fis.princeton.edu/event/aoife-kelleher-screens-mrs-robinson/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film screening
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