Noted Irish writer and theater critic Fintan O’Toole presents the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on “Escaping from History: The Dreamworld of Brexit”
Bestselling author Colm Tóibín lectures on “The Myth of Paternity: James Joyce and his father” as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies event series. Tóibín’s latest book, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce, was published in 2018. In the James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ. FREE and … Continue reading "The Myth of Paternity: James Joyce and his father"
Irish scholar Maureen Murphy lectures on "Irish Emigrant Girls in New York" as part of the Fund for Irish Studies series.
Filmmaker Sinead O'Shea presents a screening of her documentary film, A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot, at the Princeton Garden Theatre. Screening followed by discussion with writer/director O'Shea and Irish scholar and critic Fintan O’Toole. At the Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ. FREE and open to the public. Presented as … Continue reading "A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot"
Award-winning writer Anne Enright reads from her work as part of the spring 2019 Fund for Irish Studies event series. In the James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ. FREE and open to the public. Photo by Hugh Chaloner Anne Enright Anne Enright was born in Dublin in 1962, and she lives … Continue reading "Anne Enright: A Reading"