Reading by Anne Enright
James Stewart Film Theater 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United StatesAward-winning writer Anne Enright reads from her latest novel, The Wren, The Wren, to kick off the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series.
Award-winning writer Anne Enright reads from her latest novel, The Wren, The Wren, to kick off the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series.
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.
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.
Olwen Fouéré, an award-winning Irish actor, writer and director of theater, film, music, and visual arts, and frequent collaborator with Ireland’s Abbey Theatre, will perform two monologues and be in conversation with Jane Cox, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater and Music Theater.