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“A History of Ireland in 10 Poems” by Paul Muldoon

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Creative Writing, offers a brief survey of Irish history from earliest times to the present day through the prism of his own poems. Free with no tickets required.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Creative Writing, offers a brief survey of Irish history from earliest times to the present day through the prism of his own poems.

The 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.

About Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon, dressed in black, sits leaning with his right arm on right knee while he looks off to his left.
Photo credit: Christine Harris

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He is the author of fifteen collections of poetry including Joy in Service on Rue Tagore, published by FSG and Faber and Faber in 2024. Among his awards are the 1972 Eric Gregory Award, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize, the 2017 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Admission & Details

The lecture is free and open to the public; no advance tickets or registration required.

Directions

Get directions to the James Stewart Film Theater, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street.

Accessibility

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Lecture & Reading by Barry McCrea

Award-winning writer Barry McCrea will give a brief talk on “Language and the Irish Novel” followed by a reading from his novel-in-progress Miracle at Thorn Island. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole.

Writer and scholar Barry McCrea.
Barry McCrea. Photo by Francesco Giannone

Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies continues its 2023-2024 series with a talk and reading by Barry McCrea, an award-winning writer and the Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole will introduce McCrea at the event on October 27 at 4:30 p.m. at the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The reading is free and open to the public; no tickets are required. The theater is an accessible venue, and guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week prior to the event date.

At Princeton, McCrea will deliver a brief talk on “Language and the Irish Novel” followed by a reading from his current novel-in-progress, Miracle at Thorn Island.

As a novelist and scholar of comparative literature, McCrea is the author of three books. His debut novel, The First Verse, won the 2006 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ fiction and a Barnes & Noble “Discover Award.” Published in 2011, his academic book In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust won Columbia University’s Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication in the Humanities. McCrea’s last book, Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth Century Ireland and Europe, was awarded the 2016 René Wellek Prize for an outstanding book in the discipline of comparative literature. As the Keough Family Chair and Concurrent Professor of English, Irish Language and Literature, as well as Romance Languages and Literatures at Notre Dame, he teaches seminars on topics such as James Joyce, the modern European novel, and modern Irish poetry on the university’s campuses in Indiana, Rome, and Dublin. McCrea received his undergraduate degree from Trinity College Dublin and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 2004.

Invited by Princeton’s Humanities Council, McCrea spent the spring of 2018 on campus as a Faber Fellow in Comparative Literature, teaching an advanced undergraduate course entitled “Class, Desire, and the Novel.”

Part of the 2023-24 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series.

Tickets & Details

The lecture is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required.

Directions

Get directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street.

Accessibility

symbol for wheelchair accessibilityThe 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.

“Listen to the Land Speak” with Manchán Magan

Inspired by language, landscape and mythology, Manchán Magan explores the insight and hidden wisdom native Irish culture offers to the people of Ireland and the world.

book cover of "listen to the land speak" featuring black cover with white linear botanical illustrationsBestselling writer and documentary-maker Manchán Magan presents a lecture entitled “Listen to the Land Speak: Lost Wisdom of the Land and Language of Ireland,” based on his recently published book of the same title. Inspired by language, landscape and mythology, Magan explores the insight and hidden wisdom native Irish culture offers to the people of Ireland and the world. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Fintan O’Toole.

manchan magan smiles and wears wire rimmed glasses, a grey blazer, red vest and blue and white striped shirt
Photo courtesy Manchán Magan

Manchán Magan is a writer and documentary-maker. He has written two novels in addition to books on his travels in Africa, India and South America. He writes occasionally for The Irish Times, reports on travel for various radio programs in Ireland, and has presented dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4, RTÉ and the Travel Channel. His books Thirty-Two Words For Field (2020) and Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Words For Nature (2021) are acclaimed bestsellers. His latest book, Listen to the Land Speak, was published in October 2022

Tickets & Details

The event is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required.

Get directions and find venue information for the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street.

COVID-19 Guidance + Updates

Per Princeton University policy, all guests must either be fully vaccinated, or have recently tested negative (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen test within 8 hours of the scheduled visit) and be prepared to show proof if asked, or wear a face covering when indoors and around others.

Accessibility

symbol for wheelchair accessibilityThe 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.