James M. Stewart ’32 Theater

Art historian Emily Mark-Fitzgerald will open the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University with a lecture entitled, “Commemorating the Irish Famine,” on Friday, September 12 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street.  The event is free and open to the public. Mark-Fitzgerald, of University College, Dublin, is the author of Commemorating the Irish Famine:  Memory and the Monument (Liverpool University Press, 2013), a book exploring the…

Former Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom Daithi O’Ceallaigh will present a lecture entitled, “From the Belfast Bunker: Behind the Scenes in the Peace Process,” on Friday, October 17 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University, the event is free and open to the public. Daithi O’Ceallaigh’s distinguished diplomatic career spans more than 35 years. Having graduated…

Theatre critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole will present the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture entitled, “Unspeakable Horror: How Ireland Fought the Great War,” on Friday, February 13 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2014-15 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University, the event is free and open to the public. Fintan O’Toole, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals, is a theatre critic and scholar. As…

On Friday, April 10, Irish and Celtic studies scholar Regina Uí Chollatáin will present a lecture on “A ‘New’ Gaelic League Idea: Douglas Hyde 100 Years On” at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The lecture, part of the Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University, is free and open to the public. Regina Uí Chollatáin is a native of Donegal who began her career in education as a primary teacher in…

Scholar Poulomi Saha will give a lecture on “Easter Risings: The Irish Insurrection in India” on Friday, April 17, at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The talk is part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public. Poulomi Saha is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches courses in postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality…

Theater critic, scholar, and Lecturer in Theater Fintan O’Toole delivers the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on “Carnival and Ruin: Looting in the 1916 Rising,” in recognition of the centenary of the 1916 uprising, on Friday, February 12 at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street.

Professor of Modern Literature at University of York Matthew Campbell lectures on “Volunteer Poetics: Irish and British Poetry in 1916” on Friday, March 25 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street.

Mary Daly, Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin, will present a lecture on “An Irish solution? Contraception, the Catholic Church and Irish Society 1960-1983" as part of the 2016-2017 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University on Friday, April 14 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. This event is free and open to the public.