Zoom Webinar

Alan Hayden (University College, Dublin) lectures on “Irish Archaeology Now” as part of Princeton University's 2020-21 Fund for Irish Studies series.

Scholar and author Nicholas Allen lectures on “Seamus Heaney’s Late Poems" as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. FREE and open to the public. Register and join via Zoom Webinar. Live closed captions available.

Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, presents “Irish Reunification: Prospects & Feasible Models,” a lecture drawn from his book-in-progress on questions and issues surrounding the idea of a unification of the island of Ireland. Introduced by Fintan O’Toole.

Cian T. McMahon, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Honors College at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, lectures on “The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Famine” with introduction by Paul Muldoon as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series.

Poet and literary critic James Longenbach, author of Forever and The Lyric Now, lectures on W.B. Yeats’ poem “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen.” Longenbach will discuss how the poem assumed the shape it does, and, more importantly, the influence of that shape on subsequent long poems written throughout the 20th century and beyond. Part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. FREE; open to all. registration required.