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SUMMARY:On the Pavement Grey: WB Yeats in Utopian Bedford Park - 19 Nov
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Cahal Dallat with guests Ciarán Hinds and Anne-Marie Fyfe & launch of the WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project\n \nNobel-prizewinning poet\, WB Yeats\, though much inspired by Irish legend\, landscape and longing\, spent two-thirds of his youth in London\, the majority of that time in Chiswick’s Bedford Park\, the Utopian/aesthetic garden-suburb/artists’-colony whose diverse inhabitants fostered his literary talent and endeavours. Irish poet and literary critic\, Cahal Dallat\, has lived within a few blocks of the Yeats family’s two Bedford Park homes for all of his adult life and\, fascinated by the way Willie\, his father\, and his artistic siblings\, negotiated the metropolis’s social networks\, while dreaming of Sleuth Wood or Ben Bulben\, has lectured on the importance to Victorian London of Irish artists (poets\, painters\, playwrights\, composers\, and politicians\, for politics\, too\, is an art in Ireland) … and on the usefulness of London’s complex intersections and patronage to often-penniless\, in a genteel way\, exiled geniuses. In Bedford Park’s heady progressive atmosphere (and its winding if artificially villagey avenues) lay the seeds of Yeats’s genius\, not to mention contemporary theatre\, Modernist poetry and political and cultural changes that would invert the social and imperial order in the 20th century. With contributions and readings from Yeats’s letters and poems by actor Ciarán Hinds and poet Anne-Marie Fyfe.\n \nThe 2018 Irish Literary Society WB Yeats Lecture at the Embassy of Ireland launches the WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project founded to mark Yeats’s role in Bedford Park and Bedford Park’s role in Yeats’s artistic development and life\, by placing a permanent artwork at the heart of this progressive\, 19c\, and beautifully preserved\, garden suburb. \nTo apply for an ILS members ticket contact the Hon. Secretary: irishlitsoc@gmail.com Image credit: Camille Pissarro\, Fete de Jubilee a Bedford Park\, 1897. \nSpeakers:  Cahal DallatCahal Dallat is a poet\, musician\, critic (b. Ballycastle\, Co. Antrim)\, regular BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review contributor since 1998\, reviewer for TLS and Guardian among others\, founder/organiser of WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project\, and Charles Causley Trust Centenary musician/poet-in-residence. Former winner of Ireland’s leading poetry prize\, the Strokestown International\, his recent awards include the 2017 Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize\, and a 2018 Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship at University of Texas in Austin (supported by CP Snow Memorial Fund). Latest collection The Year of Not Dancing (Blackstaff); www.cahaldallat.com \n Ciarán Hinds \nCiarán Hinds was born in Belfast: his television roles include Gaius Julius Caesar in the series Rome and Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones while film has included the lead role in John Banville’s The Sea\, and playing opposite Daniel Day Lewis in Upton Sinclair’s There Will Be Blood.  As a stage actor his recent appearances include Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive\, Hamlet with Bendict Cumberbatch at the Barbican\, McPherson’s ‘Bob Dylan musical’ The Girl from the North Country at the Old Vic\,  and the role of Hugh O’Donnell in Brian Friel’s Translations at the National.   \n Anne-Marie Fyfe \nAfter five poetry collections including House of Small Absences (Seren\, 2015)\, poet\, arts organiser\, creative-writing teacher & former Poetry Society chair\,  Anne-Marie Fyfe\, is currently embarked on a unique Arts-Council-funded 18-month teaching/writing/performing tour\, The Voyage Out\, exploring coastal regions & lives in Britain\, Ireland\, US & Canada\, leading to a new hybrid poetry/prose/travel-writing memoir (due\, Seren\, Spring 2019). Born in Cushendall\, Co. Antrim\, Anne-Marie lives in London where she has run Coffee-House Poetry’s readings & classes at London’s leading live literature venue\, the Troubadour\, since 1997. www.annemariefyfe.com
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/on-the-pavement-grey-wb-yeats-in-utopian-bedford-park-19-nov/
LOCATION:The Embassy of Ireland\, 17 Grosvenor Pl\, London \, London\, SW1X 7HR
CATEGORIES:architecture,biography,Collaboration,exile,history,poetry,social history,special event
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SUMMARY:The Abbey\, where next? - 28 Nov
DESCRIPTION:To turn O’Connell Street into the Broadway of Ireland; The Debate over the Relocation of the Abbey Theatre. \nThe Irish Literary Society is delighted to present its 2nd Joint Lecture with the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS)\, St Mary’s University College. \nFrom its foundation in 1904 The Abbey\, Ireland’s national theatre\, has been located at Lower Abbey Street in Dublin. However from 2001 to 2012 an often heated debate about its relocation took place in the two houses of the Irish Parliament (Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann) and the Irish national press. This lecture will examine the debate within the context of the idea of national theatres as public monuments\, as agents in urban regeneration\, and consider the modern Abbey’s role as a key element in Dublin’s competition for international cultural tourism. \nPresented in association with the Centre for Irish Studies\, St Mary’s University\, Twickenham:\n\n\n\nSpeaker:\n\nShaun Richards\nShaun Richards is Professorial Research Fellow\, CIS St Mary’s\, the author of Writing Ireland (1988 with David Cairns)\, Mapping of Irish Theatre (2013\, with Chris Morash)\, the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Drama (2006) and scores of articles on Irish theatre published in Etudes Irlandais\, Irish Studies Review and Irish University Review amongst others. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo and a consultant with the Cia Ludens theatre company that specialises in adapting Friel\, Murphy and other Irish plays to the Brazilian stage in translation.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/the-abbey-where-next-28-nov/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:architecture,Collaboration,history,lecture,theatre
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SUMMARY:Bóthar Buí - 31 May
DESCRIPTION:A consideration of the house Robin Walker built for his family and friends on the remote Beara Peninsula of Cork\, from 1970–72. Called “Bótharbuí” (meaning ‘yellow road’ in Irish)\, the site comprises a settlement of three ancient and three new structures\, on a steep wooded slope of several acres\, facing across the salt-water Kemare River to the Reeks of Kerry. In the 1970s and 1980s Bótharbuí was a country salon\, where the worlds of Dublin politics rubbed shoulders with the artistic community in an informal yet grand manner. The function and conception of the house\, in Simon Walker’s words reflects the wide ranging interests of the Walkers as “patrons of Irish design and active protagonists in the fabrication of a modern Irish cultural identity”. \n\nA short film on Bothar Bui by Heathcote & Barr featuring the late ILS President Seamus Heaney reading the poems he wrote about Bothar Bui and about Robin Walker\, his friend\, the architect.\nCreated for the Venice Biennale Architecture 2008 \nSpeakers:\n\nPatrick Lynch\nBorn outside London in 1969\, the son of an Irish builder. Director of Lynch architects\, winners of The Young Architects of the Year Award 2005. Patrick studied at Liverpool University and Cambridge University and holds a Master of Philosophy degree in the History and Philosophy of Architecture. He has taught at The Architectural Association\, UCD\, DIT\, and London Metropolitan University. In 2008 he exhibited in the Irish pavilion at The Venice Biennale\, and he will be exhibiting the work of Lynch architects in the official selection of the Venice Biennale\, summer 2012. \n\nSimon Walker\nSimon Walker  – an architect in Dublin where he is the recipient of several awards and commendations. His work\, and his writing about architecture\, has been published extensively in Ireland and abroad. He also works as a furniture designer and has been involved in the curation of several exhibitions of architecture and design\, including Designers Block in London\, 2003. He exhibited along with Patrick Lynch at the Venice Biennale of Architecture\, 2008. He currently teaches at the University of Limerick\, at DIT and ENSAN Nantes. \nDavid Heathcote\nDavid Heathcote  – a freelance cultural historian. He has written\, published\, exhibited and broadcast work on Modern Architecture and Guide Books. He is currently working on an international history of motorways and a project to develop a new concept of cultural environment stewardship via a new charity established to develop the idea in Essex\, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. With his collaborator Sue Barr he has made books and films about architecture\, infrastructure and landscape\, including Bótharbuí\, a film for the Irish pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale. They are currently working on a film for this year’s Venice Biennale on public space in London. David works part time as a lecturer/tutor for Middlesex University\, The RCA and the V&A.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/bothar-bui-the-yellow-road/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:architecture,lecture,poetry,research
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