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An exciting opportunity to engage with British primary sources documenting the 1916 Rising. This members-only event will take place in The National Archives in Kew. In a supervised 2-hour session ILS members will have an opportunity to examine newspapers, proclamations and court martial files. The event is limited to 30 places. Please contact the Honorary Secretary to reserve a place, ...
The ILS has arranged for a group visit on 16 January to the National Theatre Archive for a screening of the recording of the NT production of Conor McPherson's The Veil from 2011. The screening room at the Archive has only limited capacity so we must limit this event to members-only, there are 25 places. If there is sufficient demand ...
We are delighted to announce a special members-only visit to the Archive of the Irish in Britain. The Archive consists of collections of documents, audio and video recordings, books, photographs and ephemera cataloguing the history of the Irish in Britain from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Dr Tony Murray, the curator of the archive, will give an ...
The ILS is delighted to start its 2019-20 season with a showcase of second-generation Irish writers in Britain. Not quite British, not quite Irish, through their essays, fiction and poetry about music, family, and history these distinguished writers explore questions of identity and belonging and ask the perennial question: where is home – here or Ireland? When questions of authenticity ...
In the year of the centenary of the inaugural production of Juno and the Paycock we welcome Shivaun O'Casey, daughter of playwright Sean O'Casey and actress Eileen Carey, to speak at the Society to give insight into growing up in the O'Casey household, her father's work and her own work as a theatre director:"My parents never encouraged me to go ...
