Latest Past Events

Heaney and the Classics

Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith

Ten years ago in September 2013, Michael Parker led an event for the Irish Literary Society to celebrate the life and work of Seamus Heaney, our then President, whose passing on 30 August 2013 was such a loss to family, friends and his many admirers. We now mark the 10th anniversary of his passing with an event to reflect on ...

£8.00

Troubling the Classics – 29 Oct

The Bloomsbury Hotel 16-22 Great Russell St, London

For our October event we're bringing together a poet, a novelist and a dramatist to reflect on their work and its place in a rich seam of Irish literature inspired by the Greeks. The continuing interest of Irish writers in Greek and Latin classical literature as a model and source for inspiration is somewhat surprising given the almost complete disappearance of ...

£8