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SUMMARY:Charlotte Brontë - 11 November
DESCRIPTION:Charlotte Brontë\, who dazzled the world with some of literature’s most vital and richly-drawn characters\, spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love. She eventually found it with Arthur Bell\, a reserved yet passionate Irishman. After marrying\, the pair honeymooned in Ireland – a glimmer of happiness in a life shadowed by tragedy. \n\nWe’re delighted to welcome Martina Devlin to discuss her enthralling new novel Charlotte . It weaves back and forth through Charlotte’s life\, reflecting on the myths built around her by those who knew her\, those who thought they knew her\, and those who longed to know her. Above all\, this is a story of fiction: who creates it\, who lives it\, who owns it. Martina will be in conversation with Dr. Ailsa Grant Ferguson. The event will reflect on the writing and responsibilities of biographical fiction and consider Martina’s research and wider experience in writing about historical figures.  \n\nBrontë died just nine months into her marriage to Bell. Her genius\, and the aura of mystery surrounding her\, meant she’d been mythologised even within her own lifetime – a process which only intensified after her death. Observed through the eyes of Mary Nicholls – who encountered Charlotte on that fateful journey to Ireland\, and who went on to wed her widower Arthur – Charlotte is a story of three lives irrevocably intertwined. Bound by passion and obsession\, friendship and loss\, loyalty and deception – this a story of Brontë’s short but pivotal time in Ireland as never before told.  \n\n\n\n  Speakers:  Martina Devlin\n\n\n\n  Martina Devlin\nMartina Devlin is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist\, having published ten books to date. Devlin has won numerous awards for both her writing and journalism\, including the Hennessy Literary Award 1996\, GALA columnist of the year 2010\, National Newspapers of Ireland columnist of the year 2011 and Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Pritchett short story award 2012. She was also Writer-in-Residence at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco in 2009. She has been shortlisted three times for the Irish Book of the Year awards\, and her non-fiction account of the Irish financial collapse\, Banksters\, co-authored with David Murphy\, topped the best-seller list for eight weeks. A former Fleet Street journalist\, she writes weekly current affairs columns for the Irish Independent and has been named National Newspapers of Ireland columnist of the year. She frequently chairs literary and current affairs events and is a regular commentator on BBC and RTÉ. She was born in Omagh and lives in Dublin. \n\nDr Ailsa Grant Ferguson\n\n\n\n  Dr Ailsa Grant Ferguson\nDr Grant Ferguson is Co-Director of the Centre for Memory\, Narrative and Histories and leads the Performance and Communities Research and Enterprise Group. Dr Ailsa Grant Ferguson’s research is interdisciplinary\, focusing across early modern English literature and cultural history and their afterlives in 20th and 21st century contexts. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a current AHRC Research\, Development and Engagement Fellow. Her work focuses on literary histories\, especially Shakespeare in performance and cultural contexts\, performance and gender\, literary commemoration\, heritage and cultural memory\, and early modern women’s writing and its afterlives and mediation.  \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/charlotte-bronte-11-november/
LOCATION:Art Workers Guild\, 6 Queen Square\,\, London\, WC1N 3AT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:biography,book signing,emigration,feminism,history,women
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SUMMARY:Shivaun O'Casey - 7 Oct
DESCRIPTION: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 into theatre\, because they knew it was spasmodic work and involved a lot of heartbreak.”\n\nShivaun was born in 1939\, by which time O’Casey had become fed up with his treatment by the Irish literary establishment and moved to south-west England. As co-executor with her brother Breon of the O’Casey literary estate\, she was responsible for turning over the huge O’Casey archive to the National Library and continues to manage the Sean O’Casey Estate. Coinciding with a major revival of the work in London the conversation with O’Casey expert Dr Michelle Paull will touch on the production history of Juno and the Paycock\, the writing of the play\, the reaction to the O’Casey’s work and the effect of that on Sean and his relationship to Ireland. The actress Esther O’Casey\, granddaughter to Sean\, will contribute readings from the work. \n\n\n  Speakers:  Shivaun O'Casey\n\n\n\n  Shivaun O’Casey\nShivaun O’Casey began directing and producing in New York City in 1987 with Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days\, followed by Baglady (Frank McGuinness)\, and Purple Dust (Sean O’Casey). In 1991\, she formed The O’Casey Theater Company\, based both in Northern Ireland and New York\,  The company produced three international tours: The Shadow of a Gunman\, Three Shouts from a Hill\, The Plough and the Stars – and finally\, for performance in Derry only\, Behind the Green Curtains. She manages the Sean O’Casey Estate and directed and narrated the documentary on her father Under a Coloured Cap (2004) that profiles her father’s life of hardship and triumph\, idealism and disenchantment.  \n\nDr Michelle Paull\n\n\n\n  Dr Michelle Paull\nDr Michelle Paull of (St Mary’s University\, Twickenham) is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Michelle’s PhD at Goldsmiths’ College\, University of London focused on the theatre of Sean O’Casey and she is currently working on her monograph\, Sean O’Casey: Critical Controversies. Michelle’s research and teaching interests include contemporary theatre\, London theatre\, Irish plays\, Sean O’Casey\, adaptations on stage and screen and contemporary writing in English.. \n\n\n\n\n\nEsther O'Casey\n\n\n\n  Esther O’Casey\nA recent graduate of GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DRAMA\, BA (Hons) Acting. See: Guildhall. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/shivaun-ocasey-7-oct/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:archive,children,emigration,Nationalism,theatre
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SUMMARY:ILS/ITS Joint Lecture - 23 Oct
DESCRIPTION:The Annual Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture\, a joint venture of the Irish Literary Society and Irish Texts Society will be delivered by Dr. Mary MacDiarmada on ‘Art O’Brien and Irish Nationalism in London\, 1900-25’.  \n\nLondon-born and reared\, Art O’Brien’s journey from wealthy electrical engineer to leader of Irish militant nationalism in London was\, by any measure\, quite extraordinary. In her talk and in the book on which it is based MacDiarmada uses the life of O’Brien (1872–1949) as a central axis on which to construct an analysis of Irish nationalism in London from 1900 to 1925. \nShedding light on the work of the ‘presiding genius’ of the Irish movement in London [this] publication of Art O’Brien and Irish Nationalism in London 1900-25 by Dr Mary MacDiarmada is a long overdue biography of one of the most fascinating characters of the Irish revolution …Ronan McGreevy (Irish Times\, October 2020)\nO’Brien was a member of the Gaelic League\, Sinn Féin\, the Irish Volunteers\, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain. He also established a prisoner relief organization and had significant involvement in gun-running for the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence. Appointed London envoy of Dáil Éireann in 1919\, he was a close confidant of Michael Collins\, Arthur Griffith and Éamon de Valera and was a mediator in various peace initiatives between the British and Sinn Féin during 1920 and 1921. Yet\, despite his extensive contribution to the Irish revolution\, little is known of O’Brien’s activities. \n\nBased on rigorous research in British and Irish archives\, MacDiarmada recounts the vital contribution O’Brien made to the prosecution of the Irish revolution. The talk will also recount the hitherto little-known story of Irish cultural\, political and militant nationalism in London between 1900 and 1925. \n\nImage credit: Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney (left) and Art O’Brien (right) congratulating JJ O’Kelly (centre) on his re-election as President of the Gaelic League at the Mansion House in Dublin in August 1920. Photo: National Library of Ireland\, NPA POLF 170 \n\n \n  \n  Speaker:  Dr Mary MacDiarmada\n\n\n\n  Dr Mary MacDiarmada\nDr Mary MacDiarmada is a Research Fellow in the School of History and Geography\, Dublin City University (DCU).
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/ils-its-joint-lecture-23-oct/
LOCATION:Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith\, W6 9DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:emigration,history,Irish language,lecture,London-Irish,Nationalism,research
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SUMMARY:Nicole Flattery - 12 April 2023
DESCRIPTION:New York in the late 1960s: Mae escapes a run-down an apartment\, an alcoholic mother and her mother’s occasional boyfriend to a new life as a typist for Andy Warhol\, transcribing conversations with his friends and associates to provide the material for an unconventional novel. A mordantly funny investigation of celebrity\, obsession\, womanhood and sexuality\, Nothing Special (Bloomsbury) is itself an unconventional debut novel\, following on from Flattery’s acclaimed short story collection Show Them a Good Time. Nicole will join with James Conor Patterson in conversation on her writing and Nothing Special. \n\n …the thrilling sense of Flattery’s aesthetic and intellectual stringency is what comes to define her seemingly low-key enterprise here. You could almost imagine someone reading Nothing Special and not even noticing Warhol at its heart\, which may be the point of a novel that pictures the lives of his unseen instruments.Anthony Cummins\, The Guardian\n\n\n\n  \n  Speakers and performers:  Nicole Flattery\n\n\n\n  Nicole Flattery\nNicole Flattery is the author of the story collection Show Them A Good Time. She is the winner of An Post Irish Book Award\, the Kate O’Brien Prize\, the London Magazine Prize for Debut Fiction\, and the White Review Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in the Stinging Fly\, the Guardian\, the White Review\, and the London Review of Books. A graduate of the master’s program in creative writing at Trinity College\, Dublin\, she lives in Galway\, Ireland. \n\nJames Conor Patterson\n\n\n\n  James Conor Patterson\nJames is the author of the poetry collection ‘Bandit Country’ just released by Picador. He is also the editor of the anthology The New Frontier: Reflections from the Irish Border (New Island Books\, 2021). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Guardian\, i-D\, The Irish Times\, Magma\, The Moth\, Morning Star\, New Statesman\, Poetry Ireland Review\, Poetry London\, Poetry Review\, RTÉ Culture\, The Stinging Fly and The Tangerine\, among others. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be followed by a sale and signing.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/nicole-flattery-12-april-2023/
LOCATION:Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith\, W6 9DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:America,book signing,emigration,interview,music,politics,Reading,social history,women
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SUMMARY:David Ireland - 21 November 2022
DESCRIPTION:The award-winning playwright\, David Ireland\, known for his wickedly dark humour and biting satire\, will be joining Dr Michelle Paull for a discussion on his work. The evening will also feature a live performance from the cast of Not Now\, Ireland’s play running in November at The Finborough Theatre.   \n\n“Cyprus Avenue was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre Dublin. I was aware I was being commissioned as an Irish writer – but I’ve always felt British. I’ve always identified as British. And yet\, I’m undeniably influenced by so much of the Irish canon – especially O’Casey\, Wilde\, Beckett and Joyce. In some ways\, I was trying to write a traditionally Irish play from an Ulster loyalist perspective. To try to encapsulate all the rage and frustration\, fear and defiance of the Planter experience in Ireland- but with the epic sweep of O’Casey and the existentialist absurdism of Beckett. I didn’t quite get to that level of genius but I did ok with my limited talent.” \n\n  Speakers and performers:  David Ireland \n\n\n\n David Ireland David Ireland is from Belfast and trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. His first play\, WHAT THE ANIMALS SAY\, was produced at Oran Mor\, Glasgow in 2009. His other plays include EVERYTHING BETWEEN US (Tinderbox\, Belfast) which won the Stewart Parker Award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award\, THE END OF HOPE (Oran Mor)\, HALF A GLASS OF WATER (Field Day)\, YES SO I SAID YES (Ransom Productions\, Belfast)\, CAN’T FORGET ABOUT YOU (Lyric\, Belfast) and I PROMISE YOU SEX AND VIOLENCE (Northern Stage\, Newcastle). In 2015\, he adapted Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING for Dundee Rep and Graeae. He has also written extensively for television and radio.. His 2016 play CYPRUS AVENUE (Royal Court London/Abbey Theatre Dublin/Public Theatre NYC) won the Irish Times Award for Best New Play and the James Tait Black Award for Drama and in 2018 ULSTER AMERICAN (Traverse\, Edinburgh) won a Scotsman Fringe First\, the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh award and the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland Award for Best New Play.  Dr Michelle Paull \n\n\n\n Dr Michelle Paull Dr Michelle Paull is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Michelle’s PhD at Goldsmiths’ College\, University of London focused on the theatre of Sean O’Casey and she is currently working on her monograph\, Sean O’Casey: Critical Controversies. Michelle’s research and teaching interests include contemporary theatre\, London theatre\, Irish plays\, Sean O’Casey\, adaptations on stage and screen and contemporary writing in English.    \n  \n \n 
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/david-ireland-21-november-2022/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Belfast,Border,emigration,theatre,tradition
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SUMMARY:Irish Texts Society / ILS Annual Lecture - 29 September
DESCRIPTION:The scholar Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail visits the Society to deliver our joint annual Noel O’Connell memorial talk with the Irish Texts Society. Her subject is Thomas O’Connor (alias Tomás Ó Conchubhair\, b. 1798)\, originally from the civil parish of Templemolaga\, Co. Cork\, he emigrated to London in 1820 where he worked as a tailor until his death around 1870. \nThe evidence in extant Irish manuscripts suggests that he had already begun working as a scribe in his native home place\, but that this role progressed significantly during his years in the Victorian city. His scribal material (in Irish and in English) provides an intriguing insight into a native man of letters who appears to have integrated himself into his host society\, while at the same time preserving a distinctive Irish identity. Moreover\, his fascinating collection of correspondence in English reveals a man with informed views about the language and literature of his native country. And\, in his thirty or so poetic compositions\, personal vignettes come to the fore as well as a great admiration for the Young Ireland movement and\, in particular\, for William Smith O’Brien\, the fair-haired boy (an buachaill bán). \nNí Úrdail first discovered O’Connor while conducting research some years ago on a text known in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish manuscripts as Leabhar Oiris (Book of History)\, which is essentially an encomium of the O’Briens of Thomond and this dynasty’s battles for supremacy in Ireland in the tenth and eleventh centuries. She was intrigued to discover that of this work’s twenty-six sources\, one was completed outside Ireland in 1848 by O’Connor “in the city of London” (a ccathair Londoine). Subsequent findings have uncovered eighteen extant manuscripts written entirely or in part by this Cork scribe when he was living in London\, and these are preserved today in the National Library of Ireland\, the Royal Irish Academy\, University College Cork\, NUI Galway and St. Malachy’s College\, Belfast. A further source containing O’Connor’s Irish translation of the first book of Milton’s Paradise Lost (written about the year 1860) is now lost\, but a copy may be consulted on microfilm.  In looking through old MSS\, which I purchased in Dublin a good number of years ago\, I find a translation into Irish of the 1st Book of Paradise Lost. It is by one Thomas O’Connor\, who\, from letters accompanying it\, seems to have been a tailor\, resident for many years in London…Letter 23 December 1893\, from Monsignor James O’Laverty to Fr Eugene O’Growney  \n  \nPresented in association with the Irish Texts Society:  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nSpeaker:  \nProfessor Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail\n\nMeidhbhín Ní Úrdail is Professor in\, and Head of Modern Irish at University College Dublin. Ní Úrdail’s areas of research include the Irish manuscript tradition; Ireland’s vernacular written tradition from medieval times to the nineteenth century; narrative discourse and historical representation; the complementary relationship between script and print in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland; and contemporary Irish writing and its heritage. Her most recent monograph\, Pádraig Ó Laoghaire (1870–1896): an Irish scholar from the Béarra Peninsula\, was published by Beara Historical Society (2021).
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/irish-texts-society-ils-annual-lecture-29-september/
LOCATION:Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith\, W6 9DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:biography,emigration,exile,Irish language,lecture,London-Irish
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SUMMARY:Multiple Joyce - 27 June 2022
DESCRIPTION:In this centenary year of the publication of Ulysses we are delighted to welcome David Collard back to the Society with his new book\, Multiple Joyce: One Hundred Short Essays About James Joyce’s Cultural Legacy (Sagging Meniscus Press\, June 2022). Springing from the essays we’ll have discussion\, song\, readings and music to mark the UK launch of the book and to bring our season to a close. \n The story goes that a man in  Zürich once asked James Joyce if he could kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses. Joyce declined\, saying that it had done many other things as well. Multiple Joyce is a book inspired by those other things – it fizzes and astonishes at every turn\, springing Joyce’s masterpiece free from the idolatry of academe and reminding us how strange and hip it must have seemed in 1922. John Mitchinson\, co-host of Backlisted Podcast\nHolding up a funhouse mirror to our times\, Collard finds a multitude of Joyces\, in often ludicrous disguises\, wherever he looks—whether at Anthony Burgess\, Cher\, first editions\, Flann O’Brien\, Guinness\, Hattie Jacques\, John Cage\, Kim Kardashian\, Lego\, Moby-Dick\, numismatics\, perfume\, pianos\, Princess Grace\, puns\, The Ramones\, Sally Rooney\, Stanley Unwin\, Star Wars\, waxworks or Zylo spectacles. Endlessly reinvented and exploited\, Joyce emerges as a ubiquitous\, indispensable and ruthlessly commodified Everyman. An excerpt riffing on Timon of Athens\, Walter Benjamin and Ironman can be read on the RTÉ site. As Rónán Hession puts it in his foreword\, Collard is above all “good company” and “I wish that the first time anyone heard about Joyce was from David Collard.” We’re delighted that Hession\, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul and Panenka will be joining Collard in discussion. \n Collard’s Joyce nerdiness excels! Eimear McBride\nThe event will be followed by a sale of Multiple Joyce and a signing by the author. There will also be a grand giveaway of Joyce titles. \n  Speakers and performers: \n  \n David Collard\n\n\n\n  David Collard\nDavid Collard is a London-based writer\, reviewer\, researcher\, editor and occasional broadcaster\, appearing regularly in the Times Literary Supplement\, Literary Review and elsewhere\, in print and online. Previous titles include About a Girl\, a reader’s guide to Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (C B Editions\, 2016).Find out more on David’s website. \n\nRónán Hession\n\n\n\n  Rónán Hession\nRónán Hession is a writer and musician based in Dublin. His debut novel\, Leonard and Hungry Paul\, was published by Bluemoose Books in 2019. The book was shortlisted for numerous awards and chosen by the Sunday Times as one of the 50 great Irish novels of the 21st century. Ronán’s second novel. \n\n Melanie Pappenheim\n\n\n\n  Melanie Pappenheim\nMelanie Pappenheim is a singer\, performer and composer. Her versatility has allowed her to explore several different genres. She has worked with with many leading contemporary composers including Jocelyn Pook\, Orlando Gough\, Gavin Bryars and Graham Fitkin and performed in a huge variety of venues ranging from The Royal Opera House\, the ENO\, The Royal Albert Hall\, the National Theatre\, Glyndebourne\, a barge on the Thames\, a tent in Sussex\, a tower in Wells\, in clubs\, in lighthouses\, hillsides\, halls and basements everywhere. Find out more on Melanie’s website. \n Sarah Angliss\n\n\n\n  Sarah Angliss\nSarah Angliss’ music explores the sonorities of voices and ancient instruments\, revealing and augmenting them with her distinctive electronic techniques. In 2021 she received a Visionary Award from the Ivors Academy for her body of work. Sarah draws on her lifelong interest in European folksong\, cybernetics and esoteric sound culture. These inspire her progressive and strikingly original music for film\, theatre and the live music stage.Find out more on Sarah’s website \n Frank Grimes\n\n\n\n  Frank Grimes\nFrank Grimes was born in Dublin and trained at the Abbey Theatre School of Acting. He was a member of the Abbey Players for seven years and performed in O’Casey\, Synge\, Yeats\, Lady Gregory\, Joyce and O’Connor. He scored an early success as the young Brendan Behan in Borstal Boy. rank has worked extensively in the theatre in London; at the National Theatre\, Royal Shakespeare Company\, the Royal Court and in London’s West End\, as well as in Dublin and New York. Amongst his many Joyce related credits he performed in Anthony Burgess’s Joyce musical Blooms of Dublin and has previously performed his hit one-man show on James Joyce\, “…the he and the she of it…” in Dublin\, London and Paris.Find out more on Frank’s website \n\nStephanie Ellyne\n\n\n\n  Stephanie Ellyne\nStephanie Ellyne is an American actress based in London and Dublin. She recorded the 45-hour audio book of Booker nominee Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks\, Newburyport (Whole Story/W.F. Howes) in 2020\, and plays Amy Jennings in on-going British/American audio drama Dark Shadows with Big Finish\, nominated for the BBC Audio Drama Awards. Other work includes The Confessions of Dorian Gray (Big Finish; Open Book (BBC Radio 4); and The Man Behind The Prophet (BBC World Service). Stephanie records stories for the annual Costa Short Story Award\, and is a frequent narrator for RNIB Talking Books. Her most recent audio book is Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann (W.F. Howes).   \n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/multiple-joyce/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,emigration,exile,history,Joyce,music,Reading,research,Ulysses
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SUMMARY:Irish-London - 8 November
DESCRIPTION:Professor Richard Kirkland joins in conversation with Roy Foster\, the Society’s Vice President\, on Kirkland’s new book Irish London: A Cultural History 1850–1916 (London: Bloomsbury\, 2021). In the years following the Irish Famine (1845–52)\, London became one of the cities of Ireland. The number of Irish in London swelled to over 100\,000 and from this mass migration emerged a distinctive and vibrant culture based on a shared sense of history\, identity and experience. In this book\, Richard Kirkland brings together elements in Irish London’s culture and history that had previously only been understood separately or indeed largely overlooked (as in the case of women’s’ contributions to London Irish politics and culture). In particular\, Kirkland makes resonant cultural connections between Irish and cockney performers in the music halls\, Irish trade fairs\, temperance marches\, the Fenian dynamite war of the 1880s\, St Patrick’s Day events\, and the later cultural agitation of revivalists such as W.B. Yeats and Katharine Tynan. \n  \n\nSpeaker: Professor Richard Kirkland\n\n\n \nRichard Kirkland is Professor of Irish Literature & Cultural Theory at King’s College London. Professor Kirkland’s research is focused on the literature\, culture\, and politics of Ireland in the modern period of contemporary Northern Ireland\, during the Irish Literary Revival of the early twentieth century\, and in the context of the Irish in London. He has written four monographs and co-edited two collections of essays grouped around these areas. \n  \nSpeaker: Professor Roy Foster Roy Foster recently retired as Carroll Professor of Irish history at Oxford\, he is a fellow of Hertford College. He has written widely on Irish history\, society and politics in the modern period\, as well as on Victorian high politics and culture. Foster produced a widely acclaimed biography of William Butler Yeats which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In Words Alone: Yeats and his inheritances (2011)\, he presents a re-reading of Irish literary history throughout the nineteenth century and places Yeats and his inspirations in apposition to a much wider range of literary and political precursors than is usually the case. His Vivid Faces: the revolutionary generation in Ireland 1890-1914 came out in 2014 and his most recent work On Seamus Heaney (Princeton\, 2020) came out last year and is the subject of an ILS film with Roy and Catherine Heaney.\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n 
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/irish-london-8-november/
LOCATION:Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith\, W6 9DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:emigration,history,interview,London-Irish,politics,Reading,social history
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SUMMARY:Art\, Ireland and the Irish Diaspora - 16 December 2020
DESCRIPTION:Art historian Dr Éimear O’Connor joins artist Bernard Canavan to discuss her latest book ‘Art\, Ireland and the Irish Diaspora’ (Irish Academic Press\, 2020). Art\, Ireland\, and the Irish Diaspora reveals a labyrinth of social and cultural connections that conspired to create and sustain an image of Ireland for the nation and for the Irish diaspora between 1893 and 1939. This era saw an upsurge of interest among patrons and collectors in New York and Chicago in the ‘Irishness’ of Irish art\, which was facilitated by gallery owners\, émigrés\, philanthropists\, and art-world celebrities. O’Connor\, explores the ongoing tensions between those in Ireland and the expatriate community in the US\, split as they were between tradition and modernity\, and between public expectation and political rhetoric\, as Ireland sought to forge a post-Treaty international identity through its visual artists. Bernard Canavan joins O’Connor in conversation to discuss her research\, art and diaspora more generally and her archival encounters with Jack. B. Yeats\, George Russell (AE)\, Lady Gregory\, and Seán Keating\, how the Dublin art scene and that in New York and Chicago connected through complex networks and contemporary publications at an extraordinary time in Ireland’s history.  \nSpeaker: Éimear O’Connor\n\n\n \nÉimear O’Connor is an Honorary Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts. She is the author of Seán Keating in Context: Responses to Culture and Politics in Post-Civil War Ireland (2009)\, Seán Keating: Art\, Politics and Building the Irish Nation (IAP\, 2013) and Editor of Irish Women Artists 1800-2009: Familiar but Unknown (2010). Follow Éimear on twitter: @artanddiaspora \n  \n\nSpeaker: Bernard Canavan\n\n\n \nBernard Canavan grew up in Edgeworthstown\, Co Longford\, in the 1950s. He emigrated to England in 1959 with his father and worked in the usual unskilled emigrant labouring jobs on construction sites and in factories. He returned to work in Dublin as a graphic artist with a display and advertising agency before finally settling in London as a free-lance illustrator for most of the 1960s underground press. Canavan’s paintings are figurative and deal with Irish and emigrant life; in particular of the make do life of Irish people in the UK in the 1950’s and 1960’s. He is represented by Barbara Stanely and Saatchi Art. \n 
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/art-ireland-and-the-irish-diaspora-16-december-2020/
CATEGORIES:art,emigration,impressionism,realism
LOCATION:https://www.crowdcast.io/e/art-ireland-and-the-irish-diaspora/register
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