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SUMMARY:Neil Jordan - 25 Nov
DESCRIPTION:Neil Jordan is unique in his success both as a fiction writer and a movie maker. In his new memoir Amnesiac he looks back over his twin careers with a certain amused wonderment – how did he manage all that? The result is a fascinating record of private loves and losses\, of public triumphs and lessons learned\, in a narrative shaped by the hand of an artist. And yes\, there is enough insider Hollywood lore to satisfy the hungriest picturegoer. He is joined in conversation by film and theatre critic Daniel Rosenthal.  \nNeil Jordan is the creative mind behind the films Angel\, Mona Lisa\, Michael Collins\, The Crying Game\, and Interview with the Vampire\, and novels such as The Past and Night in Tunisia. Jordan will explore his past and family history: from growing up near an abandoned estate in Dublin\, to his passion for music and early productions with Jim Sheridan. Hear stories of his collaborations with Stephen Rea\, Jaye Davidson\, Bob Hoskins\, and Tom Cruise\, and reflections on loss\, love\, creativity\, and even the supernatural by one of Ireland’s most unusual artists.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/neil-jordan-25-nov/
LOCATION:Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith\, W6 9DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:America,biography,book signing,film,history
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SUMMARY:The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne - 7 Dec
DESCRIPTION:The Brian Moore at 100 Project and the Irish Literary Society present a free screening of The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne\, an adaptation of Moore’s anti-church novel that features an astonishing Maggie Smith in a role regarded as one of her finest. \nJudith Hearne (Smith) is a middle-aged spinster who’s dedicated her life to the church and caring for her cantankerous aunt\, scraping a meagre living giving piano lessons. Believing she’s finally found companionship in the form of her landlady’s brother Madden (Bob Hoskins)\, a New York-based entrepreneur\, Judith begins to exhume her emotions\, unaware that she may be misinterpreting his intentions. \nTo mark the centenary of the birth of Belfast-born writer Brian Moore (1921-1999) the ILS have partnered with the Exeter University project Brian Moore at 100. Designed to coincide with the centenary of his birth\, this project seeks to critically appraise\, and thus revive scholarly and public interest in\, the work of neglected and important Belfast-born writer\, Brian Moore (1921- 1999). If you attend the screening you may also be interested in a talk on 8 December with the academic Dr Sinéad Moynihan and writer Lucy Caldwell on Moore’s work and legacy.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/brian-moore-at-100-the-lonely-passion-of-judith-hearne/
LOCATION:Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith\, W6 9DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:adaptation,feminism,film,novel,women
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SUMMARY:Days of Clear Light - 1 Feb 2021
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to join with our friends to mark the occasion of 40 years of Salmon Poetry and to celebrate the work of Jessie Lendennie. To mark that achievement 100 writers have come together in contributing to a special Festschrift presented as a complete surprise to Jessie at Christmas 2020. Editor Nessa O’Mahony interviews Jessie for the ILS and a number of the poets have contributed recordings of their poems for this online celebration. \n\nThe marvellous Festschrift\, so assiduously shaped in secret by our friends the editors Alan Hayes and Nessa O’Mahony\, gathers together poetry\, prose and memoir\, full of love\, gratitude and acknowledgement of the central role Jessie and Salmon have played in Irish literature. The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins writes in the foreward of Salmon publishing his first volume of poetry\, The Betrayal back in 1990 and notes of Jessie’s grá for experimentalism: ‘For Jessie\, the world of publishing has always been a space of offering new possibilities  and exciting opportunities. In exercising choice on what to publish she has been unafraid to take a risk\, to follow her heart and her instinct down roads untravelled. In doing so she has also brought many readers down new pathways\, introducing them to remarkable writers who may have remained undiscovered or ‘off the beaten track’ if it were not for Jessie.’ Alan Hayes in his introduction writes of the transformative effect of Salmon’s redress of the gender imbalance in Irish publishing\, his work at Arlen House also deserves great credit in publishing and reviving Irish women poets. The quality of the collections which stream from Salmon today stand up to the great work of Eva Bourke and Rita Ann Higgins on which the Press was founded. Alan quotes the late Eavan Boland writing of Salmon as “one of the most innovative\, perceptive and important publishing houses in the UK and Ireland. It has fostered and supported the work of new writers and has established them in the public consciousness.” The book is available from Salmon.\n\nEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is first up and reads for us from her poem In Ostia\, then Nessa O’Mahony joins Jessie in conversation and some of the poets from the volume have recorded their readings to share with us\, we’re delighted to have Gerry Dawe\, Martina Evans\, Jane Clarke and Nessa reading their work. Brava Jessie\, happy anniversary Salmon!\n\n\nSpeaker:\n\nEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin\nBorn 1942 in Cork\, she is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College\, Dublin\, where she has taught\, researched and written on Renaissance literature and translation\, since 1966; with her husband Macdara Woods\, Leland Bardwell and Pearse Hutchinson\, she was a founder and (since 1975) co-editor of the Irish poetry journal Cyphers. Her seventh collection of poetry\, The Sun-Fish\, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Griffin International Prize for poetry in 2010; The Boys of Bluehill was published in 2015 by Gallery Press\, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize\, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Pigott Prize at the Listowel Writers’ Week.\n\nSpeaker: Jane Clarke\n\n\n \nJane Clarke is the author of two poetry collections\, The River and When the Tree Falls (Bloodaxe Books 2015 & 2019)\, and an illustrated chapbook\, All the Way Home\, (Smith|Doorstop 2019). She grew up on a farm in Co. Roscommon and her work explores enduring connections to people\, place and nature. Jane’s awards include the 2016 Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry and the 2016 Listowel Writers’ Week Poem of the Year. She now lives in Glenmalure\, Co. Wicklow where she combines writing with teaching & mentoring creative writing. www.janeclarkepoetry.ie \n\nSpeaker: Gerald Dawe\n\n\n\nGerald Dawe is a retired Professor of English and Fellow of Trinity College\, Dublin. He has published eight collections of poetry and several volumes of essays\, and he is the recipient of numerous awards and honours\, including the Macaulay Fellowship in Literature. His latest poetry collection Mickey Finn’s Air\, was published in 2014; Of War and War’s Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing appeared in 2015. In Another World is available from online retailers and the Irish Academic Press. \n\n\nSpeaker: Martina Evans\n Martina Evans is a poet\, novelist and teacher. She grew up in County Cork in a country pub\, shop and petrol station and is the youngest of ten children. She is the author of ten books of prose and poetry. She is currently Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University\, London and a Lector for the Royal Literary Reading Round 2014-2016. Watch\, a pamphlet was published by Rack Press in January 2016 and The Windows of Graceland\, New & Selected Poems was published by Carcanet in May 2016. Her latest collection Now We Can Talk Openly About Men was published by Carcanet in May 2018. It featured in the Times Literary Supplement\, Observer and Irish Times Books of the Year and has been shortlisted for the 2019 Irish Times Poetry Now Award as well as the Pigott Poetry Award. Currently she is Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow and poetry reviewer for the Irish Times. \n\n\nChair: Nessa O’Mahony\n\n\n\nNessa O’Mahony is a Dublin-born poet and novelist. She has published four books of poetry – Bar Talk (1999)\, Trapping a Ghost (2005)\, In Sight of Home (2009) and Her Father’s Daughter (2014). She is co-editor with Siobhán Campbell of Eavan Boland: Inside History (Arlen House\, 2016). Her first novel\, The Branchman (Arlen House\, 2018) was recently published. O’Mahony won the National Women’s Poetry Competition in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards..
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/days-of-clear-light-1-feb-2021/
CATEGORIES:feminism,film,poetry,publishing,Reading,women
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SUMMARY:Aidan Higgins doc screening / Christmas drinks - 11 December
DESCRIPTION:Where Would You Like The Bullet: a film about Aidan Higgins\nfollowed by Christmas drinks.\n\nThe Irish Literary Society is banding together with the Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith to host a free screening of the UK premiere of a documentary on the Irish writer Aidan Higgins. Come along and be introduced to the Society and other London-Irish organisations on 11 December. Neil Donnelly’s new documentary ‘Where would you like the bullet: a film about Aidan Higgins’ will run from 18.30 to be followed by a Q&A with the director. The screening will be followed by Christmas drinks. \nSo come along\, enjoy the film\, if you like bring a mince pie or a dish to share. If you’re representing a cultural organisation do bring some flyers or a banner\, it could be a great opportunity for stimulating conversations about future collaborations. \n \n\nAsylum has been with me since I first read it in the 70s… Aidan has left us a vast map of London with the small roads that lead there from Kildare and elsewhere via a host of historical backgrounds and demeanours and aromas and cemeteries… a world of panel beaters somewhere off the long drags of Uxbridge. There are bad times so rich in detail that the sorrows are well hidden.Dermot Healy on 'Asylum' story in as Felo de Se (1960)
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/aidan-higgins-doc-screening-christmas-party-11-december/
LOCATION:Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith\, W6 9DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:documentary,film,London-Irish,party
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SUMMARY:Lisa Dwan - 27 March
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Dwan visits the ILS to discuss her intense engagement with Samuel Beckett’s work. She recently completed a marathon tour of a triple bill of late Samuel Beckett works. In Not I she played a disembodied mouth delivering a stream of consciousness at speed\, capturing the despair of an outcast caught in a speechless existence while floating above the stage in a near pitch-black void. In Footfalls we saw her pacing back and forth like a metronome outside her dying mother’s room\, trapped in a moment of time\, tormented by some ‘shudder of her mind’. And in Rockaby she was dressed in an evening gown\, a prematurely aged woman sits in a chair that appears to rock of its own accord. Recounting moments from her past\, she slowly withdraws from the world. Dwan will be in conversation with Shevaun Wilder\, the event will be accompanied by a short screening. \nSpeakers:\n\nLisa Dwan\nLisa Dwan has worked extensively in theatre\, film and television both internationally and in her native Ireland. Film credits include Oliver Twist\, John Boorman’s Tailor of Panama and Bhopal – A Prayer for Rain due for release this year. In 2012\, she adapted\, produced and performed the critically acclaimed one-woman play Beside the Sea at Southbank Centre and on tour and starred in Goran Bregovic’s new music drama\, Margot\, Diary Of An Unhappy Queen at the Barbican. She most recently performed in Ramin Gray’s production of Illusions by Ivan Viripaev at the Bush Theatre.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/lisa-dwan-27-march/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:film,interview,theatre
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SUMMARY:Louis Lentin - 29 Mar
DESCRIPTION:Theatre\, film and documentary maker Louis Lentin will situate his own television work\, specifically his ground breaking production for television\, of Dear Daughter in the wider the role of Irish documentary in film and television. Ireland has experienced dramatic shifts in its social and political make-up in recent decades which has been directly reflected and shaped by the media. Lentin’s work is one of a range of perspectives in the diverse landscape of Irish documentary making.  \nThe recent publication of Documentary in a Changing State looks back over the last two decades through the prism of documentary to get a snap shot of the dramatic shifts and upheavals in Irish society\, socially\, culturally and politically it includes an interview with Lentin. The book will be on sale at a discount for members after the talk.\nSpeakers:\n\nLouis Lentin\nLouis Lentin is a theatre\, film and television director. He was born in Limerick\, Ireland\, in 1933 and worked for over forty years in the arts in Ireland. He founded Art Theatre Productions in 1959 and was responsible for the first Irish productions of Krapp’s Last Tape and Endgame. RTÉ Head of Drama Hilton Edwards asked him to work in RTÉ. In 1975\, he received a Jacob’s Award for his direction of three television plays broadcast on RTÉ in the previous year: Aleksei Arbuzov’s The Promise\, Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage\, and Jean Anouilh’s The Rehearsal (“La Répétition ou l’Amour puni”).Louis Lentin was also involved in founding Israeli television. Lentin is a member of Aosdána.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/louis-lentin-29-mar/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:documentary,film,Reading,research
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