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The 2013 ILS/Irish Texts Society Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Seán Ó Coileán, Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish at University College, Cork and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. The subject of his lecture will be, ’The ITS volume that never was: Robin Flower and The Great Blasket’. This annual lecture is organised in conjunction with ...
Jonny McKeagney spent 40 years collecting stories, events, crafts, traditions and ways of life from people around Co. Fermanagh and neighbouring Ulster counties. In the Ould Ago, published in October 2010, has won international book awards and is due to be displayed in a dozen university libraries in North America including Harvard, Notre Dame, Library of Congress in Washington, UCLA, ...
For the first ILS lecture of 2015 Joseph Horgan discusses his book, The Song at Your Backdoor, and recites poems from his prize-winning collections. In The Song at Your Backdoor he sets out to follow Patrick Kavanagh’s maxim that ‘all great civilisations are based on parochialism. To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime’s experience.’ The ...
The Irish Literary Society is delighted to invite its members to the Embassy of Ireland for an evening with one of Ireland's most fascinating poets. As there are only limited seats available for this event interested members should apply for tickets via the form below. Tara Bergin’s debut collection, This is Yarrow, won the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and she ...
The Irish Literary Society is engaging with writers and academics to reflect on 'Representations of Jews in Irish Literature'. The innovative research project of the same title was developed out of NUI Galway and Ulster University and forms the centre of tonight's event. The main objective of the project is to analyse representations of Jews in Irish literature from the ...
The Irish Literary Society opens its 2018-19 season with a meditation on death, dying and our attitudes to mortality. In his book, The Way We Die Now, Dr. O’Mahony gives us a rare glimpse into the world of death and dying from the vantage point of a medical doctor. In My Father’s Wake Toolis writes of his coming-to-terms with the death ...
The ILS is working with The North poetry journal for this event to launch their special Irish issue. Editors and poets Jane Clarke and Nessa O'Mahony lead a rich evening of readings and discussion of contemporary Irish poetry. From an issue bursting with ideas and innovation (120 poems by 107 poets) we are gathering some fascinating poets to illustrate the ...
UNFORTUNATELY THIS EVENT IS NOW CANCELLED. NOTICE OF A REPLACEMENT EVENT WILL BE SENT OUT TO SUBSCRIBERS ASAP. TICKET REFUNDS WILL BE ISSUED. The poet Ciaran Carson visits the Society to deliver our joint annual Noel O'Connell memorial talk with the Irish Texts Society. Carson's title for this talk 'From There to Here: Some Reflections on Translation' references his retrospective ...
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 ...
