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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, ...
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 ...
Martin Dyar’s debut collection of poems Maiden Names (Arlen House, 2013) was a book of the year selection in both the Guardian and The Irish Times, and was shortlisted for both the Pigott Poetry Prize and the Shine/Strong Award. Martin will read from his work for the Irish Literary Society. Dyar is the author of an acclaimed play, Tom Loves ...
Join us at the Irish Literary Society Annual Dinner on 1 June. The brilliant Edna O’Brien, our Guest of Honour, will be reading from her work and taking questions from our Vice President, Prof. Roy Foster. The ILS kicked-off the Yeats 2015 celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of Ireland's great poets, William Butler Yeats, at ...
SUNDAY 25 10 2015 JOHN BANVILLE WILL NOT APPEAR ON 26 OCTOBER AS ADVERTISED. THE AUTHOR SENDS HIS REGRETS AS HE HAS LOST HIS VOICE. THE ILS WILL HOST AN EVENING OF ENTERTAINMENT SOURCED FROM TALENT IN THE SOCIETY IN PLACE OF THE BANVILLE READING AT THE SAME TIME AND VENUE. FURTHER DETAILS WILL BE SENT TO MEMBERS TODAY. WE ...
A late addition to the programme to replace the cancelled John Banville appearance we welcome Dr Dennis Duncan to the Society to discuss Raymond Queneau's 1947 short novel On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes (We Always Treat Women Too Well ) set during the Easter Rising in 1916. The novel was first published as a purported work of ...
Barry’s second novel is set in 1978 and imagines John Lennon on the west coast of Ireland, his plan is to go to the island he owns, Dorinish— which Lennon really did buy, in 1967 — and to spend days of cathartic solitude there, to confront the trauma of “love, blood, fate, death, sex, the void” and scream until he ...
