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SUMMARY:Kevin Barry - 30 November
DESCRIPTION: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 finds release. The tale of a wild journey into the world and a wild journey within\, Beatlebone is a mystery box of a novel. It’s a portrait of an artist at a time of creative strife. It is most of all a sad and beautiful comedy from one of the most gifted stylists now at work. Barry will be reading and in conversation with Gavin Clarke. \nBarry on his writing process: Paris Review\, November 2013:I myself live in County Sligo in what seem like the perfect conditions for a writer—a room looking out on a swampy lake\, all very atmospheric\, ethereal mists\, yadda yadda\, and there’s nothing to fucking do but write. But after about two weeks of this\, I need to get out or I’ll go nuts. So I go and cycle around the west of Ireland. I mean I don’t do crazy\, German-type distances\, but I’ll go maybe forty or fifty kilometers a day. And as you go through all the different towns\, you pick up such different senses and reverbs from each place. It isn’t to do with how a place looks—there are run-down\, shitty towns that give you a happy\, spring-in-the-step feeling—but each place gives off its own very distinct feeling and sometimes it’s light and sometimes it’s really fucking dark.\n\nSpeaker:\n\nKevin Barry\nKevin Barry is the author of one novel and two short story collections\, the most recent of which\, Dark Lies the Island\, included the story ‘Beer Trip to Llandudno’ for which he won the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2012\, the world’s premier short story prize. His first collection of stories\, There Are Little Kingdoms was published by The Stinging Fly Press in 2007 and was an immediate success. His first novel\, City of Bohane(2011) received largely positive reviews and won the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The book is a futuristic\, apocalyptic western-thriller\, which is highly influenced by film\, graphic novels and popular culture. Barry’s writing is brilliantly vivid\, his style darkly humorous\, in the mould of Flann O’Brien. A unique and compelling voice\, he has already been described by Irvine Welsh as ‘the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years’.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/kevin-barry-30-november-2015/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,Reading,short story
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SUMMARY:Raymond Queneau and Dublin 1916 - October 2015
DESCRIPTION: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 pulp fiction by one Sally Mara\, but Queneau’s work is a wonderful example of his sly\, provocative genius. Queneau was a great admirer of Joyce and kept a notebook to document his reading of Ulysses. Duncan describes Queneau’s erotic and playful twists on history and Joyce’s work thus: ‘The protagonists are a band of rebels who occupy a post office in Dublin\, not the GPO\, but another one\, round the corner on Eden Street. In taking over the building\, the rebels either expel or kill all of the post office staff working there ± the clerks\, tellers\, managers and guards ± with the exception of one woman\, one Gertrude Girdle\, otherwise known as Gertie\, who was in the loo when it happened. The rebels discover Gertie\, and during the course of a somewhat existential interrogation\, she finds her faith in the infallibility of George V irremediably shaken and sets about undermining the rebels\, sowing confusion and dissent among them by systematically seducing them.’ \nILS Rattlebag\nIn addition to this enjoyable and curious look at the events of 1916 as we approach its centenary we have put together a rattlebag of music\, essays\, poetry and film drawn from the talent of the Society:\n My dearest\, forgive me asking you such a question\, but these rebels\, did they – how shall I put it – did they behave correctly towards you? No\, said Gertie. They tried to lift up my beautiful white dress to look at my ankles.Raymond Queneau - We Always Treat Women Too Well\n  \n\n \nDonal Cox (Fifth Province) – poetry and performance\n \nDr Tony Murray –  Portrayals of the Post-War Irish Navvy in London\n \nNora Connolly  – poems\n \nShevaun Wilder – Song of Wandering Aengus film\n \nEddie Linden – poems\n\nWe will have an opportunity for some questions after the presentations by Dr Duncan and Dr Murray. \nSpeaker:\n Dr Dennis Duncan\nHis books include Theory of the Great Game: Writings from Le Grand Jeu\, which appeared with Atlas Press in 2015\, while an edited collection\, Tom McCarthy: Critical Essays\, is in press with Gylphi. He is currently working on a monograph about the early years of the Parisian literary coterie\, the Oulipo and his current research project concerns the history of the book index. He is also interested in literary translation\, and in the European avant-garde of the twentieth century\, in particular the Oulipo and the Collège de ’Pataphysique.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/october-2016-raymond-queneau-and-dublin-1916/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,lecture,poetry,Reading,short story
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151026T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151026T203000
DTSTAMP:20151025T135113Z
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SUMMARY:John Banville - 26 October 2015
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY 25 10 2015 \nJOHN 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. \nWE LOOK FORWARD TO RESCHEDULING JOHN BANVILLE’S VISIT TO THE ILS IN THE NEW YEAR. \nG. Clarke\nHonorary Secretary\nIrish Literary Society \nOne of Ireland’s great writers makes his first appearance at the ILS to discuss his latest work The Blue Guitar\, his recent genre fiction and wider literary career and interests with journalist and ILS Deputy Chairman\, Dorothy Allen \n\n“You can sense the volumes of Joyce\, Beckett and Nabokov on Banville’s shelves.”Tibor Fischer on Banville\nThe Blue Guitar is a story of theft and the betrayal of friendship:\nOliver Orme used to be a painter\, well known and well rewarded\, but the muse has deserted him. He is also\, as he confesses\, a petty thief; he does not steal for gain\, but for the thrill of it. HIs worst theft is Polly\, the wife of his friend Marcus\, with whom he has had an affair. When the affair is discovered\, Oliver hides himself away in his childhood home. From here he tells the story of a year\, from one autumn to the next. Many surprises and shocks await him\, and by the end of his story\, he will be forced to face himself and seek a road towards redemption. \nSometimes\, in the middle of the afternoon if I’m feeling a little bit sleepy\, Black will sort of lean in over Banville’s shoulder and start writing. Or Banville will lean over Black’s shoulder and say\, “Oh that’s an interesting sentence\, let’s play with that.” I can see sometimes\, revising the work\, the points at which one crept in or the two sides seeped into each otherBanville on Banville\nBiography:\nJohn Banville was born in Wexford\, Ireland\, in 1945. He was educated at Christian Brothers Schools and St. Peter’s College\, Wexford. He worked in journalism from 1969. He was Literary Editor at The Irish Times from 1988 to 1999. Banville had worked across many forms and won acclaim for his screenplays\, radio and TV work. His first novel\, Nightspawn\, came out in 1971. Subsequent novels include Kepler (1980)\, Athena (1995)\, Eclipse (2000)\, The Sea (2005)\, and The Infinities (2010). His non-fiction book\, Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City\, was published in 2003.Among the awards John Banville’s novels have won are the James Tait Black Memorial Prize\, the Guardian Fiction\, the Premio Nonino. He has also received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation in the U.S. He won the Man Booker Prize 2005 for The Sea.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/john-banville-26-october-2015/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,Reading
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SUMMARY:Edna O'Brien / Annual Dinner- 1 June
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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 the Annual ILS / Irish Embassy Yeats lecture in September 2014. In addition to Edna O’Brien’s appearance we are delighted to announce that the 2014-15 season will be closed with a little Yeats tribute at the Annual Dinner. \nA three-course meal is served in the Liberal Club’s David Lloyd George Room. A cash bar will be open prior to the dinner. Dress-up\, come along and have a great evening with us. Dress code: lounge suit with tie. \nTickets are £43 (members) and £49 (non-members) and can be booked via our EventBrite page (http://goo.gl/gfL2nt) (+online booking fee)\, alternatively you can pay by cash or cheque at our next lecture on 18 May or complete the form below and send a cheque and your details to our Honorary Treasurer:\n————————–————————–————————– \nComplete the details below\, enclose a cheque made out to ‘Irish Literary Society’ and send to Mr. James Lazar: 23 Brockham Drive\, Ilford\, IG2 SQW: \nI wish to apply for the following tickets for the ILS Annual dinner. \n__________tickets @ £43 for members and __________tickets @ £49 for non-members.\nI enclose a cheque for £_____ payable to ‘IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY’. \nName:________________________________________ \nAddress/Telephone Number________________________________________\n_______________________________________________ \nName(s) of guests:________________________________________________________________________________________ \nQueries to: Gavin Clarke\, Hon. Secretary\, Irish Literary Society: irishlitsoc@gmail.com
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/annual-dinner-2015/
LOCATION:National Liberal Club\, 1 Whitehall Place\, London\, SW1A 2HE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,Reading
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SUMMARY:Martin Dyar - 30 March
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDyar is the author of an acclaimed play\, Tom Loves a Lord\, about the Irish poet Thomas Moore. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2009\, and the Strokestown Award in 2001; has also been the recipient of two Arts Council Bursary Awards for literature. A graduate of NUI Galway\, and Trinity College Dublin\, most recently he was a Writer Fellow at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He is currently finishing a novel about a cult in the West of Ireland. \n… ‘Martin Dyar’s narratives about the strangeness of the everyday have a vividness and colour which are a thrilling new development in Irish poetry. Their eloquence and life clear the boards of anything tired or familiar\, making room for the language of poetry to move into new areas to cope with the central moments of people’s lives. This is a book of real importance and originality.’ILS President\, Bernard O'Donoghue\nSpeaker:\n\nMartin Dyar\nBorn in Sligo\, Martin Dyar grew up in Swinford in County Mayo. A graduate of NUIG and TCD\, his poetry has received a number of honours\, including the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2009\, and the Strokestown International Poetry Award in 2001. In 2010 he was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. He has also been a writer in residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. His debut collection\, Maiden Names\, published by Arlen House\, was shortlisted for the 2014 Piggott Prize. He has received two Arts Council Literature Bursary Awards\, the most recent in 2013.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/martin-dyar-30-march/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,interview,poetry,Reading
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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:In the Ould Long Ago - 26 Jan
DESCRIPTION: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\,  Boston College and New York Public Libraries. Sadly Jonny passed away five weeks after publication but his youngest son Paul\, will talk about his father’s work to the ILS.\n… as we turn the pages and travel the roads our eyes will be opened to the wildlife and the landscape and we will begin to see ancient rocks lying in the heather and signs of tillage high on mountain side and appreciate that people lived between the now fallen gables. You could not have a better companion that Jonny McKeagney as you travel along the old roads. \nSéamus MacAnnaidh - Historian & Author \nThough McKeagney was a self-taught historian and artist\, his work was of a quality that attracted academics\, many of them contributing prefaces to his works. In the foreward Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh\, Archivist\, National Folklore Collection\, UCD writes ‘For forty years Johnny collected folklore by pen and tape recorder. He details stories and events then sketches all the salient points with a fine nib so that With the aid of camera\, recording device and pen\, he has pieced together much of the fabric of tradition in the places he has visited. The skills of craftsman\, draughtsman and artist which he combines are used to great effect in the richly-detailed and frequently humorous tapestries he has drawn. The passion and excitement of uncovering an ancient monument\, piecing together the former outline and function of a building or object\, recording a distant craft process or local legend\, all are vividly expressed in John McKeagney’s drawings. They form a unique and invaluable pictorial record of Fermanagh’s hidden past.’  \nFor further interest and examples from this publication\, see folklorebook
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/in-the-ould-long-ago-illustrated-irish-folklore/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:art,folklore,interview,research,tradition
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