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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 27 June 2016 AGENDA 1. Apologies 2. Minutes from 2015 AGM 3. Matters Arising 4. Chairman’s Report 5. Honorary Secretary’s Report 6. Treasurer’s Report 7. Membership Secretary’s Report 8. Election of the Officers & Committee for the ILS Season 2016-17 9. Appointment of Honorary Auditors 10. Plans for 2016-17 11. AOB Members are invited to propose candidates ...
The Ambassador of Ireland Daniel Mulhall hosts the third Annual Yeats Lecture at the Embassy of Ireland with the Irish Literary Society. Following on from his highly praised television documentary on Yeats, the musician and activist Sir Bob Geldof talks about his appreciation of the great poet. Geldof argues that as a poet and statesman, at the vanguard of a ...
On Sunday afternoon 19 February the ILS will be making an outing to Bedford Park for a walk led by the poet Cahal Dallat - members will remember Cahal and his accordion from our London Irish Poetic Tradition event back in November 2016. This is a members-only event which takes in the home of the Yeats family and considers, through ...
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 3 July 2017, 7.30pm AGENDA 1. Chairman's Opening Remarks 2. Apologies 3. Minutes from 2016 AGM 4. Matters Arising 5. Honorary Secretary’s Report 6. Chairman’s Report 7. Treasurer’s Report 8. Membership Secretary’s Report 9. Constitutional changes 10. Election of the Officers & Committee for the ILS Season 2016-17 and any other voting. 11. Appointment of Honorary Auditors 12. ...
The Ambassador of Ireland Mr. Daniel Mulhall and Mrs. Greta Mulhall invite members of the ILS to the launch of ‘The Cambridge History of Modern Ireland' Edited by Eugenio F. Biagini and Mary E. Daly at the Embassy of Ireland on 12th July 2017 from 18.00 - 20.00. This event is open to ILS members only and tickets will be allocated by lottery. RSVP ...
The ILS has 20 tickets for excellent seats for the acclaimed Royal Court production of Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman for a performance on the evening of 21 September to issue free to members. To apply for a ticket you must be a fully paid-up member, you should complete the form below. The lottery will close on 8 September and 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 ILS has arranged for a group visit on 16 January to the National Theatre Archive for a screening of the recording of the NT production of Conor McPherson's The Veil from 2011. The screening room at the Archive has only limited capacity so we must limit this event to members-only, there are 25 places. If there is sufficient demand ...
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 11 June 2018, 7.30pm Location: Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith All current members of the Society are invited to attend and participate at the ILS AGM. The meeting is an opportunity for the Committee to report and be questioned on the performance of the Society, its plans and its financial situation. It is also an opportunity for members to ...
We are delighted to announce a special members-only visit to the Archive of the Irish in Britain. The Archive consists of collections of documents, audio and video recordings, books, photographs and ephemera cataloguing the history of the Irish in Britain from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Dr Tony Murray, the curator of the archive, will give an ...
