Latest Past Events

Foreign Tongues – 22 May

Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith

The Annual Noel O'Connell Memorial Lecture, a joint venture of the Irish Literary Society and Irish Texts Society will be delivered by Phyllis Gaffney on her recent book Foreign Tongues Victorian Language Learning and the Shaping of Modern Ireland which is the first historical overview of the study of languages in Ireland. How history shifts languages and languages in turn ...

Free

Shivaun O’Casey – 7 Oct

The Bloomsbury Hotel The Bloomsbury Hotel, 16-22 Great Russell Street, London

In the year of the centenary of the inaugural production of Juno and the Paycock we welcome Shivaun O'Casey, daughter of playwright Sean O'Casey and actress Eileen Carey, to speak at the Society to give insight into growing up in the O'Casey household, her father's work and her own work as a theatre director:"My parents never encouraged me to go ...

Martin Doyle, Dirty Linen – 26 Jan

Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith

We are delighted to kick off 2024 with a collaboration with our friends at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, home to many of our events over recent years. Martin Doyle will be joining us not in his more familiar capacity as the Literary Editor of the Irish Times but as an author in his own right. His Dirty Linen – ...