• Shivaun O’Casey – 7 Oct

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

    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 ...

  • Foreign Tongues – 22 May

    Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith, United Kingdom

    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 ...

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