Latest Past Events

Eavan Boland – 26 June 2017

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

Widely considered to be one of Ireland’s most important contemporary poets, Eavan Boland is currently a Professor of Humanities and Director of the Creative Writing Programme at Stanford University, where she has taught since 1996. In 2015 a New Collected Poems was published, and Eavan Boland: Inside History, a book celebrating her long and distinguished career, was recently published by Arlen House, its editor ...

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin – 27 Feb

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

Renowned poet Ní Chuilleanáin is the current Ireland Professor of Poetry, she was a founding member and editor of the literary journal Cyphers and is one of the major Irish poets of her generation. This is her first visit to the Irish Literary Society and she will be reading from her own work. Ní Chuilleanáin is the Vermeer of contemporary ...

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London Irish poetic tradition – 28 Nov

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

  The ILS teams up with RTÉ's Poetry Programme to reflect on the London-Irish poetic tradition. Presenter Rick O'Shea talks to the ILS President Bernard O'Donoghue, and Vice President Roy Foster about the work and reception of Irish poets in London and how the city shaped those writers and fed back into Irish culture. A recording of this event is now ...

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