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SUMMARY:Eavan Boland - 26 June 2017
DESCRIPTION: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 will join in conversation with Boland. In January 2017 Boland was appointed editor of Poetry Ireland Review.\nPoetry has been an integral part of Eavan Boland’s life since she was a young girl. In college she wrote her first publication\, 23 Poems. She has gone on to publish nearly 20 books of poetry\, winning awards and accolades from readers and critics alike. Boland\, a self-described “woman poet\,” has always had trouble reconciling those two words. “It was like there was a magnetic opposition between the two concepts\,” she said. “The woman coming from the collective sense of nurture in Ireland\, and the poet coming from the much more individualist\, creative realm.” Mary Robinson quoted Eavan Boland’s poetry during her inaugural speech as President of Ireland in Dublin Castle on 3 December 1990\, and on 15 March 2016 President Obama quoted lines from her poem “On a Thirtieth Anniversary” (from Against Love Poetry) in his remarks at a reception in the White House to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. \nBoland’s is a fascinating career which develops from her early attachment to Yeats\, her growing unease with the absence of women’s writing\, her encounter with pioneering American poets like Sylvia Plath\, Elizabeth Bishop\, and Adrienne Rich\, and her lucid\, critical engagement through poetry and prose with Ireland’s poetic tradition. \nThis event was formerly advertised as the ILS Annual Dinner\, the dinner part of the evening has now been cancelled. \nGuest of Honour: Eavan Boland\n\nBoland\, the youngest of five children\, was born in Dublin in 1944. Her father was a diplomat\, her mother\, Frances Kelly\, an artist. The family moved to London when Boland was six and she went to school there until 1956. Her poem An Irish Childhood in England: 1951 recalls her sense of otherness at this early age: \n…the teacher in the London convent who\,\nwhen I produced “I amn’t” in the classroom\nturned and said — “You’re not in Ireland now.” \nDuring her father’s next posting\, from 1956 until 1960\, the family lived in New York. Boland returned to Dublin and to boarding school at the Convent of the Holy Child in Killiney when she was fifteen. At Trinity College she studied Latin and English and graduated with a first-class honours degree in 1966. She lectured in Trinity 1967-1968 and then resigned to devote her time to writing. She wrote poems as a child and had published poems in the Irish Times while still an undergraduate. She published her first collection\, New Territory\, in 1967\, when she was twenty-two. During the 1970s she gave writing workshops throughout Ireland and in 1980 she co-founded Arlen House\, an Irish feminist press. \nFor Boland\, what she calls ‘the placelessness of her childhood’ and ‘her emphatic sense of living in a suburb in her own home’ were important influences on her work. In 1969\, in her mid-twenties\, she married the novelist Kevin Casey. They moved to a house in the Dublin suburbs in the early 1970s and have two daughters. A grandchild was born in 2014. She has written of motherhood and suburban life and according to Declan Kiberd ‘She is one of the very few Irish poets to describe with any fidelity the lives now lived by half a million people in the suburbs of Dublin.’ \nSince 1996\, Boland spends the academic year at Stanford College\, Palo Alto\, California\, where she is a Professor of Humanities and Director of the Creative Writing Programme\, but she calls Dundrum home. Speaking in 1988\, Boland said of herself: ‘I see myself as an Irish poet\, I think it’s important that Irish poets have a discourse with the idea of Irishness\, and I think it’s probably very important that an Irish woman poet doesn’t shirk that discourse because there have been gaps\, vacancies or silences in literature’.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/annual-dinner-eavan-boland-26-june-2017/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:America,art,biography,book signing,exile,history,interview,poetry,politics,Reading
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SUMMARY:Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - 27 Feb
DESCRIPTION: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 poetry. Her luminous interiors achieve great visual beauty\, but should not be mistaken for exercises in escapism. They are sites where history and the individual brush against each other\, force fields of action and radiant understanding.\nAingeal Clare\, The Guardian\nShe has won numerous awards and in addition to her poetic output has been an innovative and important publisher of other Irish writers and has translated poetry from Irish (most recently Máire Mhac an tSaoi)\, Italian (Maria Attanasio\, Antonella Anedda and several others) and from the Romanian poetry of Ileana Mӑlӑncioiu The Legend of the Walled-Up Wife (2012). With Medbh McGuckian\, Ní Chuilleanáin also co-translated the poems of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill in The Water Horse (2001). \nSpeaker:\n\nEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin\nBorn 1942 in Cork\, she is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College\, Dublin\, where she has taught\, researched and written on Renaissance literature and translation\, since 1966; with her husband Macdara Woods\, the late Leland Bardwell and the late Pearse Hutchinson\, she is a founder and (since 1975) co-editor of the Irish poetry journal Cyphers. Her seventh collection of poetry\, The Sun-Fish\, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Griffin International Prize for poetry in 2010; The Boys of Bluehill was published in 2015 by Gallery Press\, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize\, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Pigott Prize at the Listowel Writers’ Week.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/eilean-ni-chuilleanain-27-feb/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Irish language,lecture,poetry
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SUMMARY:London Irish poetic tradition - 28 Nov
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe 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 available on the RTÉ Poetry Programme website.  \n Our overview takes the Revival as starting point and considers the work of Irish poets who have passed through or settled in London such as Yeats\, Tynan\, Clarke\, MacNeice\, Boland and Heaney. Our panel of poets will reflect on the anxiety of influence\, the notion of tradition and the tensions and opportunities for the Irish poet in London. \nSpeakers:\n\nSiobhán Campbell\nSiobhán is a poet\, critic and lecturer. She is the author of five works of poetry and co-editor of the forthcoming book of essays on the work of Eavan Boland. Her poetry has received awards in the National Poetry Competition and the Troubadour International Competition and is the recipient of an Arts Council award and the Templar Poetry Prize. Much of Campbell’s work is expressive of her interest in the place of the political poem in contemporary poetics – her forthcoming volume Heat Signature (March\, 2017) reflects on commemoration and the centenary of the Dublin Rising while her Cross Talk (2010) explored boundaries and the interwoven nature of family\, local and historical conflicts.\n\nCahal Dallat\nSince moving to London 40 years ago the Ballycastle native has been a computer scientist and a critic\, a musician and a broadcaster. Dallat’s literary horizons broadened when he joined a nascent poetry workshop run by Robert Greacon\, an esteemed Dublin writer who had relocated to London. His poetry appears in a range of literary magazines & anthologies\, in Trio 7 (with John Kelly & Sean McWilliams\, Blackstaff Press\, 1992)\, Morning Star (Lagan Press\, 1998) and in The Year of Not Dancing (Blackstaff Press\, 2009).\n\nMartina Evans\nMartina Evans is a poet\, novelist and teacher. She grew up in County Cork in a country pub\, shop and petrol station and is the youngest of ten children. She is the author of ten books of prose and poetry. She is currently Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University\, London and a Lector for the Royal Literary Reading Round 2014-2016. Watch\, a pamphlet was published by Rack Press in January 2016 and The Windows of Graceland\, New & Selected Poems was published by Carcanet in May 2016. Martina will feature in the broadcast but will not be present at the event.\n\nProf Roy Foster\nRoy Foster recently retired as Carroll Professor of Irish history at Oxford\, he is a fellow of Hertford College. He has written widely on Irish history\, society and politics in the modern period\, as well as on Victorian high politics and culture. Foster produced a widely acclaimed biography of William Butler Yeats which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In Words Alone: Yeats and his inheritances (2011)\, he presents a re-reading of Irish literary history throughout the nineteenth century and places Yeats and his inspirations in apposition to a much wider range of literary and political precursors than is usually the case. His most recent book is Vivid Faces: the revolutionary generation in Ireland 1890-1914.\n\nProf Bernard O’Donoghue\nBernard O’Donoghue is a Professor and Emeritus Fellow in English at Wadham College\, Oxford. He is a poet and literary critic\, and author of Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry (1995) – he succeeded Heaney as President of the ILS. His most recent poetry collection is The Seasons of Cullen Church (2016)\, which has been shortlisted for the T S Elliot award. Previous volumes include Farmer’s Cross (2011)\, Gunpowder (1995)\, Here Nor There (1999); Outliving (2003)\, Selected Poems in 2008. O’Donoghue was winner of the 1995 Whitbread Poetry Award and Cholmondeley Award in 2009.\n\nDeclan Ryan\nDeclan Ryan was born in County Mayo\, Ireland and has lived in London since. His pamphlet was published in the Faber New Poets series. He is poetry editor at Ambit and teaches at King’s College London. Declan Ryan’s poem\, ‘From Alun Lewis’ was featured in the Autumn 2012 issue of The Poetry Review. His poems and reviews have also been published in Poetry London\, The Rialto\, and elsewhere. He was also named one of the Faber New Poets in 2014. \nReaders: Donal Cox\, Peter Power-Hynes\, Patricia Leventon\, Michael McClain\, Shevaun Wilder. \nShare this Post
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/london-irish-poetic-tradition/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,lecture,poetry,Reading,special event
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SUMMARY:Rattlebag\, Looking West - 31 Oct
DESCRIPTION:Our eclectic Rattlebag forum returns with the novelist Jess Kidd\, poet Kimberly Campanello and academic Clare Walker Gore. Kidd’s brilliantly original debut novel Himself is a gothic detective story set in 1970s Mayo with a cast of ghosts. Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant\, lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an anonymous note suggesting that foul play may have led to his mother’s disappearance\, he sees only one option: to return to the rural Irish village where he was born and find out what really happened twenty-six years ago. … “I love this book. It’s a magic realist murder mystery set in rural Ireland\, in which the dead play as important a part as the living. It’s one of those books that has you smiling as you read\, and that you plan to read again very soon.”. Louis de Bernières\, bestselling author of Corelli’s Mandolin on Himself\nDr Campanello is an Irish-American poet who has produced fine work in Strange Country (Dreadful Press\, 2015) which inhabits the complexity of the sheela-na-gigs – ancient stone carvings of female figures that prominently display the vulva\, which are found on churches\, castles and town walls across Ireland and some of Britain. Campanello will read from Strange Country and present her sonically rich project about the St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam\, MOTHERBABYHOME (zimZalla Avant Objects\, forthcoming in 2016). \nDr Clare Walker Gore of the University of Cambridge discusses The Life of Arthur Macmurrough Kavanagh and what this fascinating biography contributes to our understanding of disabled people in the 19th century. Born at Borris House in County Carlow without hands and feet\, he was an adventurous traveller and a Member of Parliament\, a tiger-hunting landowner whose attempts to resist the rising tide of Irish nationalism were ultimately defeated\, and whose amazing career has been largely forgotten. But how did his first biographer meet the challenge of writing his life? \nOur three panelists will be in conversation with Gavin Clarke. \nSpeakers:\n\nDr Jess Kidd\nJess Kidd has a PhD in Creative Writing from St. Mary’s University in Strawberry Hill and currently teaches Creative Writing to adult learners and undergraduates. Before that she was a support worker specialising in acquired brain injury. She grew up as a part of a large family from Mayo and now lives in London with her daughter. Himself is Jess’ first novel and she is now completing her second\, a contemporary crime novel called Hoarder and a collection of short stories.\n\n\nDr Kimberly Campanello\nKimberly Campanello was born in Elkhart\, Indiana\, and is a dual American and Irish citizen. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. Her poetry publications include Spinning Cities (Wurm Press\, 2011)\, Consent (Doire Press\, 2013)\, and Imagines (New Dublin Press\, 2015). In October 2015\, The Dreadful Press published Strange Country\, Campanello’s full-length collection on the sheela-na-gig stone carvings. ZimZalla will publish MOTHERBABYHOME\, a book of conceptual and visual poetry in 2016. \nDr Clare Walker Gore\nEarly career researcher working on disability in Victorian literature especially novels by Charles Dickens\, Wilkie Collins\, Anthony Trollope and George Eliot\, and the biographies of the period. Particular interests in disability history and women’s writing. PhD from Selwyn College\, Cambridge\, Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College\, Cambridge from October 2016. \nShare this Post
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/rattlebag-looking-west-31-oct/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,interview,lecture,poetry,Reading,research
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SUMMARY:2016 Yeats Lecture - 24 Oct
DESCRIPTION: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 cultural revolution\, Yeats brought about immense change in Ireland’s struggle for independence\, without firing a bullet. His Excellency Ambassador Dan Mulhall will introduce the event. \n\nSir Bob Geldof\nSir Bob Geldof  is a singer\, songwriter\, author\, and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s\, alongside the punk rock movement. Geldof is widely recognised for his activism\, especially anti-poverty efforts concerning Africa. Geldof was appointed an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II\, and is a recipient of the Man of Peace title which recognises individuals who have made “an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace”\, among numerous other awards and nominations. In 2005 he received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. \nShare this Post
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/2016-yeats-lecture-24-oct/
LOCATION:The Embassy of Ireland\, 17 Grosvenor Pl\, London \, London\, SW1X 7HR
CATEGORIES:Collaboration,lecture,Members only-event,poetry,special event
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SUMMARY:The Stinging Fly - 21 March
DESCRIPTION:The ILS comes together with The Stinging Fly literary magazine to reflect on the literary legacy of 1916. The bumper anniversary edition\, subtitled ‘In the Wake of the Rising’\, brings together 43 writers to respond to the literature and events of the 1916 Rising. Readings by contributors: Martina Evans\, Aisling Fahy\, Grahame Williams\, and Joan Win Brennan will accompany a discussion between the ILS Hon. Secretary\, Gavin Clarke\, with publisher Declan Meade and guest editor Sean O’Reilly.  \n… [I]n today’s tough market\, where literary fiction is no longer the cornerstone of the publishing business\, no longer the prestige flagship of any respectable publishing firm\, the influence of the literary magazine is arguably no longer what it once was. However\, in Ireland\, one small but beautifully formed magazine is bucking that trend\, launching the careers of literary talents\, nurturing them with care and even publishing their work in book form. How\, exactly\, does The Stinging Fly do it?”Alison Walsh\, The Sunday Independent\nSean O’Reilly on editing the special edition:\n\n‘There are many reasons behind the publication of this special edition of The Stinging Fly in the centenary year of the Easter Rising. Perhaps the most important one\, I would say\, is that any literary magazine\, whether it likes it or not\, is a product of the times in which it is made. Hopefully\, it is also an inspirational and critical response to those times. The issue would open up an alternative space for writers to re-read and respond to the events of that Easter Monday\, the background and the legacy\, and to the Proclamation itself\, a founding document of the Republic\, outside of the official events and memorials planned by the government of the day—which\, as I write\, is preparing to go to the people again. The writers were free to respond to this material in whatever way they wanted\, in any shape or form.’\n\nThe ‘In the Wake of the Rising’ issue will feature on The Book on One on RTÉ Radio One during the week March 21st to March 25th.\n\nContributors:\n The Stinging Fly magazine was established in 1997 to seek out\, publish and promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Three issues are published each year. The Stinging Fly Press operates in tandem with the magazine and has published debut short-story collections by Kevin Barry\, Michael J. Farrell\, Mary Costello\, Colin Barrett\, Claire-Louise Bennett and Danielle McLaughlin.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/the-stinging-fly-in-the-wake-of-the-rising/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,interview,lecture,poetry,Reading,short story
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SUMMARY:Ireland 1916: Death of a Literary Revival? - 26 Jan
DESCRIPTION:The Irish Literary Society in association with the Irish Studies Centre\, London Metropolitan University\, present a reflection on the Irish Literary Revival (1891-1922).\n\nIrish artists representing various literary forms will join academics in discussion on the artistic legacy of the Revival. The playwright Marina Carr\, poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and novelist Jennifer Johnston will discuss the influence of the Revival on their work and the place of the artist in Ireland after independence. Prof Declan Kiberd\, Dr PJ Mathews of University College Dublin (joint editors of the recent Handbook of the Irish Revival) will present a literary and historical overview of the period. Dr Tony Murray\, Director of the Irish Studies Centre\, will chair the evening. Members must  reserve tickets via the ILS Honorary Secretary (irishlitsoc@gmail.com)\, non-members can purchase tickets via the link below.\n[envira-gallery id=”7761″]\n\n\nfilming at the ILS Revival event with a capacity audience.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nMarina Carr\nOne of Ireland’s most celebrated playwrights whose poetic tragedies often reinterpret ancient myth and address violence and the place of women in Irish life. Across her great Midlands-set plays Carr creates a timeless version of Ireland\, replete with ghosts\, ill-fated women and tragic families. Throughout her work Carr’s engagement with myth and folktale can be read as a richly imaginative reflection on the development of Irish cultural identity.\n\n\nNuala Ní Dhomhnaill\nNí Dhomhnaill is one of the most prominent poets writing in the Irish language today. Her work has reflected profoundly on the tradition shaped by the Revival. From Gaelic myths she has recovered models of powerful Irish women\, including goddesses and queens. Of her work Bernard O’Donoghue\, ILS President\, has written “Her mixture of myth\, linguistic adeptness and feminine address are held together by an outstanding metaphorical force.”\n\nJennifer Johnston\nOne of Ireland’s great writers\, a Whitbread and Booker prize winner\, Johnston has produced brilliant work on the period of 1916-22 in Ireland and on the Great War\, often as a means of examining contemporary Irish life. The Old Jest (1979) and Fool’s Sanctuary (1987) are key works which describe how the War of Independence shattered families and opened class\, gender and religious divides.\n\n\nProfessor Declan Kiberd\nA leading international authority on the literature of Ireland\, both in English and Irish\, Kiberd has authored scores of articles and many books\, including Synge and the Irish Language; Men and Feminism in Irish Literature; Inventing Ireland; and most recently (with P.J. Mathews) Handbook of the Irish Revival: An Anthology of Political and Cultural Writings 1891-1922 (Abbey Theatre Press\, 2015). He is a regular essayist and reviewer in the Irish Times\, TLS\, London Review of Books and the New York Times.\n\n\nDr PJ Matthews\nSenior Lecturer in the Department of English at University College Dublin\, Matthews’ research interests include: the literature and culture of the Irish Revival\, especially the work of J.M. Synge; twentieth century Irish writing; contemporary Irish theatre\, and Irish music. Publications include The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge; Revival: The Abbey Theatre; Sinn Féin\, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement; and most recently (with Declan Kiberd) Handbook of the Irish Revival: An Anthology of Political and Cultural Writings 1891-1922 (Abbey Theatre Press\, 2015). He is also co-convenor of the Irish Studies Doctoral Research Network.\n\n\nDr Tony Murray\nDirector of the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan University\, Murray’s research is in literary and cultural representations of the Irish diaspora with a particular focus on the Irish in Britain. He is responsible for the Archive of the Irish in Britain and especially interested in the role of narrative in the construction and mediation of migrant identities. Publications include London Irish Fictions: Narrative Diaspora and Identity (2012) and Winifred M. Patton and the Irish Revival in London (2014).\nThis event is presented in association with:\nLondon Metropolitan University\, home of the Irish Studies Centre \n\nThe ILS is supported by:
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/ireland-1916-death-of-a-literary-revival/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,lecture,poetry,Reading
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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
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SUMMARY:Órfhlaith Foyle - 28 Sept
DESCRIPTION:The 2015-16 season of ILS events kicks-off with the wonderful Órfhlaith Foyle reading from her short story collection Clemency Browne Dreams of Gin\, her poetry and her new novel.\nÓrfhlaith Foyle’s strange stories of violence and yearning beguile the reader even as they disconcert. She is a true original\, a writer of great gifts\, and I find her work immensely compelling and memorable.’Joseph O'Connor on ‘Somewhere in Minnesota’ \nFoyle’s first novel Belios was published by The Lilliput Press. Her first full poetry collection Red Riding Hood’s Dilemma was published by Arlen House and short-listed for the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award in 2011 and chosen as book of the year by Scotland On Sunday newspaper. \nSomewhere in Minnesota (Arlen House\, 2011) was her debut short fiction collection\, and the title story was first published in Faber and Faber’s New Irish Short Stories (2011)\, edited by Joseph O’Connor. Órfhlaith’s second short story collection titled Clemency Browne Dreams of Gin (Arlen House 2014) was chosen as book of the year by The Irish Times newspaper.\n‘Belios is a dark\, rough\, funny novel about a dying genius and his crazed biographer. It rages with wild vitality oddly touched with tenderness. Órfhlaith Foyle has fire in her belly.’Patrick McGrath \nSpeaker:\n\nÓrfhlaith Foyle\nÓrfhlaith Foyle was born in Africa to Irish parents and now lives in Galway\, Ireland. Her work has been published in The Dublin Review\, The Wales Arts Review\, The Manchester Review\, New Irish Writing and The Stinging Fly.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/orfhlaith-foyle-28-september-2015/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,poetry,Reading,short story
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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:Joe Horgan - 26 Jan
DESCRIPTION:For the first ILS lecture of 2015 Joseph Horgan discusses his book\, The Song at Your Backdoor\, and recites poems from his prize-winning collections. In The Song at Your Backdoor he sets out to follow Patrick Kavanagh’s maxim that ‘all great civilisations are based on parochialism. To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime’s experience.’ \nThe book spans one autumn and one winter\, framed by the departure of the swallows from the author’s backyard and concluding with their return. In between\, the author travels on foot or by bicycle along some quiet country lanes of 21st-century Ireland. Mingling his musings with references from seventh-century poetry to modern geological studies\, the author encourages us to look again at nature around us and to respect and protect it. \nAs a writer born and raised in England with Irish parents he finds that his exploration of nature and the fields around his Irish home become wrapped up in feelings of identity even as he is ostensibly discussing swallows or otters. \nSpeaker:\n\nJoe Horgan\nJoseph Horgan was born in Birmingham\, England\, in 1964 of Irish parents. His poetry collections are Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea (Tralee\, Doghouse\, 2008) and An Unscheduled Life (East Sussex\, UK\, [with the artist Brian Whelan] Agenda Editions\, 2012). His book The Song at your Backdoor (Cork\, Collins Press 2010)\, which was an RTE Book on One is a reflection on the relationship between poetry and landscape and meditative engagement with his local world in Cork. He was shortlisted for the Hennessy Prize in 2003 and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry in 2004. Horgan writes a weekly column for the Irish Post from his Cork home.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/joe-horgan-26-jan/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,folklore,nature,poetry,Reading
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SUMMARY:Yeats lecture 2014 - 25 Sept
DESCRIPTION:Ambassador Dan Mulhall delivers the inaugural ILS / Irish Embassy Yeats lecture on his life-long engagement with the poet.  \nSenator Susan O’Keeffe will discuss plans for ‘Yeats 2015’ a year-long celebration of the the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great poet.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/yeats-2014-25-sept/
LOCATION:The Embassy of Ireland\, 17 Grosvenor Pl\, London \, London\, SW1X 7HR
CATEGORIES:lecture,poetry
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SUMMARY:Bóthar Buí - 31 May
DESCRIPTION:A consideration of the house Robin Walker built for his family and friends on the remote Beara Peninsula of Cork\, from 1970–72. Called “Bótharbuí” (meaning ‘yellow road’ in Irish)\, the site comprises a settlement of three ancient and three new structures\, on a steep wooded slope of several acres\, facing across the salt-water Kemare River to the Reeks of Kerry. In the 1970s and 1980s Bótharbuí was a country salon\, where the worlds of Dublin politics rubbed shoulders with the artistic community in an informal yet grand manner. The function and conception of the house\, in Simon Walker’s words reflects the wide ranging interests of the Walkers as “patrons of Irish design and active protagonists in the fabrication of a modern Irish cultural identity”. \n\nA short film on Bothar Bui by Heathcote & Barr featuring the late ILS President Seamus Heaney reading the poems he wrote about Bothar Bui and about Robin Walker\, his friend\, the architect.\nCreated for the Venice Biennale Architecture 2008 \nSpeakers:\n\nPatrick Lynch\nBorn outside London in 1969\, the son of an Irish builder. Director of Lynch architects\, winners of The Young Architects of the Year Award 2005. Patrick studied at Liverpool University and Cambridge University and holds a Master of Philosophy degree in the History and Philosophy of Architecture. He has taught at The Architectural Association\, UCD\, DIT\, and London Metropolitan University. In 2008 he exhibited in the Irish pavilion at The Venice Biennale\, and he will be exhibiting the work of Lynch architects in the official selection of the Venice Biennale\, summer 2012. \n\nSimon Walker\nSimon Walker  – an architect in Dublin where he is the recipient of several awards and commendations. His work\, and his writing about architecture\, has been published extensively in Ireland and abroad. He also works as a furniture designer and has been involved in the curation of several exhibitions of architecture and design\, including Designers Block in London\, 2003. He exhibited along with Patrick Lynch at the Venice Biennale of Architecture\, 2008. He currently teaches at the University of Limerick\, at DIT and ENSAN Nantes. \nDavid Heathcote\nDavid Heathcote  – a freelance cultural historian. He has written\, published\, exhibited and broadcast work on Modern Architecture and Guide Books. He is currently working on an international history of motorways and a project to develop a new concept of cultural environment stewardship via a new charity established to develop the idea in Essex\, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. With his collaborator Sue Barr he has made books and films about architecture\, infrastructure and landscape\, including Bótharbuí\, a film for the Irish pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale. They are currently working on a film for this year’s Venice Biennale on public space in London. David works part time as a lecturer/tutor for Middlesex University\, The RCA and the V&A.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/bothar-bui-the-yellow-road/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:architecture,lecture,poetry,research
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