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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.’ The ...
Ambassador Dan Mulhall delivers the inaugural ILS / Irish Embassy Yeats lecture on his life-long engagement with the poet. Senator 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.
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. ...