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Theatre, film and documentary maker Louis Lentin will situate his own television work, specifically his ground breaking production for television, of Dear Daughter in the wider the role of Irish documentary in film and television. Ireland has experienced dramatic shifts in its social and political make-up in recent decades which has been directly reflected and shaped by the media. Lentin’s ...
Tonight Maria Fusco will read from her novel Sailor Sailor is the story of a monkey in Belfast during the Blitz in 1941, a book about familial love and loss, the illusion of trust, the failure of social mobility and the pressing desire to escape from nature. The eponymous Sailor is a two-year old vervet, smuggled from Freetown by Merchant ...
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 ...
In recent decades, national history has bifurcated, moving both down (micro-history) and up (Atlantic, global history). This illustrated lecture is an exercise in regarding history as a panorama rather than as a close-up in considering the global positioning through space and time of a small but influential city. It approaches the evolution of Dublin through a series of flows – ...
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. Dyar is the author of an acclaimed play, Tom Loves ...
Join us at the Irish Literary Society Annual Dinner on 1 June. The brilliant Edna O’Brien, our Guest of Honour, will be reading from her work and taking questions from our Vice President, Prof. Roy Foster. The ILS kicked-off the Yeats 2015 celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of Ireland's great poets, William Butler Yeats, at ...
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. Órfhlaith 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 ...
SUNDAY 25 10 2015 JOHN BANVILLE WILL NOT APPEAR ON 26 OCTOBER AS ADVERTISED. THE AUTHOR SENDS HIS REGRETS AS HE HAS LOST HIS VOICE. THE ILS WILL HOST AN EVENING OF ENTERTAINMENT SOURCED FROM TALENT IN THE SOCIETY IN PLACE OF THE BANVILLE READING AT THE SAME TIME AND VENUE. FURTHER DETAILS WILL BE SENT TO MEMBERS TODAY. WE ...
