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SUMMARY:John Banville - 26 October 2015
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY 25 10 2015 \nJOHN 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. \nWE LOOK FORWARD TO RESCHEDULING JOHN BANVILLE’S VISIT TO THE ILS IN THE NEW YEAR. \nG. Clarke\nHonorary Secretary\nIrish Literary Society \nOne of Ireland’s great writers makes his first appearance at the ILS to discuss his latest work The Blue Guitar\, his recent genre fiction and wider literary career and interests with journalist and ILS Deputy Chairman\, Dorothy Allen \n\n“You can sense the volumes of Joyce\, Beckett and Nabokov on Banville’s shelves.”Tibor Fischer on Banville\nThe Blue Guitar is a story of theft and the betrayal of friendship:\nOliver Orme used to be a painter\, well known and well rewarded\, but the muse has deserted him. He is also\, as he confesses\, a petty thief; he does not steal for gain\, but for the thrill of it. HIs worst theft is Polly\, the wife of his friend Marcus\, with whom he has had an affair. When the affair is discovered\, Oliver hides himself away in his childhood home. From here he tells the story of a year\, from one autumn to the next. Many surprises and shocks await him\, and by the end of his story\, he will be forced to face himself and seek a road towards redemption. \nSometimes\, in the middle of the afternoon if I’m feeling a little bit sleepy\, Black will sort of lean in over Banville’s shoulder and start writing. Or Banville will lean over Black’s shoulder and say\, “Oh that’s an interesting sentence\, let’s play with that.” I can see sometimes\, revising the work\, the points at which one crept in or the two sides seeped into each otherBanville on Banville\nBiography:\nJohn Banville was born in Wexford\, Ireland\, in 1945. He was educated at Christian Brothers Schools and St. Peter’s College\, Wexford. He worked in journalism from 1969. He was Literary Editor at The Irish Times from 1988 to 1999. Banville had worked across many forms and won acclaim for his screenplays\, radio and TV work. His first novel\, Nightspawn\, came out in 1971. Subsequent novels include Kepler (1980)\, Athena (1995)\, Eclipse (2000)\, The Sea (2005)\, and The Infinities (2010). His non-fiction book\, Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City\, was published in 2003.Among the awards John Banville’s novels have won are the James Tait Black Memorial Prize\, the Guardian Fiction\, the Premio Nonino. He has also received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation in the U.S. He won the Man Booker Prize 2005 for The Sea.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/john-banville-26-october-2015/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150928T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150601T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150601T223000
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SUMMARY:Edna O'Brien / Annual Dinner- 1 June
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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 Annual ILS / Irish Embassy Yeats lecture in September 2014. In addition to Edna O’Brien’s appearance we are delighted to announce that the 2014-15 season will be closed with a little Yeats tribute at the Annual Dinner. \nA three-course meal is served in the Liberal Club’s David Lloyd George Room. A cash bar will be open prior to the dinner. Dress-up\, come along and have a great evening with us. Dress code: lounge suit with tie. \nTickets are £43 (members) and £49 (non-members) and can be booked via our EventBrite page (http://goo.gl/gfL2nt) (+online booking fee)\, alternatively you can pay by cash or cheque at our next lecture on 18 May or complete the form below and send a cheque and your details to our Honorary Treasurer:\n————————–————————–————————– \nComplete the details below\, enclose a cheque made out to ‘Irish Literary Society’ and send to Mr. James Lazar: 23 Brockham Drive\, Ilford\, IG2 SQW: \nI wish to apply for the following tickets for the ILS Annual dinner. \n__________tickets @ £43 for members and __________tickets @ £49 for non-members.\nI enclose a cheque for £_____ payable to ‘IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY’. \nName:________________________________________ \nAddress/Telephone Number________________________________________\n_______________________________________________ \nName(s) of guests:________________________________________________________________________________________ \nQueries to: Gavin Clarke\, Hon. Secretary\, Irish Literary Society: irishlitsoc@gmail.com
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/annual-dinner-2015/
LOCATION:National Liberal Club\, 1 Whitehall Place\, London\, SW1A 2HE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150330T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150330T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150323T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150323T203000
DTSTAMP:20260525T123106
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SUMMARY:Dublin as Global City - 3 Feb
DESCRIPTION: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 – of people\, ideas\, goods\, and culture. It tracks Dublin’s rise as a ‘city of brick’\, as it surged from a mere 10\,000 in 1600 to 200\,000 by 1800 – a response to the northwards migration of the centre of gravity of the European economy from its old Mediterranean heart to the Atlantic facade. It anatomises Dublin under the Union\, a ‘city of shadows’\, as its trade\, population and prospects were all constricted. It considers the influence of two global systems -Imperialism\, Catholicism – on Dublin in the nineteenth century. The ‘city of words’ emerged in the early twentieth century\, when Joyce\, Yeats and Beckett found ways to universalize the city. The 1916 Rising is considered\, as is the exhausted city of the post-imperial phase. Finally the lecture looks at the emergence of the ‘silicon city’\, and how Dublin functions as a transnational city in the current global economy. By looking at Dublin over a long time frame and in a wider geographical frame\, its distinctive evolution can be tracked through comparative perspectives. \nSpeaker:\n\nProfessor Kevin Whelan\nBiography: Kevin Whelan was named the inaugural Director of the University of Notre Dame Centre in Dublin in 1998. He has been a visiting professor at New York University\, Boston College and Concordia University (Montreal). He has lectured in over a dozen countries\, and at the Sorbonne\, Cambridge\, Oxford\, Torino\, Berkeley\, Yale\, Dartmouth\, and Louvain. He has written or edited twenty books and over one hundred articles on Ireland’s history\, geography\, literature and culture. These include The Tree of Liberty (1996)\, Fellowship of Freedom(1998)\, and the Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape (2011). Among influential articles are those on ‘An underground gentry?\,’ ‘The republic in the village\,’ ‘The Memories of “The Dead\,”’ ‘Between: the politics of culture in Friel’s Translations’ and ‘The Green Atlantic.’
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/ils-23-february-2015-prof-kevin-whelan-on-ireland-as-a-global-city-1600-2015/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:lecture,Reading,research
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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:Maria Fusco - 27 Sept
DESCRIPTION:Tonight Maria Fusco will read from her novel Sailor \nSailor 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 Seaman Mick as a Christmas present for his wife Maureen. The book is narrated by Sailor in first person Belfast dialect\, as an internal monologue: his voice is absurdist\, idiosyncratic and richly textured.  \nSpeakers:\n\nMaria Fusco\nAuthor Maria Fusco is a Belfast-born writer\, critic and editor based in London. Her short stories\, The Mechanical Copula\, (Sternberg Press Berlin/New York: 2010) have been published in both English and French. Her recent screenplay Gonda\, commissioned by Film London\, with Austrian artist Ursula Mayer\, premiered in April 2012. Gonda will be published as a cine-roman in November and performed as an opera at 21er Haus\, Vienna in October 2013. Maria is Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths\, University of London and Editor of the semi-annual journal\, The Happy Hypocrite. She is currently working on Donald\, a book of short stories based on ten film roles of actor Donald Sutherland\, commissioned by Collective in Edinburgh\, and also researching her next novel Heart of a Peach\, about a hydro-electric power station in Scotland and explosives experts from Donegal. Her website is here.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/8334/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Louis Lentin - 29 Mar
DESCRIPTION: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 work is one of a range of perspectives in the diverse landscape of Irish documentary making.  \nThe recent publication of Documentary in a Changing State looks back over the last two decades through the prism of documentary to get a snap shot of the dramatic shifts and upheavals in Irish society\, socially\, culturally and politically it includes an interview with Lentin. The book will be on sale at a discount for members after the talk.\nSpeakers:\n\nLouis Lentin\nLouis Lentin is a theatre\, film and television director. He was born in Limerick\, Ireland\, in 1933 and worked for over forty years in the arts in Ireland. He founded Art Theatre Productions in 1959 and was responsible for the first Irish productions of Krapp’s Last Tape and Endgame. RTÉ Head of Drama Hilton Edwards asked him to work in RTÉ. In 1975\, he received a Jacob’s Award for his direction of three television plays broadcast on RTÉ in the previous year: Aleksei Arbuzov’s The Promise\, Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage\, and Jean Anouilh’s The Rehearsal (“La Répétition ou l’Amour puni”).Louis Lentin was also involved in founding Israeli television. Lentin is a member of Aosdána.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/louis-lentin-29-mar/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:documentary,film,Reading,research
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