Latest Past Events

6 May – Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century Dublin and London

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

Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century Dublin and London: Charles Henry Wilson and Irish Literature The scholar Dr Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh visits the Society to deliver our joint annual Noel O'Connell memorial talk with the Irish Texts Society. O Muircheartaigh will speak on the work of Charles Henry Wilson, an eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish Protestant with an interest in Irish-language literature, who studied ...

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Troubling the Classics – 29 Oct

The Bloomsbury Hotel 16-22 Great Russell St, London

For our October event we're bringing together a poet, a novelist and a dramatist to reflect on their work and its place in a rich seam of Irish literature inspired by the Greeks. The continuing interest of Irish writers in Greek and Latin classical literature as a model and source for inspiration is somewhat surprising given the almost complete disappearance of ...

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Archive of the Irish in Britain visit – 16 Oct

Archive of the Irish in Britain 16 Goulston Street, London

We are delighted to announce a special members-only visit to the Archive of the Irish in Britain. The Archive consists of collections of documents, audio and video recordings, books, photographs and ephemera cataloguing the history of the Irish in Britain from the late nineteenth century to the present day.  Dr Tony Murray, the curator of the archive, will give an ...