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SUMMARY:Irish Atlantic World - 30 May
DESCRIPTION:Whores\, Wenches\, and the Blake Family in the Early Modern Irish Atlantic World \nProfessor Jenny Shaw will explore the lives of two women: one an indentured Irish servant (the “whore”); one an enslaved woman (the “wench”) who labored in the household of Irish merchant John Blake in Barbados 1675. She explores the techniques historians use to write the lives of ordinary people\, even when their stories are only available through a handful of letters\, and demonstrates how race\, gender\, and status combined to shape the role of Irish Catholic elites in the early modern English Caribbean.  \nSpeaker:\n\nProfessor Jenny Shaw\nShaw received her Ph.D. from New York University in Atlantic History in 2009. Her first book\, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish\, Africans\, and the Construction of Difference is forthcoming this autumn with the University of Georgia’s Early American Places series. She is the co-author (with Kristen Block) of an article entitled Subjects without an Empire: The Irish in the Early Caribbean\, which appeared in Past and Present in 2011\, and she has received funding for her work from (among others) the Lewis L. Glucksman Foundation at University College\, Cork\, the Doris G. Quinn Foundation\, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/irish-atlantic-world-30-may/
LOCATION:Westminster City Hall\, Westminster City Hall 64 Victoria Street  London  \, London\, SW1E 6QP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,lecture,research
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140424T073000
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SUMMARY:Women and Exile - 24 April
DESCRIPTION:This talk will look at the place of the Irish woman migrant in contemporary Irish fiction and examine how Irish writers have demonstrated a sustained interest in recovering the story of the Irish woman emigrant\, a story that until relatively recently was absent or under-represented in both historical accounts and literary representations of Irish emigration. In spite of the fact that the theme of ‘exile’ has near cult status in Irish literature\, it seems to be a cultural preoccupation that overlooked the experience of the woman emigrant; it too often appointed her to roles that served only to define the losses suffered by her male counterpart and\, in particular\, the male artist in his journey into the world. \nEdna O’Brien and Colm Tóibín offer two different models for recovering this history. Toibin’s work\, particularly his novel Brooklyn (2009)\, shows an historically sensitive concern with the vanishing Irish woman emigrant in Ireland of the 1950s\, while O’Brien’s more recent writing\, especially her 2006 novel\, The Light of Evening\, remodels the familiar paradigm of the Irish artist in exile in ways most meaningful to the Irish woman writer. Drawing on archival material from the Tóibín Papers at the National Library of Ireland and the O’Brien Papers at the James Joyce Library at University College Dublin\, McWilliams makes a case study of how these authors contribute to the larger recovery of the history of the woman migrant in contemporary Irish fiction.\nSpeaker:\n\nEllen McWilliams\nEllen’s teaching and research interests are in the fields of women’s writing\, Irish\, American\, and Canadian literature\, and writing and diasporic identity. She has written two monographs\, Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman (2009) and Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction (2013)\, and is working on a new book\, Irishness in North American Women’s Writing: Transatlantic Affinities. She has a special interest in New York magazine culture and has recently completed a series of articles on Maeve Brennan’s writing for The New Yorker\, including an essay for Women: A Cultural Review: ‘”A Sort of Rathmines Version of a Dior Design”: Maeve Brennan\, Self-Fashioning\, and the Uses of Style’. Ellen has received a number of awards for research\, including an AHRC Fellowship\, a Fulbright Scholar Award\, and a British Library-Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship in North American Studies.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/women-and-exile-24-april/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:exile,history,lecture,research,social history
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140227T193000
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SUMMARY:Dublin Lockout - 27 Feb
DESCRIPTION:This month’s lecture will be delivered by Padraig Yeates on the Dublin Lockout\, the past year of commemoration and lessons drawn from the experience. \nOn 26 August 1913 the trams stopped running in Dublin. Striking conductors and drivers\, members of the Irish Transport Workers’ Union\, abandoned their vehicles. They had refused a demand from their employer\, William Martin Murphy of the Dublin United Transport Company\, to forswear union membership or face dismissal. The company then locked them out. Within a month\, the charismatic union leader\, James Larkin\, had called out over 20\,000 workers across the city in sympathetic action. By January 1914 the union had lost the battle\, lacking the resources for a long campaign. But it won the war: 1913 meant that there was no going back to the horrors of pre-Larkin Dublin. Yeates outstanding survey in Lockout: Dublin 1913 has already established itself as the definitive work on the Lockout. \nImage: Part of the 1913 Lockout tapestry as designed by Robert Ballagh \nSpeakers:\n\nPadriag Yeates\nPadraig Yeates is a member of the 1913 Committee that co-ordinated events around the Lockout Centenary during 2013. He is a former Industry and Employment Correspondent of the Irish Times and has been a union activist all his life. He has written several books including Lockout: Dublin 1913\, A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-1918 and A City in Turmoil: Dublin 1919 -1921.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/dublin-lockout-27-feb/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,lecture,politics,research,social history
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140126T193000
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SUMMARY:In the Ould Long Ago - 26 Jan
DESCRIPTION:Jonny McKeagney spent 40 years collecting stories\, events\, crafts\, traditions and ways of life from people around Co. Fermanagh and neighbouring Ulster counties. In the Ould Ago\, published in October 2010\, has won international book awards and is due to be displayed in a dozen university libraries in North America including Harvard\, Notre Dame\, Library of Congress in Washington\, UCLA\,  Boston College and New York Public Libraries. Sadly Jonny passed away five weeks after publication but his youngest son Paul\, will talk about his father’s work to the ILS.\n… as we turn the pages and travel the roads our eyes will be opened to the wildlife and the landscape and we will begin to see ancient rocks lying in the heather and signs of tillage high on mountain side and appreciate that people lived between the now fallen gables. You could not have a better companion that Jonny McKeagney as you travel along the old roads. \nSéamus MacAnnaidh - Historian & Author \nThough McKeagney was a self-taught historian and artist\, his work was of a quality that attracted academics\, many of them contributing prefaces to his works. In the foreward Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh\, Archivist\, National Folklore Collection\, UCD writes ‘For forty years Johnny collected folklore by pen and tape recorder. He details stories and events then sketches all the salient points with a fine nib so that With the aid of camera\, recording device and pen\, he has pieced together much of the fabric of tradition in the places he has visited. The skills of craftsman\, draughtsman and artist which he combines are used to great effect in the richly-detailed and frequently humorous tapestries he has drawn. The passion and excitement of uncovering an ancient monument\, piecing together the former outline and function of a building or object\, recording a distant craft process or local legend\, all are vividly expressed in John McKeagney’s drawings. They form a unique and invaluable pictorial record of Fermanagh’s hidden past.’  \nFor further interest and examples from this publication\, see folklorebook
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/in-the-ould-long-ago-illustrated-irish-folklore/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:art,folklore,interview,research,tradition
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SUMMARY:Robin Flower and The Great Blasket - 25 Apr
DESCRIPTION:The 2013 ILS/Irish Texts Society Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Seán Ó Coileán\, Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish at University College\, Cork and Member of the Royal Irish Academy.  \nThe subject of his lecture will be\, ’The ITS volume that never was: Robin Flower and The Great Blasket’. This annual lecture is organised in conjunction with the Irish Texts Society & will be hosted by the ILS. Flower’s The Western Island tells the history of the Great Blasket\, of the frugality and adversities of life on the island\, its folktales (including stories of ghosts and fairies)\, and also recounts the dramatic day in the Great Blasket’s history when the flying galleons of the Spanish Aramada were destroyed on its coast. \nImage: Tomás Ó’Croimthainn and Robin Flower \nPresented in association with the Irish Texts Society:\n\n\n \nSpeakers:\n\nSeán Ó Coileáin\nFollowing undergraduate and postgraduate studies at UCC\, Professor Seán Ó Coileán was awarded the Travelling Studentship of the National University of Ireland in 1967\, choosing to study at Harvard\, where he was greatly influenced by the work of Professor John V. Kelleher in Irish history and literature and of Professor Albert B. Lord in oral theory and composition. Their teaching informs much of his own subsequent writings in the area of Irish literature\, from the Guaire cycle (the subject of his Harvard Ph.D.) to Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire. An influence of a different kind\, which also grew into personal friendship\, was that of Seán Ó Ríordáin; his literary biography of Ó Riordáin was awarded the literary prize of the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1984. Other scholarly interests include the literature of the Great Blasket\, his work on which includes a new edition of An tOileánach (Cló Talbóid\, 2001). A long-time member of the Senate of the National University\, he takes an active interest in Irish-language matters and is Chairman of Gaelachas Teoranta which overseas the operations of Coláiste an Phiarsaigh and Scoil na nÓg in Glanmire\, County Cork. He is a member of the Folklore of Ireland Council.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/robin-flower-and-the-great-blasket-25-apr/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collaboration,folklore,history,Irish language,lecture,research
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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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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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SUMMARY:Matters of Deceit - 23 Feb
DESCRIPTION:Matters of Deceit: Breach of Promise to Marry Cases in Ireland in the 19th and early 20th centuries \nBreach of promise to marry cases were tried frequently in a variety of Irish courts from the late eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Such cases provided lawyers with lucrative incomes and newspapers with titillating stories for their reading audience. The majority of breach of promise cases were successfully taken by women and many won substantial damages. One barrister claimed\, in jest in 1873\, that Abbeyfeale\, Co. Limerick\, was ‘notorious for breach of promise cases’. While this was an exaggeration\, focusing on such cases offers a useful way to assess and interrogate social history more generally in Ireland. These cases can tell us a considerable amount about courtship rituals\, reveal the significance of monetary considerations in marriage settlements\, and the value that was placed on women’s\, and men’s\, reputations. Such history also alerts us to the importance of family in either protecting their children from unsuitable marriage partners\, or pursuing appropriate ones. Issues of class are also highlighted and reveal the unwillingness of society\, at least as expressed by jurors\, to condone cross-class alliances. Through their focus on the emotional\, material and financial elements of courtship these cases provide a fascinating insight into social and personal relations in Ireland. \nSpeakers:\n\nProfessor Maria Luddy\nMaria Luddy is Professor of Irish History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Warwick. She has published extensively on Irish social history of the 19th and 20th centuries. She is currently working on a history of marriage in Ireland from 1660-1925 in collaboration with Professor Mary O’Dowd\, Queens University\, Belfast.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/matters-of-deceit/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:lecture,research,social history
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