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SUMMARY:Arlen House 50th - 25 November
DESCRIPTION:We are sorry to report that we will not be joined tonight by Nuala O’Connor as planned. Our apologies\, this is due to unforeseen circumstances preventing her travel. We have more than a dozen poets reading their poems and reflecting on the work of the press.\n\n\nWe’re delighted to welcome back to the Society Nuala O’Connor and Alan Hayes representing Arlen House as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of this pioneering press with a group of writers drawn from the latest in the Washing Windows series of poetry collections: Washing Windows V: Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry\, 1975–2025\, the largest anthology of Irish women poets ever published. The night will also feature the London launch of O’Connor’s latest collection\, Menagerie. Washing Windows V is the final volume in the series honouring the groundbreaking work of publishers Catherine Rose and Eavan Boland\, Arlen House’s pioneering editors in the 1970s and 1980s. \n\n\n\nThe first Arlen House book came out in September 1975\, the same month that Virago in London published their first book. The first Virago book was a gentle oral history of women in the Lake District while the first Arlen House was a radical exposé of women’s lives in 20th century Ireland and the controlling power of the Church.Alan Hayes\n\n\n\nCatherine Rose founded Arlen House\, Ireland’s first feminist press\, in Galway during the 1975 International Women’s Year. The press’s early work focused on championing women’s writing in Ireland\, the first publication was Rose’s The Female Experience: The Story of the Woman Movement in Ireland\, the work of Margaret Mac Curtain\, Janet Martin\, and Terry Prone featured and the Press revived the work of neglected writers such as such as Kate O’Brien and Norah Hoult. Since 1999 the extraordinarily prolific editor and publisher Alan Hayes has run the press.\n\n\n\n\n\n \nThe event will be followed by a booksale and signing. Tickets available below or you can purchase membership from the shop page which covers all tickets for the 2025-6 season. \n\n\n  Speakers:  Nuala O'Connor\n\n\n\n  Nuala O’Connor\nNuala O’Connor was born in Dublin\, Ireland\, in 1970. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin\, she is a novelist and short story writer and lives in County Galway with her husband and three children. Nuala has won many prizes for her short fiction including the Short Story Prize in the UK and Ireland’s Francis MacManus Award. She is editor at flash e-zine Splonk. Nora was her fifth novel\, she is also the author of several short story and poetry collections\, Menagerie being the latest.. \n\nAlan Hayes\n Alan Hayes\nAlan Hayes is publisher and editor of Arlen House\, Ireland’s oldest feminist press\, specialising in equality and diversity. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/arlen-house-50th-25-november/
LOCATION:Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith\, W6 9DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,feminism,history,interview,Irish language,publishing,Reading,special event,women
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200325T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200325T203000
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SUMMARY:Christine Dwyer Hickey - POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO CONCERNS ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS. WE WILL LOOK TO RESCHEDULE IN THE COMING MONTHS \n\n\nThe Society is delighted to partner with the Dublin City Council for a second year to deliver an event on the Dublin One City One Book choice. This year’s choice is Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey. Dublin One City One Book is a Dublin City Council initiative\, led by Dublin City Libraries it encourages reading for pleasure through a myriad of free public events throughout the month\, held in libraries\, galleries\, theatres and museums. We will also be joining with the Hammersmith Irish Cultural Centre’s Book Club for this event and encourage all attendees to read Tatty in preparation for the event. The special edition for this years celebration will be available at our February Ciaran Carson event. \nTatty is the story of a Dublin family as told through the eyes of one of its children over a ten year period. During this time we see the destruction brought about by alcoholism as one little girl tries to come to terms with her parents’ drinking. This is the story of a disturbed childhood\, yet it is also filled with humour and love. Chapter by chapter\, the child’s voice matures and her perception becomes more honed; we are left with a stunning portrait of a disintegrating family and the child lost within it. Dorothy Allen is a former BBC journalist\, currently writing for the German and Swiss Press\, she will join Dwyer Hickey in conversation. \n  Dwyer Hickey’s mastery of the child’s voice is spectacular and her acute understanding of the mentality of children leads to some hilarious moments.Sunday Tribune \n Image: Drawing of a Young Girl\, Joseph Syddall\, 1891 \n  \nPresented in association with the Dublin One City One Book:  \n \n  \nSpeaker: Christine Dwyer Hickey\n   \nChristine Dwyer Hickey is a novelist\, playwright and short story writer. She has published eight novels\, one collection of short stories and a full-length play. \nTatty was published by New Island Books (2004) and by Vintage UK (2005). It was shortlisted for Irish Novel of The Year 2005\, listed as one of the 50 Irish Novels of the Decade at the Irish Book Awards 2010 and was nominated for the Orange Prize (now the Women’s Fiction Prize). Her latest novel The Narrow Land (Atlantic UK 2019) is set on Cape Cod in 1950 and examines the turbulent marriage of American artists Edward and Jo Hopper. Christine’s stories have been published in anthologies and magazines worldwide and have won several awards the most recent of which was at for her story Back to Bones at the Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year Award 2017. Her play Snow Angels premiered at the Project Arts Theatre in 2014. Her work has been widely translated into European and Arabic languages and she is an elected member of Aosdána\, the Irish academy of arts. \n \nTatty: Dublin One City\, One Book edition
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/christine-dwyer-hickey-25-march/
LOCATION:Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith\, W6 9DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:children,interview,novel,social history,special event,women
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200224T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200224T210000
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SUMMARY:Ciaran Carson celebration - 24 Feb
DESCRIPTION:Irish was his cradle language\, and his writing in English always had the verve and zest of a learned language. This was particularly true of his translations – of Merriman’s Cúirt an Mheán Oíche and the Táin\, or Dante’s Inferno. As well as from Irish and Italian\, he translated short poems from French and Spanish with great style and lucidity.Bernard O'Donoghue\, President of the Irish Literary Society \nThe Irish Literary Society is delighted to partner with The Seamus Heaney Centre\, Queens University Belfast to produce a celebration of the life and work of Ciaran Carson\, the great Belfast poet and former Director of the Centre. Carson was due to deliver last year’s joint Irish Literary Society / Irish Texts Society annual lecture but his cancer diagnosis prevented his coming and we were saddened to hear news of his death in October 2019. \nThe event will be presented by the current Director of the Centre\, Glenn Patterson\, and will feature music\, song\, readings and reflections from Liam Carson\, Cahal Dallat\, Martina Evans\, Leontia Flynn\, Professor Michael Parker\, Bernard O’Donoghue\, James Conor Patterson\, Anton Thompson-McCormick.\n \nCiaran Carson was the first director of the Seamus Heaney Centre\, a dear friend and colleague to all there\, and an inspiration as a poet\, writer\, and as a citizen: a great European literary figure who lived his entire life in Belfast… ‘il professore\, il maestro\,’ in the words of Stephen Sexton\, ‘to whom language itself is indebted.’Glenn Patterson\, Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre\nCarson was a member of Aosdana and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was one of the so-called “Belfast Group” of poets in the 1960s which included Seamus Heaney\, Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon. During his career Carson published 16 volumes of poetry and also wrote a number of novels and books about traditional Irish music. He worked in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from 1975 to 1998 with responsibility for traditional music and\, more latterly\, literature. In October 2003 he was appointed Professor of Poetry and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University\, Belfast.\n \nPresented in association with the The Seamus Heaney Centre:  \n 
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/ciaran-carson-celebration-24-feb/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Irish language,music,poetry,politics,Reading,special event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181119T060000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181119T200000
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SUMMARY:On the Pavement Grey: WB Yeats in Utopian Bedford Park - 19 Nov
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Cahal Dallat with guests Ciarán Hinds and Anne-Marie Fyfe & launch of the WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project\n \nNobel-prizewinning poet\, WB Yeats\, though much inspired by Irish legend\, landscape and longing\, spent two-thirds of his youth in London\, the majority of that time in Chiswick’s Bedford Park\, the Utopian/aesthetic garden-suburb/artists’-colony whose diverse inhabitants fostered his literary talent and endeavours. Irish poet and literary critic\, Cahal Dallat\, has lived within a few blocks of the Yeats family’s two Bedford Park homes for all of his adult life and\, fascinated by the way Willie\, his father\, and his artistic siblings\, negotiated the metropolis’s social networks\, while dreaming of Sleuth Wood or Ben Bulben\, has lectured on the importance to Victorian London of Irish artists (poets\, painters\, playwrights\, composers\, and politicians\, for politics\, too\, is an art in Ireland) … and on the usefulness of London’s complex intersections and patronage to often-penniless\, in a genteel way\, exiled geniuses. In Bedford Park’s heady progressive atmosphere (and its winding if artificially villagey avenues) lay the seeds of Yeats’s genius\, not to mention contemporary theatre\, Modernist poetry and political and cultural changes that would invert the social and imperial order in the 20th century. With contributions and readings from Yeats’s letters and poems by actor Ciarán Hinds and poet Anne-Marie Fyfe.\n \nThe 2018 Irish Literary Society WB Yeats Lecture at the Embassy of Ireland launches the WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project founded to mark Yeats’s role in Bedford Park and Bedford Park’s role in Yeats’s artistic development and life\, by placing a permanent artwork at the heart of this progressive\, 19c\, and beautifully preserved\, garden suburb. \nTo apply for an ILS members ticket contact the Hon. Secretary: irishlitsoc@gmail.com Image credit: Camille Pissarro\, Fete de Jubilee a Bedford Park\, 1897. \nSpeakers:  Cahal DallatCahal Dallat is a poet\, musician\, critic (b. Ballycastle\, Co. Antrim)\, regular BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review contributor since 1998\, reviewer for TLS and Guardian among others\, founder/organiser of WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project\, and Charles Causley Trust Centenary musician/poet-in-residence. Former winner of Ireland’s leading poetry prize\, the Strokestown International\, his recent awards include the 2017 Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize\, and a 2018 Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship at University of Texas in Austin (supported by CP Snow Memorial Fund). Latest collection The Year of Not Dancing (Blackstaff); www.cahaldallat.com \n Ciarán Hinds \nCiarán Hinds was born in Belfast: his television roles include Gaius Julius Caesar in the series Rome and Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones while film has included the lead role in John Banville’s The Sea\, and playing opposite Daniel Day Lewis in Upton Sinclair’s There Will Be Blood.  As a stage actor his recent appearances include Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive\, Hamlet with Bendict Cumberbatch at the Barbican\, McPherson’s ‘Bob Dylan musical’ The Girl from the North Country at the Old Vic\,  and the role of Hugh O’Donnell in Brian Friel’s Translations at the National.   \n Anne-Marie Fyfe \nAfter five poetry collections including House of Small Absences (Seren\, 2015)\, poet\, arts organiser\, creative-writing teacher & former Poetry Society chair\,  Anne-Marie Fyfe\, is currently embarked on a unique Arts-Council-funded 18-month teaching/writing/performing tour\, The Voyage Out\, exploring coastal regions & lives in Britain\, Ireland\, US & Canada\, leading to a new hybrid poetry/prose/travel-writing memoir (due\, Seren\, Spring 2019). Born in Cushendall\, Co. Antrim\, Anne-Marie lives in London where she has run Coffee-House Poetry’s readings & classes at London’s leading live literature venue\, the Troubadour\, since 1997. www.annemariefyfe.com
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/on-the-pavement-grey-wb-yeats-in-utopian-bedford-park-19-nov/
LOCATION:The Embassy of Ireland\, 17 Grosvenor Pl\, London \, London\, SW1X 7HR
CATEGORIES:architecture,biography,Collaboration,exile,history,poetry,social history,special event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180611T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180611T203000
DTSTAMP:20180515T095632Z
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SUMMARY:AGM - 11 June
DESCRIPTION:ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING\, 11 June 2018\, 7.30pm\nLocation: Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith  \nAll current members of the Society are invited to attend and participate at the ILS AGM. The meeting is an opportunity for the Committee to report and be questioned on the performance of the Society\, its plans and its financial situation. It is also an opportunity for members to offer their thoughts on the state of the Society\, to seek election and to vote on resolutions. We hope to attract greater member attendance this year as the Committee will put to the membership a proposal to allow a significant change in the Society’s rules i.e. that we apply to the Charities Commission to form the Society into a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). Further information on how we have reached the decision to make this proposal will be given in a report by the Honorary Secretary\, a summary of that report can be read here. If you are interested in seeking election to the Committee please contact the Honorary Secretary (irishlitsoc@gmail.com) if you would like further information about the duties and responsibilities involved. A form for proposing a member for election to the Committee can be found below.  \nAGENDA \n1. Apologies\n3. Minutes from 2017 AGM\n4. Matters Arising\n5. Honorary Secretary’s Report\n6. Chairman’s Report\n7. Treasurer’s Report\n8. Membership Secretary’s Report\n9. Report on proposed constitutional changes\n10. Vote on constitutional changes\n11. Election of the Officers & Committee for the ILS Season 2017-18\, voting if\nnecessary.\n12. Appointment of Honorary Auditors\n13. Plans for 2018-19\n14. AOB \nMembers are invited to propose candidates for the election of Officers and Committee members for the ILS Season 2018-19. All candidates must be proposed and seconded by members of the ILS and the candidate must sign the proposal forms. Forms must be returned to the Honorary Secretary by 28 May (download the form here for more details). \nThe present Officers and Committee members are eligible for re-election. The Officers of the Society are the President\, one or two Vice-Presidents\, the Chairman\, Deputy Chairman\, one or two Honorary Secretaries\, the Honorary Treasurer and the Honorary Membership Secretary. As directed by our Rules the Committee shall consist of the Officers and up to 6 other members\, all of whom to be elected annually\, except in the cases of the President and Vice Presidents who shall be invited to serve by the Committee. Three further members may be co-opted by the Committee during the course of a year \n\n\nDownload the nomination form from here:Nomination Form
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/agm-11-june/
LOCATION:Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith\, W6 9DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Members only-event,special event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170921T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170921T200000
DTSTAMP:20180128T230003Z
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SUMMARY:William Trevor - 21 Sept
DESCRIPTION:EMBASSY OF IRELAND event – The Embassy of Ireland has kindly reserved a number of tickets for Irish Literary Society members for its celebration of the life and work of William Trevor. Please contact the Hon. Secretary for further details. \nThe Ambassador of Ireland Mr. Adrian O’Neill\, the Trevor family and Viking Books host an evening to celebrate the life and work of William Trevor KBE at the Embassy of Ireland. The evening will feature the Chinese-American author Yiyun Li and the great cellist Steven Isserlis\, both friends and admirers of the late author.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/william-trevor-21-sept/
LOCATION:The Embassy of Ireland\, 17 Grosvenor Pl\, London \, London\, SW1X 7HR
CATEGORIES:biography,interview,Reading,short story,special event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170712T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170712T200000
DTSTAMP:20170701T082240Z
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SUMMARY:History of Modern Ireland - 12 July
DESCRIPTION:The Ambassador of Ireland Mr. Daniel Mulhall and Mrs. Greta Mulhall invite members of the ILS to the launch of ‘The Cambridge History of Modern Ireland’ Edited by Eugenio F. Biagini and Mary E. Daly at the Embassy of Ireland on 12th July 2017 from 18.00 – 20.00. This event is open to ILS members only and tickets will be allocated by lottery. \nRSVP essential by 5 July: irishlitsoc@gmail.com
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/history-of-modern-ireland-12-july/
LOCATION:The Embassy of Ireland\, 17 Grosvenor Pl\, London \, London\, SW1X 7HR
CATEGORIES:history,interview,Members only-event,special event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161219T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161219T210000
DTSTAMP:20171123T231310Z
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SUMMARY:Christmas by Candlelight
DESCRIPTION:Join our friends Irish Heritage for a seasonal selection of music and popular Christmas Carols together with readings from the ILS President Bernard O’Donoghue\, ILS Vice President Roy Foster\, Joe Lynam (BBC Business Correspondent) and BBC3 radio presenter Petroc Trelawny. \nSinead O’Kelly\, soprano from the London Oratory School Choir\, joins with the organist Jonathan Beatty to provide the music.  \nPresented in association with the Irish Literary Society. \nTickets: Individual £20\, Family £45 (incl wine reception and programme)\nFrom: Kathy O’Regan: Tel 020 7226 4578\,\nEmail: kathy.oregan@hotmail.co.uk\nOn-line: www.irishheritage.co.uk click on DONATE (no booking fee) \n\n\nProf Roy Foster\nRoy Foster recently retired as Carroll Professor of Irish history at Oxford\, he is a fellow of Hertford College. He has written widely on Irish history\, society and politics in the modern period\, as well as on Victorian high politics and culture. Foster produced a widely acclaimed biography of William Butler Yeats which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In Words Alone: Yeats and his inheritances (2011)\, he presents a re-reading of Irish literary history throughout the nineteenth century and places Yeats and his inspirations in apposition to a much wider range of literary and political precursors than is usually the case. His most recent book is Vivid Faces: the revolutionary generation in Ireland 1890-1914.\n\n\nJoe Lynam\nJoe Lynam is an Irish journalist working for the BBC in the United Kingdom.Lynam is a business correspondent. He also presents sometimes on the BBC’s flagship Today Programme – covering for Simon Jack. Between 2011 and 2013\, he was the business correspondent with BBC’s Newsnight.\n\n\nProf Bernard O’Donoghue\nBernard O’Donoghue is a Professor and Emeritus Fellow in English at Wadham College\, Oxford. He is a poet and literary critic\, and author of Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry (1995) – he succeeded Heaney as President of the ILS. His most recent poetry collection is The Seasons of Cullen Church (2016)\, which has been shortlisted for the T S Elliot award. Previous volumes include Farmer’s Cross (2011)\, Gunpowder (1995)\, Here Nor There (1999); Outliving (2003)\, Selected Poems in 2008. O’Donoghue was winner of the 1995 Whitbread Poetry Award and Cholmondeley Award in 2009.\n\n\nSinéad O’Kelly\nSinéad O’Kelly is a soprano from Belfast. She trained at the Royal College of Music in London for six years\, where she graduated in 2014 (First Class Honours Degree) and again in 2016 (Masters with Distinction). She continues to study with Tim Evans-Jones and Caroline Dowdle.\n\n\nPetroc Trelawny\nPetroc regularly presents the classical magazine programme Music Matters\, Radio 3’s Breakfast and concerts in Radio 3 Live in Concert. Petroc joined Radio 3 in 1998. He currently presents Breakfast and was previously co-host of In Tune\, the station’s drive-time arts magazine.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/christmas-by-candlelight/
LOCATION:St George Hanover Square\,  The Vestry\, 2A Mill Street\, London\, UK\, W1S 1FX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collaboration,music,special event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161128T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161128T213000
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SUMMARY:London Irish poetic tradition - 28 Nov
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe ILS teams up with RTÉ’s Poetry Programme to reflect on the London-Irish poetic tradition. Presenter Rick O’Shea talks to the ILS President Bernard O’Donoghue\, and Vice President Roy Foster about the work and reception of Irish poets in London and how the city shaped those writers and fed back into Irish culture. A recording of this event is now available on the RTÉ Poetry Programme website.  \n Our overview takes the Revival as starting point and considers the work of Irish poets who have passed through or settled in London such as Yeats\, Tynan\, Clarke\, MacNeice\, Boland and Heaney. Our panel of poets will reflect on the anxiety of influence\, the notion of tradition and the tensions and opportunities for the Irish poet in London. \nSpeakers:\n\nSiobhán Campbell\nSiobhán is a poet\, critic and lecturer. She is the author of five works of poetry and co-editor of the forthcoming book of essays on the work of Eavan Boland. Her poetry has received awards in the National Poetry Competition and the Troubadour International Competition and is the recipient of an Arts Council award and the Templar Poetry Prize. Much of Campbell’s work is expressive of her interest in the place of the political poem in contemporary poetics – her forthcoming volume Heat Signature (March\, 2017) reflects on commemoration and the centenary of the Dublin Rising while her Cross Talk (2010) explored boundaries and the interwoven nature of family\, local and historical conflicts.\n\nCahal Dallat\nSince moving to London 40 years ago the Ballycastle native has been a computer scientist and a critic\, a musician and a broadcaster. Dallat’s literary horizons broadened when he joined a nascent poetry workshop run by Robert Greacon\, an esteemed Dublin writer who had relocated to London. His poetry appears in a range of literary magazines & anthologies\, in Trio 7 (with John Kelly & Sean McWilliams\, Blackstaff Press\, 1992)\, Morning Star (Lagan Press\, 1998) and in The Year of Not Dancing (Blackstaff Press\, 2009).\n\nMartina Evans\nMartina Evans is a poet\, novelist and teacher. She grew up in County Cork in a country pub\, shop and petrol station and is the youngest of ten children. She is the author of ten books of prose and poetry. She is currently Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University\, London and a Lector for the Royal Literary Reading Round 2014-2016. Watch\, a pamphlet was published by Rack Press in January 2016 and The Windows of Graceland\, New & Selected Poems was published by Carcanet in May 2016. Martina will feature in the broadcast but will not be present at the event.\n\nProf Roy Foster\nRoy Foster recently retired as Carroll Professor of Irish history at Oxford\, he is a fellow of Hertford College. He has written widely on Irish history\, society and politics in the modern period\, as well as on Victorian high politics and culture. Foster produced a widely acclaimed biography of William Butler Yeats which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In Words Alone: Yeats and his inheritances (2011)\, he presents a re-reading of Irish literary history throughout the nineteenth century and places Yeats and his inspirations in apposition to a much wider range of literary and political precursors than is usually the case. His most recent book is Vivid Faces: the revolutionary generation in Ireland 1890-1914.\n\nProf Bernard O’Donoghue\nBernard O’Donoghue is a Professor and Emeritus Fellow in English at Wadham College\, Oxford. He is a poet and literary critic\, and author of Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry (1995) – he succeeded Heaney as President of the ILS. His most recent poetry collection is The Seasons of Cullen Church (2016)\, which has been shortlisted for the T S Elliot award. Previous volumes include Farmer’s Cross (2011)\, Gunpowder (1995)\, Here Nor There (1999); Outliving (2003)\, Selected Poems in 2008. O’Donoghue was winner of the 1995 Whitbread Poetry Award and Cholmondeley Award in 2009.\n\nDeclan Ryan\nDeclan Ryan was born in County Mayo\, Ireland and has lived in London since. His pamphlet was published in the Faber New Poets series. He is poetry editor at Ambit and teaches at King’s College London. Declan Ryan’s poem\, ‘From Alun Lewis’ was featured in the Autumn 2012 issue of The Poetry Review. His poems and reviews have also been published in Poetry London\, The Rialto\, and elsewhere. He was also named one of the Faber New Poets in 2014. \nReaders: Donal Cox\, Peter Power-Hynes\, Patricia Leventon\, Michael McClain\, Shevaun Wilder. \nShare this Post
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/london-irish-poetic-tradition/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,lecture,poetry,Reading,special event
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SUMMARY:2016 Yeats Lecture - 24 Oct
DESCRIPTION:The Ambassador of Ireland Daniel Mulhall hosts the third Annual Yeats Lecture at the Embassy of Ireland with the Irish Literary Society. Following on from his highly praised television documentary on Yeats\, the musician and activist Sir Bob Geldof talks about his appreciation of the great poet. Geldof argues that as a poet and statesman\, at the vanguard of a cultural revolution\, Yeats brought about immense change in Ireland’s struggle for independence\, without firing a bullet. His Excellency Ambassador Dan Mulhall will introduce the event. \n\nSir Bob Geldof\nSir Bob Geldof  is a singer\, songwriter\, author\, and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s\, alongside the punk rock movement. Geldof is widely recognised for his activism\, especially anti-poverty efforts concerning Africa. Geldof was appointed an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II\, and is a recipient of the Man of Peace title which recognises individuals who have made “an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace”\, among numerous other awards and nominations. In 2005 he received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. \nShare this Post
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/2016-yeats-lecture-24-oct/
LOCATION:The Embassy of Ireland\, 17 Grosvenor Pl\, London \, London\, SW1X 7HR
CATEGORIES:Collaboration,lecture,Members only-event,poetry,special event
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SUMMARY:St Patrick's Day event 2016
DESCRIPTION:The Irish Literary Society will be celebrating St Patrick’s Day 2016 with a members’ only event at two galleries and a lunch. Reserve your place by contacting the ILS Hon. Secretary: irishlitsoc@gmail.com \n11am – Tour and talk at Photographers’ Gallery\n12.30 – lunch\n2pm – Tour and talk at Royal Society of Medicine \nWe will be starting the day at The Photographers Gallery with a talk by curator Luke Dodd and tour of the exhibition. This will followed by lunch and then moving on to the Royal Society of Medicine and the library exhibition The Dublin Doctors an exhibition which describes and celebrates the many advances to medical science made by the 19th century surgeons and physicians of Dublin. \n \nCountess Markievicz c.1915 (Sean Sexton Collection)  \n\nEaster Rising 1916 exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery\nThis exhibition is drawn from Sean Sexton’s photographic collection and curated by Luke Dodd. It investigates the significant role played by photography in informing the national consciousness that led to Irish independence\, using the 1916 rebellion as a central focal point. It features approximately eighty rarely seen photographs and ephemera\, including souvenir postcards\, albums\, stereoscopic views\, press and military photographs. \nThe exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic documents of key events during the transformative years between the 1840s and 1930s. These include portraits of executed leaders\, scrapbooks\, collages and images of rebellion sites collected as memorabilia. Issues of authenticity and manipulation are explored in images of evictions and military drills – possibly staged for the camera. The contribution of women as active participants in the Rising is also addressed\, as well as the women who practiced photography early in its development.\n \nThe Dublin Doctors exhibition at the Royal Society of Medicine.\nThis exhibition describes and celebrates the many advances to medical science made by the 19th century surgeons and physicians of Dublin. The practice of medicine was then inevitably involved with the troubled history of Ireland and her aspirations to nationhood. Among the physicians featured in the exhibition are Robert Graves\, William Stokes\, and Sir William Wilde (father of Oscar). Robert Greenwood\, curator of the exhibition and Heritage Officer of the Royal Society of Medicine will give a talk and lead a tour of the exhibition.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/st-patricks-day-2016/
LOCATION:The Photographers Gallery\, 16–18 Ramillies Street\, London W1F 7LW\, London\, UK\, W1F 7LW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:exhibition,interview,lecture,lunch,special event,visit
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SUMMARY:Kew\, National Archives records of Dublin 1916
DESCRIPTION:An exciting opportunity to engage with British primary sources documenting the 1916 Rising. This members-only event will take place in The National Archives in Kew. In a supervised 2-hour session ILS members will have an opportunity to examine newspapers\, proclamations and court martial files. The event is limited to 30 places. Please contact the Honorary Secretary to reserve a place\, places will be issued on a first-come\, first-served basis: irishlitsoc@gmail.com \nOn Easter Monday\, 24 April 1916\, members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army occupied buildings in Dublin and proclaimed an Irish Republic. The records at The National Archives in Kew have detailed information on the political and military activities as well as the events leading up to and following the Easter Rising. They also contain detailed information on some key figures of the Rising. With reference to these documents you will be encouraged to explore the intentions of the leaders of the Rising\, public reaction and the British Government’s response to the Easter Rising and its aftermath.\n \nThe General Post Office on Sackville Street\, after the Easter Rising.  \n \nIf there is sufficient demand we will endeavour to programme a second visit.\nInstructions on meeting the group at Kew railway station with be issued with tickets.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/national-archives-dublin-1916/
LOCATION:The National Archives\, Kew\, Richmond\, Surrey\, \, London\, UK\, TW9 4DU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:archive,research,special event,visit
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