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SUMMARY:Resting Places - 27 Nov
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the London launch of a fascinating new work by Dr Ellen McWilliams. Resting Places: On Wounds\, War and the Irish Revolution could be read as a memoir or a collection of personal essays\, but it is neither – literary scholar Lucy McDiarmid describes it as ‘the creation of a new literary form’. Resting Places offers up an Irishwoman’s elegy for two revolutionists\, Oliver Cromwell and Terence James MacSwiney\, a meditation on the unexpected correspondences between the English Civil War of the seventeenth century and the Irish Civil War of the 1920s\, a prayer to John Milton and William Shakespeare\, and a keen for a Famine Road and for the troubled history of the plantation town of Bandon in Co. Cork. The book emerged from an article in the Irish Times.  \nAt the centre of McWilliams’s threnody is a massacre that took place a century ago in West Cork but might as well have been yesterday. It is unforgotten and will continue to be so as her son learns about that “exquisitely painful” time and finds the solace she found in taut prose which is a balm even though it treats of colonial crimes\, republican crimes\, the contagion of faith\, the weight of history and fractured families.’Jonathan Meades\n\nMcWilliams reflects on her Catholic upbringing in West Cork in the 1980s and 1990s\, and on relations with her Protestant neighbours. She is haunted by the killings in the period of Ireland’s War of Independence and Civil War\, and in particular by the ‘Dunmanway massacre’ of April 1922 which marked the area where she grew up. Her great grandmother was active in Cumann na mBan and her granduncle fought for independence as well as in the anti-Treaty IRA. The book reveals why the events of those days remain deeply personal and how they shape her adult life as she moves to England\, marries an expert on Cromwell and the English Civil War\, teaches Irish literature at an English university\, experiences pregnancy and childbirth\, and nurtures her son in his early years. \nImage: Crowds of onlookers throng St Patrick St on the day following the burning of Cork City centre by crown forces. \n The event will be followed by a signing. \n\n\n \n  \n  Speakers:  Dr Ellen McWilliams\n\n\n\n  Dr Ellen McWilliams\nDr Williams’ interests are in the fields of twentieth-century women’s fiction\, anti-colonial history and the aftershocks of colonial violence\, intergenerational memory/postmemory\, literary responses to the pain of revolution and civil war\, political violence and literary form\, and migration and diasporic identity. She is a member of the Routes: Migraton\, Mobility\, Displacement Network and the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict. She has written three academic books\, Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman (2009)\, Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction (2013)\, and Irishness in North American Women’s Writing: Transatlantic Affinities (2021). She is a member of the University’s research network\, Routes: Migration\, Mobility\, Displacement. She also has a special interest in New York magazine culture and has published four essays on Maeve Brennan’s writing for The New Yorker\, including ‘”A Sort of Rathmines Version of a Dior Design”: Maeve Brennan\, Self-Fashioning\, and the Uses of Style’ for Women: A Cultural Review and an article on Brennan’s years at Harper’s Bazaar\, ‘Maeve Brennan\, Celebrity\, and Harper’s Bazaar in the 1940s’.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/resting-places-27-november/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:anniversary,book signing,feminism,interview,Nationalism,Reading,research,social history,violence,women
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SUMMARY:Poetry as Commemoration showcase
DESCRIPTION:Last year we engaged with Poetry Ireland and the Poetry as Commemoration project in UCD to develop workshops which used poetry as a means to deepen our collective understanding of Ireland’s past and to explore a challenging period of history relating to the War of Independence and Civil War. The three workshops were delivered by Roisin Tierney and Ian Duhig who developed the work of poet members of the Society\, this event provides a stage for those poets to deliver their work.  \nWe hope we’ll have a good showing from members to support our poets in the beautiful setting of the Fitzrovia Chapel. This is a free event open to all. c70 mins running time\, a drinks reception will follow. \nThe workshops to develop our poets’ work were sponsored by:
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/poetry-as-commemoration-showcase/
LOCATION:Fitzrovia Chapel\, Fitzroy Place\, 2 Pearson Square\, London W1T 3BF\, London\, Fitzrovia Chapel\, Fitzroy Place\, 2 PeW1T 3BF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:anniversary,history,London-Irish,Nationalism,poetry,politics,Reading,social history,violence
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SUMMARY:Jess Kidd and Mike Dash on the Batavia - 27 March
DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to welcome back Jess Kidd to the Society to discuss her novel\, The Night Ship. The novel is based on the extraordinary story of the Batavia\, the flagship of the Dutch East India Company that in 1628 was wrecked on Morning Reef\, on the Houtman Abrolhos islands off western coast of Australia. Its wrecking was followed by factions in the crew instigating a massacre of most of the survivors. This was amongst the first contacts of europeans with the continent of Australia and provides a brutal alternative to the myth of Cook’s arrival bringing Enlightenment values.\n\nJess will be joined by the historian Mike Dash whose fascinating account of the Batavia story\, Batavia’s Graveyard (2002) opens up a wider history of the Dutch Republic\, seventeenth century trade and exploration. In both Dash’s history and Kidd’s novel the later discovery of the Batavia and its archeological recovery feature. Kidd establishes a connection over the span of centuries via the lives of two young characters: in 1628 a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and\, in the 1980s\, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island. Dash’s book was the invaluable starting point to Kidd’s research which led her from Haarlem and Amsterdam to Australia. The wreck was discovered in 1963\, over the next two decades\, archaeological excavations of the ship and various campsites evidenced the extent of the savage campaign. Find out more about Kidd’s research trip on her site: jesskidd.com  \n\nLyrical\, haunting\, a beautiful and elegant fictional interpretation of history\, I loved it.Kate Mosse on Kidd's The Night Ship\nScholarly and exhilarating. Not only history\, but an enthralling sea yarn and true-crime thriller.Associated Press on Dash's Batavia's Graveyard\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be followed by a signing and a book sale. \n\n  Speakers:  Jess Kidd\n\n\n\n  Jess Kidd\nJess Kidd is the author of three novels and is the winner of the 2016 Costa Short Story Award. Jess’ debut novel\, Himself\, was published by Canongate in October 2016. The Hoarder\, her second novel\, hit the shelves in February 2018. Jess’s third book the marvellous Victorian\, supernatural thriller\, Things in Jars came out in 2019 featuring the intrepid detective Bridie Devine. She is also currently developing her own original TV projects with leading UK and international TV producers\, her children’s book Everyday Magic was published in 2020. Find out more on her website: jesskidd.com \n\nMike Dash\n\n\n\n  Mike Dash\nDash read history at Cambridge and went on to complete a PhD back in 1990. Since then he has enjoyed an eclectic career as a journalist\, magazine publisher and author\, in the course of which he has written five heavily-researched and acclaimed books: Tulipomania\, Batavia’s Graveyard\, Thug\, Satan’s Circus and The First Family. He has also run the Smithsonian Museum’s history blog. Find out more on his website: mikedash.com
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/jess-kidd-and-mike-dash-on-the-batavia-27-march/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Australia,book signing,history,interview,Mutiny,naval history,novel,politics,religion,research,social history,violence
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