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SUMMARY:Roddy Doyle - 29 Jan
DESCRIPTION:One of Ireland’s best-loved writers makes his first appearance at the Irish Literary Society. Doyle joins us in conversation on his books\, films\, educational work and his forthcoming novel\, Smile. It tells the captivating story of Victor Forde\, for whom a chance meeting in a pub conjures up long-buried childhood memories – and it’s a book about how we all struggle to accommodate our past selves.\nThere is not a writer currently working in the English language who can match Doyle for the fluency with which he tacks back and forth between the hilarious and the heartbreaking.\nThe New York Times Book Review\nA chance meeting with an old school friend leads his protagonist on a journey back to being taught by Christian Brothers. Smile has all the features for which Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue\, the humour\, the superb evocation of childhood – but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. Just moved in to a new apartment\, alone for the first time in years\, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s pub for a pint\, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor’s name and to remember him from school. Says his name is Fitzpatrick. Victor dislikes him on sight\, dislikes too the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught by the Christian Brothers. He prompts other memories too – of Rachel\, his beautiful wife who became a celebrity\, and of Victor’s own small claim to fame\, as the man who says the unsayable on the radio. But it’s the memories of school\, and of one particular Brother\, that he cannot control and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity. Doyle will be in conversation with Gavin Clarke. \nSpeaker: Roddy Doyle\n\nRoddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958 and grew up in Kilbarrack. After graduating from University College Dublin he spent several years as an English and geography teacher before becoming a full-time writer. His novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha won the Booker Prize in 1993. Several of his novels\, including The Commitments and The Snapper have been successfully adapted into films. Doyle’s work is set primarily in Ireland\, especially working-class Dublin. Inspired by David Eggers’ 826 Valencia\, he co-founded the children’s writing charity Fighting Words. Doyle has also written many novels for children\, including the Rover Adventures series. He has also written many short stories\, several of which have been published in The New Yorker. In 2016\, he translated Mozart’s Don Giovanni for the Opera Theatre Company. The stage version of The Commitments\, adapted by Doyle\, opened in London’s Palace Theatre in 2013 and toured Britain and Ireland until May 2016. \nSpread the word:
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/roddy-doyle-29-jan/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,history,interview,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180116T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180116T170000
DTSTAMP:20171212T214305Z
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SUMMARY:National Theatre Archive screening -16 Jan
DESCRIPTION:The ILS has arranged for a group visit on 16 January to the National Theatre Archive for a screening of the recording of the NT production of Conor McPherson’s The Veil from 2011. The screening room at the Archive has only limited capacity so we must limit this event to members-only\, there are 25 places. If there is sufficient demand we will arrange a further screening. Please contact the Honorary Secretary if you wish to reserve a place: irishlitsoc@gmail.com.  \nMay 1822\, rural Ireland. The defrocked Reverend Berkeley arrives at the crumbling former glory of Mount Prospect House to accompany seventeen-year-old Hannah to England. She is to be married off to a Marquis in order to resolve the debts of her mother’s estate. However\, compelled by the strange voices that haunt his beautiful young charge and a fascination with the psychic current that pervades the house\, Berkeley proposes a séance\, the consequences of which are catastrophic. \nThe Veil weaves Ireland’s troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love\, the transcendental and the circularity of time. The play is directed by McPherson. The cast includes Jim Norton\, who won both Tony and Olivier awards for his performance in McPherson’s The Seafarer. This is a three-camera recording made for research purposes\, it does not therefore offer the cinematic experience of an NT Live broadcast.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/national-theatre-archive-visit-16-jan/
LOCATION:National Theatre Studio\, 83-101 The Cut\, Lambeth\, London\, SE1 8LL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:archive,Members only-event,research,theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171127T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171127T210000
DTSTAMP:20171123T220522Z
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SUMMARY:Eimear McBride - 27 Nov
DESCRIPTION:Eimear McBride joins the Irish Literary Society to discuss and read from her work. Described by the Times Literary Supplement as ‘a writer of remarkable power and originality\,’ McBride’s debut A Girl is a Half-formed Thing received the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize\, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. Her short stories have appeared in Dubliners 100\, The Long Gaze Back and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She writes and reviews for the The Guardian\, New Statesman and the TLS.\n“Blazingly daring…[McBride’s] prose is a visceral throb\, and the sentences run meanings together to produce a kind of compression in which words\, freed from the tedious march of sequence\, seem to want to merge with one another\, as paint and musical notes can. The results are thrilling\, and also thrillingly efficient. The language plunges us into the centre of experiences that are often raw\, unpleasant\, frightening\, but also vital.”James Wood\, The New Yorker\nHer most recent novel\, The Lesser Bohemians\, follows a young Irish woman who arrives in London from Ireland in the 1990s\, to study drama and falls passionately\, dangerously in love with an older actor. The older man has a disturbing past for which the young girl is unprepared and her troubled past becomes apparent. A bold and subversive story about sexual passion\, The Lesser Bohemians is also a celebration of love\, and how it can both destroy and create. McBride will be in conversation with Shevaun Wilder.  \nSpeaker: Eimear McBride\n\nEimear McBride was born in 1976 in Liverpool to Northern Irish parents. Aged two she and her family returned to Ireland and her childhood was mostly spent in Tubbercurry\, Co. Sligo. At fourteen they moved again to Castlebar\, Co Mayo. In 1994\, at seventeen\, she went to London and spent the next three years studying acting at Drama Centre. Much of her twenties were spent temping and travelling. At twenty-seven she wrote A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. It won the 2013 Goldsmiths Prize\, was shortlisted for the 2014 Folio Prize and won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014. She moved to Cork in 2006\, and Norwich in 2011\, where she currently lives with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/eimear-mcbride-27-nov/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:exile,interview,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171114T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171114T200000
DTSTAMP:20171023T173343Z
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SUMMARY:Tara Bergin - 14 Nov
DESCRIPTION:The Irish Literary Society is delighted to invite its members to the Embassy of Ireland for an evening with one of Ireland’s most fascinating poets. As there are only limited seats available for this event interested members should apply for tickets via the form below.  \nTara Bergin’s debut collection\, This is Yarrow\, won the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and she was named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society in 2014.\nBergin’s Gothic imagination – precise\, claustrophobic\, yet full of vertiginous perspectives – makes her a perfect guide to these frightened\, frightening times.Paul Batchelor\, The Spectator\nShe will be reading poems from her new collection The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx\, exploring themes of intense love and grief with a dark humour. Bergin’s engagement with the world of myth and folklore was vividly present in This is Yarrow and now in her latest dark fairytale-like images fill the collection as it reflects on the life and death of Eleanor – Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Eleanor was a member of the Socialist Democratic Federation and translated Flaubert’s Madame Bovary\, before taking her own life in the same way as Emma Bovary. The event will be hosted by the Irish Ambassador Adrian O’Neill.\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nYour Name (required)\n \n\n \nYour Email (required)\n \n\n \nSubject\n \n\n \nYour Message\n \n\n \n\n Δ\n \n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Tara Bergin\n\nTara Bergin was born in Dublin and moved to the UK in 2002 to undertake academic research. This culminated in a PhD on Ted Hughes’s translations of the post-war Hungarian poet János Pilinszky which she completed at Newcastle University\, where she is now a part-time lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry). She began publishing the poems that feature in her debut collection\, This is Yarrow (Carcanet\, 2013)\, in 2003. It won the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and the 2014 Shine/Strong Award. Bergin was named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society in 2014.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/tara-bergin/
LOCATION:The Embassy of Ireland\, 17 Grosvenor Pl\, London \, London\, SW1X 7HR
CATEGORIES:book signing,folklore,history,interview,Members only-event,poetry,politics,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171030T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171030T203000
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SUMMARY:Writing Gay Irish Lives - 30 Oct
DESCRIPTION:In light of social and legal changes in Ireland over recent years the ILS is drawing together Irish writers to consider the representation of queer people in Irish literature. Our panel will be reflecting on London as a place of escape\, queer representation in Irish writing\, homosexuality in the discourse of what constitutes Irishness\, and the integration of queer characters and narratives into the wider culture. Here in London the 50-year anniversary since it stopped being illegal for two men (criminal law\, until Section 28\, targeted only men) to be in a relationship in England and Wales has been widely celebrated\, the law changed in Scotland and Northern Ireland later – not until 1993 was same-sex sexual activity decriminalised in Ireland. Historically many Irish queer people felt compelled to emigrate in search of a more supportive social climate\, the attraction of London was obvious as a metropolitan centre associated with tolerance of sexual diversity and established queer communities. Yet now Ireland now has gay marriage (passed by 62% vote share)\, a young\, openly gay taoiseach and progressive trans recognition legislation – the influence of Catholic dogma has clearly waned. The rich and varied work of our panel will be discussed in the context of these changes and each writer will read from their work.  \nSpeakers:\n\nDr Michael G Cronin\nMichael G Cronin is a Lecturer in English\, specialising in twentieth-century and contemporary Irish literature and in sexuality studies. He received his MA from the University of Sussex\, having studied on the renowned Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change programme. He subsequently completed a doctorate on the twentieth-century Irish Catholic bildungsroman at Maynooth University\, where he was an IRCHSS Government of Ireland scholar.  Along with Impure Thoughts\, he has published essays on twentieth-century and contemporary Irish fiction\, and on contemporary Irish sexual politics.  He was Guest Editor of a special issue of Irish Review (Irish Review 46\, Autumn 2013) on Irish Studies in the wake of the 2008 crash. He is currently working on a project provisionally entitled ‘Revolutionary Bodies: homoeroticism and the political imagination in Irish writing’.  \n\nMary Dorcey – UNFORTUNATELY MARY WILL NOT NOW BE ABLE TO APPEAR AT THIS EVENT\, 30 OCT\nThe critically acclaimed poet\, short story writer and novelist\, Mary Dorcey was born in County Dublin\, Ireland. She is a member by peer election of ‘Aosdana’ the Irish Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990 she won the Rooney Prize for Literature for her short story collection: ‘A Noise from the Woodshed.’ Her bestselling novel Biography of Desire (Poolbeg) was published in September of 1997 to critical acclaim and reprinted three times. She was writer in residence at Trinity College for the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies for ten years where she gives seminars in contemporary English literature and taught a creative writing course. She also taught for four years at University College Dublin. Dorcey’s most recent collection is Perhaps the Heart is Constant after All. (Salmon Poetry. October 2012) \n\nBarry McCrea\nThe Chair of our panel is Barry McCrea\, a novelist and scholar of modern European\, Latin American\, and Irish literature. He most recent book is Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe (Yale University Press\, 2015)\, which won the American Comparative Literature Association’s René Wellek prize for the best book of 2016. He is the author of The First Verse\, a novel\, winner of a number of awards including the 2006 Ferro-Grumley prize for fiction and a Barnes and Noble “Discover” prize\, and of In the Company of Strangers: Narrative and Family in Dickens\, Conan Doyle\, Joyce and Proust (Columbia University Press\, 2011)\, which won the Yale Heyman Prize for scholarship in the humanities.Professor McCrea holds has a BA in Romance languages from Trinity College Dublin\, and a PhD in comparative literature from Princeton. Before joining Notre Dame\, he taught comparative literature at Yale University\, where he was appointed full professor in 2012. Professor McCrea teaches fall semesters in the Rome and Dublin Global Gateways and spring semesters on campus. \n\nJamie O’Neill\nJamie O’Neill was born in Dún Laoghaire in 1962. He left for England at the age of 17 and lived and worked in England for two decades\, he now lives in Galway. His first novel\, Disturbance\, was published in 1989 and followed by Kilbrack in 1990. Thereafter O’Neill struggled to write and on parting company with both his agent and publisher he took the job as a night porter at the Cassell Hospital\, a psychiatric institution in Surrey from 1990 up to 2000. His critically-acclaimed novel\, At Swim\, Two Boys (2001) earned him the highest advance ever paid for an Irish novel and frequent claims that he was the natural successor to James Joyce\, Flann O’Brien and Samuel Beckett. At Swim\, Two Boys was re-issued this year to mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales. The novel describes a burgeoning love between two teenage boys\, Jim Mack and Doyler\, childhood friends – “cara macree\, pal o’ my heart” – in the early years of the 20th century in Dublin. They meet again some years later in a flute band as 15-year old Doyler teaches Jim to swim. They make a pact – on Easter Sunday 1916\, they will swim to Muglin’s Rock to claim it for themselves and for Ireland.  \n\nCherry Smyth\nCherry Smyth is a poet\, novelist and art critic. Her first poetry collection When the Lights Go Up (Lagan Press\, 2001) traces her move from Ireland to London and the negotiations of identity required in a new country. One Wanted Thing (Lagan Press\, 2006)\, her second volume\, is less concerned with loss than with a buoyant affirmation of love\, acceptance and the wider issues of the fall-out of events like 9/11 and 7/7: how these changed our world-view. In Test\, Orange (Pindrop Press\, 2012)\, she brings together a range of poetic forms from haiku to longer free-verse poems dealing with things we face in a female body. In 2000–01\, Cherry was writer-in-residence in a women’s prison and published their extraordinary work in A Strong Voice in a Small Space (Cherry Picking Press\, 2002)\, which won the Raymond Williams community-publishing prize in 2003. She has been teaching writing poetry in the Creative Writing Department of the University of Greenwich since 2004. She was appointed a Royal Literary Fellow\, 2014-2016. Her novel Hold Still (Holland Park Press\, 2013) charts the role of Irish woman Jo Hiffernan as muse to both Whistler and Courbet. \nSpread the word:
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/writing-gay-lives/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,exile,history,interview,novel,poetry,politics,Reading,social history,tradition
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SUMMARY:Caldwell and Hayden - 25 Sept
DESCRIPTION:June Caldwell and David Hayden visit the ILS to discuss their latest volumes of short stories and the short story form. \nFrom one of Ireland’s most grindingly authentic and radically original talents\, Caldwell’s Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged\, visceral tales of wanton sex\, broken relationships\, homelessness and futuristic nightmares. \nCaldwell’s modernist style and tendency to switch forms never let the reader rest. Each of her stories announces itself with a bang. The outrageous ideas for the most part have a realistic undertone\, grounding Room Little Darker in a world that is oddly\, awfully\, familiar.Sarah Gilmartin\, The Irish Times\nCaldwell’s modernist style and tendency to switch forms never let the reader rest. Each of her stories announces itself with a bang. The outrageous ideas for the most part have a realistic undertone\, grounding Room Little Darker in a world that is oddly\, awfully\, familiar. An abusive father haunts his daughter and wife from the confines of a nursing home; a couple with an appetite for kink discover their escapades have led them into something unimaginably grim; an addict makes his way around a city centre crackling with menace; an unborn child narrates her own tragic story; a paedophile acquires a sex therapy robot and wonders how they’ll get along. At once hilarious and profoundly moving\, June Caldwell’s stories probe raw sexuality and disturbing psychology\, the love (and hate) of family\, the darkness and light that lives inside us all. \n“It’s an open secret that David Hayden is one of the most interesting short story writers around. Why it’s taken this long for his first collection to be published is beyond me but I\, along with anyone with even the vaguest interest in looking at modernism anew\, will be queuing up for a copy.” Eimear McBride\nThe stories in David Hayden’s Darker With The Lights On are driven ceaselessly\, hypnotically forward by a powerful narrative force\, the stories in this debut collection pull off that rare trick of captivating the reader\, while twisting the form into truly new shapes. Comprising compelling stories made memorable by an imagist’s flair for photographic observation and unsettling\, often startling\, emotional landscapes\, Darker With the Lights On introduces a new and brilliant talent. \nSpeakers:\n\nJune Caldwell\nJune Caldwell worked for many years as a journalist before writing fiction. Her story ‘SOMAT’ was published in the award-winning anthology The Long Gaze Back\, edited by Sinéad Gleeson and was chosen as a ‘favourite’ by The Sunday Times. She is a prizewinner of the Moth International Short Story Prize and has been shortlisted for many others\, including the Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction\, the Colm Toíbín International Short Story Award\, the Lorian Hemingway Prize\, and the Sunday Business Post/Penguin Ireland Short Story Prize. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University Belfast\, and lives in Dublin.\n\nDavid Hayden\nDavid Hayden’s writing has appeared in gorse\, The Yellow Nib\, The Moth\, The Stinging Fly\, Spolia and The Warwick Review\, and poetry in PN Review. He was shortlisted for the 25th RTÉ Francis MacManus Short Story prize. Born in Dublin\, he has lived in the US and Australia and is now based in Norwich\, UK\, where he is currently working on a novel. \nSpread the word:
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/caldwell-and-hayden-25-sept/
LOCATION:Dr Williams’s Library\, 14 Gordon Square\, Bloomsbury\, London\, WC1H 0AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,interview,short story
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170921T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170921T220000
DTSTAMP:20170906T145739Z
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SUMMARY:The Ferryman - ILS member tickets lottery
DESCRIPTION:The ILS has 20 tickets for excellent seats for the acclaimed Royal Court production of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman for a performance on the evening of 21 September to issue free to members. To apply for a ticket you must be a fully paid-up member\, you should complete the form below. The lottery will close on 8 September and the ILS Honorary Secretary will contact those successful on 9 September. Please note that the performance starts at 7pm\, 21 September\, the performance runs for 3 hours including a 15 minute interval. \nThe Ferryman: Northern Ireland\, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting and celebrations lie ahead. But this year they will be interrupted by a visitor. \n“You can’t bury the past.” \nJez Butterworth‘s previous work at the Royal Court includes The River and the multi-award winning Jerusalem. Director Sam Mendes makes his Royal Court debut. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\nYour Name (required)\n \n\n \nYour Email (required)\n \n\n \nSubject\n \n\n \nYour Message\n \n\n \n\n Δ
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/the-ferryman-member-ticket-lottery/
LOCATION:Gielgud Theatre\, Shaftesbury Ave\, Soho\, London\, W1D 6AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Members only-event,non-ILS,theatre
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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:20170917T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170927T203000
DTSTAMP:20170904T185225Z
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SUMMARY:Constance and Eva\, 17-27 Sept
DESCRIPTION:ILS members will remember Dr Kimberly Campanello from her fascinating talk at the ILS last year on Sheela na gigs and the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam\, County Galway. Campanello has a new play on those radical sisters Constance Markievicz and Eva Gore-Booth. The play runs from 17-27 September at the Bread and Roses Theatre in Clapham. While we’re not arranging a formal ILS outing this time many members will be attending the final night of the run – 27 September\, you can find out more and book here. \nConstance Markievicz and Eva Gore-Booth battled imperialism\, fought for women’s rights\, and sought to redefine gender and sexuality. They were famous – even infamous – during their lifetimes\, but history has largely forgotten them.  \nCan their stories be told\, and what can we learn from them about how to be politically active today? \nConstance and Eva is a multimedia reimagining of the lives of these two sisters\, bringing together archive footage\, found text and performance to tell their story. It is a first time collaboration between the poet Kimberly Campanello (Strange Country\, Hymn to Kali) and director Luke Davies\, and is Urania’s first production.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/constance-and-eva/
LOCATION:The Bread and Roses Theatre\, 68 Clapham Manor Street\, Clapham\, London\, SW4 6DZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:non-ILS,theatre
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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:20170703T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170703T203000
DTSTAMP:20170701T000308Z
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SUMMARY:AGM 2017 - 3 July
DESCRIPTION:ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING\, 3 July 2017\, 7.30pm \nAGENDA\n1. Chairman’s Opening Remarks\n2. Apologies\n3. Minutes from 2016 AGM\n4. Matters Arising\n5. Honorary Secretary’s Report\n6. Chairman’s Report\n7. Treasurer’s Report\n8. Membership Secretary’s Report\n9. Constitutional changes\n10. Election of the Officers & Committee for the ILS Season 2016-17 and any other voting.\n11. Appointment of Honorary Auditors\n12. Plans for 2017-18\n13. AOB \nMembers are invited to propose candidates for the election of Officers and Committee members for the ILS Season 2017-18. 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 15 June (download the form below 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[download-attachment id=”9165″ title=”Election nomination form 2017″]\n[download-attachment id=”9174″ title=”AGM-ILS_03072017″]
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/agm-2017/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Members only-event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170626T193000
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SUMMARY:Eavan Boland - 26 June 2017
DESCRIPTION:Widely considered to be one of Ireland’s most important contemporary poets\, Eavan Boland is currently a Professor of Humanities and Director of the Creative Writing Programme at Stanford University\, where she has taught since 1996. In 2015 a New Collected Poems was published\, and Eavan Boland: Inside History\, a book celebrating her long and distinguished career\, was recently published by Arlen House\, its editor will join in conversation with Boland. In January 2017 Boland was appointed editor of Poetry Ireland Review.\nPoetry has been an integral part of Eavan Boland’s life since she was a young girl. In college she wrote her first publication\, 23 Poems. She has gone on to publish nearly 20 books of poetry\, winning awards and accolades from readers and critics alike. Boland\, a self-described “woman poet\,” has always had trouble reconciling those two words. “It was like there was a magnetic opposition between the two concepts\,” she said. “The woman coming from the collective sense of nurture in Ireland\, and the poet coming from the much more individualist\, creative realm.” Mary Robinson quoted Eavan Boland’s poetry during her inaugural speech as President of Ireland in Dublin Castle on 3 December 1990\, and on 15 March 2016 President Obama quoted lines from her poem “On a Thirtieth Anniversary” (from Against Love Poetry) in his remarks at a reception in the White House to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. \nBoland’s is a fascinating career which develops from her early attachment to Yeats\, her growing unease with the absence of women’s writing\, her encounter with pioneering American poets like Sylvia Plath\, Elizabeth Bishop\, and Adrienne Rich\, and her lucid\, critical engagement through poetry and prose with Ireland’s poetic tradition. \nThis event was formerly advertised as the ILS Annual Dinner\, the dinner part of the evening has now been cancelled. \nGuest of Honour: Eavan Boland\n\nBoland\, the youngest of five children\, was born in Dublin in 1944. Her father was a diplomat\, her mother\, Frances Kelly\, an artist. The family moved to London when Boland was six and she went to school there until 1956. Her poem An Irish Childhood in England: 1951 recalls her sense of otherness at this early age: \n…the teacher in the London convent who\,\nwhen I produced “I amn’t” in the classroom\nturned and said — “You’re not in Ireland now.” \nDuring her father’s next posting\, from 1956 until 1960\, the family lived in New York. Boland returned to Dublin and to boarding school at the Convent of the Holy Child in Killiney when she was fifteen. At Trinity College she studied Latin and English and graduated with a first-class honours degree in 1966. She lectured in Trinity 1967-1968 and then resigned to devote her time to writing. She wrote poems as a child and had published poems in the Irish Times while still an undergraduate. She published her first collection\, New Territory\, in 1967\, when she was twenty-two. During the 1970s she gave writing workshops throughout Ireland and in 1980 she co-founded Arlen House\, an Irish feminist press. \nFor Boland\, what she calls ‘the placelessness of her childhood’ and ‘her emphatic sense of living in a suburb in her own home’ were important influences on her work. In 1969\, in her mid-twenties\, she married the novelist Kevin Casey. They moved to a house in the Dublin suburbs in the early 1970s and have two daughters. A grandchild was born in 2014. She has written of motherhood and suburban life and according to Declan Kiberd ‘She is one of the very few Irish poets to describe with any fidelity the lives now lived by half a million people in the suburbs of Dublin.’ \nSince 1996\, Boland spends the academic year at Stanford College\, Palo Alto\, California\, where she is a Professor of Humanities and Director of the Creative Writing Programme\, but she calls Dundrum home. Speaking in 1988\, Boland said of herself: ‘I see myself as an Irish poet\, I think it’s important that Irish poets have a discourse with the idea of Irishness\, and I think it’s probably very important that an Irish woman poet doesn’t shirk that discourse because there have been gaps\, vacancies or silences in literature’.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/annual-dinner-eavan-boland-26-june-2017/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:America,art,biography,book signing,exile,history,interview,poetry,politics,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170522T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T203000
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SUMMARY:Donal Ryan - 22 May
DESCRIPTION:The novelist Donal Ryan joins Dorothy Allen to discuss his latest novel\, All We Shall Know. Ryan’s award-winning debut\, The Spinning Heart\, was published to great acclaim in 2012: it won the Guardian First Book Award\, the European Union Prize for Literature\, and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. The Thing About December and his short story collection A Slanting of the Sun followed soon after. All We Shall Know is a tragic and vivid tale which confirms Ryan as an acute chronicler of the disaffection at the heart of present-day Ireland. \nAll We Shall Know tells the story of Melody Shee. At 33 years-old\, she finds herself pregnant with the child of a 17 year-old Traveller boy\, Martin Toppy\, and not by her husband Pat. Melody was teaching Martin to read\, but now he’s gone\, and Pat leaves too\, full of rage. She’s trying to stay in the moment\, but the future is looming\, while the past won’t let her go. It’s a good thing that she meets Mary Crothery when she does. Mary is a bold young Traveller woman\, and she knows more about Melody than she lets on. She might just save Melody’s life.  \nFollowing the nine months of her pregnancy\, All We Shall Know unfolds with emotional immediacy in Melody’s fierce\, funny\, and unforgettable voice\, as she contends with her choices\, past and present. Without disclosing the details of this final scene\, it does not seem extravagant to claim it is worthy of Greek drama. That the tragedies of our own age happen in suburban semis\, or on Travellers’ sites\, does not make them any less cathartic – and Ryan’s choice of narrator\, a character both deeply flawed and painfully guilty\, shows him working in the great tradition of tragic fiction\, his lonely adulteress coming to grief in the same shadowy spaces as Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina.The Guardian\n‘Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He’s seventeen\, I’m thirty-three. I was his teacher. I’d have killed myself by now if I was brave enough. I don’t think it would hurt the baby. His little heart would stop with mine. He wouldn’t feel himself leaving one world of darkness for another\, his spirit untangling itself from me.’  \nSpeaker:\n\nDonal Ryan is from Nenagh in County Tipperary. His first two novels\, The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December\, and his short story collection A Slanting of the Sun\, have all been published to major acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award\, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland)\, and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. The Thing About December was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards\, and the title story of A Slanting of the Sun won the writing.ie Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Donal holds a Writing Fellowship at the University of Limerick. He lives with his wife Anne Marie and their two children just outside Limerick City.\nSpread the word:
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/donal-ryan-22-may/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,interview,novel,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170424T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170424T210000
DTSTAMP:20171123T230245Z
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SUMMARY:Carlo Gébler - 24 April
DESCRIPTION:Author\, playwright\, teacher and filmmaker Dr. Carlo Gébler visits the ILS to read from his work and reflect on his career\, changes in attitudes to literature in his lifetime and his recent short story collection and memoirs. His most recent publications are The Projectionist\, the story of Ernest Gébler\, a life of his father that mixes memoir and biography\, the short story collection\, The Wing Orderly’s Tales\, and Confessions of a Catastrophist (2015).  \nFor almost 25 years\, Gebler worked as a teacher and writer-in-residence in the Maze and Maghaberry Prisons. In his 2016 book of short stories based on that experience\, The Wing Orderly’s Tales\, he gives a fascinating insight into the inmates he worked with and why some people end up committing crimes. Previous work considering imprisonment and its consequences includes A Good Day For A Dog (2008) and My father’s Watch (2009) – the latter written with Patrick Maguire is an intensely moving memoir of his co-author\, one of the ‘Maguire Seven’\, wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA. Gébler has already proved himself a master at transmuting historical facts into compelling fiction…And in this new novel he’s just as adroit at creating psychological and dramatic suspense out of known facts … a book so rich in characterisation\, so expertly paced and so well written that it works equally well as absorbing social history and page-turning thriller.Irish Independent\nAs a catastrophist who never doubted from the moment he started that conditions in what he calls the Kingdom of Letters would only get worse\, Carlo Gébler is not in the least surprised by how things have turned out. It was always going to go downhill and in his Confessions of a Catastrophist (2015) he described that process but in his own personal\, idiosyncratic and caustic way. The book is an intriguing mixture of pungent\, fierce and striking memoir with pithy mordant notes on the literary trade\, on the books he’s written and why he wrote them\, and on the difficult business of negotiating a way through the thickets and trying to make a living. Also published in 2015 was his part biography/part memoir about his relationship with his father Ernest Gébler: The Projectionist: The Story of Ernest Gébler. He tells the enthralling story of his father’s life\, covering his strange and alienated childhood\, his disastrous family relationships\, his marriage to writer Edna O’Brien\, his staunch socialism and uncompromising disciplinary attitude\, and his final heartbreaking struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.  \nSpeaker:\n\nCarlo Gébler was born Dublin in 1954\, the eldest son of writer parents\, Ernest Gébler and Edna O’Brien. He was educated at Bedales School\, the University of York\, where he studied English\, and the National Film & Television School. He has a PhD from Queen’s University\, Belfast. He started his career in television and made a number of documentary films for Channel 4 and others. Gébler is also the author of novels\, short stories and radio dramas. As well as his film-making and literary work\, Gébler has also worked as a teacher and academic. In the early nineties he was the creative writing tutor at the Maze prison and since 1997 he has been the writer-in-residence in HMP Maghaberry. Gébler has taught at Queen’s University Belfast and has contributed to the creative writing programme at the Oscar Wilde Centre\, Trinity College Dublin\, for many years and currently teaches the ‘Writing for a Living’ course there. He was elected  a member of the Aosdána in 1990. He is a past chairman of the Irish Writers’ Centre. He is married with five children and currently resides outside Enniskillen\, Co Fermanagh\, Northern Ireland.\nSpread the word:
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/carlo-gebler-24-april/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:biography,book signing,interview,novel,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170327T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170327T210000
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SUMMARY:Mícheál Mac Craith - 27 March
DESCRIPTION:Professor Mícheál Mac Craith will deliver the 2017 joint Irish Texts Society / Irish Literary Society Noel O’Connell Lecture on the subject of ‘Robin Flower and Irish Love Poetry’. \nPresented in association with the Irish Texts Society:\n\n\nSpeaker:\n\nMícheál Mac Craith\nMícheál Mac Craith is a Franciscan priest who was Professor of Modern Irish at the National University of Ireland\, Galway from 1997 until his retirement in August 2011. He studied in Galway\, Rome and Louvain. His books are Lorg na hIasachta ar na Dánta Grá (1989)\, a study of the foreign influences on Gaelic courtly love poetry\, and Ón Oileán Rúin go Rún an Oileáin (1993)\, a study of the poetry of Máirtín Ó Direáin. He is interested in the Renaissance\, Counter-Reformation literature\, Jacobitism\, Ossianism and contemporary Gaelic literature\, and has published extensively in these areas. In 1997 he was awarded a Visiting Fellowship in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. In 2003 he was Visiting Fellow at St Edmund’s College\, Cambridge\, and Associate Research Fellow at the Department of Anglo-Saxon\, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. In 2008 the Irish Research Council in the Humanities and Social Sciences awarded him a Senior Research Fellowship to investigate the period spent by the exiled earls\, O’Neill and O’Donnell\, in Rome. He is now Guardian at Collegio San Isidoro in Rome.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/micheal-mac-craith-27-march/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Irish language,lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170227T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170227T210000
DTSTAMP:20171123T230615Z
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SUMMARY:Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - 27 Feb
DESCRIPTION:Renowned poet Ní Chuilleanáin is the current Ireland Professor of Poetry\, she was a founding member and editor of the literary journal Cyphers and is one of the major Irish poets of her generation. This is her first visit to the Irish Literary Society and she will be reading from her own work. Ní Chuilleanáin is the Vermeer of contemporary poetry. Her luminous interiors achieve great visual beauty\, but should not be mistaken for exercises in escapism. They are sites where history and the individual brush against each other\, force fields of action and radiant understanding.\nAingeal Clare\, The Guardian\nShe has won numerous awards and in addition to her poetic output has been an innovative and important publisher of other Irish writers and has translated poetry from Irish (most recently Máire Mhac an tSaoi)\, Italian (Maria Attanasio\, Antonella Anedda and several others) and from the Romanian poetry of Ileana Mӑlӑncioiu The Legend of the Walled-Up Wife (2012). With Medbh McGuckian\, Ní Chuilleanáin also co-translated the poems of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill in The Water Horse (2001). \nSpeaker:\n\nEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin\nBorn 1942 in Cork\, she is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College\, Dublin\, where she has taught\, researched and written on Renaissance literature and translation\, since 1966; with her husband Macdara Woods\, the late Leland Bardwell and the late Pearse Hutchinson\, she is a founder and (since 1975) co-editor of the Irish poetry journal Cyphers. Her seventh collection of poetry\, The Sun-Fish\, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Griffin International Prize for poetry in 2010; The Boys of Bluehill was published in 2015 by Gallery Press\, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize\, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Pigott Prize at the Listowel Writers’ Week.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/eilean-ni-chuilleanain-27-feb/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Irish language,lecture,poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170219T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170219T170000
DTSTAMP:20171123T230918Z
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SUMMARY:Cahal Dallat walk - 19 Feb
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday afternoon 19 February the ILS will be making an outing to Bedford Park for a walk led by the poet Cahal Dallat – members will remember Cahal and his accordion from our London Irish Poetic Tradition event back in November 2016. This is a members-only event which takes in the home of the Yeats family and considers\, through visits to the houses of artists\, publishers\, painters\, composers and politicians\, how Bedford Park in the late 19th century allowed Irish culture in London to flourish and grow\, and return something to the society left behind.  \nIts a fascinating experience which provides an insight into how the utopian community at Bedford Park made it possible for artists\, actors\, illustrators\, engravers\, painters\, playwrights and poets to live inexpensively but within easy reach of London’s theatres\, press\, publishers and political centres. The walk is an essential antidote to the ‘lone genius’ illusion as it places Irish artists alongside William Morris and other great figures and shows how their exchanges helped to develop the late-19c progressive agenda that was to become the blueprint for 20th thought: anti-imperialist\, in favour of Irish freedom and Indian independence\, vegetarian\, pacifist\, interested in world religions and cultures\, alternative\, feminist…Happy to play the romantic\, in the end he inhabits a world which is exploratory and unsettledFortnight\, on Cahal's poetry\nThe walk is not for the faint-hearted as we will be out for 2hrs. So\, you’ll need robust shoes\, stamina and probably a brolly. We’ll be finishing up outside a pub and plan to have some space so that we can collapse after and read some relevant texts with a drink. The ILS is subsidising the walk and Cahal is generously donating the fee to the Bedford Park fund for a statue of Yeats. See Cahal’s project here: http://www.cahaldallat.com/yeats \n\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).
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/cahal-dallat-walk/
LOCATION:Turnham Green\, Turnham Green Terrace\, Chiswick\, London\, UK\, W4 1QN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Members only-event,visit,walk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T203000
DTSTAMP:20171123T230959Z
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SUMMARY:Sebastian Barry - 30 Jan
DESCRIPTION:The great Irish writer Sebastian Barry visits the ILS on 30 January to join in conversation with Prof Roy Foster about his new novel Days Without End. \nThe novel continues Barry’s saga of two Irish families\, the Dunnes and the McNultys\, which has spanned several novels and multiple time frames and locations. The Guardian has called the sequence ‘one of the most compelling\, bravura and heart-wrenching fictional projects of recent memory.’A beautiful\, savage\, tender\, searing work of art. Sentence after perfect sentence it grips and does not let go.Donal Ryan\n‘Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending\,\nbut something that would go on for ever\, all rested and stopped in that moment.\nHard to say what I mean by that. You look back at all the endless years when you\nnever had that thought. I am doing that now as I write these words in Tennessee. I\nam thinking of the days without end of my life. And it is not like that now…’ \nAfter signing up for the US army in the 1850s\, aged barely seventeen\, Thomas\nMcNulty and his brother-in-arms\, John Cole\, go on to fight in the Indian wars and\,\nultimately\, the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships themselves\, they find these days to be vivid and filled with wonder\, despite the horrors they both witness and are complicit in. Their lives are further enriched and endangered when a young Indian girl crosses their path\, and the possibility of lasting happiness emerges\, if only they can survive.A violent\, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making [and] the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I’ve come across in years.Kazuo Ishiguro\nMoving from the plains of the West to Tennessee\, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt\, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America’s past\, Days Without End is a novel never to be forgotten. \nSpeakers:\n\nSebastian Barry\nSebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won the Costa Book of the Year award\, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize\, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year\, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels\, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008)\, shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow.\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.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/sebastian-barry-30-jan/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:America,book signing,history,interview,novel,Reading
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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
DTSTAMP:20171123T231416Z
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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:Rattlebag\, Looking West - 31 Oct
DESCRIPTION:Our eclectic Rattlebag forum returns with the novelist Jess Kidd\, poet Kimberly Campanello and academic Clare Walker Gore. Kidd’s brilliantly original debut novel Himself is a gothic detective story set in 1970s Mayo with a cast of ghosts. Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant\, lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an anonymous note suggesting that foul play may have led to his mother’s disappearance\, he sees only one option: to return to the rural Irish village where he was born and find out what really happened twenty-six years ago. … “I love this book. It’s a magic realist murder mystery set in rural Ireland\, in which the dead play as important a part as the living. It’s one of those books that has you smiling as you read\, and that you plan to read again very soon.”. Louis de Bernières\, bestselling author of Corelli’s Mandolin on Himself\nDr Campanello is an Irish-American poet who has produced fine work in Strange Country (Dreadful Press\, 2015) which inhabits the complexity of the sheela-na-gigs – ancient stone carvings of female figures that prominently display the vulva\, which are found on churches\, castles and town walls across Ireland and some of Britain. Campanello will read from Strange Country and present her sonically rich project about the St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam\, MOTHERBABYHOME (zimZalla Avant Objects\, forthcoming in 2016). \nDr Clare Walker Gore of the University of Cambridge discusses The Life of Arthur Macmurrough Kavanagh and what this fascinating biography contributes to our understanding of disabled people in the 19th century. Born at Borris House in County Carlow without hands and feet\, he was an adventurous traveller and a Member of Parliament\, a tiger-hunting landowner whose attempts to resist the rising tide of Irish nationalism were ultimately defeated\, and whose amazing career has been largely forgotten. But how did his first biographer meet the challenge of writing his life? \nOur three panelists will be in conversation with Gavin Clarke. \nSpeakers:\n\nDr Jess Kidd\nJess Kidd has a PhD in Creative Writing from St. Mary’s University in Strawberry Hill and currently teaches Creative Writing to adult learners and undergraduates. Before that she was a support worker specialising in acquired brain injury. She grew up as a part of a large family from Mayo and now lives in London with her daughter. Himself is Jess’ first novel and she is now completing her second\, a contemporary crime novel called Hoarder and a collection of short stories.\n\n\nDr Kimberly Campanello\nKimberly Campanello was born in Elkhart\, Indiana\, and is a dual American and Irish citizen. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. Her poetry publications include Spinning Cities (Wurm Press\, 2011)\, Consent (Doire Press\, 2013)\, and Imagines (New Dublin Press\, 2015). In October 2015\, The Dreadful Press published Strange Country\, Campanello’s full-length collection on the sheela-na-gig stone carvings. ZimZalla will publish MOTHERBABYHOME\, a book of conceptual and visual poetry in 2016. \nDr Clare Walker Gore\nEarly career researcher working on disability in Victorian literature especially novels by Charles Dickens\, Wilkie Collins\, Anthony Trollope and George Eliot\, and the biographies of the period. Particular interests in disability history and women’s writing. PhD from Selwyn College\, Cambridge\, Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College\, Cambridge from October 2016. \nShare this Post
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/rattlebag-looking-west-31-oct/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,interview,lecture,poetry,Reading,research
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160926T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160926T210000
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SUMMARY:Alice Milligan\, 150 - 26 Sept
DESCRIPTION:It is fitting that first event of the ILS 2016-17 125th anniversary season marks the anniversary of one of its earliest members and a central figure in the Irish Cultural Revival. Dr Catherine Morris will reflect on her life and legacy of Alice Milligan on the 150th anniversary of her birth in her talk ‘Transformative Art and the Irish Cultural Revival.’ \nMorris’ book is the first study to explore the life and work of Alice Milligan (1866–­1953). A prolific writer for over six decades\, she published her work in a range of genres (including poetry\, short stories\, novels\, travelogues\, biography\, plays\, journalism\, letters\, and memoirs). From 1891 to the 1940s\, she founded a series of cultural\, feminist\, commemorative and political organizations that put the north on the map of the Irish Cultural Revival and provided a new resonance to Irish visual culture. The biography not only reclaims an unjustly forgotten Irish cultural and political activist during this foundational era in modern Ireland\, but also provides new ways of interpreting the Irish Cultural Revival itself. \n… A profound and moving analysis of one of the greatest inventors of modern Ireland\, this account of Alice Milligan itself displays those qualities of intellectual versatility and imaginative audacity which ennobled her life through its many astonishing phases.Professor Declan Kiberd\nA graphic novel exploring the life of Alice Milligan and her role in the revival of Irish culture during the early 20th century is available to download and view. Developed by Dr Morris and Nerve Centre’s Creative Centenaries project\, in conjunction with Revolve Comics\, the short story charts some of the experiences of Alice Milligan and her work in the preservation of Irish cultures and beliefs: Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival \nSpeaker:\n\nDr Catherine Morris\nCatherine Morris is Liverpool Central Library’s first Writer-in-Residence. Her project\, Intimate Power: Autobiography of a City\, montaging life-writing with photo-essays and community interviews is being made on location at resonant sites across Liverpool. Her monograph\, Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival\, uncovered the forgotten arts practice of one of the founders of modern Ireland. In 2016\, she worked with Nerve Centre in Derry to launch a graphic novel of Milligan’s life as part of the Key Stage 3 National Curriculum for schools in Northern Ireland. Her exhibition Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival at the National Library of Ireland was opened by Fiona Shaw (2010). In 2012\, she gifted her research archive to Omagh Public Library. She was curatorial advisor on the Irish Museum of Modern Art exhibition El Lissitzky: the Artists and the State; is co-founder of the Artist Centre for Human Rights\, co-editor of The Cassandra Echo & an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/alice-milligan-150-26-sept/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,lecture,Reading,research
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SUMMARY:Annual General Meeting - 27 June
DESCRIPTION:ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING\, 27 June 2016\nAGENDA\n1. Apologies\n2. Minutes from 2015 AGM\n3. Matters Arising\n4. Chairman’s Report\n5. Honorary Secretary’s Report\n6. Treasurer’s Report\n7. Membership Secretary’s Report\n8. Election of the Officers & Committee for the ILS Season 2016-17\n9. Appointment of Honorary Auditors\n10. Plans for 2016-17\n11. AOB \nMembers are invited to propose candidates for the election of Officers and Committee members for the ILS Season 2016-17. 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 10 June (download the form below for more details). \nThe present Officers and Committee members are retiring but 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. \nNOTICE AND AGENDA\nAGM-ILS_2016_Notice
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Members only-event
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SUMMARY:ITS / ILS 2016 lecture - 23 May
DESCRIPTION:Dr Elizabeth Boyle\, Head of Department of Early Irish\, Maynooth University\, will deliver the 2016 joint Irish Texts Society / Irish Literary Society Noel O’Connell Lecture. \nWhitley Stokes (1830-1909) was a major figure in the history of Celtic Studies. He was a prolific editor and translator of medieval literature\, particularly that of Ireland\, and has had a lasting impact on the way that medieval Irish literature has been read and understood\, not only by scholars but by the wider reading public. However\, Stokes was not an academic: he was a lawyer who spent twenty years as a colonial jurist in India\, and later published his major work on  Anglo-Indian law. Attendance is free for members of the ILS and for members of the Irish Texts Society\, for non-members tickets for £5 are available at the foot of this page and at the door on the night. \nShe [Dr Boyle] has unearthed a wealth of correspondence that casts very interesting light on his circle …Dáibhí Ó Cróinín on Dr Boyle's work on Stokes.Before his departure for India\, he was a member of the social circle of the Pre-Raphaelites\, and his writings (both published and unpublished) offer insights into their literary world. He was a close friend of the Irish poets William Allingham and Samuel Ferguson and of the artist F. W. Burton. Dr Boyle will examine these two aspects of Stokes’s life – his academic contribution to the field of Celtic Studies\, and his social worlds in Dublin\, India and London – in order to situate nineteenth-century Celtic Studies within its wider literary and cultural context. \nPresented in association with the Irish Texts Society:\n\n\n\nSpeaker:\n\nDr Elizabeth Boyle\nAfter studying Celtic languages\, literature and history at the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge\, Dr Boyle was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Cambridge (2009-12) and then a Marie Curie Fellow at University College Cork (2012-13). Appointed as Lecturer in Early Irish at Maynooth in September 2013 she became Head of Subject in September 2015. Her research interests include the religious and intellectual culture of medieval Britain and Ireland; medieval theology and philosophy; education in medieval Ireland; the relationship between Latin and the vernaculars in medieval Britain and Ireland; the influence of the Bible on medieval narrative; the history of scholarship.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/its-ils-2016-lecture-whitley-stokes/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:lecture
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SUMMARY:Bernard MacLaverty - 25 April
DESCRIPTION:The annual ILS / St Mary’s University\, Centre for Irish Studies lecture will this year feature the great Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty in conversation with Dr Richard Mills. \nMacLaverty is the author of the novels Lamb (1980); Cal (1983); Grace Notes (1997); and The Anatomy School (2001)\, set in Belfast in the late 1960s. Both Lamb and Cal have been made into major films for which he wrote the screenplays\, and he has written various versions of his fiction for radio\, television and screen. Grace Notes was awarded the 1997 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award and shortlisted for many other major prizes\, including the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award. \nHis books of short stories are Secrets & Other Stories (1977); A Time to Dance & Other Stories (1982); The Great Profundo & Other Stories (1987); Walking the Dog & Other Stories (1994)\, Matters of Life & Death (2006) and most recently published his Collected Stories (2013). He has also written 2 books for young children: A Man in Search of a Pet (1978)\, which he also illustrated; and Andrew McAndrew (1988). \nIn 2003\, he wrote and directed a short film\, Bye-Child\, after a poem by Seamus Heaney\, which was nominated for a BAFTA (Best Short Film Award) and won a BAFTA Scotland (Best First Director Award).\nMacLaverty’s work is in a line from Chekhov\, via Frank O’Connor. He relates the kind of incidents you might hear from someone at a bus-stop or in bed: a house is burgled\, a woman is raped\, a neighbour’s bad parking is not what it seems. Whatever happens is both real and enriched by the telling of it\, and MacLaverty makes this look like a natural and obvious thing to do. It is not\, of course. Fans will recognise him in the details – the finer cuts of colloquial speech\, his microscopic eye and an ear for noises off. All of this anchored in personality; the distinctiveness of people being one of his great delights. Anne Enright\nPresented in association with the Centre for Irish Studies\, St Mary’s University\, Twickenham:\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\nBernard MacLaverty\nBernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast in 1942\, and moved to Scotland in 1975\, where he lived in Edinburgh\, on the Isle of Islay\, and now in Glasgow. He has been a Medical Laboratory Technician\, a mature student\, a teacher of English and occasionally a Writer-in-Residence (Universities of Aberdeen\, Augsburg\, Liverpool John Moore’s and Iowa State). After living for a time in Edinburgh and the Isle of Islay he now lives in Glasgow. He is a member of Aosdana in Ireland. \n\nDr Richard Mills\nRichard’s research interests are in Irish Literature and Popular Culture. Since 2002\, he has been a lecturer in Irish Studies\, Film\, Popular Culture\, English and Creative Writing at St Mary’s University. Mills’ recent publications include “‘That Orange and Green Dilemma’: Violence and the Traumatised Subject in Bernard MacLaverty’s Screenplays of Cal (1983) and Lamb (1985).” Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings Richard Russell Rankin (ed.)\, (Bloomsbury: 2014). Forthcoming is ‘The Beatles Through Fans’ Eyes’\, Understanding the Beatles Volume 2: Creativity\, Reception\, Interpretation\, Marcus Collins and James McGrath (eds)\, (Equinox: 2016).
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/bernard-maclaverty-25-april/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,lecture,Reading,short story
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SUMMARY:The Stinging Fly - 21 March
DESCRIPTION:The ILS comes together with The Stinging Fly literary magazine to reflect on the literary legacy of 1916. The bumper anniversary edition\, subtitled ‘In the Wake of the Rising’\, brings together 43 writers to respond to the literature and events of the 1916 Rising. Readings by contributors: Martina Evans\, Aisling Fahy\, Grahame Williams\, and Joan Win Brennan will accompany a discussion between the ILS Hon. Secretary\, Gavin Clarke\, with publisher Declan Meade and guest editor Sean O’Reilly.  \n… [I]n today’s tough market\, where literary fiction is no longer the cornerstone of the publishing business\, no longer the prestige flagship of any respectable publishing firm\, the influence of the literary magazine is arguably no longer what it once was. However\, in Ireland\, one small but beautifully formed magazine is bucking that trend\, launching the careers of literary talents\, nurturing them with care and even publishing their work in book form. How\, exactly\, does The Stinging Fly do it?”Alison Walsh\, The Sunday Independent\nSean O’Reilly on editing the special edition:\n\n‘There are many reasons behind the publication of this special edition of The Stinging Fly in the centenary year of the Easter Rising. Perhaps the most important one\, I would say\, is that any literary magazine\, whether it likes it or not\, is a product of the times in which it is made. Hopefully\, it is also an inspirational and critical response to those times. The issue would open up an alternative space for writers to re-read and respond to the events of that Easter Monday\, the background and the legacy\, and to the Proclamation itself\, a founding document of the Republic\, outside of the official events and memorials planned by the government of the day—which\, as I write\, is preparing to go to the people again. The writers were free to respond to this material in whatever way they wanted\, in any shape or form.’\n\nThe ‘In the Wake of the Rising’ issue will feature on The Book on One on RTÉ Radio One during the week March 21st to March 25th.\n\nContributors:\n The Stinging Fly magazine was established in 1997 to seek out\, publish and promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Three issues are published each year. The Stinging Fly Press operates in tandem with the magazine and has published debut short-story collections by Kevin Barry\, Michael J. Farrell\, Mary Costello\, Colin Barrett\, Claire-Louise Bennett and Danielle McLaughlin.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/the-stinging-fly-in-the-wake-of-the-rising/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,interview,lecture,poetry,Reading,short story
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160317T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160317T160000
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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:The Long Gaze Back - 29 February
DESCRIPTION:Sinéad Gleeson and Lucy Caldwell discuss the new anthology of Irish women’s short stories\, The Long Gaze Back. The title comes from a line in The Visitor by Maeve Brennan\, whose story The Eldest Child in included in the collection. \n‘Gleeson directs her gaze back like a literary archaeologist who has excavated the archives and unearthed treasures for the short story lover’s delight.’ Ann O’NeillThe Long Gaze Back is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers Ireland has ever produced. Taken together\, the collected works of these writers reveal an enrapturing\, unnerving\, and piercingly beautiful mosaic of a lively literary landscape. Spanning four centuries\, The Long Gaze Back features eight rare stories from deceased luminaries and forerunners\, and 22 new unpublished stories by some of the most talented Irish women writers working today. The anthology presents an inclusive and celebratory portrait of the high calibre of contemporary literature in Ireland. \nThese stories run the gamut from heartbreaking to humorous\, but each leaves a lasting impression. They chart the passions\, obligations\, trials and tribulations of a variety of vividly-drawn characters with unflinching honesty and relentless compassion.\n  \nSpeakers:\n\nSinéad Gleeson\nSinéad Gleeson is a broadcaster\, critic and writer who presents The Book Show on RTE Radio 1. She reviews books for The Irish Times and RTE Radio One’s arts show\, Arena. As a moderator at literary festivals\, Sinéad has interviewed many writers and artists\, including Martin Amis\, Edna O’Brien\, Ian McEwan\, Donna Tartt and Brian Eno. She is the editor of two short story anthologies\, Silver Threads of Hope\, and most recently The Long Gaze Back: an Anthology of Irish Women Writers\, which won Best Irish Published Book at the 2015 Irish Book Awards. She is currently editing another anthology for New Island Books\, which will be published in Autumn 2016. \n\nLucy Caldwell\nBorn in Belfast in 1981\, Lucy Caldwell read English at Queens’ College\, Cambridge and is a graduate of Goldsmith’s MA in Creative & Life Writing. She is the author the novels Where They Were Missed (2006) and The Meeting Point (2011)\, which featured on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime and was awarded the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her stage plays\, Leaves\, Guardians\, and Notes to Future Self\, and radio dramas\, Girl From Mars\, Avenues of Eternal Peace\, Witch Week\, have won awards including the George Devine Award and the Imison Award. In 2011 she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her body of work to date. Her debut collection of short stories\, Multitudes\, will be published by Faber in May 2016.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/the-long-gaze-back/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,Reading,short story
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SUMMARY:Ireland 1916: Death of a Literary Revival? - 26 Jan
DESCRIPTION:The Irish Literary Society in association with the Irish Studies Centre\, London Metropolitan University\, present a reflection on the Irish Literary Revival (1891-1922).\n\nIrish artists representing various literary forms will join academics in discussion on the artistic legacy of the Revival. The playwright Marina Carr\, poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and novelist Jennifer Johnston will discuss the influence of the Revival on their work and the place of the artist in Ireland after independence. Prof Declan Kiberd\, Dr PJ Mathews of University College Dublin (joint editors of the recent Handbook of the Irish Revival) will present a literary and historical overview of the period. Dr Tony Murray\, Director of the Irish Studies Centre\, will chair the evening. Members must  reserve tickets via the ILS Honorary Secretary (irishlitsoc@gmail.com)\, non-members can purchase tickets via the link below.\n[envira-gallery id=”7761″]\n\n\nfilming at the ILS Revival event with a capacity audience.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nMarina Carr\nOne of Ireland’s most celebrated playwrights whose poetic tragedies often reinterpret ancient myth and address violence and the place of women in Irish life. Across her great Midlands-set plays Carr creates a timeless version of Ireland\, replete with ghosts\, ill-fated women and tragic families. Throughout her work Carr’s engagement with myth and folktale can be read as a richly imaginative reflection on the development of Irish cultural identity.\n\n\nNuala Ní Dhomhnaill\nNí Dhomhnaill is one of the most prominent poets writing in the Irish language today. Her work has reflected profoundly on the tradition shaped by the Revival. From Gaelic myths she has recovered models of powerful Irish women\, including goddesses and queens. Of her work Bernard O’Donoghue\, ILS President\, has written “Her mixture of myth\, linguistic adeptness and feminine address are held together by an outstanding metaphorical force.”\n\nJennifer Johnston\nOne of Ireland’s great writers\, a Whitbread and Booker prize winner\, Johnston has produced brilliant work on the period of 1916-22 in Ireland and on the Great War\, often as a means of examining contemporary Irish life. The Old Jest (1979) and Fool’s Sanctuary (1987) are key works which describe how the War of Independence shattered families and opened class\, gender and religious divides.\n\n\nProfessor Declan Kiberd\nA leading international authority on the literature of Ireland\, both in English and Irish\, Kiberd has authored scores of articles and many books\, including Synge and the Irish Language; Men and Feminism in Irish Literature; Inventing Ireland; and most recently (with P.J. Mathews) Handbook of the Irish Revival: An Anthology of Political and Cultural Writings 1891-1922 (Abbey Theatre Press\, 2015). He is a regular essayist and reviewer in the Irish Times\, TLS\, London Review of Books and the New York Times.\n\n\nDr PJ Matthews\nSenior Lecturer in the Department of English at University College Dublin\, Matthews’ research interests include: the literature and culture of the Irish Revival\, especially the work of J.M. Synge; twentieth century Irish writing; contemporary Irish theatre\, and Irish music. Publications include The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge; Revival: The Abbey Theatre; Sinn Féin\, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement; and most recently (with Declan Kiberd) Handbook of the Irish Revival: An Anthology of Political and Cultural Writings 1891-1922 (Abbey Theatre Press\, 2015). He is also co-convenor of the Irish Studies Doctoral Research Network.\n\n\nDr Tony Murray\nDirector of the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan University\, Murray’s research is in literary and cultural representations of the Irish diaspora with a particular focus on the Irish in Britain. He is responsible for the Archive of the Irish in Britain and especially interested in the role of narrative in the construction and mediation of migrant identities. Publications include London Irish Fictions: Narrative Diaspora and Identity (2012) and Winifred M. Patton and the Irish Revival in London (2014).\nThis event is presented in association with:\nLondon Metropolitan University\, home of the Irish Studies Centre \n\nThe ILS is supported by:
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/ireland-1916-death-of-a-literary-revival/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,lecture,poetry,Reading
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