Latest Past Events

Christmas by Candlelight – Irish Heritage event

St George Hanover Square The Vestry, 2A Mill Street, London

Christmas by Candlelight Our friends at Irish Heritage are producing a concert to celebrate Christmas at the beautiful Parish Church of St George, Hanover Square, Mayfair. Featuring the ILS's own Nora Connolly as a reader alongside Sir Terry Wogan and music from Hamish Dustagheer (Organist), the London Irish Pensioners Choir and a Soprano (TBA), we expect it will prove a ...

Raymond Queneau and Dublin 1916 – October 2015

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

A late addition to the programme to replace the cancelled John Banville appearance we welcome Dr Dennis Duncan to the Society to discuss Raymond Queneau's 1947 short novel On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes (We Always Treat Women Too Well ) set during the Easter Rising in 1916. The novel was first published as a purported work of ...

Órfhlaith Foyle – 28 Sept

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

The 2015-16 season of ILS events kicks-off with the wonderful Órfhlaith Foyle reading from her short story collection Clemency Browne Dreams of Gin, her poetry and her new novel. Órfhlaith Foyle’s strange stories of violence and yearning beguile the reader even as they disconcert. She is a true original, a writer of great gifts, and I find her work immensely ...