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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
