
The Fund for Irish Studies (Princeton) are running the following lectures online, free and open to the public. Full schedule and event details can be found here. Lectures begin at 4:30pm (ET), 7:30am the following day (AEDT). Please note recordings will not be available for these events.
September 17 Irish novelist, dramatist, and screenwriter Roddy Doyle joins in conversation with scholar and critic Fintan O’Toole. Professor Paul Muldoon opens the virtual event with an introduction. Details… |
October 1 Authors Máire ní Mhaonaigh and Sharon Arbuthnot present on “A History of Ireland in 100 (and More) Words,” with an introduction by Professor Paul Muldoon, as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. Details… |
October 29 Scholar and author Nicholas Allen lectures on “Seamus Heaney’s Late Poems” as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. Details… |
November 5 Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, presents “Irish Reunification: Prospects & Feasible Models,” a lecture drawn from his current book-in-progress on questions and issues surrounding the idea of a unification of the island of Ireland. Introduced by Fintan O’Toole. Details… |
December 3 Cian T. McMahon, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Honors College at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, lectures on “The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Famine” with introduction by Paul Muldoon as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. Details… |