Irish Literary Society
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Established in London in 1892 and meeting since. Founders: Yeats and other leaders of the Literary Revival. Open to all, come along. Tá fáilte roimh chách!
London, Bloomsbury/Hammersmith
Joined August 2011
Looking forward to tonight’s talk at the Hammersmith ICC @MyICCLondon come along 7.30, fascinating subject and this one is free:
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The Annual Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture, a joint venture of the Irish Literary Society and Irish Texts Society will be delivered by Phyllis Gaffney on her recent book Foreign Tongues Victo…
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The annual Noel O’Connell Lecture, jointly organised by the Irish Texts Society and @IrishLitSoc, will be given by Phyllis Gaffney on the topic of: ‘Irish among the languages: late Victorian developments in education’ @MyICCLondon on Thurs, 22 May 2025 at 7.30 p.m.
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Just made a few more tix available for tonight's celebration of Aogán Ó Rathaille down in Hammersmith. Declan Kiberd and Brian O'Connor will speak on the new book of translations, pipe music, a signing... come along 8pm:
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Join us on Friday 24 Jan for our first event of 2025. We are delighted to welcome back Professor Declan Kiberd to the Society to discuss the life and poetry of Aogán Ó Rathaille (c.1670–1729) and t…
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We are heartbroken to hear of the death of Michael Longley, our dear friend of decades and one of the greatest poets Ireland has ever produced. He and SH were the closest of friends, sparring partners, brother poets. Our thoughts with Edna and his family. May he rest in peace.
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While at tonight's ILS event @MyICCLondon we celebrate Aogán Ó Rathaille, the great poet of lament, we lament the passing Michael Longley, a great poet 'of griefs and wonders” in Heaney's description.
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First up for us in 2025 Fri 24 Jan down @MyICCLondon Declan Kiberd reflects on the life and poetry of Aogán Ó Rathaille (c.1670–1729) and we launch a new parallel text translation of the poems by Brian O'Connor. Music, readings, debate..
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Arlen House ‒ Celebrating 50 Years forthcoming March 2025 Nuala O'Connor, Menagerie @NualaNiC "as wild as it gets: a kaleidoscopic collection of beautiful forms and patternings" ‒ Paula Meehan "Washing Windows V" ‒ the largest collection of Irish women's poetry ever compiled
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No plans for Monday night? Now you do - get yer skates on and get down to Hammersmith we have Neil Jordan, one of Ireland’s great filmmakers, in discussion on his memoir. Tonight, 7.30, tix on door / online:
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Neil Jordan is unique in his success both as a fiction writer and a movie maker. In his new memoir Amnesiac he looks back over his twin careers with a certain amused wonderment – how did he m…
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Tonight our event with Martina Devlin on Charlotte Brontë and Ireland at the marvellous Art Workers’ Guild, just off Russell Sq, should be fascinating. Come along: https://t.co/sY2F6J0ebv...
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Getting ready to talk women in history #Charlotte #Brontes #AnneBonny @DublinBookFest @NLIreland with @EmilyH71 and @NualaNiC
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Next up at the ILS we have @DevlinMartina on Charlotte Brontë, historical fiction, the Brontë family and Ireland and her new novel. Come along, the gorgeous Art Workers' Guild 11 Nov:
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Charlotte Brontë, who dazzled the world with some of literature’s most vital and richly-drawn characters, spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love. She eventually found it with Arth…
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This is a lot of fun, just lacking @Expurgamento Camden Hoard . Table Top Museums @ArtWorkersGuild inc new covers for Kevin Barry and Claire Keegan books
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Setting up for tonight’s season opener at the marvellous Bloomsbury Hotel , with Shivaun and Esther O’Casey, daughter and great-granddaughter of Sean to talk about Juno and the Paycock on its centenary. Come along tix on door or still online open’s 7.30
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Season opener for us coming up on Monday 7 October at the marvellous Bloomsbury Hotel, Shivaun O’Casey on Juno and the Paycock in its centenary year, come along: https://t.co/qklrFoh2tq
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Edna’s coffin was borne across the waves in glorious sunshine to her final resting place on Holy Island in Lough Derg. The men working in relays, carried her up & over the brow of the hill down to the ancient graveyard...a plot beside her mother’s people. https://t.co/ISoG6nkzYZ
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A flotilla of lake boats carried mourners to Holy Island, where the ‘brilliant, wild, soaring and indomitable’ Irish writer was laid to rest
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