The National Library of is delighted to announce that it has acquired the papers of Colm Tóibín, novelist, journalist, and one of Irelandʼs most internationally acclaimed contemporary writers.

The archive comprises an extensive corpus of materials ranging from manuscripts, typescripts and correspondence to materials relating to his five novels The South, The Heather Blazing, The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and The Master; his first play Beauty in a Broken Place; his three travel books Homage to Barcelona, Dubliners, and Walking Along the Border; his short story A Priest in the Family, and his non-fiction works The Sign of the Cross:

Travels in Catholic Europe, The Trial of the Photograph: Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times Irish Kavanagh/The Matt Photograph: Generals, Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush, and Colm Tóibín Henry James and Ireland.

It also comprises files of correspondence from his publishers, agents and readers, as well as correspondence from fellow writers, including letters from John McGahern, and Paul

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Number 23: Spring 2006 Additional items include a substantial and significant number of reviews by and about Tóibínʼs work; video recordings; a large number of invitations, posters, exhibition catalogues, theatre programmes; copies of studentsʼ theses on some of his novels.

When catalogued, this archive will be an invaluable source for researchers and others interested in Irish writing in the latter decades of 20th century and the early years of the 21st century.

Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford in 1955 and was educated at University College Dublin where he studied History and English. After graduating in 1975, he lived and taught in Barcelona. On his return to Ireland in 1978, he began writing for In Dublin, Hibernia, and the Sunday Tribune, later becoming Features Editor of In Dublin and Editor of Magill. His first novel, The South was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1990 and won The Irish Times Prize for First Book in 1991. Since then, he has received numerous major prizes for his four subsequent novels and for one of his travel books.

As well as being a prolific novelist, non-fiction writer and regular contributor to various newspapers and magazines, Toíbín has edited several anthologies. Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann

He was awarded the EM Forster Award in 1995 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2002 National Library of Ireland he became a Fellow at the Centre for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He is a member of Aosdána. NUACHT National Library Events

Public acclaim for ‘Library Late’ series ‘Tonight with Vincent Browne’

ʻLibrary Lateʼ is a new series of public interviews with critically show celebrates the Library acclaimed writers. The interviews, which take place each month in On 12 January, RTÉ broadcast a special edition of ʻTonight the Libraryʼs Seminar Room, have proved enormously successful, with Vincent Browneʼ from the Libraryʼs Seminar Room. Among attracting significant media coverage and generating hundreds of the guests who took part in the one-hour programme were calls from members of the public wishing to book tickets for upcoming former Taoiseach, Dr Garret FitzGerald; historian, Dr Margaret events. MacCurtain; genealogist and Library board member, Máire Mac Conghail and the writers Colm Tóibín and Anthony Cronin. The featured writers for the November and January events were Other contributors included Professor Kevin Whelan, Smurfit Chair, John Banville and Patrick McCabe; they were interviewed by Irish Keough-Notre Dame Centre for Irish Studies; Felix Larkin of the Times journalist Fintan OʼToole. The December event featured Edna National Library of Ireland Society, and Terri Garvey, Presenter of OʼBrien, who was interviewed by RTÉ broadcaster and producer, Kay the RTÉ series The Family Tree. Among the Library staff members Sheehy. who participated in the programme were Aongus Ó hAonghusa, Director; Dr Eilis Ní Dhuibhne, Assistant Keeper; Gerard Lyne, Keeper of Manuscripts. Entertainment was provided by classical music pianist Úna Hunt and by cabaret artist Karen Egan.

Pictured at the inaugural event in the series were Aongus Ó hAonghusa, Director, National Library of Ireland; John Banville and Fintan O’Toole. Pictured at the reception held in the Joly Café on the evening of the broadcast were Dr Garret FitzGerald, Tony Cronin, Aongus Ó hAonghusa and Vincent Browne.

Dr Margaret MacCurtain and Máire Mac Conghail photographed just before the programme went on air.

Edna O’Brien answering questions from a member of the audience at the December Details of new Yeats exhibition announced ‘Library Late’. On 11 January, Michael Yeats, son of William Butler Yeats, and his wife Gráinne and family presented a selection of precious family treasures to the Library for inclusion in the exhibition entitled Yeats: the life and works of William Butler Yeats.

Patrick McCabe’s book Breakfast on Pluto, which was published in 1998, has now been turned into a hugely popular film. Patrick McCabe is photographed here with Neil Jordan who directed the film, and by Stephen Rea who played one of the lead roles; they joined other members of the public on 16 January to hear Fintan O’Toole interview Michael Yeats is photographed here beside one of the posters of WB Yeats, Patrick McCabe. which is being used to promote the forthcoming exhibition. Fergus Gillespie Appointment of Chief Herald of Ireland and establishment of Committee on Genealogy and Heraldry

Under the power granted to it under section 13(2) of the National Cultural Institutions Act, 1997, the Board of the National Library of Ireland has appointed Fergus Gillespie as the member of the Libraryʼs staff designated to perform the duty of researching, granting and confirming coats of arms using the appellation Chief Herald of Ireland.

The Board also established the Committee on Genealogy and Heraldry as provided for in section 13(4)(a) of the National Cultural Institutions Act, 1997.

The Committee is chaired by Patrick Clyne, a Coat of arms, of Buncrana, Co Donegal member of the Library Board. Three other Board members have been appointed to serve on the Committee: they are Brendan O Donoghue, Máire Mac Conghail and Niall MacMonagle. Coat of arms of the Adelaide & Other Committee members include Dr Susan Meath Hospital, Dublin Hood, Dr Ciara Breathnach, Paul Gorry and Incorporating the National Shane English. Children’s Hospital

The Director of the Library Aongus Ó hAonghusa and the He has published widely on genealogy and heraldry (including Chief Herald, Fergus Gillespie are ex officio members of the the early Gaelic genealogies and early Ireland in general), and he Committee. has lectured on these topics in a number of countries including Australia, Spain, Scotland, Canada and the United States. One of his Fergus Gillespie is Keeper in the Libraryʼs Genealogical Office. particular areas of interest is the Milesian origin legend – the myth He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Heraldry and Genealogy of the descent of the Irish from Milesius of Spain, which was of such of Madrid, and a Fellow of the Genealogical Society of Argentina. advantage to Irish exiles in Spain in the 17th and 18th centuries, and He is vice-president of the Society of Genealogists in England, and which appears to have its origins in the close links between Ireland he was recently invited to become a vice-president of the Heraldry and Visigothic Spain in the 7th century. Society of the UK and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. The duties of the Office of Chief Herald of Ireland are researching, granting and confirming Coats of Arms. He is a graduate of University College Dublin, from which he holds an MA in Celtic Studies; he has also taught both Old Irish and The Office grants arms to individuals as well as corporate bodies and Modern Irish at University College Dublin. civic authorities. William Steuart Trench and the Lansdowne Estate

The distinguished film producer, Seán Ó Mórdha, has frequently story of the Lansdowne tenants as a microcosm of the national story. drawn on the collections of the National Library for his award-winning It links Famine poverty and oppression with todayʼs Celtic Tiger television documentaries. It was in the Library that he first became generation, juxtaposing newspaper reports, documentary evidence acquainted with Gerard Lyne, the Libraryʼs Keeper of Manuscripts and and photographs (some from as early as the 1850s) with recent author of The Lansdowne Estate in Kerry under the agency of William interviews with historians, local farmers, auctioneers and business Steuart Trench, 1849-72. He saw that the book, which had won the people – thereby generating a huge contemporary resonance. 2001 NUI award for Best Historical Research, had film potential. William Steuart Trenchʼs employers were the Marquesses of Three years after its publication he embarked on making the Lansdowne, who belonged to the ancient Cambro-Norman family of documentary entitled Land is gold: Kenmare and the Lansdowne the Fitzmaurices, Lords of Kerry. Their seat from around 1200 was at Estate in Kerry; it was broadcast on RTÉ 1 in November 2005. Lixnaw near . On foot of a marriage with the daughter of the Cromwellian, Sir William Petty, they inherited around 1750 the latterʼs The documentary, which largely focuses on some of the notorious extensive estate in the neighbourhood of Kenmare in south Kerry. activities of William Steuart Trench, manager of the 96,000-acre They subsequently purchased a great estate at Bowood in Wiltshire, Lansdowne Estate, much of it near the town of Kenmare, views the where they took up permanent residence. Trenchʼs employers

Mrs Victoria O’Shea, née Roberts, workhouse Lansdowne Lodge, Kenmare, residence of the estate’s Lodging house in the notorious Five Points matron in Kenmare during the Famine. agent, William Steuart Trench. district of New York, run by an emigrant from the Lansdowne Estate in Kerry, Mrs Sandy Sullivan.

William Steuart Trench agus Eastát Lansdowne

Is minic a dʼúsáid an léiritheoir scannáin mór le rá, Seán Ó Mórdha, náisiúnta. Nascann an clár bochtanas agus leatrom an Ghorta Mhóir bailiúcháin na Leabharlainne Náisiúnta mar fhoinse dá chláir fhaisnéise le glúin Thíogar Ceilteach an lae inniu, ag cur tuairiscí nuachtáin, teilifíse a bhfuil duaiseanna buaite acu. Ba sa Leabharlann a chuir sé fianaise cháipéiseach agus grianghraif (cuid díobh ó na 1850idí) le hais aithne ar Gerard Lyne, Coimeádaí Lámhscríbhinní na Leabharlainne agallaimh a rinneadh le déanaí le feirmeoirí as an áit, le ceanntálaithe agus údar The Lansdowne Estate in Kerry under the agency of William agus le daoine gnó – ag léiriú baint faoi leith leis an saol atá anois Steuart Trench, 1849-72. ann.

Thuig Ó Mórdha go bhféadfaí scannán a dhéanamh as an leabhar, a Ba iad Marcais Lansdowne, de shliocht mhuintir ársa Cambro- bhuaigh duais NUI 2001 don Taighde Stairiúil is Fearr. Trí bliana tar éis Normannach, muintir Fitzmaurice, Tiarnaí Chiarraí, na fostóirí a bhí fhoilsiú an leabhair thug sé faoi chlár faisnéise a dhéanamh dár teideal ag William Steuart Trench. Bhí siad lonnaithe i Leic Snámha, gar do Land is gold: Kenmare and the Lansdowne Estate in Kerry; craoladh é Lios Tuathail ó thart ar 1200. Nuair a phós duine den teaghlach iníon ar RTÉ 1 i mí na Samhna 2005. de lucht leanúna Chromail, Sir William Petty, fuair siad mar oidhreacht eastát fairsing Petty i dtimpeallacht Neidín i ndeisceart Chiarraí, thart Díríonn an clár faisnéise cuid mhaith ar ghníomhaíochtaí mí- ar 1750. Ina dhiaidh sin cheannaigh siad eastát mór ag Bowood in ámharacha William Steuart Trench, bainisteoir eastát Lansdowne, a Wiltshire, áit ar chónaigh siad go lánaimseartha. I measc fhostóirí raibh go leor dá 96,000 acra gar do bhaile Neidín. Breathnaíonn an Trench bhí an tríú Marcas, Fuig aitheanta agus a gharmhac, an cúigiú clár ar scéal thionóntaí Lansdowne mar mhicreacosma den scéal included the third marquess, a prominent Whig, and his grandson, For the tenants who remained in Kerry Trench devised a code of rules the fifth marquess, who became Viceroy of India and head of the designed to prevent further destitution through restricting population British Foreign Office. growth and attendant subdivision of holdings. Tenants who married without his permission were evicted; even the exercise of ordinary Trenchʼs management of the estate was marked by many controversial hospitality by tenants was forbidden, ostensibly to prevent vagrancy. episodes. These included, in particular, his scheme of assisted Fines were imposed for a variety of offences, including trespass, emigration to the United States and Canada. Designed to remove damage to woods and lack of punctuality in payment of rents. destitute tenants who were a burden on the rates, and therefore threatened to bankrupt solvent tenants, his scheme saw more than Although the extent of Trenchʼs oppression has been exaggerated, 3,000 men, women and children shipped from Cork city during the some instances of shocking inhumanity on his part have been eighteen months from December 1851 to February 1852, many documented. On the other hand, his schemes of road construction and under very harsh conditions. In all, during the period of his agency, afforestation conferred lasting local benefits, while his reconstruction he dispatched a total of 4,600 people to America. A large number of of Kenmare town and the development of Derreen Gardens laid the these settled in and around the notorious Five Points district of New foundation for todayʼs hugely successful local tourist industry. York. However, despite having to endure appalling living conditions most appear to have survived and some even prospered.

The notorious Five Points district of New York, Henry Petty Fitzmaurice (1783-1860) who paid to have William Steuart Trench (1808-72) as an elderly man. where many emigrants from the Lansdowne his destitute Kerry tenants shipped to America. Estate in Kerry settled during the 1950s. (Reproduced with the kind permission of the Museum of the City of New York.)

Marcas, a bhí ina Fhear Ionaid an Rí san India agus ina cheann ar Maidir leis na tionóntaí a dʼfhan i gCiarraí chum Trench cód rialacha Oifig Gnóthaí Eachtracha na Breataine. a bhí leagtha síos chun breis bochtanais a chosc trí shrian a chur ar fhás an daonra agus ar roinnt na ngabháltas a tharla dá bharr. Tharla go leor eachtraí conspóideacha agus Trench ina bhainisteoir Díshealbhaíodh tionóntaí a phós gan cead uaidh; cuireadh cosc ar an eastát. Ina measc sin bhí an scéim imirce faoi chúnamh go freisin ar ghnáth-fhlaithiúlacht idir tionóntaí, le stop a chur le daoine Meiriceá agus Ceanada a thosaigh sé. Bhí an scéim leagtha amach a bheith ag fánaíocht a dúradh. Cuireadh fíneálacha ar dhaoine as chun fáil réidh le tionóntaí fíor bhochta a bhí mar ualach ar na rátaí cionta éagsúla, lenar áiríodh foghail, damáiste do choillte agus a bheith agus a bhí mar bhagairt féimheachta ar thionóntaí a raibh airgead deireanach ag íoc an chíosa. acu. Faoin scéim cuireadh os cionn 3,000 duine, idir fhir, mhná agus leanaí, ar longa ó chathair Chorcaí i rith na n-ocht mí dhéag ó Mhí Cé go ndearnadh áibhéil faoin méid leatroim a rinne Trench, tá roinnt na Nollag 1851 go dtí Mí Feabhra 1852, agus droch-chaoi ar chuid fianaise sna cáipéisí faoi eachtraí mídhaonnacha uafásacha a rinne mhaith acu. Chuir sé ar an iomlán 4,600 duine go Meiriceá. Chuir sé. Ar an taobh eile, rinne sé leas don áit go fadtéarmach lena chuid cuid mhór acu sin fúthu sa cheantar iomráiteach Five Points i Nua scéimeanna tógála bóthair agus athchoilltithe, agus bhí an atógáil ar Eabhrac. Ainneoin na gcoinníollacha uafásacha maireachtála a bhí bhaile Neidín agus an fhorbairt ar Ghairdíní an Doirín mar bhonn don rompu, tá an chuma ar an scéal gur mhair formhór acu agus fiú tionscal turasóireachta a bhfuil ag éirí chomh maith sin leis sa lá atá amháin gur éirigh go maith le cuid acu. inniu ann. Beckett in his room at the Hyde Park Hotel, London in 1980. Photographs reproduced with the kind permission of John Minihan Centenary Shadows – photographs of by John Minihan

Beckett photographed on the Boulevard St Jacques, Paris in 1985.

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 but was to spend most of The exhibition will feature some 40 photographs, including many his adult life in Paris. One of the few experimental writers to become portraits of Beckett, taken by the Irish photographer John Minihan, very well-known, his short stories, novels and plays had established who first met Beckett in 1980. Their friendship led to the creation his reputation as the greatest absurdist writer of the twentieth century of some of the most remarkable and iconic photographic images of by the time he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1969. His best-known the writer. work – the hugely influential drama En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) – was first performed in Paris in 1953. Minihanʼs portraits of Beckett are world famous; their significance is further heightened by their relative rarity – the writer was a During the coming months, cultural institutions in many countries reluctant subject and rarely posed for photographers. The images around the world will be hosting events to mark the 100th anniversary on show include the famous portrait of Beckett in Le Petit Café on of Beckettʼs birth on 13 April 1906. the Boulevard Saint Jacques, Paris in December 1985, and a shot of Beckett, satchel across his back, walking away from the camera Here in Ireland, one of the highlights of the centenary celebrations will towards Hammersmith Tube Station, London, in 1984. be a photographic exhibition focused on various aspects of his life and work; it opens at the National Photographic Archive on 29 March. Also featuring in the exhibition are images recorded by Minihan during various productions of Beckettʼs plays, including photographs of Beckett directing Waiting

Samuel Beckett seated in his favourite café, Le Petit Café, Boulevard St Jacques, Paris in 1985.

Samuel Beckett directing Waiting for Godot at the Riverside Studios, London in 1984. Centenary Shadows – photographs of Samuel Beckett by John Minihan

for Godot at the Riverside Studios in London in 1984; Max Wall the first of many accolades. His career, which has spanned 40 years, performing in Krapp's Last Tape at Riverside Studios, London 1987, has been marked by a series of invitations to photograph some of the and Billie Whitelaw in Rockabye, London 1987. worldʼs most famous and most reclusive figures.

John Minihan was born in Athy, County Kildare. His first job at the The forthcoming National Photographic Archive exhibition will age of 15 was as a ʻrunnerʼ in the London Daily Mail taking copy coincide with the publication of his book entitled Centenary Shadows, from specialist writers such as James Cameron and Bernard Levin, a photographic essay of Samuel Beckett. and making tea for sub-editors. At the age of 16, using his first camera, a Yashica-Mat, he began taking amateur shots. One of The exhibition continues until 27 May 2006. his earliest photographs of St Paulʼs Cathedral won him a London Evening Standard prize of five guineas. That 1962 prize win signalled

John Alderton as Estragon, Alex McCowen as Vladamir in , National Theatre, London, 1987. Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

Max Wall performing in in Riverside Studios, London in 1987.

Krapp’s Last Tape

at the Esquire Award, the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award, and the McVities Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. Part of the book was adapted for radio and television as Calling Bible John and won a BAFTA award.

Our Fathers (1999), his first novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; the Whitbread First Novel Award; the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys prize; the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The book tells the story of young Scot Jamie Bawn and a visit to his dying grandfather that leads him to uncover the truth about his familyʼs past.

His essay ʻThe End of British Farmingʼ, originally published in the London Review of Books, was published as a short book in 2001.

In 2003 he won the EM Forster Award of the American Academy of SCOTTISH WRITER ANDREW Arts and Letters. Also the same year, he was nominated by Granta O’HAGAN TO FEATURE IN magazine as one of the 20 ʻBest of Young British Novelistsʼ. Personality, his most recent novel, which won the 2003 James Tait 'LIBRARY LATE' SERIES Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) is a rich portrait of an immigrant community in Scotland, and takes as its theme the cult of celebrity – a modern malaise, grounded in insincerity and manipulation. Library Late is a new series of public interviews with critically acclaimed writers. The series, which takes place each month in In an interview with Andrew OʼHagan published in The Independent the Library’s Seminar Room, is designed to stimulate a greater (London) in 2003, the journalist James Urquhart describes how The interest in, and understanding of, contemporary Irish and Missing used OʼHaganʼs childhood experiences in Glasgow and international writing. Interviewees who have already featured Irvine, a new town in Ayrshire, as a springboard for his analysis of how in the series include John Banville, Edna O’Brien, Patrick growing up can go desperately wrong, ending (in extreme cases) in McCabe and Frank McGuiness. murders such as those of Jamie Bulger or Fred Westʼs victims. ʻQuite early onʼ, OʼHagan recalls, ʻa certain kind of moroseness attached On 29 March next, the Scottish essayist, fiction and non-fiction itself to my work, in that what people were often interested in talking writer, Andrew O’Hagan will interviewed by Fintan O’Toole about were those very serious and often deadly subjects. Actually, my of The Irish Times. O’Hagan has received numerous literary attitude to my past has always been quite comic. I came from a big awards in Scotland, England and the USA for his work, and family of boys and we were always tumbling down the stairs. We had a his books have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the rumbustious and somewhat chaotic upbringing, but we came through Whitbread Award, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary it, and what remains is a quite sharp comic sense.” Award amongst others. This comic sense is evident in OʼHaganʼs articles in the London Andrew OʼHagan was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1968 and read Review of Books, which he joined in 1991 and for which he is now a English at the University of Strathclyde. In 1990 he won the The contributing editor. Copies of his articles may be found on the London Glasgow Herald’s writing award. Review’s website www.lrb.co.uk

From the beginning of his writing career, OʼHagan has pushed at the Library Late conventional limits of literary genre, blurring the boundaries between The current series of interviews continues until fiction, memoir, documentary and journalism. June. Interviews take place in the Libraryʼs Seminar Room. The programme for each event includes a complimentary wine and In his acclaimed first book The Missing (1995), a memoir and cheese reception and live music. Admission to all events, which is Library meditation on how easily people can disappear without trace, he free of charge, is by ticket only. For further information, the Late wrote about his own childhood and recounted the stories of parents telephone line is 01-603 0271. whose children had disappeared. The book was shortlisted for the National Library of Ireland Society Dubliners travels to Bulgaria

The National Library of Ireland Society is a voluntary support Dubliners, a unique photographic record of life in the city at the group, which aims “to assist and support the National Library turn of the last century, a period immortalised in the literary works in the maintenance and expansion of its services and the of James Joyce, first opened at the National Photographic Archive improvement and protection of its status as the National Library of in Temple Bar in 2001. Three years later, due to popular demand, Ireland.” It arranges an annual programme of lectures on topics the National Photographic Archive decided to mount a second of Irish interest in a variety of subject areas including history, showing; this exhibition also proved extremely successful, attracting literature and current affairs; it organises an annual outing to record numbers of visitors, including tourists and Joyce aficionados, historic houses and other venues, and it provides an opportunity many of whom had travelled to Dublin to take part in the Bloomsday for interested persons to support the Library at a crucial phase in Centenary celebrations. its development. In March Dubliners travels to the National Art Gallery in Sofia, The final event in the Societyʼs 2005 programme took place on Bulgaria. 14 December when Dr Claudia Kinmonth, art historian, author The exhibition, which is held to mark the recent opening of Irelandʼs and lecturer gave a talk entitled The Narrative of the Painting ʻSt new embassy in Bulgaria, is being organised in conjunction with the Patrickʼs Dayʼ by CH Cook. (Visitors to the Library may view this Department of Foreign Affairs and Irelandʼs Ambassador to Bulgaria, recently restored painting, which hangs near the entrance to the His Excellency Mr Geoffrey Keating. exhibition area.)

The Societyʼs 2006 programme got off to a successful start on 15 February when Dr Deirdre McMahon, historian and lecturer at Mary Immaculate College – University of Limerick gave a lecture entitled An oral history of Irish Catholic missionaries in India.

On 15 March, in a lecture entitled Sadhbh Trinseach: What the National Library notebooks reveal, Dr Hilary Pyle, art historian, author, and curator will talk about Sadhbh Trinseach, the artist and nationalist who took part in the events of Easter Week 1916. (This event is being held to mark the 90th anniversary of the Dublin Studies public lecture series 1916 Rising.) The final module in the Dublin Studies public lecture series The Societyʼs programme for May will feature a screening of Sean commences on 7 March. This module looks at ʻThe imagined cityʼ. O’Casey: Under a Coloured Cap – a film about the playwrightʼs Among the themes addressed are the city in literature, tourism, and life which was made by his daughter, Shivaun OʼCasey. Other the city as depicted in film, as follows: events scheduled for 2006 include lectures by Professor Perry 7 March Joyce and Dublin (Dr Emer Nolan) Curtis, US-based historian and author and Dr Anne Dolan, 14 March Tourism and the City (Dr Irene Furlong) historian and lecturer at . 21 March Photographing Dublin (Dr Kevin Honan) The Societyʼs annual outing will take place in June. 28 March TV, Cinema and the City (Dr Chris Morash) IMPORTANT NOTICES IMPORTANT Details of upcoming Society events may be found on the Library The lectures, which commence at 6.30pm, are held in the Libraryʼs website www.nli.ie. Lectures and other events begin at 7pm and Seminar Room. take place in the Library's Seminar Room. Attention all post-primary school students Membership Rates Ordinary Membership €25 p.a. OAP Membership €15 p.a. YEATS ALOUD Spoken Poetry Competition € Student Membership 10 p.a. To celebrate the life and work of William Butler Yeats, Corporate Membership €1,000 p.a. the National Library of Ireland in association with (by invitation only) Poetry Ireland is organising the YEATS ALOUD Spoken Members of the Society are entitled to a 10% discount in the Joly Poetry Competition for post-primary school students. Café and in the Library shop. The competition is being run to coincide with the major Contacting us exhibition Yeats: the life and works of William Butler Yeats For further information on the NLI Society, please contact: which will open in the National Library of Ireland this The Secretary, NLI Society, National Library of Ireland, Summer. The closing date for receipt of entries is Friday Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Email: [email protected] 10 March 2006. For further information on the competition

National Library of Ireland and to download an entry form see the Poetry Ireland website Address for correspondence: www.poetryireland.ie or the Libraryʼs website: www.nli.ie Sandra McDermott, Hon Secretary, National Library of Ireland Society, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

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