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Irish Studies Irish Institute Burns Library Bc-Ireland Irish Studies Burns Visiting Scholar, Spring 2017 Semester center for irish programs irish studies irish institute burns library bc-ireland irish studies Burns Visiting Scholar, Spring 2017 Semester published. Finally, in 2015 Barry’s Beatlebone won the Goldsmith’s Prize, which is awarded for work that breaks the mould of fictional conventions. Born in Limerick, Kevin has lived in many places, including Cork, Santa Barbara, Barcelona, and Liverpool. Recent years have, however, seen him settle in Sligo, where he has purchased and renovated a former police station. He is driven by enormous creative energy though he disarmingly refers to himself as a “raving egomaniac.” Barry’s most recent novel Beatlebone imagines John Lennon’s journey to an island he owns in Ireland, his battles with creative block, primal scream therapy, and his new album, the eponymous Beatlebone. “My initial spark of inspiration is always place. I go cycling around where I live in County Sligo and, when I Kevin Barry passed Clew Bay, I remembered that John Lennon owned one of the islands there in the 70s when it was the end of the hippie trail and there were communes The Center for Irish Programs and the Burns everywhere. This gave me a vague idea for this novel: Library welcome the Irish novelist and short story John is looking for his island and can’t find it. Once I writer Kevin Barry as Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish had the voice it came alive.” Studies for the spring 2017 semester. Kevin’s career has been marked by a rapid and popular success that Being an Irish writer has given Kevin Barry the has been validated by the views of critics and fellow resources of tradition. “I love the radical streak— writers and by success in literary awards. In 2007 Beckett and Joyce and Flann O’Brien were happy Barry won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for to go nuts on the page and be inventive. I also love his short story collection There are Little Kingdoms. Beckett’s letters because no matter how bleak you’re Four years later saw the publication of his first feeling, Sam is always feeling worse. There’s so much novel City of Bohane, which won the International writing from this small, wet black rock at the edge of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2013 and has been the Atlantic. I don’t think the fact that we get 300 days described as “flamboyant and malevolent, speaking in of rain is unconnected—it’s the ideal condition for a a vernacular like no other.” The previous year another nation of storytellers. You have to make stuff up or short-story collection, Dark Lies the Island, had been you’d go nuts.” spring 2017 vol. 20 no. 1 1 Irish Studies Spring 2017 Events The Center for Irish Programs at Boston College is pleased to offer a variety of events that are free and open to the public: FEBRUARY THEATRE CONFERENCE ON 9 I MARTIN MCDONAGH’S THE BEAUTY AN EVENING WITH THE EDITORS: A QUEEN OF LEENANE 1 I WINTER PAPERS 2 SHOWCASE AND Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Connolly House Q&A Wednesday, 6-8 p.m., Connolly House The Center for Irish Programs is pleased to present a day of events to celebrate the staging of Galway’s Druid Theatre Company’s production of McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane, with an address by artistic director Garry Hynes, discussion Olivia Smith and Kevin Barry, courtesy of the Irish Examiner with the cast, and talks Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith, editors of Winter on McDonagh and Druid. Papers, will discuss the second volume of Free and open to the public. To register for the Ireland’s annual arts anthology. This thoughtfully production itself, visit https://artsemerson.org. curated and beautifully designed publication showcases a wide range of artistic talent—from THE 2017 THOMAS J. FLATLEY IRISH literary and visual arts to essays and interviews 15 I STUDIES LECTURE SERIES on performing arts. This event will include Wednesday, 4 p.m., Connolly House selections from Winter Papers 2 and a Q&A. Enda Delaney, professor of history, University of Edinburgh, will present “Out of Time: LECTURE Friday, 12:15 p.m. Ireland and Modernity.” Professor Delaney’s 3 I Burns Library, Fine Print Room lecture explores an alternative perspective on Luncheon to follow, Irish Room Ireland’s past, seeing Ireland’s experience as Lucy McDiarmid, the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre a transformative encounter with modernity, Professor of English at Monclair State University with all the tensions and opportunities that and the author of the recently published such an encounter inevitably brings. book At Home in the Revolution: What Women Said and Did in 1916, will present “Fairies, Rebels, and the Boundaries of the House in 1916,” followed by a brief Q&A session. Enda Delaney, photo by Maura Hickey 2 2017 ADELE DALSIMER MARCH 23 I MEMORIAL LECTURE Thursday, 6 p.m., Devlin Hall 101 ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION Clair Wills, the Leonard L. 15I A celebration of St. Patrick in Milberg ’53 Chair of Irish music and in his own words. Please visit Letters at Princeton University, the Irish Studies website to view further presents “Digs & Lodging details as they become available. Houses: Literature, Ruins & Survival in Post-War IRISH WRITERS SERIES Britain.” Wills is a leading 21 I Tuesday, 4:30 p.m., Connolly House scholar of twentieth-century Clair Wills Hofstra University Adjunct Professor of English British and Irish literature Connie Roberts will read from her poetry and society. Her lecture will explore the world collection Little Witness (2015). In January of post-war British culture and will draw on the 2016 the book was shortlisted for the Shine/ work of Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett. Strong Award, which is presented annually to the author of the best debut collection of FROM THE VARIETY STAGE TO poems by an Irish poet the previous year. 23 I THE SHAMROCK BAND: A BRIEF HISTORY OF IRISH MUSIC IN BOSTON, THE LOWELL WRITERS SERIES IN 1890–1930 29 I COLLABORATION WITH FICTION Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Connolly House DAYS AND IRISH STUDIES Ethnomusicologist Dan Wednesday, 7 p.m., Gasson Hall, Room 100 Neely tells a story about Best-selling Irish writer Irish music in Boston that Anne Enright, most begins with the Gaelic recently of The Green Road revival and the variety stage (2015), was named the and continues through inaugural Laureate for Irish to the dance bands of the Fiction in 2015. Enright 1920s and the Depression. has written numerous Live music with Joey award-winning novels and Abarta, Sean Clohessy, short story collections. and Sheila Falls Keohane Her 2007 novel The will follow the lecture. Anne Enright Gathering won the Man Dan Neely Booker Prize for Fiction, the Hughes and Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award, and the Irish Fiction Award. GAELIC ROOTS PRESENTATION 30 I Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Connolly House Traditional Irish music and dance featuring Boston College students performing with their instructors, Sheila Falls Keohane and Kieran Jordan. Joey Abarta 3 THE 2017 THOMAS J. FLATLEY IRISH GAELIC ROOTS CONCERT 30 I STUDIES LECTURE SERIES 5 I Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Thursday, 5:30 p.m., McMullen Museum of Art, Cadigan Alumni Center The Hill Room, Room 111 Traditional/folk/ Declan McGonagle, founding fusion trio from Prince director, Irish Museum Edward Island Ten of Modern Art, presents Strings and a Goatskin “It’s About Them, Not Us: will present traditional ‘Turning’ the Museum and original music in an Anxious World.” In inspired by their this illustrated lecture, Canadian histories and McGonagle will explore issues roots, infused with pop raised by the opening and and world rhythms. Declan McGonagle subsequent development of a museum of modern art in Ireland at the end of the THE 2017 THOMAS J. FLATLEY IRISH twentieth century. 6 I STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Thursday, 5-8 p.m., Connolly House In association with the Department of English APRIL Graduate Symposium in Women’s Writing, Julia Wright (Dalhousie University) presents THE 2017 THOMAS J. FLATLEY IRISH “Supporting the Female Right to Literature: Irish 4 I STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Writing on Education and Authorship, 1775–1830.” Tuesday, 5 p.m., Connolly House Professor Wright is a leading international Eibhear Walshe authority on Romanticism, particularly its Irish presents “Modern dimension. In her lecture she will explore debates Ireland in 100 on women’s education and its relationship to Artworks.” Walshe, women’s authorship. Her lecture will be followed a leading authority by an exploration of women’s writing as it on Irish authors, relates to the same theme since Romanticism. presents the story Graduate students will offer brief reflections that emerges through on key texts, extracts of which will be read by these 100 works. In a professional actor. Registration required. his lecture he will discuss this innovative publication of which he served as one of several editors. These artworks trace the story of Ireland’s creative output from the revolutionary period until today. Julia Wright 4 AN IRISH STUDIES COLLOQUIUM There Are Little Kingdoms. His debut novel, City of 8 I Saturday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Connolly House Bohane, was released in 2011 and was subsequently Please join the Center for Irish Programs named, in 2013, winner of the International Dublin in this day-long Irish Studies Colloquium. Literary Award. 2012 saw the publication of another Further details will be posted to our collection of short stories, Dark Lies the Island, and, website as they become available. in November 2015, Barry’s novel Beatlebone won the Goldsmith’s Prize.
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