Glucksman Ireland House Events Calendar Spring 1997Spring 1997 CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE –NEW YORKUNIVERSITY
Free admission to Members of GlucksmanIreland House* and to all students/faculty with a valid NYU I.D. card.
For all others: $10 admission charge at the door for regular event series: In order to ensure a seat please call ahead 212-998-3950
Spring 1997
22 January Sebastian Barry speaks on The Steward of Christendom, a play dealing with the lost, hidden or seldom-mentioned people in an Irish family’s history.
5 February Peter Fallon reads from his recent collection, News of the World, and works in progress.
13 February Robert McLiam Wilson reads selections from Ripley Bogle and Eureka Street.
27 February Irish film series: Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories, directed by NYU Professor Marcia Rock, and narrated by Anjelica Huston.
3 March Alvin Jackson, Reader in Modern History at Queen’s University,Belfast, speaks on “The Origins of Ulster Unionist Militancy 1900--1920.”
24 March Professors Clare Carroll and Vincent Carey discuss their recent edition of Solon His Follie in a talk entitled “Colloquium on Colonial Discourse.”
9 April Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History atOxford, presents “Writing Yeats’s Life,” a talk about his authorized biography of W. B. Yeats.
17 April Bruce Arnold speaks on “Irish Art in the 20th century.”
23 April Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill speaks on “An Bád Sí (The Fairy Boat): Suspension of Both Belief and Disbelief; An Irish Answer to an Irish Problem?”
13 May Edna O’Brien reads from her latest novel, Down by the River.
16-18 May Irish film festival: Women in Irish Film, screening of a variety of short and feature-length films with filmmakers present to discuss their works. | 
