The Institute for the Study of Irish Culture presents Making and Remembering a Revolution in Ireland: A Lecture by Roy Foster. Wednesday, October 28th at 6 p.m. The Castle, 225 Bay State Road Roy Foster’s books include Charles Stewart Parnell: The Man and His Family (1976), Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life (1981), Modern Ireland 1600-1972 […]
Thursday, April 30, 2015 6 PM College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Avenue, Katzenberg Center, 3rd floor The Institute for the Study of Irish Culture presents Sinéad Morrissey, poet laureate of Belfast. Morrissey has published five collections of poetry with Carcanet Press: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996); Between Here and There (2002); The State […]
Co-sponsored by the College of General Studies and the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH), the Poetry Reading Series strives to make poetry a fundamental part of university and community life. By presenting the work of both renowned and emerging poets, the series attempts to broaden our vision of poetry’s concerns and effects. Last spring, […]
On Thursday, April 18, with Monday’s Boston marathon tragedy still weighing heavy on people’s minds, over 100 poetry lovers gathered for the penultimate event in our “Irish Voices” series: a reading and conversation with Paul Muldoon. Muldoon’s visit was funded in part by a grant to the Center for the Study of Europe from the […]
On April 8, 2013, continuing our “Irish Voices” series, we welcomed the Irish poet and novelist Ciarán Carson to Boston. Carson, who plays the tin whistle, was accompanied by his wife Deirdre Shannon, an accomplished fiddler. The event, which was funded largely by a grant from the European Commission Delegation in Washington to the Center […]
On February 28 the Center for the Study of Europe hosted Irish writer Colm Toibin as part of a semester-long “Irish Voices” series in celebration of Ireland’s EU presidency. The “Irish Voices” series, which will include a visit by Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States and readings by poets Ciarán Carson and Paul Muldoon, is […]