Archive for June, 2008
Banville on Yeats
The National Library of Ireland’s two-week celebration of WB Yeats ends this week with a lecture by John Banville on Thursday (June 26th) and a reading by actor Patrick Bergin on Friday.
Both events are at 1 pm, last half an hour, and no booking is required.
yeats@nli.ie
www.nil.ie
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Future of the Book
Only half of young people aged 18-24 years old think people will still be using bookshops in 20 years’ time, writes Alison Flood in The Bookseller. The statistic was revealed at The Bookseller’s Reading The Future conference, which presented new consumer research into the reading and buying habits of 1,000 adults across the country.
Delegates heard [...]
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Remembering the 1968 Revolt
“In 1968 the planet caught fire, as if in response to some global signal”, is how Daniel Cohn-Bendit, in the mid-1980s, summed up the situation. The social revolt of 1968 was an international phenomenon that occurred simultaneously in just about every country in the world and, as it evolved, became increasingly interlinked internationally. The Goethe-Institut [...]
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Giovanni Arrighi will give a free lecture, entitled Hegemony Unravelling: The Decline of American Imperialism and the Rise of Asia, at the National Gallery (Merrion Street entrance) tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 8 pm.
Arrighi is Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. With
Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein, he is regarded as the most
brilliant exponent of world [...]
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Partition, Proust and Palestine
The opening public lecture of the Irish Seminar 2008 will be held tonight (Tuesday), from 8 to 9.30, at the National Gallery (entrance via Merrion Square).
The speaker will be Prof Jacqueline Rose and the subject “Partition, Proust and
Palestine”.
Jacqueline Rose studied at Oxford, the Sorbonne and London, and teaches
literature at Queen Mary, University of London. An [...]
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Jonathan Swift Celebration
The Peacock Theatre invites participation on Sunday in a discussion on Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, with writers Victoria Glendinning, John Mullan and Bruce Arnold. It will be chaired by
Mary Shine Thompson.
Poet, polemicist and wit, Jonathan Swift is best known for his satirical
masterpiece Gulliver’s Travels. Its unerring gaze on man’s limitless
capacity for fruitless intrigue remains strikingly [...]
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Novelist Andrew O’Hagan fills the “First Person” slot in last Saturday’s Guardian Review with a meditation-cum-polemic on American and Britain entitled “An Ocean Apart”.
O’Hagan recalls his youthful enthusiasm for American idealism and insists that its culture still speaks to him in many ways. But there is an America he will not accept, and it is [...]
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Cherie at Hay
Digger writes:
Was she having a laugh? If so, the humour was well buried when Cherie Booth Blair addressed a packed tent at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales, end of May. Mrs Blair, wife of the former PM and a noted barrister and QC, spoke to more than a thousand damp festival-goers on [...]
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The School of History and Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast is inviting
submissions from history PhD students at an advanced stage of their
research or those who have recently completed their doctorates.
Proposals should relate to any aspect of modern or early modern history for
papers of 40 minutes’ duration. Seminars take place on Fridays at 4 pm.
Abstracts of [...]
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The death has occurred in Paris on June 2nd of the historian François Fejtö.
Born into a Jewish family converted to Catholicism in Nagykanizsa in southeastern Hungary in 1909, Fejtö was, according to his obituary in Le Monde, “a pure product of the Habsburg empire”. Taking his childhood vacations in the Italian resort of Fiume [...]
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