{"id":6217,"date":"2010-09-21T15:43:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T19:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=6217"},"modified":"2019-05-13T11:40:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:40:26","slug":"6217_irish-literature-series-poets-filmmakers-fall-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/2010\/09\/21\/6217_irish-literature-series-poets-filmmakers-fall-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Literature Series: Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Speakers & Poets<\/h2>\n

Fall 2010<\/h3>\n

Tuesday September 28
\n3 p.m., University Hall 3048: film lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Waters, Director of Graduate Irish Studies, Director of Undergraduate Irish Studies, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Irish Studies at Glucksman Ireland House, NYU, will lecture on\u00a0 “Mad(e) Men:\u00a0 John Ford and the aesthetics of\u00a0 masculine reformation in The Quiet Man<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Following John’s talk, there will be an informal reception and open discussion (students, faculty, everyone) on The Quiet Man<\/em> generally, with a focus on masculinity (but all topics welcome).<\/p>\n

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For more information, see http:\/\/irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu\/object\/john.waters<\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday October 14
\n1 p.m., Cohen Lounge: poetry reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vona Groarke, one of Ireland’s best younger poets, and winner of\u00a0the Michael Hartnett Award, the Hennessy award, the Brendan Behan Memorial Prize, the Strokestown International Poetry Award, and the Stand Magazine Poetry Prize, will give a reading.\u00a0 Vona teaches at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester.<\/p>\n

Thursday October 28
\n1 p.m., Cohen Lounge: poetry reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael Longley, one of the most illustrious Irish poets writing today, will give a reading.\u00a0 Michael has received numerous awards, including the American Irish Foundation Award, the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, the Whitbread Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize. He is also the recipient of the prestigious 2001 Queen\u2019s Gold Medal for Poetry.\u00a0 He was Ireland Professor of Poetry 2007 -2010.\u00a0\u00a0 Michael is a brilliant poet and a superb reader.<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0 Harry Clifton, who read at Montclair last October, has just been named Ireland Professor of Poetry: see http:\/\/irelandchairofpoetry.org\/<\/p>\n

Tuesday November 30
\n2:45 pm, University Hall 3048: film lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tony Tracy, Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at the National University of Ireland, Galway, will speak on “Adam and Paul and the Urban Irish Film<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Following Tony’s talk, there will be a reception and open discussion of the film.\u00a0 I can lend a dvd to anyone interested in joining the discussion.
\nTony Tracy has published widely on transnational cinema as well as on Irish film.\u00a0 He has experience in all aspects of film production and culture and has worked for\u00a0 Miramax Films in NY. And, as his web site says,\u00a0 Tony “was senior education officer at the Irish Film Institute from 1996-2000 and central to the development of a pioneering education programme for film leading to the introduction of film in the leaving certificate English curriculum.”<\/p>\n

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Please contact Professor Lucy McDiarmid, mcdiarmidL@mail.montclair.edu<\/a>, if you have any questions about the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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