James Joyce in Buffalo

The University of Buffalo, Humanities Institute, are going to hold a James Joyce evening, entitled "Joyce with Gusto". If you are surprised to see Joyce being connected to Buffalo then you should remember the large Irish community in Buffalo and more to the point the large number of Joyce scholars and Joyce manuscripts there are in Buffalo. To read more about the event you can go here: http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol38/vol38n20/articles/JoyceGusto.html

Medbh McGuckian to give talk at University of Ulster

The well know Irish poet, Medbh McGuckian, will give a lecture at University of Ulster's Magee campus on the Saturday 27 January. To reserve a place please contact the Cultural Development Office at the Magee campus on (028) 7137 5658.

Seamus Heaney wins T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize

Irish noble prize winning poet, Seamus Heaney, has just won the T.S. Eliot prize for his collection of poetry, District and Circle:
Again the growl
Of shutting doors, the jolt and one-off treble
Of iron on iron, then a long centrifugal
Haulage of speed through every dragging socket.

Michael Yeats, son of WB Yeats, has died.

The son of William Butler Yeats, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, and grandson of John Butler Yeats, has died. A qualified barrister who exhibited his father's work, a Senator and Cathaoirleach of the Seanad and a member of the European Parliament. The Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, said "He gave dedicated and patriotic service to Fianna Fail, to Ireland and to Europe. His long career as a public representative brought true distinction to both his party and an illustrious family"