An intimate evening of fiction, conversation and live comedy.

We are sorry to report that we will not be joined tonight by Nuala O’Connor as planned. Our apologies, this is due to unforeseen circumstances preventing her travel. We have more than a dozen poets…

The Annual Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture, a joint venture of the Irish Literary Society and Irish Texts Society will be delivered by Phyllis Gaffney on her recent book Foreign Tongues Victorian Lang...

Join us on Friday 24 Jan for our first event of 2025. We are delighted to welcome back Professor Declan Kiberd to the Society to discuss the life and poetry of Aogán Ó Rathaille (c.1670–1729) and t…

Here at the Irish Cultural Centre, we invite you to check out On Ó Rathaille - with Declan Kiberd & Brian O’Connor. Book your tickets today!

Neil Jordan is unique in his success both as a fiction writer and a movie maker. In his new memoir Amnesiac he looks back over his twin careers with a certain amused wonderment – how did he m…

Neil Jordan is unique in his success both as a fiction writer and a movie maker. In his new memoir Amnesiac he looks back over his twin careers with a certain amused wonderment – how did he m…

Charlotte Brontë, who dazzled the world with some of literature’s most vital and richly-drawn characters, spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love. She eventually found it with Arth…

In the year of the centenary of the inaugural production of Juno and the Paycock we welcome Shivaun O’Casey, daughter of playwright Sean O’Casey and actress Eileen Carey, to speak at th…

The Society welcomes back Rónán Hession for the London launch of his latest novel. The author will be discussing Ghost Mountain with the author and TLS critic David Collard. There will be an audien…