# Events

**Source**: https://fis.princeton.edu/current-season/
**Parent**: https://arts.princeton.edu/events/

The 2025-26 season of the Fund for Irish Studies includes the following events:

- **September 12, 2025** — [Award-winning writer **Anne Enright**](https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-anne-enright/)
- **October 3** — [Writer and editor **Sinéad Gleeson**](https://fis.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-sinead-gleeson/)
- **October 30 (Thursday)** — Award-winning film & TV director [**Aoife Kelleher** screens her feature documentary, *Mrs. Robinson*](https://fis.princeton.edu/event/aoife-kelleher-screens-mrs-robinson/)
- **November 14** — A conversation with [acclaimed actor and writer/director **Olwen Fouéré,**](https://fis.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-olwen-fouere/) in  a continued partnership with the Abbey Theatre
- **February 8, 2026** — **(Event canceled due to unforeseen circumstances)** Musician **Matt Molloy**, member of traditional Irish folk band The Chieftains
- **March 20** — [The Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture](https://fis.princeton.edu/event/2026-robert-fagles-memorial-lecture-for-and-against-a-united-ireland/): critic and scholar **Fintan O’Toole** and journalist **Sam McBride** debate the issues raised in their co-authored work, *For and Against a United Ireland*
- **April 10** — Biographer and editor **Merlin Holland**on “After Oscar: Wilde between the li(n)es”
- **Thursday, April 23, 4:10 p.m.** — Writer **John Banville** presents the opening keynote on “Fiction and the Dream” as part of the [(De)Stabilizing Nabakov conference](https://nabokov.event.princeton.edu/schedule) presented by Princeton’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, cosponsored by the Fund for Irish Studies

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Events are free and open to the public.

**For all 2025-26 events, free tickets will be required**. Tickets generally go on sale 3-4 weeks before the event date. [Reserve tickets through University Ticketing](https://tickets.princeton.edu/online/).

All events begin at **4:30 p.m. in the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau St.** in Princeton, New Jersey, unless noted otherwise.

*Event details and dates are subject to change.*

Be sure to [sign up to receive future event details by email](http://princeton.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2991e25c7d47f00788ae2f9f1&id=acc2f4aa48).