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11th Annual Tom Quinlan Lecture

IA Newsletter November 26, 2022

November 22, 2022 by Leave a Comment

Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Tom Quinlan, poet Seamus Heaney, and Joe Quinlan at the first Annual Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry at Glucksman Ireland House on September 25, 2011. Image courtesy of NYU.edu.

Nick Laird
Poet and NYU professor Nick Laird


The 11th annual Tom Quinlan lecture at Glucksman Ireland House NYU will be held on Friday, December 2nd at 2:00 pm. As in past years, the “lecture” will feature a poetry reading by a prominent Irish poet. It also serves as a lead into the Irish Arts Center’s signature Poetryfest weekend which kicks off at the new center’s theater at 8:00 pm on Friday evening.
 
This year’s poet is Nick Laird, who teaches at NYU and holds the Seamus Heaney Chair in Poetry at Queens University Belfast. Since the launch of the lectureship, there have been close ties between Glucksman Ireland House and Queens. QUB alum Seamus Heaney himself came to NYU for the announcement in September 2011 and Heaney was a great friend and mentor of Laird, who is also the curator of the IAC’s Poetryfest.
Seamus Heaney launches the Tom Quinlan Lecture in September 2011.
Victoria Kennefick
Author and Poet Victoria Kennefick

At the NYU event, a second poet will join Laird to read her own original work. Victoria Kennefick is this year’s winner of the annual award from the Heaney Centre for the best first book of poetry, Eat Or We Both Starve.
 
Tom Quinlan, 97, taught poetry in and around Philadelphia for 70 years and was a frequent visitor to the Yeats Summer School in Co. Sligo. ♦
Tom Quinlan at Glucksman Ireland House’s Annual Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry in 2019.
Tom Quinlan at Glucksman Ireland House’s Annual Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry in 2019.

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