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IASIL 2004 - IASIL in Ireland

20-23 July 2004

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Graduate Fellowship Winners

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2004 - literary anniversaries

Galway and Irish Writing

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2004 - A Year of Literary Anniversaries

"history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" - James Joyce

"To remember everything is a form of madness" - Brian Friel

The year 2004 brings with it a number of literary anniversaries. The biggest of these for scholars of Irish literature will be the centenary of Bloomsday and the foundation of the Abbey Theatre. Listed below are some other, lesser-known, anniversaries...

300th Anniversary

Jonathan Swift's Tale of A Tub is published

250th Anniversary

Smock Alley Riots (after productions of Voltaire's Mahomet the Impostor)

Birth of Seán Ó Coileáin

150th Annivesary

Birth of Oscar Wilde (16 October)

Mitchell's Jail Journal Published

Centenary

Bloomsday

Shaw's John Bull's Other Island

Synge's Riders to the Sea

The Abbey Theatre opens (December) - see the special IASIL Abbey Centenary Report.

Birth of Patrick Kavanagh - see the Kavanagh Centre website

Arthur Griffith publishes The Resurrection of Hungary

Pub. Séadna by Canon Peter O’Leary

First issue of Eiriu: the Journal of the School of Irish Learning, ed. Kuno Meyer and John Strachan.

Coláiste na Mumhan, Ballingeary, Co. Cork, opens; first college to train teachers of Irish.

75th Anniversary

Birth of Brian Friel

Premiere of The Old Lady Says No!

Birth of John Montague

Irish "Censorship of Publications Act"

50th Annivesary

Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow premiered at the Pike Theatre

Christy Brown's My Left Foot published

25th Annivesary

Friel's Aristocrats

Friel's Faith Healer

First U2 Single

20th Anniversary

Foundation of Rough Magic Theatre Company

10th Annivesary

First performance of Riverdance

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