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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Irish Theater Critic and Scholar Fintan O’Toole Presents "Don't mention the war: the suppression of Irish cultural memory of the Great War" Monday, April 21, 2014 Fintan O’Toole, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals, is the Leonard L. Milberg '53 Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton for spring 2014. Eugene Meyer (1875-1959), for whom the annual lecture and the Eugene Meyer Chair in British History and Literature are named, was the owner and publisher of the Washington Post, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and first president of the World Bank. Previous Eugene Meyer speakers include Sir David Cannadine, Andrew Roberts and Colm Tóibín.In this year's Eugene Meyer Lecture, Mr. O’Toole will talk about three Irish works of art that responded in important ways to the First World War and how each of them was suppressed or censored. Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Contact: Richard Aldous, Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-6822 x7448 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/news/events/