{"id":18772,"date":"2025-10-08T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/?p=18772"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:57:15","slug":"t-s-eliot-lecture-2025-with-colm-toibin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/t-s-eliot-lecture-2025-with-colm-toibin\/","title":{"rendered":"T. S. Eliot Lecture 2025 with Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18775 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Colm-ToIbIn-HIRES-1.1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Colm-ToIbIn-HIRES-1.1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Colm-ToIbIn-HIRES-1.1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Colm-ToIbIn-HIRES-1.1-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Colm-ToIbIn-HIRES-1.1-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Colm-ToIbIn-HIRES-1.1-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Colm-ToIbIn-HIRES-1.1-scaled.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The tenth annual T. S. Eliot Lecture at the Abbey Theater, Dublin will be delivered by <strong>Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The evening will be introduced by the Abbey Theatre\u2019s artistic director\u00a0<strong>Caitr\u00edona McLaughlin<\/strong>, interspersed with readings by\u00a0<strong>Cathy Belton<\/strong>, and followed by a conversation with\u00a0<strong>James Shapiro. <\/strong>It marks 85 years since Eliot spoke at the Abbey Theatre to commemorate and celebrate W. B. Yeats on the first anniversary of his death.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s lecture is entitled\u00a0<em><strong>The Road to Little Gidding\u00a0<\/strong>Yeats, Auden, Eliot 1939, 1940, 1941.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As war approached, the poets W.B. Yeats, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot explored systems of belief that were both traditional and esoteric. They looked inwards for images of unsettled consolation; they looked to the past, especially to the poet Dante, for inspiration. And, then, as Yeats died early in 1939, Eliot and Auden looked to Yeats and his achievement as an example or as a warning as they sought ways to approach modernity and tradition, violence and love, solitude and the life of the spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Presented at the Abbey Theatre since 2016 and inspired by Eliot\u2019s legacy and impact on modern literature, previous speakers include Paul Muldoon, Steven Pinker, Samantha Power, Sean Scully, Edna O\u2019Brien, Es Devlin, Sally Rooney, Jeanette Winterson, and Ralph Fiennes.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will take place on Sunday 14 December at 6pm. Further information and booking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abbeytheatre.ie\/whats-on\/t-s-eliot-lecture\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tenth annual T. S. Eliot Lecture at the Abbey Theater, Dublin will be delivered by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn. The evening will be introduced by the Abbey Theatre\u2019s artistic director\u00a0Caitr\u00edona McLaughlin, interspersed with readings by\u00a0Cathy Belton, and followed by a conversation with\u00a0James Shapiro. It marks 85 years since Eliot spoke at the Abbey Theatre to commemorate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/t-s-eliot-lecture-2025-with-colm-toibin\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18780,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772\/revisions\/18780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}