{"id":19700,"date":"2026-09-15T11:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/?p=19700"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:37:10","slug":"t-s-eliot-lecture-2026-with-zadie-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/t-s-eliot-lecture-2026-with-zadie-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"T. S. Eliot Lecture 2026 with Zadie Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19703 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Zadie-Smith-e1789472093507-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Zadie-Smith-e1789472093507-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Zadie-Smith-e1789472093507-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Zadie-Smith-e1789472093507.jpg 783w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The eleventh annual T. S. Eliot Lecture at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin will be delivered by <strong>Zadie Smith.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The evening will be introduced by Abbey Theatre Artistic Director\u00a0<strong>Caitr\u00edona McLaughlin<\/strong>, followed by a reading of T. S. Eliot\u2019s <em>Preludes<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Marty Rea<\/strong>. After the lecture,\u00a0<strong>Zadie Smith<\/strong>\u00a0will be in conversation with the writer\u00a0<strong>Sheila Heti<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The title of this year\u2019s lecture is\u00a0<strong>Radical Intimacy: On Sally Rooney.\u00a0<\/strong><\/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, Samantha Power, Steven Pinker, Sean Scully, Edna O\u2019Brien, Es Devlin, Sally Rooney, Jeanette Winterson, Ralph Fiennes and Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will take place on Sunday 6th December at 6pm. Further information and booking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abbeytheatre.ie\/whats-on\/t-s-eliot-lecture\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eleventh annual T. S. Eliot Lecture at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin will be delivered by Zadie Smith. The evening will be introduced by Abbey Theatre Artistic Director\u00a0Caitr\u00edona McLaughlin, followed by a reading of T. S. Eliot\u2019s Preludes\u00a0by\u00a0Marty Rea. After the lecture,\u00a0Zadie Smith\u00a0will be in conversation with the writer\u00a0Sheila Heti. The title of this year\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/t-s-eliot-lecture-2026-with-zadie-smith\/\">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,"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\/19700"}],"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=19700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19709,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19700\/revisions\/19709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}