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“There is no prison in any world into which Love cannot force an entrance.”
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905.
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MoLI BULLETIN 3 OCTOBER 2025
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EVENT
Happy Ever After
with Anna Carey & Sylvia Leatham
Friday, 17 October 2025 | 6.30pm
Join Anna Carey (Our Song) and Sylvia Leatham (Chaos Theory) in conversation with Prof. Paige Reynolds (curator of MoLI’s Happy Ever After: Falling in Love with Irish Romance Fiction exhibition) in a discussion of their recently published works of Irish romance fiction. In a live recording for a forthcoming RadioMoLI podcast, the event will consider the novels themselves, examining how their books depict love and relationships in present-day Ireland while also thinking about how they fit into a longer tradition of Irish romance.
A reception will follow the event. Tickets are €5, or free for MoLI Members.
Presented with the support of the Edward Callahan Support Fund for Irish Studies and the J.D. Power Center for the Liberal Arts at the College of the Holy Cross.
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FILM
Oscar Wilde's De Profundis
at the Irish Film Institute
Thursday, 16 October 2025 | 6.30pm
We're heading to the Irish Film Institute this week for a special screening of MoLI’s exhibition film of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis on the big screen at the Irish Film Institute. One of the greatest love letters ever written, Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis was the only work that the Irish writer completed during his two-year imprisonment. The screening will be followed by a Q&A featuring Prof. Margaret Kelleher (UCD), writer Katherine O’Donnell, and MoLI’s Benedict Schlepper-Connolly.
Presented by MoLI together with the Oscariana and the Irish Film Institute, and in partnership with Ebow Digital.
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RADIOMoLI
Naoise Dolan’s
Dedalus Lecture
As we send this, the Irish writer Naoise Dolan remains in detention in Israel, following her abduction from the Milad, a sailing boat taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which attempted to deliver aid to Gaza. Dolan has been a frequent presence in MoLI in recent times, not least through her performances in Oscar Wilde's De Profundis and her breath-stopping Dedalus Lecture delivered on Bloomsday at MoLI this year. Today, as we hope for Dolan's wellbeing and safe return, we are publishing the recording of that lecture, titled The Exophonic Ulysses. This recording from the summer may seem, and indeed be, a world away, but Dolan's evident courage and sense of purpose run right through it.
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