Edna O’Brien’s TSL Eliot Lecture (Abbey Theatre) 15/12/2020

To celebrate Edna O’Brien’s 90th Birthday, she will give this year’s TSL Eliot Lecture at the Abbey Theatre.

The fifth in a series of lectures inspired by T. S. Eliot’s impact on modern literature. The 2020 T. S. Eliot lecture, on Eliot and Joyce, is delivered by Edna O’Brien and premiered from the Irish Embassy in London on her 90th birthday, 15th December. Running Order: Introduction by Adrian O’Neill, Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom Sinéad Cusack performs Eliot’s ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ Edna O’Brien lecture Post-event interview with Edna O’Brien and Andrew O’Hagan The lecture premieres at 7.30pm on 15th December and will be available to watch until 15th January 2021. Note: This lecture was edited for broadcast. A full transcript of the lecture will be available in a print version in the New Year.

This lecture will be available online for a limited time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN-LP0cEs_o

Edna O’Brien received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2001.