TCD Dining Club London – Hilary Term Dinner
The TCD London Dining Club will hold their Trinity Term Dinner on Thursday 27th February in the elegant surrounds of Mayfair's Savile Club. The evening will begin with a drinks reception at 7.00pm, with guests seated for dinner at 7.30pm. The dress code is Lounge Suits.
The evening's speaker will be influential Irish historian Professor Roy Foster, FBA, FRHistS, FRSL, whose penetrating analysis of Irish history bends minds; his two-volume biography of W.B. Yeats won particular renown.
Tickets are £70 per person and guests are most welcome. Please book early, at least one week in advance. To book your place, please follow the instructions below.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Roy Foster, FBA, FRHistS, FRSL
Roy Foster is a notable Irish historian, academic and author. Following his studies at TCD, where he was awarded an MA, a PhD and was elected a scholar, he taught Irish history and literature, first at Birkbeck College, London, at the same time holding visiting fellowships at St Antony's College, Oxford and at Princeton University. He was subsequently appointed the first Carroll Professor of Irish History at Oxford from 1991 until 2016.
Roy has published widely (as R.F. Foster) on Irish political, social and literary history, and is strongly identified with W.B. Yeats. His much acclaimed two–part biography of the poet was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His literary output includes early biographies of Charles Stewart Parnell and Lord Randolph Churchill, Modern Ireland: 1600–1972 (1988) and several books of essays. He also edited The Oxford History of Ireland (1989). He collaborated with Fintan Cullen on a National Portrait Gallery exhibition, 'Conquering England: the Irish in Victorian London', which earned rich praise in the Irish Times.
In 2000 Foster was a Booker Prize judge. In 2015, he was awarded the British Academy Medal for his book Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland 1890–1923. He is now Emeritus professor of history at Oxford and Professor of Irish history and literature at Queen Mary University of London. It is hard to disagree with the opinion that ‘He is perhaps the most distinguished and influential historian of Ireland writing today, whose works may be said, not only to have assisted in creating a fundamentally new understanding of Ireland’s past, but also to form an important part of a more general revolution of self-understanding in Ireland’.
MEMBERSHIP OF THE TCD DINING CLUB LONDON
Membership of the TCD Dining Club London is open to all graduates of Trinity College Dublin who enjoy good dinners in good company. Life membership costs £25 (one-off payment). Application forms are available on the website, or from the Secretary, secretary@tcddiningclublondon.co.uk