The Fund for Irish Studies presents a reading by Sinéad Gleeson
Oct 3rd 2025
Events @ Princeton University
Bestselling writer and editor Sinéad Gleeson reads from her work as part of the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series. Books will be available to purchase and have signed at the event.
Sinéad Gleeson’s debut novel, Hagstone, was published in 2024 by 4th Estate and longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. Her essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. Translated into several languages, Constellations was also shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Michel Déon Prize. She is the editor of four anthologies including The Art of the Glimpse, the award-winning The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, and The Glass Shore: Short Stories. Gleeson has engaged in multi-disciplinary collaborations with artists and musicians, including commissions from The Wellcome Collection, the RHA Gallery, BBC, Rua Red Gallery and Frieze. She is co-editor with Kim Gordon of This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music.
The Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater & Music Theater, and Robert Spoo, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters.
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This event is presented by The Fund for Irish Studies, a partner of Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts.
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This event is presented by The Fund for Irish Studies and co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books.