Fund for Irish Studies: Reading by Anne Enright
September 12 • 4:30 pm
Free
Award-winning writer Anne Enright reads from her latest novel, The Wren, The Wren, to kick off the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series. Enright is the author of 8 novels, 2 short story collections and a selection of essays, forthcoming in April 2026. Books will be available for purchase at the event, which is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books.
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.
Tickets & Details
Free tickets required, available starting August 15 through University Ticketing.
Reach University Ticketing by email at tixhelp@princeton.edu or by phone at 609-258-9220, or visit the Frist Campus Center Ticket Office, open weekdays 12-4 PM.
Directions
Get directions to the James Stewart Film Theater, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street.
Accessibility
The James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
About Anne Enright
Anne Enright. Photo credit: Ruth Connolly
One of Ireland’s leading writers, Anne Enright lives in Dublin, where she was born in 1962. The author of eight novels, two books of short stories and many essays, Enright was the first Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015-2018). Awards include the Man Booker Prize (2007), The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction (2011), The Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters (2025) and The Windham Campbell Prize (2025). A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books and The London Review of Books, her selected essays Attention will be published in April 2026 by W.W. Norton. She is currently Professor of Fiction at University College Dublin.