{"id":509,"date":"2011-05-18T19:50:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/?p=509"},"modified":"2011-05-28T18:01:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T17:01:44","slug":"%e2%80%98solidarity-solitude-revolution-czeslaw-milosz-a-centenary-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/events\/%e2%80%98solidarity-solitude-revolution-czeslaw-milosz-a-centenary-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Solidarity, Solitude, Revolution&#8217; Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz &#8211; A Centenary Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Mislosz.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Mislosz-240x300.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mislosz\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-510\" srcset=\"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Mislosz-240x300.gif 240w, http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Mislosz.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\u2018Solidarity, Solitude, Revolution&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz &#8211; A Centenary Celebration <\/p>\n<p>as part of 2011 Dublin Writers Festival<\/p>\n<p>keynote speaker: Adam Zagajewski <\/p>\n<p>with contributions by Seamus Heaney, Dennis O&#8217;Driscoll, Julie O&#8217;Callaghan and Gerard Smyth<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre<br \/>\n\u2022Date: Sat, May 28<br \/>\n\u2022Time: 7.30pm<br \/>\n\u2022Tickets: \u20ac15\/\u20ac12.50 concession<br \/>\nPolish Nobel laureate Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz was one of the most significant poets of the 20th century. In this centenary celebration of his life and work, four Irish poets choose, read and discuss a Mi\u0142osz poem that holds particular resonance for them. First, setting the scene with a keynote speech is fellow Polish poet, Nobel nominee and Mi\u0142osz scholar Adam Zagajewski, described by Pulitzer prize-winner Mary Oliver as \u2018the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The life and writings of Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz were shaped by some of the defining moments of the 20th century. He witnessed the October Revolution and First World War as a child. Later, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, he became a central figure in the literary underground. After the Warsaw Uprising he sought asylum abroad, first in France and then in California. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. The Mi\u0142osz canon straddles various genres, yet it is his poetry that is his lasting legacy &#8211; informed as much by the literary and metaphysical as by exile and political conscience.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the event: http:\/\/www.dublinwritersfestival.com\/event\/czeslaw-milosz-%e2%80%93-a-centenary-celebration<\/p>\n<p>More information on Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz: http:\/\/www.milosz365.eu\/<\/p>\n<p>More information on Adam Zagajewski, the keynote speaker: http:\/\/www.culture.pl\/en\/culture\/artykuly\/os_zagajewski_adam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Solidarity, Solitude, Revolution&#8217; Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz &#8211; A Centenary Celebration as part of 2011 Dublin Writers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}