_______________ On Tuesday, September 22, 2009, IMRAM, the annual Irish-language literary festival, will present an evening of controversy & debate on the issue of "Tradition and/or Innovation." This debate will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Irish Writers' Centre, 19 Parnell Square in Dublin, Ireland. Admission is free. PUBLIC LECTURE & DEBATE Does the Irish language have a modern literary culture? Or, have universities limited literary discussion to folkloric texts that have little to say to urban readers? Can poetry & literature in Irish survive if the rural Gaeltacht dies? Can a modern literary culture emerge from an urban creolized form of Irish? Has the Irish-language become the prisoner of sociologists, anthropologists, government bureaucrats & educators who have constricted & suffocated the possibilities to such an extent that the very survival of the language itself has been called into question? Will literary innovation ever be tolerated in Ireland? These are the questions that Tomás Mac Síomóin raises in his IMRAM talk, "An Dúchas agus an Nua" (Tradition & Innovation). Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, Professor of Folklore at University College Dublin, will reply to the lecture, & IMRAM invites all with a serious interest in Irish poetry & literature to join in this crucial debate. Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 7:00 p.m., IRISH WRITERS' CENTRE, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin, Ireland Free admission For additional information about the IMRAM Festival, go to ... http://www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/imram.html http://www.facebook.com/pages/IMRAM-IRISH-LANGUAGE-LITERATURE-FESTIVAL http://www.facebook.com/pages/IMRAM-FEILE-LITRIOCHTA-GAEILGE Questions may be put to Liam Carson, Director of IMRAM Festival at ... [log in to unmask] Books featured at the IMRAM Festival may be purchased from ... Connolly Books, [log in to unmask] 43 East Essex Street, Dublin 2, Ireland beir bua, Séamas Cain http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain http://alazanto.org/seamascain _______________