Spring 2000 Library Associate Events


Sue Martin with Irish Ambassador O'Huiginn

A "Lively" Event
Booker Prize award winner Penelope Lively stirred the imaginations of some 80 Georgetown alumni, parents, and current undergraduates with her lecture on Tuesday, March 7, at the Reform Club in London. "The Writer as Reader" was a wry and witty presentation in which the speaker reflected on the operation of memory and on the relationship between public history and personal memory.

An Evening of Elegance
More than a hundred friends of the University Library attended the lecture by Professor Ronald Hoffman at the Embassy of Ireland on Thursday, April 27, in Washington. Professor Hoffman's talk, "Mythic Chords of Memory: The Carrolls in Ireland and Maryland," offered insight into the prolific family that included Georgetown's founder. Guests were also much taken with the beauty and charm of the embassy itself, and the opportunity to socialize with Ambassador O'Huiginn.