On April 11 at Irish Arts Center, widely published and internationally celebrated poet Greg Delanty will read from his acclaimed new collection Selected Delanty, and will be joined in conversation by novelist Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin, TransAtlantic). Delanty’s words evoke his transatlantic experiences living in the U.S. and in Ireland, and speak […]
Join us for this engrossing literary salon featuring a panel of writers who have spent their careers researching and documenting the lives of some of the most important people of our time. Panelists include Martin Amis (The Rub of Time), Patrick Hunt (Hannibal), Gareth Russell (Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, […]
Beloved author of the novel Brooklyn and many others, Colm Tóibín will read from his latest novel, House of Names, to celebrate its paperback release. He's joined by and will be interviewed by Carys Davies, winner of the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, on the release of her first novel, West. Both authors will be […]
Kathleen Hill’s spellbinding new memoir, She Read to Us in the Late Afternoons: A Life in Novels, examines the defining moments in which works of literature shaped the way she read the world. Join Hill and Bibliolepsy author Gina Apostol as they discuss their relationships with the books that profoundly affected them, or that they […]
The award-winning Dublin independent publisher Tramp Press, founded by Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen in 2014, is publishing some of Ireland’s best and brightest new voices, like acclaimed authors Mike McCormack and Sara Baume, while reintroducing some of Ireland’s marginalized writers through their Recovered Voices series. Join us for two events to get to know […]
From the stately entrance of Buck Mulligan to the breathtaking Molly Bloom soliloquy, we return to the source and dedicate the entire evening solely to the brilliance of Ulysses. Symphony Space's celebration of James Joyce's masterpiece will feature a whirlwind tour through the first 17 episodes and a chorus of Mollys with a cavalcade of […]
Opening for Irish Inspired Art Exhibition, Dúchas-The Drive Within. There will be traditional music, dancing and a book reading.
Closing reception for a visual art exhibition celebrating Irish, Irish-American and Irish-inspired art and artists. There will be traditional Irish music, food and refreshments.
Patrick's Radden Keefe's latest book is SAY NOTHING: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. In this book, Keefe explores the world of the Provisional IRA. The disappearance of Jean McConville in 1972 is the jumping off point for an exploration of The Troubles and a tale of a society wracked by […]
Novelist Colm Tóibín is the award-winning author of the novels The Master and Brooklyn (which became the 2015 movie starring Saoirse Ronan). His latest book, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, is an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature, as told through the lives and work […]
