Books

Prominent New Yorkers from the arts, politics, human rights/social justice, the media, and academia will gather in New York for a community reading of Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel’s landmark Holocaust memoir, “Night,” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, on Sunday January 29, 2017, starting at 3pm.  The reading coincides with the […]

Ryan Tubridy, Ireland’s foremost radio and television broadcaster and host of The Late, Late Show, teams up with illustrator P.J. Lynch, Irish Laureate for Children's Literature, to celebrate their first-ever picture book collaboration, Patrick and the President. Ryan and P.J. will entertain both adults and children with the story of their collaboration and their take […]

National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway) will participate in an open house exhibition of rare book materials and a panel discussion on ‘Representations of Jews in Irish Literature’ at the Butler Library in Columbia University’s Heyman Center, New York on Tuesday, 4 April. The exhibition, curated by Dr Emily Bloom of Columbia University and […]

“Literature deals with the ordinary; the unusual and extraordinary belong to journalism.”  James Joyce Join us where journalism, literature and Joyce meet at the Federal Hall on June 13th for our 8th Annual Bloomsday Celebration featuring  keynote speaker David McCraw, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of the New York Times. "Two Facts Walked into a Bar…Truly […]

Friday, June 16 | 7 PM The 36th annual literary rite of spring celebrating life, love, and language in James Joyce's lavish, languid, and lively prose. At Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway Co-produced by Symphony Space and Irish Arts Center For over a decade, Joyce's great work was famously banned throughout […]