with Deirdre Kinahan Saturday, October 3 and Sunday, October 4 10:30 am - 4:30 pm Back by popular demand! Only 12 places available. Learn a few tricks of the trade from leading Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan who will facilitate a two-day workshop entitled STORY, STORY, STORY. How do we generate and exploit story for drama […]
Irish Arts Center and Children’s Books Ireland present Rí Rá Children’s Festival of Literature In honor of the 25th Anniversary of the CBI Book of the Year Awards we introduce our first-ever festival celebrating Irish children’s literature! Sunday, October 4 | 11 am – 4 pm The very best Irish children’s writers recognized at the leading […]
Presented by Irish Arts Center and Irish Film Institute Tuesday, October 6 | 7 pm Directed by Alan Gilsenan 2015, PG13 We continue to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.B. Yeats (on June 13, 1865) with Images from a Past Life: W.B Yeats on Film, a biographical and experimental “film poem” from […]
Prof. Sean McGraw discusses how Ireland's three major political parties gained and maintained dominance.
Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and poetry editor for The New Yorker curates and hosts Muldoon’s Picnic on the second Monday of each month at Irish Arts Center at 553 West 51st Street in Manhattan. On October 12th at 7:30 p.m., Muldoon’s Picnic will feature author Colum McCann author of Let the Great World Spin, winner of the […]
Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and poetry editor for The New Yorker curates and hosts Muldoon’s Picnic on the second Monday of each month at Irish Arts Center at 553 West 51st Street in Manhattan. On October 12th at 7:30 p.m., Muldoon’s Picnic will feature author Colum McCann author of Let the Great World Spin, winner of the […]
Historian Shane Kenna launches the first ever biography of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa on the centenary of his iconic funeral, a milestone on the road to the Rising. In conversation with historian Terry Golway.
The Irish author of Let The Great World Spin presents his first collection of short fiction in over a decade. With unsurpassed empathy for his characters and their inner lives, Thirteen Ways of Looking explores the territory of chance, and the profound and intimate consequences of even our smallest moments. In conversation withLila Azam Zanganeh (The Enchanter: […]
Novelist Paul Murray launches his new novel, a hilarious, profound, and topical examination of the ever-evolving relationship between art and business.
IRISH ARTS CENTER’s POETRYFEST CONTEMPORARY POETRY FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC Presented in Association with Literary Hub and Glucksman Ireland House – NYU November 6 – 8, 2015 Irish Arts Center presents the seventh annual POETRYFEST celebrating Ireland and America’s great literary connection by showcasing an array of superb poets from both countries. The […]
