Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman (Irish Harp & Guitar) in Concert

Glucksman Ireland House NYU 1 Washington Mews, NEW YORK, NY, United States

About the artists: This celebrated partnership of “one of the UK’s most staggering and influential acoustic guitarists” (fROOTS) with “the doyenne of Irish harpers” (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY) and sole harper recipient to date of Irish music’s most prestigious award, Traditional Musician of the Year (Gradam Cheoil TG4), has presented its unique musical vision in twenty-two […]

GREG DELANTY IN CONVERSATION WITH COLUM MCCANN

Irish Arts Center 553 West 51st Street, New York, NY, United States

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 […]

$10 – $12

Dana Lyn and Kyle Sanna: The Coral Suite

Irish Arts Center 553 West 51st Street, New York, NY, United States

Bringing to life the fragile ecosystem of a coral reef, fiddler Dana Lyn and guitarist Kyle Sanna use light boxes, projections, and the vocabulary of Irish melody in inventive arrangements to create an audiovisual poem in a vivid, impressionistic, and riveting performance. Event launches the band’s third album. “Deep musical work full of lavish, evocative […]

$24 – $30

Pen, Paper, and Palate

Irish Arts Center 553 West 51st Street, New York, NY, United States

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, […]

$8 – $10

Folk Project Presents Doolin’ – A Celtic Band from France

Morristown Unitarian Fellowship 21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, NJ, United States

Inspired by the purest Celtic tradition, Doolin' combines instrumentals, vocals and original compositions in a resolutely modern style. The arrangements, at times taking their inspiration from pop-rock, folk, jazz, funk or even rap,  emit great energy. That’s Doolin' – Irish music with a French touch!

$20 – $25

An Evening with Colm Tóibín and Carys Davies

Murmrr Theatre and Ballroom 17 EASTERN PKWY, NY, BROOKLYN, NY, United States

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 […]

$20 – $25
Recurring

Martin Hayes: In Residence

Irish Arts Center 553 West 51st Street, New York, NY, United States

Irish Arts Center (IAC), the arts and cultural center dedicated to projecting a dynamic image of Ireland and Irish America for the 21st century, is proud to welcome back fiddle player Martin Hayes, “one of Ireland’s great musical exports” (WNYC), for a week-long residency, April 25-29, to take place in and out of their current […]

$42 – $52

Life Through the Reading Lens

Irish Arts Center 553 West 51st Street, New York, NY, United States

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 […]

$10 – $12

Open the Door for Three

Irish Arts Center 553 West 51st Street, New York, NY, United States

Fiddler Liz Knowles, uilleann piper Kieran O'Hare, and singer/bouzouki player Pat Broaders return to Irish Arts Center to celebrate their newly released album The Joyful Hour. Veterans and mainstays of the Irish music scene around the world, these artists have played with Riverdance, Cherish the Ladies, the New York Pops, Bonnie Raitt, Josh Groban, and […]

$20 – $24