Major figures in Irish and American government, finance, and business come together to analyze and discuss the future of the Irish economy. Program forthcoming. Wine reception to follow. Tickets on sale in late February.
The Ernie O'Malley Symposium on April 25-26 2014 will address topics as wide ranging as Irish republican intellectual history, feminism & guerilla war, postcolonial approaches to Irish literature, history, and culture, the visual arts, music history, the history of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, Irish autobiography, queer historiography, folklore, and oral history. […]
Highly acclaimed author Sebastian Barry reads from his new book, The Temporary Gentleman, a novel written from the perspective Jack McNulty, an Irishman who lived through a great war and the subsequent peace, and who is haunted by his great love. J.M. Coetzee said of his work that it was, “a deeply moving story of courage […]
Pádraig Ó Cearúill hosts an evening of traditional music and song with NYU students and local musicians
Blarney Star Productions presents MARIE REILLY and FRIENDS Friday, January 30 at 8:00 Glucksman Ireland House at New York University 1 Washington Mews (entrance on Fifth Avenue just north of Washington Square) $15 admission, free to NYU students and GIH members Fiddler Marie Reilly was born in County Longford to a family with deep musical […]
“Eamonn McCrystal is an effortless tenor with a rare ability to deliver modern ballads in a way that’s both intimate and dramatic.” -Tom Roland, Billboard Magazine Irish Pop Tenor, Eamonn McCrystal, brings his Emmy®-nominated PBS special The Music of Northern Ireland to 54 Below! Led by musical director, Brad Ellis, and featuring special guests from stage and screen, […]
Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, a professor of Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montréal, is also a renowned master of the “Anglo” concertina. The push and pull of the concertina’s bellows provided the rhythmic pulse for set dancers in the kitchens of County Clare, a sound that Professor Ó hAllmhuráin will reproduce in the cozy confines […]
"Up Sligo and Hurrah for the Far Downs: The Irish Roots of a Cold War Martyr": Sr. Maura Clarke, MM was one of four American women, three of them nuns, assassinated in El Salvador on December 2, 1980. Their identification with a poor people's movement for land reform and human rights had put them in […]
Cillian Vallely (pronounced KILL-ian VAL-uh-lee) is a member of a renowned County Armagh music family and an undisputed virtuoso of the uilleann pipes. His parents Brian and Eithne Vallely founded the Armagh Pipers Club and helped lead the revival of traditional music in Ireland's north. Cillian took up his father’s instrument, the world’s most sophisticated […]
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove―to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife―“that the hours of his life belong to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, […]
