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 […]
Pádraig Ó Cearúill hosts an evening of traditional music and song with NYU students and local musicians
Professor Elliott J. Gorn of Loyola University Chicago will discuss the life of the famous labor leader Mary Harris, better known as Mother Jones, "the grandmother of all agitators," focusing specifically on her Irish origins and influences, her life as an American labor organizer, and her recent repatriation back to Ireland. In his book Mother Jones: The […]
London-born uilleann piper Emmett Gill and American ex-pat fiddler Jesse Smithhave formed a virtuosic Galway-based duo devoted to hard-core Irish traditional music in a style that recalls the energetic sound of Irish recording artists of the 1920s. Their recently issued duo CD, The Rookery, features a repertoire of familiar and obscure tunes sourced from classic manuscript collections as well […]
