Origin Theatre Company returns to Glucksman Ireland House NYU for the eleventh annual reading series with four works by contemporary European playwrights. Presented by Origin Theatre Company in partnership with Glucksman Ireland House NYU. Please check back to our webpage for further details in April.
Origin Theatre Company returns to Glucksman Ireland House NYU for the eleventh annual reading series with four works by contemporary European playwrights. Presented by Origin Theatre Company in partnership with Glucksman Ireland House NYU. Please check back to our webpage for further details in April.
This duo is string virtuosity squared. Harpist Máire, from west County Cork, pioneered a modern style that brought the repertoire and ornamentation of the dance music tradition to Ireland’s iconic instrument. Since 1987, she has partnered the enormously talented English guitarist Chris Newman in performances that fuse traditional melody and jazzy improvisation, grafting eclectic modern […]
In Cormac James' The Surfacing, his first novel to be published in the US, a lieutenant on an Arctic expedition endangered by hardening sea ice that threatens his ship's integrity, finds the courage to lead after discovering that a stowaway is pregnant with his child. Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin and […]
Darina Allen is the owner of Ballymaloe Cookery School in County Cork, as well as teacher, newspaper columnist, cookbook author, and television presenter. She talks about the role of Ballymaloe in the Irish food renaissance for this eight annual Irish Institute of New York Lecture. Darina Allen has been a major force in the culinary […]
Eamon Gilmore, TD, Former Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, talks about the Irish economy’s road from IMF bailout toward recovery, followed by a roundtable discussion with members of the business and university communities. Mr. Gilmore will deliver "From Bailout to Recovery: Prospects for the Irish (and European) Economies." […]
Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats with a full day of talks and readings. This annual day of all things Yeats, organized by the Yeats Society of NY in partnership with GIH NYU, is just a taste of a two-week program in Sligo, Ireland, that includes a tour of "Yeats […]
County Waterford man David Power is a magnificent uilleann piper, one whose masterly technique and soulful musicianship invite comparison to the acknowledged greats of the piping world.
100 years after W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and five other male poets gathered to eat a peacock, Lucy McDiarmid of Montclair State University explores the meal’s far-reaching implications through literary history, biography, and cultural theory in Poets and the Peacock Dinner: The Literary History of a Meal (Oxford University Press). The volume will be launched […]
In his lecture, “Joyce’s Ghosts,” Luke Gibbons proposes that Joyce’s Irishness is intrinsic to his modernism, and is not just a source of subject matter but of form itself. Joyce’s stylistic innovations are haunted by memory that slips its moorings in inner life, and circulates through the silences and shadows of a colonial counter-public sphere. […]
