Cork-born Theo Dorgan is a novelist, translator, editor, sailor and poet whose most recent collection of poems, Nine Bright Shiners (Dedalus Press, 2014) was an Irish Times notable book of the year. He has also won the O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry and Listowel Prize for Poetry. Theo Dorgan will read from Nine Bright Shiners, […]
Noel Hill is without peer as a concertina player. Starting in the 1970’s, the Clare man revolutionized the sound of the little hexagonal-ended squeezebox, bringing to it a repertoire and chordal accompaniment style borrowed from the uilleann piping tradition. Noel’s duet recordings with button accordionist Tony MacMahon are legendary. For this show, he teams up […]
Learn more about our M.A. in Irish and Irish-American Studies, part of NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Speak to current M.A. students and faculty Get details about course offerings and curriculum Learn about the opportunity to complete the degree in one calendar year with summer study in Ireland Find out about options for […]
Dr. Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh will deliver the tenth annual Barra Ó Donnabháin Lecture on “‘Ó Chumann Chluain Árd go dtí an LÁ DEARG’- Ag Tógáil Gaelphobail ón Bhun Aníos i dtuaisceart na hÉireann”; or, “From Cumann Chluain Árd to An LÁ DEARG: Building Gaelic Communities from the Bottom Up in the North of Ireland.” Using […]
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Prepare for St. Patrick’s Day with Airneál na Féile Pádraig, an evening of traditional music and song performed by NYU students and local musicians hosted by Pádraig Ó Cearúill. Presented with the support of the Ireland-United States Commission for Educational Exchange and the Irish Government’s National Lottery
Irish-born sociologist and author of Finding Your Irish Ancestors in New York City Joseph Buggy discusses genealogical resources in NYC, as well as unconventional sources in Ireland. His lecture will stress the genealogical resources here in New York City and environs (some conventional, and some quite unconventional and unique) that will be useful for those […]
Marie-Louise Coolahan of National University of Ireland, Galway, shares her pioneering research with a lecture, “Women's Writing and Early Modern Ireland,” on a previously under-explored area of study. Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was a tumultuous, multi-cultural place; the site of political, religious and linguistic contestation and struggle. Amidst the turmoil, women forged […]
Marie-Louise Coolahan of National University of Ireland, Galway, shares her pioneering research with a lecture, “Women's Writing and Early Modern Ireland,” on a previously under-explored area of study. Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was a tumultuous, multi-cultural place; the site of political, religious and linguistic contestation and struggle. Amidst the turmoil, women forged […]
Join Professor Mauren O’Rourke Murphy for the launch of her new book, Compassionate Stranger (Syracuse University Press, 2014), the first biography of Asenath Nicholson, an extraordinary woman who committed herself “to personally investigate the condition of the Irish poor” on the eve of the Great Irish Famine. Raised in Vermont and trained as a schoolteacher […]
