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, […]
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 […]
"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 […]
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 […]
Origin Theatre Company returns to Glucksman Ireland House NYU for the twelfth annual reading series with works by contemporary European playwrights. On Monday, May 30th, Origin presents Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye by Jim Nolan, directed by Tim Ruddy. Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye is a topical and provocative contribution to the Easter Rising Centenary Commemoration. Set […]
Part of Humor and the Irish Language conference | Comhdháil: An Greann agus an Ghaeilge Prof. Brian Ó Conchubhair will deliver the Ninth Annual Barra Ó Donnabháin Lecture on “Ó Chúirt an Mheán Oíche go Cré na Cille: Greann na Gaeilge,” or “The Midnight Court to Graveyard Clay: Humor in Irish.” Part of Greann agus an Ghaeilge […]
A Mothers-and-Daughters concert of Irish traditional dance music led by fiddler Rose Flanagan, button accordionist Patty Furlong and flute player Margie Mulvihill. All three musicians grew up in the Bronx, where they studied with the late Limerick fiddler Martin Mulvihill, and all have since moved across the Hudson, where they are at the center of […]
Boston-based Matt and Shannon Heaton play traditional and updated Irish music on flute, accordion, guitar, bouzouki, and voices. Their inventive approach to traditional tunes and ballads, their variety of instruments, and their blend of new and old music creates a robust “band” sound the Boston Herald called “majestic excellence.” Winner of Live Ireland’s “Trad Fusion […]
Origin Theatre Company Artistic Director George C. Heslin Cordially invites you to Sherlock, The Barman & The Hero's Wife by Stefano Benni Translated by Jack D. Street Directed by Julia Gibson Cast Includes Barbara Dowling Andrew Lemonier James Lidsay Kat Murphy Paul Nugent Stefano Benni, born in […]
