Glucksman Ireland House, NYU

Fall 2009 Events Calendar

• September
• October
• November
• December
• Past Events

1. September

   1. Thursday, September 10th at 7pm: The Journey of Irish Women in New York Theater

      

      Belinda McKeon moderates a panel discussion with Irish women working in the contemporary New York theater about their journey as Irish women making their way through life on the American stage.

      Presented in association with Origin Theatre Company as part of the 1st Irish theater festival 2009.

   2. Monday, September 14th at 7pm: Donal O’Kelly discusses and reads from his play The Cambria

      

      Playwright and actor Donal O’Kelly speaks on and performs excerpts from his acclaimed play, The Cambria, the story of Frederick Douglass’s 1845 visit to Ireland. The play opens at the Irish Arts Center on September 16th.

   3. Thursday, September 17th at 7pm: Professor Christopher Morash discusses the plays of Lennox Robinson

      

      Professor Christopher Morash of NUI Maynooth discusses the place of Lennox Robinson’s plays of the 1920s within European modernism, suggesting that the Irish Free State was less insular than believed.

      Presented in association with the Mint Theater as part of the 1st Irish theater festival 2009.

   4. Friday, September 18th at 9pm: The Blarney Star Concert Series:
      Mattie and Deirdre Connolly

      

      Renowned musicians and singers Mattie and Deirdre Connolly perform on uilleann pipes and flute to celebrate the release of their father-and-daughter recording

   5. Wednesday, September 23rd at 7pm: Professor Patricia Coughlan discusses “Emotion, Migration & Masculinity: the poetry of Bernard O’Donoghue”

      

      Professor Patricia Coughlan of University College Cork discusses literature and social change in Ireland. Presented in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame.

   6. Friday, September 25th at 7pm: Screening of Butte, America

      

      Venue:

      Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street between Broadway and University Place

      Narrated by 2009 Golden Globe-winner Gabriel Byrne, Butte, America recounts the sometimes glorious, often sorrowful, story of the most lucrative hard rock mining town in American history. It is also the story of a specific Irish immigrant experience. Scriptwriter and co-producer Edwin Dobb, and producer and director Pamela Roberts, will discuss the making of the documentary.

      Presented in association with the Irish Arts Center.

   7. Tuesday, September 29th at 7pm: Professor Terence Brown on “Modernism and Revolution: Re-reading Yeats’s ‘Easter 1916’”

      

      Professor Terence Brown of Trinity College Dublin speaks on “Modernism and Revolution: Re-reading Yeats’s Easter 1916.” Presented in co-operation with the W. B. Yeats Society of New York.

2. October

   1. Thursday, October 1st at 7pm: Screening and discussion of The Forgotten Maggies

      

      Venue:

      Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street between Broadway and University Place

      The Forgotten Maggies follows the lives of women forcefully placed in Magdalene Laundries. Filmmaker Steven O’Riordan will be joined by Mari Steed of Justice for Magdalenes to discuss their current effort to urge redress upon the Irish government.

   2. Friday, October 2nd at 9pm: The Blarney Star Concert Series:
      Máirtín de Cogáin and Jimmy Crowley

      

      Fellow Corkmen and balladeers Máirtín de Cogáin and Jimmy Crowley come together as Captain Mackey’s Goatskin and String Band to perform from their collaborative recording, Soldier’s Songs: the Irish Abroad and Soldiering.

   3. Saturday, October 3rd at 6pm: Professor Jim Fisher discusses On the Irish Waterfront: the Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York

      

      Professor Jim Fisher of Fordham University discusses his book On the Irish Waterfront: the Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York.

   4. Thursday, October 8th at 7pm: Professor James S. Rogers on “The Green in the Gray Flannel Suit: Irish America at Mid-century”

      

      Professor James S. Rogers of University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN), co-editor of After the Flood: Irish-America 1945–1960, speaks on “The Green in the Gray Flannel Suit: Irish America at Mid-century.”

   5. Friday, October 9th at 7pm: “Travels With My Harp” with singer and harpist Mary O’Hara

      

      Iconic singer and harpist Mary O’Hara talks about how she revived the playing of the Irish harp in the 1950s and 1960s and influenced the rising stars of the folk era.

   6. Thursday, October 15th at 7pm: The Irish Institute of New York Lecture:
      Bill Whelan on “Irish Music and Identity – a window and a mirror.”

      

      Grammy Award-winner Bill Whelan, the composer of Riverdance, The Spirit of Mayo, The Seville Suite, and The Connemara Suite, speaks on how the Irish see themselves, how others view the Irish and the role that music plays in those perceptions.

   7. Thursday, October 22nd at 7pm: Crime novelist John Connolly reads from The Gates

      

      Dubliner John Connolly is the acclaimed author of best-selling crime thrillers, eight of which are set in Maine and feature the protagonist Charlie Parker. Connolly will read from his new novel, The Gates.

      

   8. Friday, October 23rd at 7pm: Screening of John Connolly: Of Blood and Lost Things

      

      Venue:

      Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street between Broadway and University Place

      Yvonne Nolan introduces her documentary John Connolly: Of Blood and Lost Things, which traces John Connolly’s literary trajectory from freelance journalist to publishing superstardom from the sale of his first novel, Every Dead Thing. By special permission of RTÉ.

   9. Saturday, October 24th at 8pm: If It Wasn't For the Irish and the Jews: A Tribute to Irish and Jewish Influences on Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley

      

      Venue:

      Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street

      Join renowned musician-folklorist and NYU professor Mick Moloney and an all-star cast for a one-night-only concert celebration of this charming and unexplored story of good-natured ethnic flux, competition, and cooperation that left a lasting imprint on American popular music.

      Admission to this event is not included with Glucksman Ireland House Membership. Please see the event page for available discounts for Members.

   10. Thursday, October 29th at 7pm: Dr. Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch discusses the visual arts and Irish identity

       

       Dr. Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch discusses Ireland’s Art, Ireland’s History: Representing Ireland, 1845 to Present and how the visual arts in Ireland have shaped, and been shaped by, the shifting issues of Irish national identity.

3. November

   1. Thursday, November 5th at 7pm: The Ernie O’Malley Lecture:
      Professor Charles Fanning presents “A Hidden Flowering: Irish-American Culture in the 1930s”

      

      Professor Emeritus Charles Fanning presents “A Hidden Flowering: Irish-American Culture in the 1930s,” an illustrated talk exploring the Irish dimension of some Depression-era accomplishments in poetry, fiction, the comic strip, radio, music, drama, film, and painting.

   2. Saturday, November 7th: Irish Arts Center PoetryFest 2009

      

      Venue:

      Irish Arts Center, 553 West 51st Street

      Irish Arts Center PoetryFest 2009 in association with the Poetry Society of America and Glucksman Ireland House NYU. See www.irishartscenter.org for time and further details.

      

   3. Thursday, November 12th at 7pm: A U.S. Spy in Ireland: The Truth Behind Irish “Neutrality” During World War II

      

      Ostensibly a film distributor, Martin S. Quigley operated as an American undercover agent in Ireland during the Second World War. Kevin Quigley, President of Peace Corps Connect, discusses his father’s experience of Irish neutrality.

   4. Thursday, November 19th at 7pm: Bernard O’Donoghue reads from his Selected Poems

      

      Fellow in English at Oxford University, literary critic and eminent poet, Bernard O’Donoghue reads from his Selected Poems. In 2009, he received the prestigious Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Co-sponsored by the NYU English Dept.

   5. Friday, November 20th at 9pm: The Blarney Star Concert Series:
      Kathleen Collins and Gabe Donoghue

      

      Regarded as one of the great solo fiddlers, Kathleen Collins is joined by guitarist and singer Gabe Donoghue to perform from her recent and long-awaited CD My Book of Songs.

4. December

   1. Tuesday, December 1st at 7pm: Novelists Colum McCann and Joseph O’Connor in conversation

      

      Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin, National Book Award Winner) and Joseph O’Connor (Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls) read and discuss their writing.

   2. Thursday, December 3rd at 7pm: Airneal na Nollag:
      An evening of traditional music and song

      

      Led by Pádraig Ó Cearúill, NYU language students, and the Washington Square Harp & Shamrock Orchestra offer a musical program to celebrate the holidays. Tráthnóna craice agus ceoil.

   3. Saturday, December 5th at 1pm: Gaelic Song Workshop with Pádraig Ó Cearúill and Ashley Davis

      

      NYU Senior Irish Language Lecturer Pádraig Ó Cearúill and professional singer Ashley Davis keep learning Irish fun by teaching language through songs in this day-long workshop.

   4. Monday, December 7th at 7pm: Sixty Years of Journalism:
      Honoring Jimmy Breslin

      

      Honoring Jimmy Breslin in his eightieth year, Pete Hamill leads a conversation on the newspaper and the New York Irish with fellow journalists of distinction.

   5. Friday, December 11th at 9pm: The Barney Star Concert Series:
      Dónal Maguire

      

      Traditional singer, banjo and mandolin player Dónal Maguire has produced several classic recordings of the Irish folk revival, most recently Michael Davitt: The Forgotten Hero.