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Free admission to Members of GlucksmanIreland House* and to all students/faculty with a valid NYU I.D. card.

For all others: $10 admission charge for regular event series: $15 admission charge forBlarney Star Concert Series.

Launch of the first comprehensive history ofIreland and the British Empire, with a lecture by the editor, Professor Kevin Kenny,BostonCollege, examining the different phases ofIreland's colonial status from the seventeenth century until the present, along with the impact of Irish people, politics and nationalism on the Empire at large.

We are delighted to work with Don Meade in hosting the venerable traditional music series at Glucksman Ireland House NYU and to welcome New Yorker Jerry O’Sullivan as he begins the new series. O’Sullivan is a virtuoso of the uilleann (elbow) pipes, the difficult and sophisticated Irish instrument that is noted for its ability to convey emotional intensity.

Launch of The Irish Face in America book and exhibition. Edited by Julia McNamara with photographs by Jim Smith and essays by Pete Hamill, Patricia Harty, and Terry Golway, this book celebrates a vibrant cross section of Irish Americans and their contributions to every aspect of society. Exhibition will run until January 2005.

Booker Award finalist Colm Tóibín reads from his recent novel The Master, a fictional account of five years of Henry James's life when he moved from failure to a renowned fiction writer. Tóibín is the author of four previous novels, The South, The Heather Burning, The Story of the Night and The Blackwater Lightship which was recently made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame film.

ProfessorAnna McMullan,Samuel Beckett Centre,TrinityCollege, and Fulbright Research Scholar this semester at NYU, leads a panel discussion on the Abbey Theatre and Twentieth Century Ireland. She will be joined by her Trinity colleague, Professor Nicholas Grene, Visiting Professor this semester atDartmouthCollege. Co-sponsored by the W.B. Yeats Society ofNew York

A native of Co. Mayo, John Hoban is a much-loved singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has been teaching and entertaining Irish music lovers for three decades. John earned a higher international profile as a guest singer on button accordion star Sharon Shannon's Diamond Mountain Sessions CD, but he is best known for his inspired solo performances. At this show John will demonstrate his prolific talents on fiddle, mandocello and tenor banjo.

The New York Institute for the Humanities, the Poetry Society of America and Glucksman Ireland House present The Irish on the Americans lecture series. Tuesday, October 12^th at7.30 pm. Pulitzer Prize recipient Paul Muldoon speaks on Robert Lowell: Tuesday October 19^th at7.30pm. Eavan Boland speaks on Edna St. Vincent Millay: Tuesday October 26^th at7.30pm Eamon Grennan speaks on Emily Dickinson. All events will take place at Hemmerdinger Hall,SilverCenter, NYU with receptions to follow. *Admission for Members of Glucksman Ireland House is $10 for each or $25 for all three. Tickets available at the door.

The Abbey Theatre presents The Playboy of the Western World at NYU’s Skirball Theater to mark the centenary of its existence asIreland’s National Theatre. The production runs from Tuesday October 26^th to Sunday October 31^st, with special discounts available to Ireland House Members for this performance and for the matinee performances on Saturday October 30^th and Sunday October 31^st.

THE ERNIE O’MALLEY LECTURE SERIES

The Orange Day Riots ofGreenwich Village: Fighting for a Republican Conception of Religious Equality. Distinguished scholar, Professor Walter J. Walsh, University of Washington-Seattle Law School, delivers the sixth annual lecture in this series endowed by Cormac K. H. O’Malley in honor of his father. The deeply symbolic celebration of the seventeenth century victory of the Protestant armies of King William over the Catholic troops of King James II made its way to theUnited States by the early nineteenth century. OnJuly 12^th 1824 Irish Presbyterian laborers clashed with Irish Catholic weavers with bloody results. The subsequent trials involved former United Irishmen WilliamSampson and Thomas Addis Emmet.

Draíocht in Irish means "magic," an apt description of the music of flute player June McCormack and harpist/concertina player Michael Rooney. In 1998 June won the senior All-Ireland championship on the flute and an award from television network TG4 asIreland's finest young traditional musician. Michael is likewise a senior All-Ireland champion, as well as a winner of the prestigious Keadue and Granard harp competitions.

JohnRidge of the New York Irish History Roundtable gives a talk on The Irish in Flatbush. An independent rural town before it was absorbed by Brooklyn and then greaterNew York in the 1890s, Flatbush had a vibrant Irish community which developed quickly after the 1850s and within two decades began to dominate the political life of the somewhat isolated town. Contrary to the Irish political position inNew York City, the Irish lost power as Flatbush became more urbanized.

The 'Hibernarchy' in Gotham: Irish-Americans and the Archdiocese of New York, a lecture by Monsignor Thomas J. Shelley, will examine not only the historical role of the Irish as the power brokers in the New York archdiocese, but also the contribution that Irish-American clergy, religious and laity have made to the spiritual welfare of the multiethnic Catholic community in New York City.

Pete Hamill, Writer in Residence in Journalism at NYU and Member of theGlucksman Ireland House Advisory Board launches his new book, Downtown: a Native’s Tale of Manhattan, a rich and historical personal portrait ofNew York City.

A native ofCountyLouth, Dónal Maguire is one of today's leading exponents of unaccompanied Irish traditional singing in the English language. After moving toEngland as a teenager, Dónal developed his style and repertoire as a member of the London Singers Club alongside Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and other famed folk vocalists.

Airneál na Nollaig: An ever-popular evening of traditional music and dance to celebrate the advent of the holiday season hosted by Pádraig Ó Cearúill, Irish Language Lecturer at New York University Bí Linn!

All events are co-sponsored by the New York Times Company Foundation with additional support from Aer Lingus

Glucksman Ireland House Events Calendar Fall 2004