Glucksman Ireland House Events Calendar Fall 1996Fall 1996
5 September Frank McCourt reads from Angela’s Ashes.
15 September Irish film series: Korea, a film dealing with social change and emigration and how these affect a father/son relationship, based on a story by John McGahern.
18 September Joseph O’Connor reads from Sweet Liberty: Travels in Irish America, with an introduction by Pete Hamill.
25 September Nicholas Canny, Professor of History at University College Galway, speaks on “Fashioning ‘British’ Worlds in the 17th Century: A Consideration of the Ulster Plantation in an Atlantic Context.”
2 October Brian Moore reads from his latest novel, The Statement.
9 October Marion McEvoy presents an evening of words and music, sketching the life of James Joyce’s mother, Mary Jane Joyce.
15 October “The Happy Heart Is True,” a benefit evening of spiritual music and song featuring Nóirín Ní Riain, in support of NYU’s Irish Studies Fund.
18 October “Ireland: In a Critical Condition?” A roundtable discussion with Professors Denis Donoghue, Seamus Deane, Kevin Whelan, and Luke Gibbons.
23 October Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Harvard Professor of Irish Studies, speaks on “Early Irish King Tales: The Tragic Tale of Conaire the Great.”
24 October Oíche Airneál: an evening of Irish traditional song and conversation entirely in Irish with Pádraig Ó Cearúill.
30 October Marie Heaney reads from her re-creation of the early Irish sagas, Over Nine Waves.
6 November Kit DeFever opens an exhibition of photographic watercolor prints entitled “Befitting Emblems: Scenes from the West of Ireland.”
14 November Denis Donoghue, Professor of English and American Letters at NYU, speaks on “Taking Yeats’s Word for It: The Politics of Irish Literature.”
19 November Irish film series:Cal, directed by Pat O’Connor.
2 December Kitty Sullivan presents an evening of Irish song and story.
8 December “Commemorating the Irish Famine,” a panel discussion chaired by Avril Doyle, featuring Professors Kevin Whelan, Luke Gibbons, and Robert Scally.
12 December Airneál na Nollag: a holiday carol celebration in Irish and English with Pádraig Ó Cearúill, director of An Scoil Nua. | 
