Glucksman Ireland House Events Calendar Fall 2008Free admission to Members of Glucksman Ireland House and to all students/faculty with a valid NYU I.D. card.
For non-members: $10 donation at the door for regular event series;
$15 donation at the door for Blarney Star Concert Series.
In order to ensure a seat at events, please RSVP to 212-998-3950 (option 3) or email ireland.house@nyu.edu, except for the Blarney Star Concert Series which does not accept reservations.
All events are held at Glucksman Ireland House unless otherwise noted.
Please click on hyperlinks in event titles for more further information regarding each listing.
A panel discussion of contemporary Irish theatre presented in association with 2008-1st Irish, a three-week festival of Irish theatre in New York City hosted by Origin Theatre Company. Belinda McKeon, writer and journalist for the Irish Times, will moderate the panel with participants Ciarán O’Reilly, Producing Director, Irish Repertory Theater, George C. Heslin, Artistic Director, Origin Theatre Company and Professor John P. Waters, NYU. For details of the festival, see www.1stIrish.org
Bronx native Brian Conway is the leading standard bearer of the celebrated County Sligo fiddle style in North America. Brian was tutored as a boy by Sligo fiddle legend Martin Wynne and was also greatly influenced by the elegant style and impeccable technique of New York fiddle great Andy McGann. Brian himself has, in turn, tutored and inspired many younger New York fiddlers who are actively keeping this local tradition alive. Brian’s latest recording, Consider the Source, was released this year on Galway’s Cló Iar-Chonnachta label. Pianist Brendan Dolan and other musical friends will join Brian for this performance.
Acclaimed author Gerard Donovan reads from Young Irelanders (The Overlook Press, 2008), an elegiac collection of thirteen stories that interprets the new Ireland and how the Irish are coping with its rewards and pressures: immigration, mid-life crisis, adultery and divorce, a lost sense of place and history, and unfamiliar prosperity. Donovan is the author of three poetry collections and three novels Schopenhauer’s Telescope (2003), nominated for the Man Booker Prize, Julius Winsome (2006) and Sunless (2007).
Poets Iggy McGovern and Nell Regan read from their work. McGovern holds the McCrea Literary Award and the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry. A first collection, The King of Suburbia, (Dedalus Press, 2005) received both the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary and the inaugural Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry in 2006. Regan was short-listed for the 2006 Patrick Kavanagh Awards and received the 2007 Dublin City Council Bursary for Literature. Her debut collection Preparing for Spring (Arlen House, 2007) was nominated for the 2007 Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry.
The National Endowment for the Arts and Wake Forest University Press present poets Chris Agee, and Sinéad Morrissey reading from The New North, an anthology of Northern Irish poetry, selected and edited by Chris Agee. This anthology answers two major questions: how did two great generations of poets emerge from such a small place and what is the future direction of Irish poetry in Northern Ireland? Co-sponsored by the Northern Ireland Bureau, Tourism Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland and the Creative Writing Program at NYU.
Professor Nicholas Grene, Trinity College, Dublin, speaks on 'Yeats and the tragic sense of life,' based on his new book Yeats’s Poetic Codes (OUP, 2008). Grene explores Yeats's poetic codes of practice, the key words and habits of speech that shape the reading experience of his poetry. Recent publications from this distinguished academic include Irish Theatre on Tour (Carysfort Press, 2005), Shakespeare's Serial History Plays (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School 1991-2000. (Lilliput Press. 2000). Co-sponsored by the W.B. Yeats Society of New York.
Flute player Mike Rafferty is still going strong well into his eighth decade. A native of famously musical Ballinakill, Co. Galway, Mike is the finest living exponent of the old-time east Galway wooden flute style. He has had an enormous influence on many younger Irish-American musicians in the New York area, particularly his daughter Mary, who played the button accordion, flute and tin whistle for many years with the group Cherish the Ladies. Mike and Mary have made three superb duet recordings together, and Mike matched Mary’s solo CD with one of his own, Speed 78, which he recorded at age 78. Guitar accompaniment will be provided by Mary’s husband Dónal Clancy, a son of Liam Clancy of the famed brother act, and a member of the Waterford-based group Danú.
The Civil War has just entered its third bloody year and the North is about to impose its first military draft, a decision that in New York City will spark the most devastating and destructive riot in American history. Peter Quinn, acclaimed author of Looking for Jimmy and Hour of the Cat, relates the events of this tumultuous time through the lives of people drawn from every part of the city's teeming streets. The fates of these characters coalesce in the cataclysm of the Draft Riots, as Quinn magically brings to life a pivotal period in this country's history. In Banished Children of Eve (The Overlook Press, 2008) Quinn presents a lavishly praised novel of a great American city in crisis.
Please join us in supporting a wonderful cause with a spectacular concert. The Mercy Center was founded in the slums of Bangkok, Thailand, 35 years ago. Today it runs over 30 schools, four orphanages, a hospice, and a 500-pupil kindergarten. It is an anti-trafficking program protecting children and helping build over 10,000 homes in the slums.
Featuring an All Star Cast of Irish Musicians and Dancers with some English and Appalachian Friends; Artists include The Green Fields of America (with NYU's own Mick Moloney, Billy McComiskey, Ivan Goff, Jerry O'Sullivan, Dana Lyn, Athena Tergis and Robbie O'Connell), Joanie Madden and a Cherish the Ladies reunion w/Joe Madden and Mike Rafferty, Tommy, Moya and Fionan Sands, Frank Crocker, Jimmy Crowley and Donie Carroll, Mac Benford and UpSouth, The Burns Sisters, John Roberts and Tony Barrand, Dan and Bonnie Milner, NYU's own Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra (with Don Meade and Brendan Dolan), Matt and Shannon Heaton, Dan Gurney, Niall O'Leary and his School of Irish Dance with Kieran Jordan and more. Performers are donating their services pro bono. All concert proceeds go to the Mercy Center.
This benefit concert is not included with membership to Glucksman Ireland House NYU. Tickets: $50 / $35 / $25.
All info and ticketing is via Symphony Space: (212) 864-5400 or www.symphonyspace.org.
Screening of “We Live in Ireland” (21 min. 2008), a film by NYU student Yingying Xiang, shot while participating in an NYU Presidential Honors Scholars visit to Dublin. The film explores aspects of Chinese immigration to Ireland and will be followed by a panel discussion on the nature of immigration to Ireland in the past decade, the continuing challenges and the opportunities for integration, especially in the current economic situation. Participants include the film-maker and Irish Studies professors Marion R. Casey and John P. Waters. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at NYU.
Venue: Room 914, NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South
Dr. Dunlop finished his book A Precarious Belonging: Presbyterians and the conflict in Ireland in 1995 with the question “Do we suspect that here we have no abiding city … and we will, however reluctantly, return to the place whence we came 350 years ago and Ireland shall know us no more?” He declares, "we have been on a long and complex journey since then, the latest stage being one which can only be described as remarkable, where sworn enemies are joined in a complex political accommodation which may one day lead to reconciliation… but not yet. The process has been marked by painful compromises and moral complexities along with linguistic ambiguity, which some thought was designed to deceive but others deemed necessary to keep adversaries on board. The danger now is that Enquiries, preoccupied with the past, may destroy the future. Can these books be closed and the past left to the historians?” Dr. Dunlop was the Minister of Rosemary Presbyterian Church in Belfast from 1978-2004. Honored by several institutions for his work to foster understanding between the communities in Northern Ireland, Dr. Dunlop was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship in 1989 and was created a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.
Paddy Woodworth discusses the Irish and Basque conflicts, specifically comparing the IRA and the ETA. Woodworth has written extensively for the Irish Times, where he was a staff journalist from 1988 to 2002, as arts editor and as an editor and contributor on the foreign desk. He is best known for his work on Spain and his previous book, Dirty War, Clean Hands, was described by Franco biographer Paul Preston as "one of the most important books about post-Franco Spain ever published". His most recent publication is The Basque Country: A Cultural History (OUP, 2007), described by the Basque author Joseba Zulaika as “sensorially rich, with perfect background information on history, ethnography, politics, balanced in its political and cultural perceptions, incredibly perceptive to the nuances of daily life...it opens doors to the vision and taste and enigma and struggle of the place like no other book in recent years." Co-sponsored by the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU.
Venue: Room 914, NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South
Michael Davitt (1846-1906) “Cosmopolitan Irish Nationalist?” After almost eight years in prison in England for Fenian activities, “The Father of the Land League” became known internationally through his travels and writing, achieving iconic status in Irish America. In the tenth annual lecture in this series endowed by Cormac K. H. O’Malley in honor of his father, Professor Joe Lee, Glucksman Chair of Irish Studies at NYU, explores the impact of the diasporic experience on Davitt’s concept of Irish nationalism.
Glucksman
Ireland House NYU is very proud to announce a special and rare event:
an evening of traditional singing with acclaimed West Kerry artist Seosaimhín Ni Bheaglaoich. Seosaimhín will also speak briefly about sean-nos singing and her experiences as an Irish-language singer.
Of a
famous and musically accomplished family from the Gaeltacht area of
Corca Dhuibhne and educated at Trinity College Dublin, Seosaimhín Ní Bheaglaoich was a
founding member of the group MACALLA, Ireland’s first all-female
traditional music group, which enjoyed great success in the 1980s.
Dr. Matthew Campbell, University of Sheffield, speaks on “Mangan’s Golden Years.” The writing of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849) has long challenged readers of Irish poetry. It mixes the Irish poem with Oriental settings, filtered through European translations and the histories of an English language written in 1840s Ireland. This talk will think about his verse as the place where styles and languages mix, where the ‘Oriental’ and the ‘Celtic’ were recreated as lost golden years by a poet ultimately to face the catastrophe of famine. Campbell has edited the Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry and, at present, is writing a book on Irish poetry in English in the 19th Century and working on an anthology of Victorian Irish Verse. Presented in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame.
Fiddler Sean Quinn grew up in one of Irish America’s most musical households. His father Louis, an immigrant from County Armagh, was a leading Irish fiddler and bandleader in New York in the decades after World War II. Sean, the eldest son, got the chance to listen to and play with his father’s many musical associates and got a classical music education that equipped him with a technical command of the violin rare among traditional players. He was the first American-born musician to win an All-Ireland fiddle championship Sean is also a prolific composer of new tunes in the traditional style, many of which he has included on a new CD recorded with guitarist and keyboard player Gabe Donohue.
Note: Kathleen Collins, who was originally scheduled for this date, was forced to postpone her performance because of a hand injury. We hope to re-schedule her concert in the future.
Glucksman Ireland House invites you to attend a special performance of Catalpa with
a commentary to follow by Professor Joe Lee, Glucksman Chair of Irish
Studies and Director of Glucksman Ireland House, NYU. Writer and actor
Donal O'Kelly will attend the post-performance discussion and respond
to Professor Lee's comments.
Based on the true story of the daring rescue of six Irish prisoners in 1875, Catalpa is a “rip-roaring theatrical adventure” (Washington Post), in the great epic tradition of Moby Dick, Gone With The Wind, and The Great Escape, performed with virtuosity by Ireland’s greatest playwright-performer.
Venue: Room 914, NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South
Due to a change in the release date of the film version of John Patrick Shanley's play, Doubt, now scheduled for general release on Friday, December 12th, Mr. Shanley is unable to be in New York during the week of November 17th-21st, and thus must cancel his Thursday, November 20th event at NYU. We regret the cancellation of this event and hope to be able to re-schedule this conversation in spring 2009.
Venue: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Film Center NYU, 36 East Eighth Street (between University Place & Broadway)
Screening of Kings 2007 (89
minutes, bilingual, Irish and English dialogue with English subtitles). Introduction and post-screening commentary by Glucksman Ireland House faculty members, Pádraig Ó Cearúill, Senior Irish Language Lecturer and Miriam Nyhan, Research Scholar, Oral History of Irish America Project.
Kevin Todd, an Irish artist
living in Australia, is currently a visiting scholar at Glucksman
Ireland House, NYU. He has exhibited internationally and is actively
involved with public art, including the current development of an
acoustic sculpture project in Liverpool, England and New York to
commemorate European migration.
Airneál na Nollag: an evening of traditional music agus amhráin as Gaeilge with NYU Irish language students and local musicians hosted by Senior Irish Language Lecturer, Pádraig Ó Cearúill. Bí Linn!
Button-accordion virtuoso John Whelan was born to Irish emigrant parents in Luton, England, a town north of London that was a hub of Irish music making in the 1960s and ‘70s. He recorded his first album, The Pride of Wexford, as a teenager and went on to establish a reputation as one of the finest button-box players in Irish music before emigrating to the U.S. in 1980 and winning the senior All-Ireland championship in 1983. In the ‘80s, John formed an innovative duo with Bronx fiddle star Eileen Ivers and he played in the ‘90s with the genre-bending Kips Bay Ceili Band before putting together his own group and recording a string of discs for the Narada label. Now living in Connecticut, John is no longer touring as hard as he once did but he’s still a dynamic and highly energetic live performer. For this concert, he will be joined by guitarist Flynn Cohen and other musical guests.
Free admission to Members of Glucksman Ireland House and to all students/faculty with a valid NYU I.D. card.
For non-members: $10 donation at the door for regular event series;
$15 donation at the door for Blarney Star Concert Series.In order to ensure a seat at events, please RSVP to 212-998-3950 (option 3) or email ireland.house@nyu.edu, except for the Blarney Star Concert Series which does not accept reservations.
All events are held at Glucksman Ireland House unless otherwise noted.
Please click on hyperlinks in event titles for more further information regarding each listing.
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