Glucksman Ireland House Events Calendar Spring 2009Free 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.
Two of the leading uilleann pipers in the New York area will share this dual recital. Ivan Goff is a native of Dublin who has been residing in New York City for several years. A veteran of Riverdance on Broadway and tours with Lúnasa, Ivan is currently working on a PhD in Ethnomusicology at NYU. Jerry O’Sullivan is the best known American-born master of the uilleann pipes. Jerry is much in demand for performances with symphony orchestras and for movie soundtracks. He has also received much acclaim for his solo recordings, including O’Sullivan Meets O’Farrell, a CD devoted to music published by a famed London theatrical piper of the early 19th century.
Why has Ireland produced so many great runners? Join world champion middle-distance runner, four-time Olympian and head coach of Villanova's cross-country and track and field teams, Marcus O'Sullivan, as he discusses Irish running and the trans-Atlantic relationship with Professor John Waters and other guests.
Dan Milner has for many years been one of North America’s leading performers of traditional Irish song. He was a founding member of The New York Packet, the official singing group of the South Street Seaport Museum, and the co-author of the influential song collection, "The Bonnie Bunch of Roses." His discography includes a 1970s LP with the Flying Cloud, the Folk Legacy CDs Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea and Irish in America, and his latest production, Irish Pirate Ballads, a Smithsonian Folkways release that will be celebrated at this concert with some of Dan’s many musical friends
Dr. Nini Rodgers's Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery 1612-1865 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) compares slavery in Africa with slavery in early Ireland, discussing the Irish connections of famous ex-slaves Olaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass and finishing with an assessment of the relationship between slaves and Irish immigrants in the US. Presented in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame. Co-sponsored by the NYU's Atlantic History Seminar.
Frank Delaney, best-selling author of Ireland (2005), Tipperary (2007), Shannon (2009) and award-winning filmmaker Mary Pat Kelly, author of Galway Bay (2009), explore the genre, the challenges, and the appeal of Irish historical fiction.
Poet and essayist Richard Tillinghast discusses Finding Ireland: A Poet’s Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008). A Tennessee native who has settled in Tipperary, Tillinghast writes for The Irish Times on literature and the changes in Irish culture as seen from the standpoint of a foreign resident.
NYU Global Distinguished Professor Mick Moloney launches Close to the Floor: Irish Dance from the Boreen to Broadway (Macater Press, 2009), the proceedings of a pioneering conference held by Glucksman Ireland House NYU. The volume is edited by Mick Moloney, J’aime Morrison, and Colin Quigley.
Michael Cooney turned his attention at a young age to the tin whistle and uilleann pipes, playing a sophisticated repertoire of dance tunes and slow airs. In the 1980s, Michael made a name for himself by winning multiple All-Ireland championships and by playing and recording in the U.S. with Galway button accordion great Joe Burke. Now living in upstate New York, Michael particularly enjoys playing with New Jersey fiddler and piper Willie Kelly, whose affinity for the old-time music of east Clare and east Galway has made him popular duet partner for many distinguished Irish traditional musicians.
Acclaimed West Kerry artist Seosaimhín Ni Bheaglaoich leads a fun, informative session on traditional Irish-language song. Learn Irish vocabulary through song and practice pronunciation.
Of a famous and musically accomplished family from the Gaeltacht area of Corca Dhuibhne and educated at Trinity College Dublin, Seosaimhín was a founding member of the group MACALLA, Ireland’s first all-female traditional music group, which enjoyed great success in the 1980s.
Free admission for Members of Glucksman Ireland House and for all students/faculty with a valid NYU I.D. card.
For all others: $10 donation at the door.
Coming Into Clover traces the evolution of cinematic representations of Ireland and the Irish in early American cinema using fascinating and rarely-seen film footage. From the birth of the medium in 1895 until the full emergence of the so-called Hollywood system in 1917, these images underwent a fascinating evolution with the crude ‘stage Irish’ stereotypes steadily giving way to a more positive and diverse set of representations.
Father Andrew M. O'Connor of Holy Family Church in the Bronx will celebrate the Mass, with Msgr. Donald Sakano, pastor of the Old Cathedral, as a concelebrant. Readings will be done in English by Father O'Connor and in Irish by Pádraig Ó Cearúill, Senior Language Lecturer of Irish Studies, NYU. The Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra, led by Mick Moloney,
Global Distinguished Professor of Irish Studies and Music, NYU, will
perform liturgical music, along with Irish-language vocalist Dawn
Doherty. Jared Lamenzo will play the beautiful and historic 1868 Henry Erben pipe organ.
After the Mass, a party celebrating the Feast of St. Patrick will be
held in front of the church, with traditional Irish music and
refreshments.
Maurice Walsh, distinguished foreign correspondent for the BBC, discusses his book The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) with Pete Hamill. The News from Ireland examines the development of the Anglo-Irish war and the shifts in the reporting of events by British and American correspondents as well as other foreign journalists and literary figures, with revealing insights into the propaganda war and the ways in which both the British and the Irish tried to interest journalists in their cause. Maurice Walsh also emphasizes the power of public opinion to influence the British government and analyzes the effect this had on the course of the revolution.
Irish novelist, playwright and poet, Dermot Bolger, discusses his work, particularly the completion of his Ballymun trilogy of plays with the recently staged The Consequences of Lightning and the US 2008 publication of his 1990 novel The Journey Home.
NYU Irish Language Lecturers Pádraig Ó Cearúill and Hilary Mhic Shuibhne and NYU’s Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) John Keatings lead a day of learning Irish through sessions on vocabulary and pronunciation with creative group activities in Irish.
Free and open to the public.
Carnegie Hall in New York City on St. Patrick's Day 1963. The sold-out, overflowing, nearly two-hour concert was recorded by Columbia Records and issued six months later as a drastically re-sequenced 38-minute, 11-track LP. Brevity notwithstanding, the record has never been out-of-print in the Columbia catalog for four and a half decades. A landmark recording, but as Princeton University's Sean Wilentz writes, "the larger work of art was lost." With introductory notes by Liam Clancy and a three thousand word essay by Wilentz, The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem In Person at Carnegie Hall: The Complete 1963 Concert finally restores the night in its entirety on two CDs, complete with between-song dialogues and introductions, and 29 musical tracks.
All seats for this event have been reserved and the waiting list is also full.
Dalkey Archive Press presents Brian Lynch, reading from The Winner of Sorrow, (2009), his fictional imagining of the life of the gentle and troubled eighteenth-century poet, William Cowper, described by John Banville as "at once moving, instructive and slyly funny, that rare thing, a recuperation of a poet by a poet."
Monsignor Charles Coen (“Father Charlie” to his musical friends) was born and raised in Woodford, County Galway, and emigrated to New York in the 1950’s. He is one of the finest Irish concertina players in America and is also a superb flute and whistle player and a much admired traditional singer. The multi-talented “musical priest” holds the rare distinction of having won three All-Ireland championships in a single day. Msgr. Coen will be joined by his nephew, Jimmy, who wields his flatpick both as an accompanist and a solo player of reels, jigs, and hornpipes.
Prof. Michael Patrick Gillespie of Marquette University presents a groundbreaking challenge to the traditional view of filmmaking, contesting the existence of an Irish national cinema. Gillespie argues in The Myth of an Irish Cinema (Syracuse University Press, 2008), that, given the complexity of contemporary Irish identity, filmmakers can no longer present Irishness as a monolithic entity.
A native speaker from the Galway Gaeltacht, Pádhraic Ó Ciardha, speaks on the Irish language and broadcasting. Ó Ciardha is Leascheannasaí (Deputy Chief Executive) of TG4, the Irish-language television station. This annual lecture was established in 2006 to commemorate Barra O Donnabháin, a beloved and influential teacher and advocate of the language in the United States.
Oscailt, an evening of short Irish-language films facilitated by Reel Ireland, the Irish Film Institute, the Irish Film Board and Culture Ireland.
Please click on the event title or image to see a full program for the evening.
This examination developed by the Language Center at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, is a system for adult learners of Irish to measure their progress. It is linked to the Common European Framework of Reference for Language (Council of Europe, 2001). The test provides a benchmark, offering six levels in the system of certification for learners within and outside formal academic environments.
Application forms may be downloaded from www.teg.ie or may be obtained from Glucksman Ireland House and they should be returned to Glucksman Ireland House by March 20, 2009 with a check for $120 made payable to Glucksman Ireland House, NYU.
Distinguished Yeats scholars, Prof. John Kelly of St. John’s College, Oxford, and Prof. Ronald Schuchard of Emory University discuss their collaboration on the most recent volume of "one of the great works of literary scholarship of our time" (London Review of Books), The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats: Volume IV (OUP, 2005). This volume, covering the crucial years 1905-1907, was awarded the ninth Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters and is the fourth of a projected fifteen volumes. Co-sponsored by the W.B. Yeats Society of New York.
Gillian O'Brien, Fulbright Scholar at the Newberry Library, Chicago, discusses the murder of Patrick Cronin, an Irish-American doctor, who was killed in Chicago in May 1889 because he knew too much about the corruption at the heart of the secret revolutionary society, Clan na Gael. Ranging from post-famine Ireland to 'Gilded Age' America, this talk will explore a world in which secret assassination societies thrived and police forces in America and Britain struggled to contain the increasingly violent Irish Republican movement.
Since their GRAMMY Award-winning work in The Klezmatics, Susan McKeown and Lorin Sklamberg have begun an exciting musical collaboration and exploration of their respective song traditions, culminating in the recording of an album.
A one-day symposium to celebrate the eightieth birthday of distinguished playwright Brien Friel, bringing together academics from Queen’s University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and members of the theater community, including Patrick Mason, Tony award-winner and former Director of the Abbey Theatre.
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Irish playwright and novelist, and two-time Booker Award nominee, Sebastian Barry, reads from The Secret Scripture (Faber, 2008), the story of Roseanne, an Irish centenarian who has spent most of her adult life in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, and Dr. Grene, the psychiatrist who must now prepare her for the emotional upheaval that the hospital's imminent closure will precipitate.
An evening of traditional music and song with NYU students and local musicians hosted by Irish Language Lecturer, Pádraig Ó Cearúill. Bí Linn!
Paddy Keenan’s spectacular virtuosity on the uilleann pipes is legendary. He achieved international renown in the 1970s with the Bothy Band, a ground-breaking group that revolutionized the sound of Irish traditional music and helped win it a new worldwide audience. Paddy’s piping prowess has not faded over the decades and for this performace he will be accompaned by John Walsh, a superb Kilkenny-born guitarist who now lives in Yonkers and has released his own solo recording, Aon, Do, Tri.
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. Free and open to the public.
Glucksman Ireland House NYU, the Irish Business Organization (IBO), Irish Network-NYC (IN-NYC), the Irish-American Bar Association of New York (IABANY) and the Consulate General of Ireland in New York are pleased to announce a special evening with Dr. Garret FitzGerald reflecting on “Ireland’s Past Success – And Current Crisis.”
Origin Theatre Company, in association with Glucksman Ireland House NYU, presents the American premier of Silent Engine, written by Julian Garner and directed by Jo Catell. Winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First Award.
Origin Theatre Company, in association with Glucksman Ireland House NYU, presents the 2008 Stewart Parker Award-winning play Pumpgirl, written by Abbie Spallen, directed by Jo Cathell.
Mike
Rafferty of Ballinakill, east Galway has been living in New Jersey
since Truman was president but you'd never know that from his accent or
the way he plays the finest old-time Irish music on his "timber flute."
Mike will be joined by fiddler Willie Kelly, student of the late, great
Limerick fiddler Martin Mulvihill, and guitarist Dónal Clancy, of Danú.
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. | |
Friday, February 6th at 9pm:
Wednesday, February 11th at 7pm:
Thursday, March 5th at 7pm:
Friday, March 6th at 9pm:
Saturday, March 7th from 3pm: 
Thursday, March 12th at 7pm:
Saturday, March 14th at 12pm at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral on Mott Street
Thursday, March 19th at 7pm:
Thursday, March 26th at 7pm:
Saturday, March 28th 1-5pm
Friday, April 3rd at 9pm:
Wednesday, April 8th at 7pm:
Thursday, April 16th at 7pm:
Friday, April 17th at 7pm:
Saturday, April 18th by appointment:
Thursday, April 23rd at 7pm:
Thursday, April 30th at 7pm:
Friday, May 1st at 7pm:
Saturday, May 2nd 1pm-5pm:
Tuesday, May 5th at 7pm:
Thursday, May 7th at 7pm:
Friday, May 8th at 9pm:
Saturday, May 9th 1-6pm:
Thursday, May 14th at 7pm
Monday, May 18th at 7pm
Friday, June 5th at 9pm