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Glucksman Ireland House Events Calendar Spring 2000

Spring 2000 CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS

GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE –NEW YORKUNIVERSITY

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 at the door for regular event series: In order to ensure a seat please call ahead 212-998-3950

Spring 2000

24 January       Mary Gordon reads from her latest work, Seeing through Things: Reflections on Geography and Identity.

1 February       Professor Catherine McKenna presents a talk on “Whose Saint Brigid?”

7 February       Michael Patrick McDonald reads from his memoir All Souls: A Family from Southie.

17 February     Cathal O’Searcaigh reads from his collection of poetry, Out in the Open.

22 February     Denis Hamill launches his new publication, Fork in the Road.

2 March           Terry Golway talks about his latest work, For the Cause of Liberty: The Story of Ireland’s Heroes.

3-5 March        GRIAN, the Graduate Irish Studies Association of New York, holds their second annual interdisciplinary conference, “Technologies in Transition: Ireland 1000--2000.”

7 March           Eamonn Wall and Greg Delanty present “Through Emigrant Eyes: An Evening of ‘New Irish Prose.’”

23 March         Oíche Airneál: an evening of traditional Irish music, song poetry and dance with Pádraig Ó Cearúill.

30 March         Margaret Mac Curatin presents the lecture “Celebrating Peig Sayers, Storyteller from theBlasketIslands.”

6 April             Colum McCann reads from his most recent work, Everything in this Country Must.

20 April           Darrah Carr talks on “Irish Dance: Pushing the Boundaries of a Traditional Form.”

26 April           Film screening: Fathers to Daughters: A Tradition Cherished, directed by Bob Macken, with a panel discussion moderated by Mick Moloney.

27 April           Airneál na Bealtine: an evening of traditional Irish music, song, poetry, and dance with Pádraig Ó Cearúill to celebrate the coming of summer.

18 May            John McGahern reads from a work in progress.

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