Glucksman Ireland House Events Calendar Spring 2000Spring 2000 CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE –NEW YORKUNIVERSITY
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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. |