Glucksman Ireland House Events Calendar Spring 2002

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 2002

7 February       “Bloody Sunday 1972--2002: Event, Image, and Memory.”  A panel discussion coinciding with the “Hidden Truths: Bloody Sunday 1972” exhibition at the InternationalCenter for Photography.  The panel includes Richard Harvey, Mary Hickman, Martin McGuinness, Peter Pringle and Trisha Ziff.

14 February     Allen Feldman discusses “Public Memory in a Private Space: The Northern Fiddler Project and Modern Irish Performance Culture,” with music by Mick Moloney and ensemble.

21 February     Professor Timothy J. Meagher discusses his recent book, Inventing IrishAmerica.

28 February     Greg Delanty reads from his recent work, The Blind Stitch.

1-3 March        GRIAN, the Graduate Irish Studies Association of New York, holds their fourth annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Irish Studies, “Irish Studies: Work in Progress.”

7 March           Kate McCafferty reads from her recent work, Testimony of an Irish Slave.

14 March         Peter Carey reads from his book, True History of the Kelly Gang.

19 March         Jack Holland speaks on “Literature and the Troubles in 20th centuryIreland. Also, Cormac K. H. O’Malley presents “Shades of My Father.”

21 March         Professor Kerby Miller draws on a decade of work to present the lecture “‘Scotch-Guarding’Ulster’s Immigrants Against ‘Celtic Contaminations’: The Making of ‘Scotch-Irish’ Identity in Early America.”

28 March         Tyler Anbinder discusses his new book, Five Points: The 19th centuryNew York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum, and is joined by Peter Quinn.

4 April             Eilis Ní Dhuibhne reads from her works The Dancers Dancing and The Pale Gold of Alaska.

11 April           Alice Carey reads from her memoir, I’ll Know It When I See It: A Daughter’s Search for Home in Ireland.

18 April           Professor Roy Foster lectures on “Yeats andAmerica.”

24 April           The Glucksman Ireland House Dinner Series.  Mick Moloney speaks and performs on “Far from theShamrockShore: Irish-American Song.”

25 April           Jamie O’Neill reads from his book, At Swim, Two Boys.

30 April           Airneál na Bealtaine: an evening of traditional music, song, poetry, and dance to celebrate the advent of summer with Irish language lecturer Pádraig Ó Cearúill.

22 May            The Glucksman Ireland House Dinner Series.  Arthur Gelb speaks on his many experiences at The New York Times.