Glucksman Ireland House Events Calendar Spring 1995

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 1995

9 January         Roddy Doyle reads from Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha, winner of the 1993 Booker Prize.

14 February     Michael Longley reads from his recent poetry.

16 February     Oíche Airneál: an evening of traditional song and conversation entirely in Irish with Pádraig Ó Cearúill, director of An Scoil Nua.

24 February     John Teahan of the National Museum of Ireland, speaks on “The Daring Rescue of Fenians from Australia by the whaling ship Catalpa.”

2 March           Peter Murray, Curator of the Crawford Municipal Gallery inCork, speaks on “Encountering the World: Recent Irish Art and Artists Outside Ireland.”

7 March           Susan McKeown sings contemporary arrangements of traditional Celtic songs with guitarist Greg Anderson and cellist Michelle Kinney.

8 March           Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill reads from her recent work.

9 March           Nicholas Canny, Professor of History atUniversityCollege, Galway, speaks on “Spenser,Ireland and The Faerie Queene.”

20 March         Anna Crookshank and Desmond Fitzgerald, the Knight of Glin, discuss their recent book Irish Watercolours and Drawings.

23 March         Oíche Airneál: an evening of traditional song and conversation entirely in Irish with Pádraig Ó Cearúill, director of An Scoil Nua.

31 March         Medbh McGuckian reads from her latest collection, Captain Lavender, and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reads from her latest collection, The Brazen Serpent.

20 April           Oíche Airneál: an evening of traditional song and conversation entirely in Irish with Pádraig Ó Cearúill, director of An Scoil Nua.

3 May              Patrick McCabe reads from his new novel, The Dead School.

19--20 May     Ireland House International Conference on Hunger, with a keynote address by President of Ireland, Mary Robinson.