Glucksman Ireland House Events Calendar Spring 1996

GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE –NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Free admission to Members of Glucksman Ireland 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 1996

23 January       Derek Mahon reads from his new collection of poetry, The Hudson Letter.

1 February       Professor Catherine McKenna speaks on “The Three Brigids: Shifting Perspectives onIreland’s Other Patron Saint.”

13 February     Cormac Ó Gráda speaks on “The Great Famine in Folklore and in Song.”

21 February     Michael Longley reads from his new collection of poems, The Ghost Orchid.

22 February     Irish film series: The Truth About Claire, a film about the implications of abortion in a young woman’s life in contemporaryIreland.

29 February     Professor Eamon Grennan reads from his latest collection of poems, So It Goes.

2 March           “Next Door Neighbors: The Irish and Others inNew York City,” a symposium addressing the relationships of the Irish with other ethnic groups inNew York City.

21 March         John Montague speaks about the Irish Composer Sean O’Riada 25 years after his death.

26 March         Irish film series: Mise Eire, a documentary about the Irish War of Independence with music by Sean O’Riada.

28 March         Macdara Woods reads from his recent work, Selected Poems.

3 April             Oíche Airneál: an evening of Irish traditional song and conversation in Irish with Irish Language instructor, Pádraig Ó Cearúill.

9 April             Professor J. J. Lee speaks on “The Future of the Irish Past.”

18 April           Homan Potterton, editor of The Irish Arts Review and former director of the National Gallery of Ireland, speaks on “The Art of Jack B.Yeats.”

25 April           “The Makings of a Poet: The First Two Plays of Eugene O’Neill,” readings from the playwright’s two earliest plays A Wife for Life and The Web by members of the Playwrights’ Theater.

May 8              Maurice Hayes reads from his Minority Verdict: Experiences of a Catholic Public Servant.

17-19 May       The Irish Film Festival celebrates the centenary of Irish cinema with screenings of Irish films and discussions with the filmmakers.

20 May            William Maxwell reads from The Happiness of Getting It Down Right: Letters of Frank O’Connor and William Maxwell.

4 August         Roundtable discussions on Beckett and Ireland and Beckett and 20th century theater, with Denis Donoghue, Eoin O’Brien, Barry McGovern, and Michael Colgan.