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Glucksman Ireland House Events Calendar Spring 1999

Spring 1999 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 1999

26 January       Patrick McCabe reads from his latest novel, Breakfast on Pluto.

10 February     Professor J. J. Lee presents “From Celtic Twilight to Celtic Tiger: Ireland on the Eve of a New Millennium.”

17 February     Emer Martin reads from her latest novel, More Bread or I’ll Appear.

24 February     Nicholas K. Robinson presents the lecture “Edmund Burke: A Life in Caricature,” with images from his recent book on the subject.

1 March           Joseph O’Connor reads from his latest novel, The Salesman.

4 March           Frances Quinn performs her one woman show, The Cuchulain Saga.

10 March         Glucksman Fleadh, an intermedia performance of music and dance by NYU students and the New York Irish community.

8 April             Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill reads from her award-winning collection, Cead Aighnis.

22 April           Eamon Grennan and Billy Collins read from their recent work.

29 April           Airneál na Bealtaine: an evening of traditional music, song, poetry and dance with Pádraig Ó Cearúill.

3 May              A preview of “Landscape & Inspiration: The Ballinglen Experience,” with works by Peter Brooke, Stuart Diamond, Sam Gilliam, Neysa Grassi, Catherine Kernan, Elizabeth O’Reilly, Ron Rumford, and Stuart Shils.

11 May            Brian O’Doherty (Patrick Ireland) reads from his new novel, The Deposition of Father McGreevy.

17 May            Peter Sheridan reads from his memoir, 44:DublinMadeMe.

24 May            Opening of the exhibition “Twentieth Century Figurative Painting fromIreland” at NYU’sGreyArtGallery.

28 May – 10 June        “New Visions: Irish Cinema, 1994-1999,” a two-week film festival atLincolnCenter presenting a retrospective of Neil Jordan as well as a variety of films.  Related events at Glucksman Ireland House.

25 May            “When Time Began to Rant and Rage,” the opening of an exhibition of figurative painting from 20th centuryIreland.

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