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“Everything I’ve ever tried to say on screen comes from that small island and its people. To be honored by The Irish Post – a paper that has followed the Irish story in Britain for…

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The Flax Trust NYC Luncheon

“The Flax Trust succeeds in what I strive to do — which is: To Listen. Listen to what others are saying. “There is an enormous difference – a huge chasm, really – between…

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Bob Downey talks to Glenn Kenny about his work after a showing of Putney Swope at Waterside Plaza NYC.
Downey Talks

Nowadays people think of Bob Downey as actor Robert Downey, Jr.’s father, but back in…

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Wilde’s Life Under Glass

The beautiful Morgan Library in New York puts the Irish master of wit and self-proclaimed…

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October 22, 1906

The famous pianist Charles Lynch was born on this day in 1906. Born in Co. Cork to a well off family descended from novelist Maria Edgeworth (Castle Rackrent), Lynch gave his first piano recital at the young age of nine. At fifteen, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He became famous through out England and premiered the works of several 20th century composers. His greatest achievement was when he played all of Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies.

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