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Yeats Family Pieces
Auctioned Off

By Olivia O'Mahony
September 29, 2017

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Over 220 artifacts belonging to the family of William Butler Yeats were auctioned off in a Sotheby’s auction entitled “Yeats: the Family Collection” in London on September 27. The collection comprised paintings, drawings, letters, furniture, silver and other personal items that once belonged to Yeats, his father, and his siblings. The auction realized a total of €2.2m … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Yeats Family Pieces
Auctioned Off

Announcing the 20th Anniversary Wall Street 50

By Irish America Staff
September 27, 2017

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Irish America magazine will celebrate its 20th anniversary Irish America Wall Street 50 Awards Dinner on October 11th at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan. Tim Ryan, Senior Partner and U.S. Chairman of PwC, will deliver the keynote address at the event. Ryan, who assumed his current role last July, has quickly become one of the most significant executives for his unparalleled … [Read more...] about Announcing the 20th Anniversary Wall Street 50

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Punk and the Peace Process

By Olivia O'Mahony
September 22, 2017

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In 1978, Northern Irish punk rock band The Undertones released their debut single, “Teenage Kicks.” The track opened with the punchy and iconic lyric, “Are teenage dreams so hard to beat?” The answer was a resounding yes, and the song became an instant anthem for the followers of Northern Ireland’s punk movement. With a new exhibition at the American Irish Historical Society in … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Punk and the Peace Process

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Remembering J.P. Donleavy
(1926 – 2017)

By Olivia O'Mahony
September 15, 2017

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J.P. Donleavy, the Irish American novelist and playwright who penned The Ginger Man, which was initially turned away by over 45 publishers for its sexual obscenity but eventually sold more than 45 million copies and became considered a modern cult classic, died on September 11 in a hospital near his Mullingar, Co. Westmeath home. He was 91 years old. Donleavy wrote more than a … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Remembering J.P. Donleavy
(1926 – 2017)

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Four Lost Irish Plays Debut in New York

By Eric Uhlfelder
September 8, 2017

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A strange cloud hangs high above the stage, set against an otherwise glorious sky in the Samuel Beckett Theatre in New York. It seems out of place, except when one realizes its poetically shadowing the lives of many of the evening’s characters in four one-act plays, all written by a once rising star of the Irish Theater. For those familiar with Teresa Deevy’s work, that … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Four Lost Irish Plays Debut in New York