For the fifth year running, the County Wexford town of New Ross will mark American Independence Day with Irish America Fest, a three-day celebration of transatlantic friendship and legacy beginning this weekend on Friday, June 30. The festival, held in association with the Wexford Co. Council, Failte Ireland, and Irish America magazine, will provide entertainment of activities … [Read more...] about Irish America Fest in New Ross
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Watch This Archive Footage of Maureen O’Hara’s Academy Awards Surprise
June 23, 2017
Maureen O’Hara has heard a banshee, played camogie, and more from a 1957 episode of “This Is Your Life.”
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At the 1957 Academy Awards TV host Ralph Edwards surprised Maureen O’Hara mid-way through an interview about her upcoming film The Wings of Eagles. But it turns out that the interview itself was staged and the whole thing was a gambit to get O’Hara back to his studio for … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Watch This Archive Footage of Maureen O’Hara’s Academy Awards Surprise
Paddy & Aedín Moloney’s “Reflections of Molly Bloom”
June 15, 2016
Just in time for Bloomsday, June 16th, actress/producer Aedin Moloney and her father, Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains, are releasing Reflections of Molly Bloom, a two-volume collaborative recording featuring Aedin Moloney’s renowned interpretation and performance of “Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy” from James Joyce’s Ulysses, complimented with music by Paddy. A record release party … [Read more...] about Paddy & Aedín Moloney’s “Reflections of Molly Bloom”
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It’s Bloomsday, Would You Buy a $45,000 Signed Edition of Ulysses?
Each year on June 16, bibliophiles celebrate Bloomsday in tribute to the day of wandering undertaken by the protagonist of James Joyce’s famously dense Ulysses, Leopold Bloom. Though it may be one of the most famous days in literature, a running joke about Ulysses is that it’s the most famous book most people haven’t read. But a well-known rare edition of the book with … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
It’s Bloomsday, Would You Buy a $45,000 Signed Edition of Ulysses?
The Mighty John Quinn, Defender of Ulysses
June 15, 2017
John Quinn, the New York lawyer, originally from Ohio, had a taste for Picassos, Wyndham Lewises, Rousseaus, Augustus John, and Matisses. He also owned all of Conrad’s manuscripts and the first draft of Eliot’s The Waste Land. But he never forgot his Irish roots and in his support of Yeats, Joyce, and Synge, he was indeed remarkable. Richard and Janis Londraville report on the … [Read more...] about The Mighty John Quinn, Defender of Ulysses