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Weekly Comment: Danny McDonald and Colum McCann Honored at NYU Gala

By Julia Brodsky, Editorial Assistant
February 26, 2016

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Glucksman Ireland House hosted its annual gala this past Wednesday, honoring acclaimed writer Colum McCann and restaurant proprietor Danny McDonald. The event featured music from Lúnasa and freshly poured pints of Guinness. New York Times writer and memoirist Dan Barry acted as master of ceremonies, introducing McDonald and McCann for the Lewis L. Glucksman Award for Leadership … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: Danny McDonald and Colum McCann Honored at NYU Gala

Weekly Comment:
Feminism, Equality, and
the Abbey Theatre

By Julia Brodsky, Editorial Assistant
February 19, 2016

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Next Sunday, Fordham University in New York will host a discussion about the inequalities women face in Irish theater in conjunction with the Waking the Feminists movement, a counterpoint to the Abbey Theatre’s “Waking the Nation” program aimed at drawing attention to the lack of female voices in Irish drama. “Waking the Nation,” a ten-play program announced last October to … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Feminism, Equality, and
the Abbey Theatre

Weekly Comment:
Announcing the 2016
Irish America Hall of Fame

By Irish America Staff
February 11, 2016

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Irish America magazine will present President Bill Clinton with a Lifetime Achievement Award and induct astronaut Eileen Collins, General Martin Dempsey, Pete Hamill, Edward Kenney to Irish America Hall of Fame. ℘℘℘ President Bill Clinton will receive a Lifetime Achievement award from Irish America magazine March 30th, at the 2016 Irish America Hall of Fame and Special … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Announcing the 2016
Irish America Hall of Fame

Weekly Comment: The Poetry of 1916

By R. Bryan Willits, Editorial Assistant
January 28, 2016

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Glucksman Ireland House, the center for Irish and Irish American Studies at New York University, is hosting an event centered on the poetry of the 1916 Easter Rising written by Irish and Irish-American authors. Titled “‘Her Exiled Children’: Poetry in America and the 1916 Easter Rising,” the event will be hosted by National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann, and features … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: The Poetry of 1916

Fionnula Flanagan Remembers Husband Garrett O’Connor, Addiction Treatment Pioneer


By Fionnula Flanagan
January, 2016

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I met him in 1969. In the corridor of the Round Towner Motel in Baltimore. Maryland. Following a Broadway run, I was on a national tour with Lovers, the play that had brought me to the US. He was an Irish psychiatrist running the Psychiatric Emergency Clinic on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. But when I first saw him, having opened my motel room door to … [Read more...] about Fionnula Flanagan Remembers Husband Garrett O’Connor, Addiction Treatment Pioneer