In This Issue 1992

1992 Yeats International Theatre Festival

By James W. Flannery, Director, W.B. Yeats Drama Foundation

July August 1992

July 23, 1992 by Leave a Comment

More than half a century after his death, William Butler Yeats is still Ireland's foremost avant-garde playwright. We return to his theatre work, in all it diversity and contradictions, not because we are sure of its place in the repertoire of modern Irish theatre, but because we are not. Yeats' plays are unsettled and unsettling, radically incomplete until methods of … [Read more...] about 1992 Yeats International Theatre Festival

Portrait of Joanna

By Evelyn Leahy Hankel

July August 1992

July 23, 1992 by Leave a Comment

1875 was a year of hardship for the Michael Noonans of County Tipperary. The small farm house near Strough in Lattin Parish harbored Michael, his wife, Ann Power, and the eight youngest of their twelve children. The four eldest, quite mature, had migrated to Australia and America. The eight young Noonans heard many tales from across the seas sent to the parents from their … [Read more...] about Portrait of Joanna

Women in Irish Traditional Music

By P.J. Curtis

July August 1992

July 12, 1992 by Leave a Comment

In a small, dimly lit pub in a West Clare village, a group of attentive listeners gather around an elderly woman seated in a corner. The year is 1958 and some of the people gathered have travelled from as far away as Dublin City to sit in the presence of one Mrs. Crotty, who sits smiling but unmoving; except for her nimble fingers, which dance effortlessly across the keys of a … [Read more...] about Women in Irish Traditional Music

Hibernia

By Irish America Staff

July August 1992

July 11, 1992 by Leave a Comment

Peace People's U.S. Visit On Wednesday June 3, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from Belfast and cofounder of the Community of the Peace People, arrived in Los Angeles airport at 3:30 p.m. — at 5:30 p.m. she was appearing on the Dennis Miller Show, a late night national television talk show. Next day she was the guest of honor at a World Affairs Dinner. … [Read more...] about Hibernia