John Kelly, CEO of the Irish Chamber Orchestra John Kelly grew up on the grounds of Clongowes Wood College, near Dublin, where his father, composer T.C.Kelly was the head of the music department. He was one of six boys, all of whom played music. He started his performing career at the age of nine, appearing with his family on national television. John was a member of the first … [Read more...] about What Are You Like?
December January 2012 Issue
A Passion for Reporting
Amy Ellis Nutt won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for “The Wreck of the Lady Mary,” about a boat that sank off the New Jersey coast. She followed that newspaper story with a nonfiction book, Shadows Bright as Glass, tracing a man’s remarkable recovery from brain surgery. "Lady Mary was one of those stories that was hiding in plain sight. It was a back of the paper story, briefly on … [Read more...] about A Passion for Reporting
Review of Books
Recently published books of Irish and Irish-American interest. Recommended Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes Thirty-six years after publishing Legs, the first book in his acclaimed Albany Cycle, William Kennedy, 83, has added an eighth book to his dedicated rendering of his home town. Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes tells the story of Daniel Quinn, another son of Albany, … [Read more...] about Review of Books
Other Voices NYC
By Tara Dougherty, Music Editor
“Well the weather tonight is Irish,” seemed to be the joke of the evening as four hundred lucky audience members packed into downtown New York venue Le Poisson Rouge on a wet October evening. The long celebrated Other Voices program made a leap from Dingle to New York to film two nights of music and the written word as a part of the Imagine Ireland campaign. “We don’t know … [Read more...] about Other Voices NYC
Music Reviews
A look at recently-released music of Irish and Irish-American interest. For the Holidays... The Blair Band • Christmas with the Celts This Christmas, Ric Blair and his merry band of Celtic musicians released a studio album to accompany a DVD of their very popular Public Television special, Christmas with the Celts. Filmed in Nashville in front of an eager sold out audience, … [Read more...] about Music Reviews