Thursday, May 27 at 7:30 pm The New York Irish Center happily opens its door to its first in-person, public event since before COVID-19. It welcomes in the Josh Marcum Trio for an evening of jazz, in celebration of New York City and Long Island City, Queens. These Long Island City-based jazz musicians will play two 45-minute sets, with an intermission in between. The trio … [Read more...] about Speakeasy Jazz Night
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Radicals and Widows:
Revolutionary Irish Women in America
Tuesday, May 25th at 7:30 pm EST
The Irish Cultural Centre of New England presents Radicals and Widows: Revolutionary Irish Women in America, an online Zoom lecture with Dr. Elizabeth Stack, the Executive Director of the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany, NY.
This lecture will focus on some of the radical women who visited America to highlight the struggle for … [Read more...] about Radicals and Widows:
Revolutionary Irish Women in America
The Man Who
Wanted to Fly
A New York Film Premiere
The Irish Repertory Theatre presents a free virtual film premiere of The Man Who Wanted to Fly with three opportunities to watch the film on Tuesday, May 25th and Wednesday, May 26th.
Directed by Frank Shouldice
Produced by Trisha Canning & Cormac Hargaden of Loosehorse Productions
The Man Who Wanted to Fly tells the irresistible … [Read more...] about The Man Who
Wanted to Fly
Strokestown Famine Orphans
in Quebec and New York
Strokestown Famine Orphans in Quebec and New York recalls the harrowing journeys of children from rural Roscommon such as Edward Neary, Patrick and Thomas Quinn, and Daniel and Catherine Tighe who crossed the Atlantic in some of the worst coffin ships in 1847 to start new lives in Canada and the United States. Their descendants recount their sorrowful journeys here.
View the … [Read more...] about Strokestown Famine Orphans
in Quebec and New York
Goodbye Columbus Hello St. Brendan
By Abdon Moriarty Pallasch St. Brendan the Navigator, early transatlantic voyager, died on May 16, 587. Tim Severin (d. 2020) who retraced the 6th century legendary journey of St. Brendan from Ireland to Newfoundland and talked the adventure with Abdon Pallasch. The idea that Irish monks in an ox-hide boat might have beaten the Conquistadors and the Vikings to America was … [Read more...] about Goodbye Columbus Hello St. Brendan