THE STARS will be out in force for The Irish Post Awards on November 7. The venue for this essential date in the Diaspora’s calendar is JW Marriott Grosvenor House London. Located on Park Lane in the heart of Mayfair, the 5-star hotel is well used to hosting royalty, showbusiness icons, international celebrities, captains of industry and the movers and shakers of the film … [Read more...] about Top-tier venue for The Irish Post Awards 2024
Top-tier venue for The Irish Post Awards 2024
Window on the Past: Where Shall We Seek for a Hero?
By Michael Quinlin
Fall 2024
180 years after his birth on June 28, 1844, the lessons of legendary Irish rebel, patriot, poet, and activist John Boyle O'Reilly deserve to be remembered and cherished. In today’s society of discontent and distrust mingled with guarded hope and optimism, O’Reilly would be hailed simultaneously as a disruptor of the status quo, a man unafraid to speak truth to power, a … [Read more...] about Window on the Past: Where Shall We Seek for a Hero?
Film Review: Kneecap
By Mary Pat Kelly
Fall 2024
The Irish language film Kneecap is about the rise of a Belfast-based hip-hop trio. We come from a very very serious place,” Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh or “Mo Chara” from Kneecap, the Irish Language Hip-Hop Trio from West Belfast, told Rolling Stone Magazine. “If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.” His sidekick, Naoise Ó Cairealláin (“Moglaí Bap”) agreed. “Sometimes when you’re left with … [Read more...] about Film Review: Kneecap
Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O’Brien
By Edna O'Brien
Fall 2024
In this excerpt from her memoir, Edna O'Brien returns to Ireland to build a house in which she hopes to avail of the "peace of that passeth understanding," only to find that even the best-laid plans can go awry. It was to Donegal, in the most northwestern tip of Ireland, that in the 1990s I headed, in order to build a house. The very place names so rough and musical, the … [Read more...] about Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O’Brien
Book Notes: Enright Honors McGahern
By Tom Deignan
Fall 2024
Next year will mark six decades since celebrated Irish novelist and short story writer John McGahern was censored and banned in his own country. Now, another celebrated writer – Anne Enright, Ireland’s first-ever “laureate” for fiction – is commemorating McGahern’s life and career with fond memories as well as new revelations. Back in 1965, McGahern wrote The Dark, which … [Read more...] about Book Notes: Enright Honors McGahern