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Alice McDermott

Spending Time With Alice

By Tom Deignan

March 18, 2022 by 2 Comments

Tom Deignan first interviewed Alice McDermott as a young journalist. He looks back now on her literary career over the past 20 years and talks to her about her new non-fiction book What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction. For four decades now, Alice McDermott has dazzled the literary world in a fashion nearly as subtle and cunning as her fiction.We almost … [Read more...] about Spending Time With Alice

The Future of Irish America

Peter Quinn looks at the position of
Irish Americans as we embrace the new millennium.

April / May 2000

June 26, 2020 by 1 Comment

“Whatever the future may hold, wherever it may take us, we can bring along only what we possess, and if we don’t possess our past, if instead of a true history and a significant literature, we bring along only trivia, empty myths and a handful of stories, or-worst of all -- the latest intellectually fashionable versions of ourselves, we will offer those to come after nothing of … [Read more...] about The Future of Irish America

Peter Quinn looks at the position of
Irish Americans as we embrace the new millennium.

A Teacher Learns A Lesson

April 10, 2020 by Leave a Comment

By Tom DeignanAbout a month ago, if you’d asked me how things were going, I could only shrug.  Busy, busy, busy. My day job as an English teacher sends me on an hour and 45 minute trek from New Jersey to Brooklyn  - at a high school Mondays through Fridays, and a college on Saturdays. There’s also an after-school class wedged in there two days a week. I’ve found a … [Read more...] about A Teacher Learns A Lesson

NYU Glucksman Ireland House Gala Honors

By Irish America Staff
March / April 2019

March 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Alice McDermott, Marie Heaney, and Jim Rooney at the GIH gala.

The awarding-winning writer Alice McDermott and Pittsburgh business leader Jim Rooney were honored at the annual Glucksman Ireland House NYU Gala on February 28. Some 300 gathered to toast the honorees at a cocktail reception followed by a seated dinner with presentations of the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters to McDermott and the Lewis L. Glucksman Award for … [Read more...] about NYU Glucksman Ireland House Gala Honors

Irish Eye in Hollywood:
Novel Adaptations for Irish Writers

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
February / March 2018

January 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Irish authors have also been having a couple of good months in Hollywood. Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin recently snatched up the movie rights for The Ninth Hour, Alice McDermott’s excellent recent novel. The Ninth Hour depicts the moments of grace and labor that fill up the lives of various mid-century Brooklyn nuns. The book’s action is set in motion by a tragedy … [Read more...] about Irish Eye in Hollywood:
Novel Adaptations for Irish Writers

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