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New Cultural Podcast Series in Celebration of Bloomsday

By Irish America Staff
June 16, 2016

June 16, 2016 by By Irish America Staff<br/>June 16, 2016 Leave a Comment

A new podcast series released in conjunction with this year’s Bloomsday celebrations features interviews with Ireland’s leading cultural experts. ℘℘℘ Today, Cultural Roadmapp will debut Tripod, a series of three 10-minute podcast interviews with leading lights of Ireland’s cultural scene, to be hosted on SoundCloud. The series syncs with a three-week online celebration of Irish … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
New Cultural Podcast Series in Celebration of Bloomsday

150 Years of Yeats’s Sligo

By Deborah Schull, Contributor
June / July 2015

May 14, 2015 by </a> By Deborah Schull, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2015-archive/june-july-2015/">June / July 2015</a> 3 Comments

On the 150th anniversary of W.B. Yeats’s birth we look at some of the places in Sligo that inspired his best-loved poems. 1. BENBULBEN and DRUMCLIFFE CHURCHYARD: At his request, Yeats’s body was laid to rest in France and later removed to the churchyard in Drumcliffe, under Ben Bulben mountain, where his great-grand- father had served as rector. St. Columba founded a … [Read more...] about 150 Years of Yeats’s Sligo

October 22, 1906

The famous pianist Charles Lynch was born on this day in 1906. Born in Co. Cork to a well off family descended from novelist Maria Edgeworth (Castle Rackrent), Lynch gave his first piano recital at the young age of nine. At fifteen, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He became famous through out England and premiered the works of several 20th century composers. His greatest achievement was when he played all of Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies.

Weekly Comment:
New Cultural Podcast Series in Celebration of Bloomsday

150 Years of Yeats’s Sligo

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