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Sons of Our Shakespeare

By Ray Cavanaugh, Contributor
August / September 2017

August 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment

The tragic story of Eugene O’Neill’s sons, both of whom died by suicide. A four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and 1936 Nobel laureate, playwright Eugene O’Neill has reigned as the undisputed Irish American heavyweight champion of drama. His private life, however, was far less enviable than his career trajectory. At age 23, while living in a rooming house on Manhattan’s Fulton … [Read more...] about Sons of Our Shakespeare

North America Acts Irish

By Olivia O’Mahony, Editorial Assistant
June / July 2017

May 24, 2017 by Leave a Comment

Community theater groups from throughout the United States and Canada converged at the Geva Theater Center in Rochester, New York for the 24th Annual Acting Irish International Theater Festival in April. The adjudicated festival, founded in 1993, consisted this year of seven full-length productions presented over five days, all of which were attended by Oleans-based theater … [Read more...] about North America Acts Irish

Origin Celebrates 15 Years

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2017

May 24, 2017 by Leave a Comment

New York’s Origin Theatre Company, whose mission is to celebrate the work of Irish and European artists, celebrated its 15th anniversary with a gala party at Mutual of America building on Park Avenue on Monday, May 15. Norman Houston, the director of Northern Ireland Bureau North America, received the Origin Theatre Community Leader Award, and actress Orlagh Cassidy received … [Read more...] about Origin Celebrates 15 Years

Beckett’s Bodies

By Olivia O’Mahony, Editorial Assistant
June / July 2017

May 24, 2017 by 1 Comment

“Dance first, think later. It is the natural order.” These are the words made famous by the characters of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot; characters who, Beckett delighted in suggesting, cannot move beyond their texts, never to experience the “later” in question. But what happens when dance is a vehicle for thought? When the body is infused with metaphor, filling its every … [Read more...] about Beckett’s Bodies

Mary Chase: The Woman Behind “Harvey”

By Marsha Sorotick, Contributor
October / November 2016

October 1, 2016 by 6 Comments

The story of playwright Mary Chase and how the classic comedy Harvey was influenced by her Irish heritage.  During summertime in cities and towns across the U.S., movies are screened outdoors. Scheduled for showing during the summer of 2016 at New York City’s Bryant Park Film Festival was a 1950 Academy Award-winning comedy based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play – Harvey, … [Read more...] about Mary Chase: The Woman Behind “Harvey”

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William Butler Yeats, Ireland’s most famous poet and one of the leading literary figures of the 20th century, was born in Sandyhurst, Co. Dublin on this day in 1865 to an upper class Protestant family. He spent much of his childhood in Co. Sligo, which heavily influenced Yeats’s natural themes, and he read classics like Shakespeare, Donne, Alighieri and Shelley. With Lady Gregory, he helped establish the Gaelic Literary Revival and founded the Abbey Theater in Dublin. He was the first Irishman awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923, followed by Shaw, Beckett and Heaney.

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