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Poets-PatriotsConcert Now on CD

By Dave Lewis, Assistant Editor
September / October 2018

September 1, 2018 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2018/06/dave-lewis/">Dave Lewis</a>, Assistant Editor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2018-archive/september-october-2018/">September / October 2018</a> Leave a Comment

San Francisco-based DW Productions is releasing a 2-CD set of Ireland’s Poet-Patriots, A Musical History, commemorating the 1916 rebellion, which was recorded live in concert at the Washington National Cathedral late last year. Conductor Scott Tucker helmed the production that combined classical and traditional Irish music. Irish and Irish-American leaders also acted as … [Read more...] about Poets-PatriotsConcert Now on CD

November 27, 1953

On this day in 1953, Irish American playwright Eugene O’Neill died at the age of 65. O’Neill was fittingly born in a Broadway hotel room to Irish immigrant actor James O’Neill and Mary Ellen Quinlan. He grew up around the stage and while at boarding school, he surrounded himself with books. After a long depression and battle with alcoholism and a recovery from tuberculosis, O’Neill decided to dedicate his life to writing plays. O’Neill’s first published play “Beyond the Horizon” opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim. He was awarded his first Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with two more to follow. In 1936, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Poets-PatriotsConcert Now on CD

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