An Cailín CiúinAn Cailín Ciúin/The Quiet Girl marks a watershed moment for Irish-language cinema. Catherine Clinch is the quiet girl of the title and stars in virtually every scene. The 12-year-old came to the film via audition tapes sent in by pupils from Ireland’s Gaelscoileanna. Gaelscoileanna are schools where children are taught through the medium of Irish. … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Arts
Emma Donoghue
Irish America Presents
By Tom Deignan
December/ January 2021
During the months of lockdown Irish America ventured into video-presenting Emma Donoghue and Timothy Egan were interviewed by Tom Deignan. We also partnered with Northwell to support its presentation of Michael Dowling discussing his new memoir, After The Roof Caved In, with Timothy Egan asking the questions. We bring you highlights from those conversations in the following … [Read more...] about Irish America Presents
Tom Deignan Interviews…
Tom Deignan is a teacher, author, and columnist. Tom has been a contributor to Irish America for 25 years on arts and entertainment, history and current affairs. He is currently working on a book about America during the Ellis Island years. His writing has appeared in newspapers such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Star-Ledger, and National Catholic Reporter, as well as … [Read more...] about Tom Deignan Interviews…
The Pull Of The Stars
By Tom DeignanBest-Selling Dublin-born author Emma Donoghue has a brilliant and timely new novel out. Set in an Irish maternity ward during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, The Pull of the Stars explores the challenges and heroism of nurses and other health care workers, while at the same time tenderly chronicling the loves and losses of their inner lives. Tom Deignan speaks … [Read more...] about The Pull Of The Stars
Review of Books
Books of Irish and Irish American interest. ℘℘℘ From Elsewhere By Ciaran Carson In a new collection of translations, Belfast poet Ciaran Carson tackles the late modern poetry of Jean Follain, a poet/lawyer of whom Carson refreshingly admits in the introduction he was unaware until the age of Internet, where he had to look him up. That two poets whose lives overlapped for a … [Read more...] about Review of Books