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Hibernia: Events

By Tom Deignan

Fall 2024

October 18, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Queen’s Announces Seamus Heaney Fellows for 2024-25Fiona Benson, Jan Carson, Declan Lawn, and Adam Patterson are the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellows for 2024-25. Fiona Benson is the author of four poetry collections: Bright Travellers, Vertigo & Ghost, Ephemeron, and Midden Witch (forthcoming). All three of her published collections have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Events

Commemoration for Catalpa Fenians

By Irish America Staff

September 23, 2022 by 1 Comment

The Catalpa Six were Fenians who escaped to America from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. They are buried throughout the U.S., five of them were buried in unmarked graves. To date, the Fenian Memorial Committee of America has placed gravestones and/or markers to honor four of these brave Fenians, as well as Father Patrick McCabe, the priest who helped them to … [Read more...] about Commemoration for Catalpa Fenians

Glucksman Ireland House
2021 Virtual Gala

February 11, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Join Glucksman Ireland House NYU on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, at 7pm EST for the 2021 Virtual Gala. While extraordinary circumstances prevent us from celebrating in person, we will gather as a community for a fun evening featuring the best of Irish culture, music, poetry, business, journalism, and public service. Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Micheál … [Read more...] about Glucksman Ireland House
2021 Virtual Gala

A Gala Evening at NYU Celebrates Jewish and Irish Ties

By Irish America Staff
March / April 2020

March 1, 2020 by Leave a Comment

NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House, at their eighth annual gala, recently honored Irish business leader Dómhnal Slattery and award-winning writer Colm Tóibín at an event at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life. Loretta Brennan Glucksman presented Mr. Slattery with the Lewis L. Glucksman Award for Leadership in recognition of his immense achievements over three decades, most … [Read more...] about A Gala Evening at NYU Celebrates Jewish and Irish Ties

Black Irish Celebration

By Irish America Staff
March / April 2020

March 1, 2020 by Leave a Comment

An extraordinary gathering of Irish and African-American leaders took place at the Irish Consulate in New York on Wednesday night, February 26, 2020 to celebrate Black History Month. Irish Consul General Ciarán Madden called together leaders in the Irish and African-American communities who shared Irish heritage to create new links and forge a new organization.In his remarks, … [Read more...] about Black Irish Celebration

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The composer Arthur Sullivan was born in London to an Irish Italian mother, Mary Coughan and Irish-born father, Thomas Sullivan. Sullivan composed his first anthem at age 8. At age 14, he was awarded a scholarship to the London Academy of Music. Sullivan began a collaboration with W.S. Gilbert to create the comic opera “Thespis.” He would work with Giblert on fourteen light operas in all, including The Pirates of Penzance and the Mikado. Sullivan’s “Irish Symphony” was first performed in March 1866. He wrote it on holiday in Ireland: “As I was jolting home through wind and rain… in an open jaunting-car, the whole first movement of a symphony came into my head with a real Irish flavor about it – besides scraps of the other movements.”

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