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#WearingIrish: Bringing Irish Creativity to the World Stage

By Áine Mc Manamon
April / May 2018

February 28, 2018 by Leave a Comment

From May 15-17 Margaret Molloy and WearingIrish will bring Ireland's most talented designers to New York. ℘℘℘ In March 2016, Irish expat and marketing executive Margaret Molloy began the #WearingIrish campaign, where she took her love of fashion and started a social media initiative, encouraging people to wear items from Irish designers during March. Since then it has exploded … [Read more...] about #WearingIrish: Bringing Irish Creativity to the World Stage

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.

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