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2024 A Year of Irish Events

Winter 2024

January 9, 2025 by Leave a Comment

The Irish love a good gathering. That was no more evident than in 2024 as we gathered to celebrate the arts, raise money for international charities, honor leaders in cities around the country, and celebrate our differences and that which brings us together.  We look back at these wonderful events and some people who participated and made them possible.  Sláinte … [Read more...] about 2024 A Year of Irish Events

Irish Arts Center’s 13th Annual PoetryFest

December 9, 2022 by Leave a Comment

With a wildly successful inaugural year in its state-of-the-art new home drawing to a close, Irish Arts Center (IAC) presented its 13th annual PoetryFest, the first in the new building, on December 2-4. Curated by Nick Laird, who earlier in the week won the prestigious 2022 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, the weekend-long event brought New Yorkers into intimate connection … [Read more...] about Irish Arts Center’s 13th Annual PoetryFest

Irish Arts Groundbreaker

By Irish America Staff
November / December 2018

November 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Decades of work by so many culminated in the breaking of ground on the new New York Irish Arts Center in early October. The new building will be ready by 2020. ♦ … [Read more...] about Irish Arts Groundbreaker

Hibernia Arts:
An Irish Riot

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
February / March 2018

January 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment

In February, New York City’s Irish Arts Center will stage a three-night run of one of the most unique Irish theater spectacles of the year. The production, called RIOT, won Best Production at the 2016 Dublin Fringe Festival and sold out shows in Sydney, Australia, in January. Starring legendary Irish drag queen Panti Bliss, the cabaret also features a host of aerial artists, … [Read more...] about Hibernia Arts:
An Irish Riot

Steve Martin Honored at Irish Arts Center Gala

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2018

December 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment

New York’s Irish Arts Center honored Oscar-, Emmy-, and Grammy-winning performer Steve Martin in October at the 2017 Spirit of Ireland Gala at Cipriani, raising a record-breaking $1.5 million over the course of the evening. The event also honored Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and Sharon Patrick, co-founder and former CEO of Martha Stewart Living. Attendees included … [Read more...] about Steve Martin Honored at Irish Arts Center Gala

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