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Kelly Candaele

The Irish at Sundance

By Kelly Candaele

March/April 1996

April 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment

Irish entries with a Northern flavor at the Sundance Film Festival. Park City Utah, home of the increasingly popular Sundance Film Festival, is a long way from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The only thing vaguely Irish in this ski village nestled in the Watsach mountains just east of Salt Lake City is the dark beer served in one of the town's most popular bars. It's called … [Read more...] about The Irish at Sundance

Walking Into The Marvelous With Declan Kiberd

By Kelly Candaele
Fall 2023

November 13, 2023 by 1 Comment

Kelly Candaele and Declan Kiberd in Dublin in April 2023.

It is somehow fitting that the Good Friday peace agreement of 1998 has become inseparable from Irish poetry. If, for a moment in Northern Ireland, “hope and history rhymed” or those involved in resolving the conflict “walked on air against their better judgment,” phrases that politicians and other speechifiers ubiquitously quoted, they had poet Seamus Heaney to thank for their … [Read more...] about Walking Into The Marvelous With Declan Kiberd

Good Friday Agreement 25 Years Later
Queens University, Belfast Conference

By Kelly Candaele
IA Newsletter April 29, 2023

April 26, 2023 by 1 Comment

Senator George Mitchell turned out to be the star of the Agreement 25 conference held April 17-19, 2023 in Belfast at Queens University to mark the twenty-five-year anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement that largely ended the sectarian war that had devastated Northern Ireland. In a keynote address on the first day of the conference he noted that “If history … [Read more...] about Good Friday Agreement 25 Years Later
Queens University, Belfast Conference

Senator George Mitchell

By Kelly Candaele
Spring 2023

April 13, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Reflections on the Good Friday Agreement, 25 Years On Q&A with Kelly Candaele KC:  Perspectives sometimes change with time.  Looking back from 25 years, are there any perspectives about your experience or the Good Friday Agreement that have changed for you during that period?    GM: On the day the Agreement was reached I praised the men and women … [Read more...] about Senator George Mitchell

Good Friday and Us  

By Kelly Candaele
Spring 2023

April 12, 2023 by 1 Comment

I wonder if we are, as novelist Salman Rushdie has written, at the deepest level of our nature, “frontier-crossing beings.” Is it part of an innate desire to step across borders, and by doing so enter into places that can be disorienting or even dangerous?  If that is so, are we not wall-builders as well, determined to keep at bay the foreign, the invader, and the … [Read more...] about Good Friday and Us  

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