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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

11th Annual Tom Quinlan Lecture

IA Newsletter November 26, 2022

November 22, 2022 by Leave a Comment

The 11th annual Tom Quinlan lecture at Glucksman Ireland House NYU will be held on Friday, December 2nd at 2:00 pm. As in past years, the “lecture” will feature a poetry reading by a prominent Irish poet. It also serves as a lead into the Irish Arts Center’s signature Poetryfest weekend which kicks off at the new center’s theater at 8:00 pm on Friday evening.   This year’s … [Read more...] about 11th Annual Tom Quinlan Lecture

The Annual Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2020

December 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

November 1: For the eighth year, Glucksman Ireland House at NYU welcomed the winner of one of the poetry world’s most coveted prizes, the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection as judged by a select committee at Queens University Belfast. This year’s judges were Professor Nick Laird, Chair of Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney … [Read more...] about The Annual Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry

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May 18, 1897

Oscar Wilde was released from prison on this date; he went to France, where he wrote his poem, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.” He was born Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde on October, 16 1854, to William Wilde, an Irish doctor and Jane Francesca Elgee, who wrote revolutionary poems under the pseudonym “Speranza” for The Nation. After study at Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford, Wilde moved to London and went on to become one of the best known writers and personalities of his day. At the height of his success, Wilde was arrested over an affair with Lord Alfred Douglas. He was charged with “gross indecency” and imprisoned for two years’ hard labour. Wilde never recovered from the harsh treatment of prison and died at age 46 in Paris.

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