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Peter Quinn

NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House Annual Gala

By Irish America Staff
February / March 2015

January 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Award-winning writer Peter Quinn and McGraw Hill financial executive Ted Smyth will receive the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters and the Lewis L. Glucksman Award for Leadership, respectively, at Glucksman Ireland House NYU’s annual gala dinner on February 24th. Gala co-chairs Loretta Brennan Glucksman and Mary Shanahan will present the awards at NYU’s Kimmel Center … [Read more...] about NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House Annual Gala

The History-Mystery Man

By Tom Deignan
December 5, 2013 by 2 Comments

The author Peter Quinn, whose third and final installment of the Detective Fintan Dunne trilogy was released in October, talks to Tom Deignan. It’s been nearly 20 years since Peter Quinn’s epic Banished Children of Eve, arguably the greatest novel of the New York Irish, was published. Over the course of 600 pages, Quinn depicts the city in all its gore and glory, as the … [Read more...] about The History-Mystery Man

Hunger and its Children

By Peter Quinn, Contributor
August / September 2013

August 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment

The Irish Famine, painted by George Frederic Watts c. 1848-1850, depicts a young family evicted from their home. The Watts Gallery.

Schizophrenia and other diseases associated with starvation. The outward physical consequences of famine and severe malnutrition have been long known. They are the same everywhere. In his recent history of the Irish Famine, The Graves Are Walking, John Kelly describes them this way: “In the later stages of starvation, the eyelids inflame, the angular lines around the mouth … [Read more...] about Hunger and its Children

An Epic Story of The Famine Irish: Peter Quinn

By Mary Pat Kelly, Contributor
December / January 2009

January 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment

A crowd of admirers awaited Peter Quinn when he came to Glucksman Ireland House, NYU on October 16th to launch Overlook Press’s new edition of his award winning novel, Banished Children of Eve, the tale of Irish-Americans in New York during the Civil War.  Many had read the much praised novel that celebrated writer William Kennedy called “terrific ... an ebullient mingling of … [Read more...] about An Epic Story of The Famine Irish: Peter Quinn

Remembering Danny Cassidy

By Peter Quinn
December / January 2009

January 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment

On behalf of myself and Irish-American writers and artists, I’m here to talk about a truly great human being, our dear friend, Danny Cassidy. But let me begin long ago and far away, over forty years ago, when I was a freshman at Manhattan College in the Bronx. (And anyone interested in finding out how a college named Manhattan wound up in the Bronx should see me later.) Like … [Read more...] about Remembering Danny Cassidy

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