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News Roundup June 4, 2022

By Róisín Chapman
IA Newsletter June 4, 2022

June 3, 2022 by Leave a Comment

New York Play First Championship Game in Ireland in 21 Years New York Senior GAA team will travel to Ireland to take on Offaly in the Tailteann Cup on June 4. The largely Irish American team will join the new football championship at the quarter-final stage following Offaly’s win over Wicklow. The Tailteann Cup, debuting this year, will see any team from division 3 or 4 of … [Read more...] about News Roundup June 4, 2022

From The Paper Press to the Small Screen

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
December / January 2020

December 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

The ascension of Sally Rooney from promising young Irish writer to A-list entertainment mogul continues at a breathtaking pace. The latest proof? A fawning report in Vanity Fair, from the set of the much-buzzed-about TV series based on her book Normal People. The swanky magazine describes Rooney’s novel as a “complex portrait of modern love, touching on class and … [Read more...] about From The Paper Press to the Small Screen

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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