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Irish Writers in America Premieres on CUNY TV

November 22, 2013

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A new series by the City University of New York's TV station covers uncharted territory in conversations with some of Ireland and Irish America's most creative minds. The 13-part interview series premiered on November 22, its first episode featuring two ostensibly different luminaries: author Colum McCann (TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin) and funnyman/TV host Conan … [Read more...] about Irish Writers in America Premieres on CUNY TV

The Copper Star: Lyndsay Faye

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
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Lyndsay Faye’s Gods of Gotham series, about the earliest days of the New York City Police Department, has taken the literary world by storm. With a second book, Seven for a Secret, just released, Faye talks to Tom Deignan about her Irish roots, her acting past and her fascination with history.   “My great-great-grandmother was Irish,” says Lyndsay Faye, whose latest Famine-era … [Read more...] about The Copper Star: Lyndsay Faye

From the Ground Up

By Kara Rota, Contributor
August / September 2013

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Chicagoan Jeanne Nolan talks to Kara Rota about her new book and her commitment to growing organic food. "I am all about people growing their own food,” Jeanne Nolan says to me when we get on the phone to discuss her just-released book, From the Ground Up: A Food Grower’s Education in Life, Love and the Movement That’s Changing the Nation. When we met nine years ago, Jeanne … [Read more...] about From the Ground Up

Breslin on Breslin

June / July 2013

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On June 10, at 8:30 p.m. (EST) readers in the tri-state area will be treated to a half-hour of veteran newspaper columnist and novelist Jimmy Breslin on what it means to be Irish, what makes him write, the responsibilities of a journalist, fiction vs. journalism, and preferring criminals to politicians. The half hour with Breslin is a preview of the highly anticipated Irish … [Read more...] about Breslin on Breslin

Country Girl

A memoir by Edna O'Brien
June / July 2013

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In this excerpt from her memoir,  Edna O’Brien returns to Ireland to build a house in which she hopes to avail of the “peace that passeth understanding,” only to find that even the best laid plans can go awry. Donegal It was to Donegal, in the most northwestern tip of Ireland, that in the 1990s I headed, in order to build a house. The very place names so rough and musical, the … [Read more...] about Country Girl