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Accolades for Ward’s Irish Music Archives

By Irish America Staff
February / March 2015

January 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Following the Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History, the Ward Irish Music Archives, the largest public collection of Irish music in America, is receiving national attention again this year. The Association of College Research Libraries posted a positive review of the archives in the organization’s December 2014 issue. J. G. Matthews, of … [Read more...] about Accolades for Ward’s Irish Music Archives

The Things They Carried

By Tara Dougherty, Music Editor
February / March 2015

January 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment

What more fascinatingly intimate look into the lives of soldiers of WWI than a glimpse into the tokens they brought with them to battle from home? Housed at the Imperial War Museum in London, the First World War Galleries are an extensively curated look at one of the darkest times in human history. Paul Cornish’s book, named for the galleries, dives into the treasures and at … [Read more...] about The Things They Carried

Hibernia: New O’Neill Play Makes New York Debut

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

In August, the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City hosted the very first production of Eugene O'Neill's play Personal Equation. The play was written in 1915, while O'Neill was a student at Harvard. Set at the onset of World War I, it is about characters who must decide whether to join the army or the anarchist cause, a choice that ultimately divides a father and son. The … [Read more...] about Hibernia: New O’Neill Play Makes New York Debut

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