Born in the Bronx to Irish immigrant parents, Mary Beth Keane is best known for writing deep, character-driven fiction that explores complex family dynamics, Irish-American heritage, lifelong marriage, and human struggles like mental illness and addiction. Her new novel, Whale Harbor is scheduled for publication by Scribner on September 29, 2026. With Whale Harbor, the … [Read more...] about Irish America Podcast
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The Irish Experience
June, 1992: Patricia Harty talks to Australian writer Thomas Keneally about his book NOW AND IN TIME TO BE: Ireland and the Irish. Thomas Keneally is a widely-recognized for a wide body of work of a historical and political nature including The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, which explores differences between the white and aborigine cultures. Confederates examined the consequences … [Read more...] about The Irish Experience
The Making of a Nation
Risings: The Irish Literary Revival and the Making of a Nation. On View at The Grolier Club, NYC, April 29–July 25, 2026. NEW YORK CITY — This spring, a new exhibition at The Grolier Club explores the formation of Irish identity through the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the parallel political quest for Irish nationhood. Presented in … [Read more...] about The Making of a Nation
Glucksman Ireland House NYU Honors Four Outstanding Irish and Irish-American Leaders
Newsletter, March 7, 2026
In what has become a celebrated annual, pre-St Patrick’s Day tradition, Glucksman Ireland House NYU hosted its Gala on Tuesday, March 3 a the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Critically-acclaimed Irish writer and 1995 Booker Prize winner, Roddy Doyle, received the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. CEO Emeritus of Northwell and Irish American leader, Michael J. Dowling, received … [Read more...] about Glucksman Ireland House NYU Honors Four Outstanding Irish and Irish-American Leaders
St. Patrick’s Day: A Celebration of Immigration
By Michael Dowling
Newsletter, March 7, 2026
Newsletter, March 7, 2026
On March 16, 1780, General George Washington declared that the following day, March 17, would be a holiday for his tired, cold and hungry continental army troops as they camped in Morristown, NJ. They had been through a difficult and long campaign, going months without a day off – not even Christmas – and enduring the coldest and snowiest East Coast winter on record, with 28 … [Read more...] about St. Patrick’s Day: A Celebration of Immigration