Irish America
Irish America
Queen’s Announces Seamus Heaney Fellows for 2024-25Fiona Benson, Jan Carson, Declan Lawn, and Adam Patterson are the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellows for 2024-25. Fiona Benson is the author of four poetry collections: Bright Travellers, Vertigo & Ghost, Ephemeron, and Midden Witch (forthcoming). All three of her published collections have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Events
From Big Tom to Brexit Mockumentaries: A new digital archive captures the artistic legacy of the Irish borderA new digital archive capturing the artistic legacy of the Irish border launched as part of Trinity College Dublin’s Arts and Humanities Research Festival on Monday, September 23. Ireland’s Border Culture is an open-access digital archive of literature, visual art, … [Read more...] about Hibernia
180 years after his birth on June 28, 1844, the lessons of legendary Irish rebel, patriot, poet, and activist John Boyle O'Reilly deserve to be remembered and cherished. In today’s society of discontent and distrust mingled with guarded hope and optimism, O’Reilly would be hailed simultaneously as a disruptor of the status quo, a man unafraid to speak truth to power, a uniter … [Read more...] about Window on the Past: Where Shall We Seek for a Hero?
The Irish language film Kneecap is about the rise of a Belfast-based hip-hop trio. We come from a very very serious place,” Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh or “Mo Chara” from Kneecap, the Irish Language Hip-Hop Trio from West Belfast, told Rolling Stone Magazine. “If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.” His sidekick, Naoise Ó Cairealláin (“Moglaí Bap”) agreed. “Sometimes when you’re left with an … [Read more...] about Film Review: Kneecap
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 of that passeth understanding," only to find that even the best-laid plans can go awry. 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: A Memoir by Edna O’Brien
