Presented byIrish American Writers & Artists Presents an Online Production ofEugene O'Neill: An Irish-American BoyhoodBy Turlough McConnellFeaturingCiaran Byrne, Maria Deasy and Colin RyanDATE: Saturday, October 17, 2020TIME: 2PM - 3: 30PM EST (Ireland 7PM)PLACE: Zoom - email iasalon@hotmail.com for … [Read more...] about Eugene O’Neill:
An Irish-American Boyhood
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Crime Pays for John Banville
By Tom Deignan
Will Real John Banville Please Stand Up! Wexford native and Booker-prize-winner John Banville has spent his celebrated literary career exploring the slippery nature of identity and reality. Characters in Banville’s dazzling, challenging novels, such as The Untouchable or Athena, slip in and out of personas, and conceal so many secrets from friends and family (not to mention … [Read more...] about Crime Pays for John Banville
John Lennon and Me
(20 years behind)
By Megan SmolenyakAs the rest of the world commemorates what would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday, I celebrate my 60th. More or less confined at home. Not the circumstances I would have chosen, but just about all of us are apt to have pandemic-impaired birthdays, so no complaints. Still, a milestone like this makes one reflect, and the lack of distraction makes it even … [Read more...] about John Lennon and Me
(20 years behind)
Jim Dwyer Storyteller
By Irish America staffA trio of New York journalists Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill and Jim Dwyer, profoundly changed the way newspaper columns are written. Where once columns were either think pieces or puffery of the rich and powerful, Breslin, Hamill and Dwyer pioneered a “man on the street on the side of the little guy” style that transformed modern journalism. To New Yorkers … [Read more...] about Jim Dwyer Storyteller
Farewell to a Legend
Jim Dwyer, a beloved figure and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter,
columnist, and author, passed away at the age of 63 on October 8, 2020
columnist, and author, passed away at the age of 63 on October 8, 2020
By Niall O'Dowd
It was fitting that in his last column for The New York Times on May 26th, Jim Dwyer wrote about the quiet heroism of his great grandmother in saving her family during the 1918 flu pandemic.
She was known as Nan the Point from a remote area near Killorglin in Co Kerry. Her daughter Mary, her son in law Paddy, and seven children had all contracted the … [Read more...] about Farewell to a LegendJim Dwyer, a beloved figure and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter,
columnist, and author, passed away at the age of 63 on October 8, 2020