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Irish America
A year of arts and culture in the U.S. 2011 is going to be an exciting year for the Irish arts in America. On January 7th, Culture Ireland announced its expansive project for the coming year, titled Imagine Ireland. Launched in New York City’s Lincoln Center by Cultural Ambassador and renowned actor Gabriel Byrne, Minister for Art, Sport and Tourism Mary Hanafin, and Culture … [Read more...] about Launch of Imagine Ireland
Irish novelists Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann enthralled an audience at the New York Public Library on November 14. As part of the fall program at the Dorothy and Lewis Cullman Center, O’Connor and McCann, both former Cullman Fellows, were there to discuss Redemption Falls, O’Connor’s novel about the American Civil War, an epic tale he wrote and researched during his … [Read more...] about An Evening with Joe O’Connor and Colum McCann
In his latest novel, Zoli, Dublin-born Colum McCann proves that part of his talent as a writer lies in his ability to imagine and capture the lives of the forgotten and oppressed. Colum McCann doesn’t write about what he knows. That, he insists, would involve sitting in the study of his apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, surrounded by books and family photos, … [Read more...] about Imagining the Unknown
A sampling of the latest Irish books. ℘℘℘ RECOMMENDED "The reason I wanted to be a Gopher was simple: them gangsters never had to work for a living." This is famed New York gangster Owney Madden, speaking in the crackling voice which runs throughout Michael Walsh's gritty new novel And All the Saints. Madden rose from a tough youth in an Irish ghetto in England to become one … [Read more...] about Book Reviews
New York-based Irish writer Colum McCann, 37, was awarded the first ever Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award on October 5, 2002 at the Hôtel de Paris, Monte Carlo. The award entitled "the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace" has a value of 15,000 euro and was created to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Grace. McCann, … [Read more...] about McCann Wins Princess Grace Award
