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Our events calendar for Fall 2024 is now live! We look forward to welcoming you back for an exciting semester of book launches, readings, conversation, and lectures.

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As family and friends sadly lay the remains of Adrian Flannelly to rest in his native Ireland, Glucksman Ireland House at New York University sends it deepest condolence and salutes the man who was the Voice of Ireland and Irish America for over 50 years.

Tribute to Adrian Flannelly, the “Voice of Ireland” As family and friends sadly lay the remains of Adrian Flannelly to rest in his native Ireland, Glucksman Ireland House at New York University sends it deepest condolence and salutes the man who was the Voice of Ireland and Irish America for over 50 years. As the host of Irish Radio’s ‘Adrian Fla...

On behalf of Glucksman Ireland House we wish to express our deep sadness at the death of the legendary writer Edna O’Brien, our dear friend and recipient of the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters at the Glucksman Ireland House Gala in 2023.

https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/irelandhouse/news/edna-obrien.html

Many congratulations to the Fulbright Irish Awardees for 2024-2025! Three scholars have received awards to NYU. We look forward to welcoming Niall Ó Dochartaigh, Conall Ó Fátharta, and Caleb O’Connor to campus. Comhghairdeas!

Three Irish Citizens Receive Prestigious Fulbright Awards to NYU Friday, 14th June, 2024: The Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and the Embassy of the United States of America in Dublin are pleased to announce 21 Fulbright Irish Awardees for 2024-2025. Recipients were presented with Awards at a ceremo...

Call for Papers: The American Journal of Irish Studies seeks proposals on the topic of “Sustainability in Irish Culture” for the inaugural issue of its new online, open-access journal. The editors hope to include traditional, peer-reviewed articles of approximately 6,000 to 10,000 words alongside multi-modal and multi-disciplinary elements.

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of the American Journal of Irish Studies "Sustainability in Irish Culture" The American Journal of Irish Studies seeks proposals on the topic of “Sustainability in Irish Culture” for the inaugural issue of its new online, open-access journal. We call for broad interdisciplinary proposals that critically address the theme, are historica...

Coming soon from our friends Irish Arts Center! Panti Bliss: If These Wigs Could Talk, a THISISPOPBABY and Abbey Theatre production, runs June 13 - 23.

After a lifetime of accidental activism, far-fetched shenanigans and making a full time show of herself, notorious drag queen Panti Bliss—the “Queen of Ireland”—is now taking a moment to question her purpose and place in this changing world.

Get your tickets: https://irishartscenter.org/event/panti-bliss-if-these-wigs-could-talk

Join us on May 9th at 7 pm for the Launch of "The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image" by our very own Professor Marion Casey.

"The Green Space," the latest from the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series by NYU Press, examines the variety of factors that contributed to remaking the Irish image from downtrodden and despised to universally acclaimed. To understand the forces that molded how people understand “Irish” is to see the matrix—the green space—that facilitated their interaction between the 1890s and 1960s. Marion R. Casey argues that, as “Irish” evolved between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, a visual and rhetorical expanse for representing ethnicity was opened up in the process.

While this event is sold out, you can join our waitlist here: bit.ly/MarionCasey

NYC here we come! 🗽 Join us at on May 7 for a conversation with winning author Anne Enright.

Tickets from bio 👆 are free but space is limited.

Join us on Thursday, May 2nd for Irish Institute Lecture: Virginia Teehan, "Our place, time, Framing Heritage in Contemporary Ireland."

Virginia Teehan is a cultural leader with significant experience in the fields of heritage protection and interpretation with a wealth of executive and non-executive experience across museums and galleries and universities. Virginia took over the post of CEO of the Heritage Council in February 2019. She was elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2022.

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It was such a pleasure to host the launch of Suad Aldarra's "I Don't Want to Talk About Home" at GIH last week! Thanks to all who joined us for a special conversation about storytelling, belonging, and the ever-shifting idea of what makes home.

Join us on Thursday, April 25th for the New York City launch of Caoilinn Hughes' The Alternatives. This event is presented with support from Culture Ireland.

Caoilinn will be in conversation with Glucksman Ireland House faculty member Kelly Sullivan. Kelly is Clinical Associate Professor in Irish and Irish American Studies, as well as Director of Graduate Studies.

https://bit.ly/CaoilinnHughes

Join us as we launch Suad Aldarra's I Don't Want to Talk About Home in New York.

Suad Aldarra is a Syrian-Irish writer and data scientist based in Dublin. She lived in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and the US before eventually settling in Ireland. Suad was selected as the Common Currency writer in residence for the Cuirt International Festival and English/Irish PEN in 2021 and was awarded the Art Councils of Ireland English Literature bursary. Her debut memoir, "I Don’t Want to Talk About Home", was published by Doubleday/PRH Ireland in July 2022 and shortlisted for An Post Irish Book Awards - Biography of the Year. Her short story The Three Strangers was included in A Little Unsteadily Into Light: New Dementia-Inspired Fiction (2022), edited by Jan Carson. Suad has written several pieces for the Irish Times and Independent, among other places.

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Join us on April 13th at Lá Gaeilge for Ceardlanna teanga ag trí léibhéal - language workshops at three levels and the Barra Ó Donnabháin Lecture.

Discover the beauty of the Irish language in a program designed for learners at all skill levels.

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Are you interested in pursuing a graduate degree in Irish Studies? Join us on April 11th at 5:30 pm to learn about our M.A. in Irish and Irish-American Studies, part of NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at our upcoming M.A. Open House.

- Speak to current M.A. students and faculty
- Get details about course offerings and curriculum
- Learn about opportunities for summer study in Ireland
- Find out about options for part-time study
- See how the many activities at Glucksman Ireland House NYU complement your degree experience
- Hear how departmental assistantships and community internships can add to your professional resume as you complete your M.A.
- Discover a joint degree option for a M.A. and Masters in Library Science with Long Island University

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Join us for the launch of How to Build a Boat, longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize and shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year.

How to Build a Boat is the story of how one boy and his mission transforms the lives of his teachers, Tess and Tadhg, and brings together a community. Written with tenderness and verve, it's about love, family and connection, the power of imagination, and how our greatest adventures never happen alone.

Elaine Feeney will be in conversation with NYU's Conor Creaney, Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program. Conor has written on novelistic form and on contemporary Irish poetry, and is Director of NYU’s Study Abroad program at Trinity College Dublin.

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Coming soon from our friends at Irish Arts Center:

The clock is ticking. It’s April 1998 and the main political parties in Northern Ireland, the British government and the Irish government, all under the watchful eye of Senator George Mitchell, try to hammer out a deal that could pave the way for peace in Northern Ireland. This is the last chance, and no one is leaving until agreement is reached one way or another.

Agreement, a Lyric Theatre Belfast production by Owen McCafferty, runs April 11 - May 12, 2024.

Learn more and get your tickets here: https://irishartscenter.org/event/lyric-theatre-agreement

Many congratulations to MA alum Maura McDonnell and everyone behind the creation of for their win at ! We are so proud to see this story told. Comhghairdeas!

In Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place, Martin Doyle offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish: his own. This launch event, supported by Culture Ireland, will feature a conversation between Martin Doyle and Fintan O'Toole. The event is sold out, but please join the waitlist to receive tickets as they become available!

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Please join us on February 29th for a public talk by Emma DeSouza, “Turn of the Tide: The Future of Northern Ireland’s Peace Process.” Each generation presents an opportunity for change. In the context of Northern Ireland, a new generation unencumbered by the divisions of the past has been born. As Ireland, both North and South, grapples with the political and societal impacts of Brexit, the so-called peace generation is carving out a new path.

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Aiding Ireland investigates the Irish famine as a foundational moment for normalizing international giving. Anelise Hanson Shrout argues that these diverse men and women found famine relief to be politically useful. Shrout takes readers from Ireland to Britain, across the Atlantic to the United States, and across the Mississippi to Indian Territory, uncovering what was to be gained for each group by participating in global famine relief. Aiding Ireland demonstrates that international philanthropy and aid are never simple, and are always intertwined with politics both at home and abroad.

Join us February 22 for our Annual Ernie O’Malley Lectute with Anelise Shrout. Register for the event using the link below!

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Prophet Song, Paul Lynch’s fifth novel, is the winner of the 2023 Booker Prize. Join us on February 15 at Glucksman Ireland House for an evening of conversation with Paul Lynch and Colum McCann.

About Prophet Song:
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling. How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?

This event is sold out, but we encourage you to join the waitlist!

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From February 14 to March 3, join our friends at the Irish Arts Center for Jean Butler: What We Hold. This joyful, "exhilarating" (Irish Times) new work marks Jean Butler’s return to working with traditional Irish dancers after twenty-five years. Inspired by Butler's archival project Our Steps, Our Story: An Irish Dance Legacy Archive, and performed by the celebrated artist alongside a multi-generational cast spanning seven decades, What We Hold illuminates a collective history of Irish dance and brings Butler's evolution as a contemporary dance artist back to her roots in traditional form.

https://bit.ly/IACWhatWeHold

For 50 years, Don Gifford and Robert J. Seidman’s Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce’s Ulysses has been an invaluable resource for students and readers. The volume, which serves as an encyclopedia of references, literary allusions, and gloss provides important context for the classroom, and anyone endeavoring to read Joyce’s canonical tome.

Join us on February 8th when Robert Seidman will be in conversation with Vicki Mahaffey to discuss the origins and impact of this volume over the past five decades.

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Join us on February 1st for a special event marking the 1500th anniversary of Saint Brigit's feastday, co-presented with the Middle Ages and Renaissance Center at NYU. This event will feature a lecture by Dr. Catherine McKenna.

Catherine McKenna is Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She has published widely on St. Brigit of Kildare, and is completing a book on the cult of St. Brigit from the sixth century to the present. Another focus of her research and publication is the poetry and narrative prose of medieval Wales. She has in the past taught courses on Celtic Myth and Literature for undergraduates and on the twelfth-century Book of Leinster for graduate students in NYU’s Irish Studies Program.

http://bit.ly/3vR8rX7

Join us on February 1st for a lecture by Eugenio Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Sidney Sussex College in the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the social, economic and political history of democracy. He has written on Gladstonian liberalism and the Italian Risorgimento, but Ireland is his main area of research.

His book, British Democracy and Irish Nationalism, 1876-1906 (2007), examines the way the Irish Home Rule campaigns affected the making of democracy in the two islands. He has recently published, with Daniel Mulhall, The Shaping of Modern Ireland (2016) and, with Mary Daly, The Cambridge Social History of Ireland since 1740 (2016). His current research focuses on the history of religious and ethnic minorities in twentieth-century Ireland, in a comparative perspective. He focuses on the challenge of nation building, the redefinition of ‘public interest’, civil liberties and ‘the constitution’ in deeply divided societies.

https://bit.ly/47VfiMh

From all of us at Glucksman Ireland House NYU, we hope you have a very happy holiday season and a festive start to the New Year! Thank you for your engagement and support in 2023, and we so look forward to welcoming you back to Ireland House in 2024.

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