Irish storytelling-showman Paddy Cullivan returns to the New York Irish Center with his tour de force “The Murder of Michael Collins” for two nights, Thursday, and Friday, April 9 and 10, at 7 p.m.. Part of a U.S. tour sponsored by Culture Ireland, Cullivan’s hit show about Ireland’s great revolutionary shot dead under mysterious circumstances in his native West Cork in 1922, marks his second visit to NYIC following last year’s sold-out “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Ireland!”
Part investigative journalist, part multi-media wizard, Cullivan spins a tale for the ages that is both gripping because of the many unanswered questions surrounding Collins’s death at age 31, and eerily resonant with our own turbulent times.
The 5-city American tour of “The Murder of Michael Colllins” begins at Maine Irish Heritage Center on this Friday, April 3, and wraps up in Chicago on April 15.
“This is Ireland’s JFK assassination story,” Cullivan said. “It is indeed the greatest mystery in Irish history.” Ronan McGreevy of the Irish Times called the show “Mesmerizing stuff – a complicated story, brilliantly told.”
Tickets for “The Murder of Michael Collins,” are available at www.newyorkirishcenter.org.
The New York Irish Center, 1040 Jackson Ave. in Long Island City, is just a 3-minute ride on the 7 Train from Grand Central.
