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Quinn puts 21st century spin on Gregson
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Quinn puts 21st century spin on Gregson
For Irish-American actor Aidan Quinn, who most recently starred in the cancelled NYPD drama “Prime Suspect,” the prospect of playing a New York pol...
Doc profiles petite hipster with bullhorn
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Doc profiles petite hipster with bullhorn
Not even the last of the good weather could deter New York’s Irish film fans from heading indoors at NYU Cantor Center last Friday night to watch t...
Wee Craic: funny weird and funny ha-ha
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Wee Craic: funny weird and funny ha-ha
By Orla O’Sullivan The Wee Craic festival wasn’t short on craic, just a smaller showcase for short films out of Ireland than the main Craic fest, h...
Irish Film NY is back for 2nd year
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Irish Film NY is back for 2nd year
Silver Screen / By Michael Gray Irish Film New York, in its second year on the NY cultural calendar, presents a diverse selection of new movies fro...
Dubliner’s story  told backwards
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Dubliner’s story told backwards
Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Christine Dwyer Hickey believes she reads more short stories than anybody in Ireland. It’s a quite a claim ...
McCarthy essays published
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McCarthy essays published
“There is increasing interest in the achievements of constitutional nationalists who never espoused violence, and of liberals from the unionist tra...
Dwyer Hickey for IAC, AIHS
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Dwyer Hickey for IAC, AIHS
Christine Dwyer Hickey, the award-winning Irish novelist and short story writer, will discuss her new novel, "The Cold Eye of Heaven" at two upcomi...
Ex-cop Monaghan brings music to community
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Ex-cop Monaghan brings music to community
This year I ended my summer with sand between my toes, a starry night, a cool evening breeze and some mighty live music thanks to Irish American pe...
Harpists are busier than ever across U.S.
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Harpists are busier than ever across U.S.
Today I write from the air, en route to “CelticFest” in Jackson, Miss., for one of the American South’s great celebrations of traditional Irish mus...
Ní Mhaonaigh's return
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Ní Mhaonaigh's return
A rising young Irish artist returns for her second solo exhibit in New York beginning today. "Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh: New Paintings" is showing at the...
Tyrrell’s voice reaches out beyond genres
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Tyrrell’s voice reaches out beyond genres
For many, Seán Tyrrell needs no introduction. From his work with Davy Spillane to his one man shows, and his prodigious career as a solo recording ...
Tales of survival in City of Light
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Tales of survival in City of Light
A standing room only crowd greeted first time presenter Sanem Ozdural at the recent Irish American Writers & Artists’ Salon at the Cell Theater. Sa...

 

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