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Apple's iPhone Siri app is baffled by Scottish people

Asking Apple's iPhone Siri app to 'create a reminder' is a bit of a challenge in Scotland:

Irish Writers Take Manhattan

The Stinging Fly is the name of the premiere Dublin literary magazine founded in 1997 to create a forum for emerging Irish writers. Now the magazine and its increasingly famous writers are coming to New York for the first ever Stinging Fly reading and interview series and the plan is to make as big a splash as possible (a series of lively discussions, reading and talkbacks will be held on October 25 through 27 at various locations throughout the city).

'The writers we’re bringing over are Irish writers we’ve been associated with for a few years,' says Stinging Fly editor Declan Meade. 'It’s work that we want to showcase. And we’ve also asked Irish writers who live here in New York to contribute to the event as well. So the works will be from the perspective of people who live here and from the people we’re bringing over from Ireland.'

Not only a magazine, but now also a publishing press, in recent years The Stinging Fly has become the recognized launch pad for a new generation of Irish talent. Created as the Celtic Tiger economy was taking flight, since that time it has helped launch the careers of writers like Emma Donoghue, Eamon Grennan, Kerry Hardie, Michael Harding, Claire Keegan and James Kelman.

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‘A Tribute to Harrigan & Hart’ at Symphony Space in NYC

Next Thursday, October 13 at Symphony Space on 95 Street on the Upper West Side, The Irish Arts Center will present an absolutely unmissable tribute to the original kings of Broadway Harrigan and Hart.

An all-star concert, the once in a decade night will remind us that before there was George M. Cohan the songs of his hero Edward 'Ned' Harrigan, the Irish American songwriter and playwright, were the toast of Broadway.

The concert takes place on the hundred year anniversary of Harriagn's passing and through story, song and dance you'll see the artists of the calibre of Athena Tergis and Susan McKeown take to the stage to recreate numbers that will live in your memory.