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Tip Sheet recommends: Bogboy at The Irish Arts Center

In Bogboy, playing tonight and throughout the weekend at The Irish Arts Center in Manhattan, Irish actress Sorcha Fox plays Brigit the drug addicted young Dublin woman hanging to the edge of her own life by her fingernails.

Charismatic, focused, instinctive and pitch perfect, Fox’s performance is the key to the success of Deirdre Kinahan’s tender and accomplished new play.

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Noctu Irish Dance at The Irish Repertory Theatre: Kill for a ticket

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney to read at 92nd Street Y

In a very special evening to open the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s 2011-2012 season, Ireland’s Nobel Laureate (and arguably the world's finest living poet) Seamus Heaney will read from his poetry. 

The best iPad keyboard on the market

Apple's iPads offer unmatchable portability and function - that's why they've been such a hit. You can pop one in your shoulder bag and have room in their for the rest of your life too.

But all that portability comes at a cost: no keyboard! If you write a little (or a lot) you're going to need some typing options.

To date wifi key boards have been marketed with varying degrees of success. One thing seems to untie them - the Bluetooth cursor half second lag that drives professional wordsmiths nuts.

Rory's story about marriage

        Trust the Irish to get right to the heart of an issue.

8 on Broadway already hottest ticket in town

The hot ticket on Broadway this month is Dustin Lance Black's new play '8' about the bitter court battle (still ongoing) over California's Proposition 8.

The show will be performed as a fundraiser at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on Sept. 19. Casting already includes Anthony Edwards, Morgan Freeman, Cheyenne Jackson, Christine Lahti, Rob Reiner, Yeardley Smith and Marisa Tomei.

Lance Black, the screenwriter for the Harvey Milk biopic starring Sean Prenn, spent months pouring over the trial transcripts and interviews, and the one night only show will be directed by Tony Award-winning actor and director Joe Mantello.

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C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Off Broadway

It comes as a surprise to many that author C.S. Lewis considered himself an Irishman, but he was in no doubt himself. 'The Irish are the only people,' he wrote to a friend, 'with all their faults I would not gladly live or die among another folk.'

Describing a meeting with a fellow Irishman in England he wrote: 'Like all Irish people who meet in England we ended by criticisms on the invincible flippancy and dullness of the Anglo-Saxon race…'

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