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Irish American's Pioneering Video on View at MOMA (IrishCentral)

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:15:14 PDT

Pioneering video art by Irish American Paul Dougherty is now on view in the Museum of Modern Art’s current show, “SELECTED WORKS FROM THECONTEMPORARY GALLERIES: 1980-NOW”From the punk era, Frankie Teardrop (1979) combines superimposed projector manipulations and high-end video post-production technology, generally unavailable to artists The resulting video is described by John O’Connor of the New York Times as “an urban ballad of mental break-down” and is included in Rolling Stone‘s “Book of Rock Video” "Frankie READ MORE

Irish Arts Center in New York City continues to innovate - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:45:18 PST

Colin DunneIn this year of imaging Ireland as a bubbling cultural cauldron where promoting the Irish arts and its practitioners across America would serve as a much-needed stimulus reviving the economically-challenged Four Green Fields on the island of Ireland, we noticed a very interesting parallel We have long marveled at the worldwide influence and dominance the small nation in the North Atlantic exhibits through its literary and musical traditions that owes more to its cultural creativity, imagination and ingenuity than it does for the 70 million members of its diaspora distributed around the globe Mirroring that impact is a small but ambitious cultural center on Manhattan’s West Side where the Irish were more famous -- or infamous -- for the working class denizens who populated the tempestuous Hell’s Kitchen and gave rise to the Westies, the storied Irish gang based there This fall the Irish Arts Center, operating from its headquarters in a small three-story garage, has probably experienced its most prolific period in its almost four decade-old existence, and like the country that inspired its founding by Irish immigrant Brian Heron (who passed away earlier this year), it has had an impact far beyond its size READ MORE

Romantic Ireland is far from dead and gone, yet (IrishCentral)

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:55:12 PDT

Ballroom of Romance, Glenfarne County LeitrimHaving but mere Travolta like social experience of the raucous disco floors of west Clare, this column would not claim to have too much insightful knowledge of the delights of the Ballroom of Romance era However the bashful secrets of this bygone age are to be revealed in a new museum project spearheaded by the good citizens of Glenfarne in lovely LeitrimAmongst the community leaders of this innovative heritage tourism project is Sean McDermott, a namesake and distant blood relation of the 1916 leader who helped mould Michael Collins, Sean MacDiarmada Sean highlighted to the Celtic Times the visit of the Minister for Tourism onsite last weekend at the world famous venue as a sure step in reliving the innocent heartbeat of a bygone Ireland READ MORE

Catskills a hub of innovation (IrishCentral)

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:15:17 PDT

There are some who think that the Catskills represent only a bygone era, and that perhaps something like the Catskills Irish Arts Week (CIAW) that takes place there every summer is only fighting a losing battle in preserving an important Irish heritage up there But they would be underestimating the resilience and the creativity of the “Living Tradition” of Irish music and culture that is the lifeblood to those who follow it around the world, and why certain places provide sustenance to it That was very apparent to me with the preponderance of new recordings debuting this year in East Durham Four of them stood out for important roles that the CIAW may have played in sparking their production READ MORE

Irish innovator advances solar power technology (IrishCentral)

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:32:08 PDT

By: CATHY HAYES

Innovalight have created a substance which will increase efficiency in 80 percent of the world’s solar power market.

Irish universities and ITLG sign innovation agreement (IrishCentral)

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:22:23 PDT

By: CHRIS MCTIERNAN

CCE Continues on Innovative Path (IrishCentral)

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:03:05 PDT

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A YEAR ago Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern turned some sod on the Alfie Byrne Road across from the reclaimed land in Dublin Bay and near the Port Tunnel on Dublin's North Side to signal the long-anticipated beginning of Clasac, a traditional arts center. The symbolic gesture by the leader of the Irish nation at the invitation of the Clontarf branch of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann followed the most ambitious plan of cooperation between the Irish government and one of the country's leading cultural movements devoted to traditional Irish music. READ MORE