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Gabrielle Giffords received the 2013 Profile in Courage award at the John F. Kennedy Library (IrishCentral)

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:13:39 PDT

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

Former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords received the 2013 Profile in Courage award at the John F. Kennedy Library on May 5, 2013. She was recognized for the courage she has shown through her public advocacy for policy reforms aimed at reducing gun violence.

National Library of Ireland releases prison letters written by Roger Casement in 1916 (IrishCentral)

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:53:01 PST

By: KERRY O'SHEA

The National Library of Ireland has released a cache of previously unreleased documents penned by Roger Casement while he was awaiting his execution at Pentonville Prison in London in 1916.

Why Obama and Clinton needed that golf game together with Terry McAuliffe -- Obama presidential library and Hillary’s political future all in the mix (IrishCentral)

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:01:26 PST

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama get down to business playing golfSo Terry McAuliffe, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama played golf on Sunday togetherWonder what they were discussing?Sure, McAuliffe is running for Virginia governor in 2014 and Bill wants his wife to run for president in 2016But what does Obama want?Why a presidential library of course Cost? A cool $500 million READ MORE

$5 million McClelland Irish Center library opens in Phoenix, Arizona - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 05:23:20 PDT

By: KERRY O’SHEA

On October 6, the McClelland Irish Library officially opened its doors in Phoenix, Arizona as part of the $5 million Irish Cultural Center. The new Library boasts information on all things Irish and is set to become the leading Irish genealogical research center in the country.

Petition launched for ‘The Quiet Man’ to be protected by the US Library of Congress (IrishCentral)

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:54:20 PDT

By: KATE HICKEY

A petition has been initiated to have John Ford’s classic Irish movie “The Quiet Man” added to the United States National Film Registry, part of the Library of Congress, to mark the movie’s 60th anniversary.

Oscar Wilde classic returned to Chicago library 78 years overdue - late fines waived (IrishCentral)

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:48:11 PDT

By: CATHY HAYES

A limited edition copy of Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” was returned to the Chicago Public Library as part of a rare amnesty program. The library, which is the third largest in the United States had not noticed the old book had been missing for the past 78 years.

Eucharistic Congress book returned to library after 80 years - $5,144 fine waived (IrishCentral)

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 05:28:12 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

Eighty years after it was borrowed - and then never returned - an anonymous library borrower has quietly returned a 'lost' book containing rare photographs of the International Catholic Eucharistic Congress held in Dublin in 1932.

Ireland’s National Library publish James Joyce manuscripts online amid copyright dispute (IrishCentral)

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 06:10:50 PDT

By: KERRY O'SHEA

The National Library of Ireland has made available for the first time James Joyce’s manuscripts for free to the public via the Library’s online catalogue. The online publication coincides with a book set publication of the same manuscripts that are being sold for hundreds of Euro.

Priceless medical book returned to Dublin library after a hundred years (IrishCentral)

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:38:01 PST

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

A valuable medical book missing for over a hundred years has finally been returned to a Dublin library.
The 500-year-old medical textbook is now back in the possession of Marsh’s Library according to the Irish Times.

Seamus Heaney donates literary papers to the National Library of Ireland (IrishCentral)

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:15:45 PST

By: BERNIE MALONE

Seamus Heaney, the Derry born Nobel laureate has donated his literary papers to the National Library of Ireland.

The collection, which includes early drafts of some of his most famous words, manuscripts, and rewrites and 16 bound notebooks, is expected to be open to the public in the near future.

#1 Irish Library in the U.S., K.U. at Lawrence: O'Hegarty (IrishCentral)

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:15:20 PDT

Advance Shownotes I have completed my interview sessions with the Spencer Research Library at KU in Lawrence, Kansas Yes, that's Lawrence, Kansas READ MORE

New York Public Library goes green (IrishCentral)

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:15:23 PDT

When our imagination is employed it can lead to the kind of fertility that can help cement and also augment the 21st century bonds that remain very much in place between Ireland and AmericaOpening this past weekend is a historical collection of archival material in various media dealing with the performing arts entitled “Ireland America: The Ties That Bind”The exhibit is housed at the Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery at the New York Public Library (NYPL) for the Performing Arts on the plaza level of Lincoln Center for six months until August 13In the course of the larger brainstorming about the Imagine Ireland project almost three years ago, the triumvirate of Irish Cultural Ambassador Gabriel Byrne, Culture Ireland CEO Eugene Downes and NYPL Performing Arts Library executive director Jackie Davis wanted to utilize a large Lincoln Center gallery space to display many of the Irish artistic achievements in music, dance and theater at the prestigious home for cultural activity in New York City READ MORE

50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s election celebrated at JFK library (IrishCentral)

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:32:23 PST

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

To celebrate the election of President John F. Kennedy into the White House on November 8, 1960 - 50 years ago- the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts, marked the occasion on Monday evening.

South Park a home on the range to 20,000 books? No joke says Irish-American bibliophile. (IrishCentral)

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:35:07 PDT

Though there’s a social media component to this story in the form of websites and blogs, this time “Irish Media Nation” is kicking it old school with traditional media--the printed word in the form of books, lots and lots of books, amassed by a collector in Denver, Co, and hopefully bound for South Park, Co (yes, that South Park, as seen on TV), to be housed in a facility inspired by a library in Wales And there is the requite Irish angle here in the form of an Irish American natural historian and book collector, Jeff Lee (yes relation--Jeff is my younger brother) READ MORE

'Sexually explicit' Pattinson books, movies to be banned from libraries? (IrishCentral)

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:45:09 PDT

Robert Pattinson made his name on playing a character from the 'Twilight' books, but if many Christian parents have their way the books and DVD;s will soon be banned from public librariesThey will seek to block all 'Twilight' material from being available in public libraries which could means thousands of kids who want to watch the films will not be allowed to “Twilight” ranks fifth among books that people have filed formal, written complaints about with a library or school, the American Library AssociationAccording to the group, ”Twilight” complainers say the books are too “sexually explicit, “unsuited to age group,” or have “offensive language”Vampires have been a target for years and the ‘Twilight’ books are so immensely popular that a lot of the concerns people have had about vampires are focused on her books,” said Barbara Jones, director of the association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom READ MORE

The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle (IrishCentral)

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:45:20 PDT

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Robert Pattinson made his name on playing a character from the 'Twilight' books, but if many Christian parents have their way the books and DVD;s will soon be banned from public libraries.