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Irish Arts Center to honor cultural leaders at annual ‘Show Your Love’ NYC event (IrishCentral)

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:57:38 PST

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

The Irish Arts Center will honor three distinguished young professionals, invested in promoting and preserving the rich cultural heritage of Ireland and Irish America, at its annual Show Your Love event, on Friday, February 22nd.

OurLand gives Ireland cross culture spin in free NYC fest (IrishCentral)

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:46:13 PDT

Quite the McMashup at Out of Doors at Lincoln Center this Sunday, July 29 -- Pulitzer Prize winner William Kennedy (singing!), Get Smart's Barbara Feldon, , New York Dolls Syl SyLvain, Dennis Dunaway of Alice Cooper fame, the cast of the Tony Award winning musical Once, bestselling bards including Peter Quinn and Malachy McCourt, and hours of Irish music from trad to rad, all wrangled into the all day, all free OurLand Festival by Irish rocker Joe HurleyEmanating from multiple stages around Lincoln Center from 2-10 pm, OurLand will celebrate the artistic, literary and musical heritage of Ireland, the mark it made on America and the cross-cultural ties that bind the two countriesThe event begins with "The Gathering The Bards: From Galway to Rockaway" at 2 p READ MORE

Who Speaks for Ireland? Rebel voices in “Blood” & “Dancing at Lunacy” (IrishCentral)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:00:14 PDT

The sign at The Cell Theater entrance warns “TONIGHT’S PERFORMANCE OF ‘BLOOD’ AND ‘DANCING AT LUNACY’ CONTAINS THE SOUNDS OF GUNFIRE”Take that as a sign that there’ll be none of the season’s shamrock and leprechaun sentimentality, so brace yourself for a riveting duet of dramas on rebellious Ireland, each built around a trio of all-too-human, and in one case, quite inhuman, revolutionaries “Blood” by rocking Renaissance man Larry Kirwan, conjures a likely scenario for a mystery of the history in the run-up to the 1916 Easter Rising, while the aptly named “Dancing at Lunacy” tells of a helter-skelter clash of IRA operatives in an illegal drinking club in Belfast of 1984The opener, “Blood,” is a story of three key historical figures of the Easter Rising told in three scenes, the first brief vignette set in 1916 in Kilmainham Jail where, bound to a chair, is James Connolly (Ciaran Byrne)--common man, communist, head of the Irish Citizen Army—ruing the day he allied with his co-conspirators in the failed Easter Rising, cursing the Irish people who failed to rally to the cause:“Shower of bastards - spittin' at us and spatterin' us with horseshite as we were frog-marched out of the GPO and into this hellhole!”Scene Two goes the heart of the drama, a flashback to 1913 when Connolly disappeared, held in secret for three days by the rival Irish Republic Brotherhood READ MORE

From the Hob - Upcoming traditional Irish music event in the NYC area (IrishCentral)

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:00:27 PST

The Bog Band's Mitch FanningThe new season for the Blarney Star concert series kicks off this week with more Marylanders coming north to Greenwich Village Series producer Don Meade has invited the Bog Band led by founder fiddler Mitch Fanning, who leads the music educational programs for the O’Neill-Malcom branch of Comhaltas in the Capital District Joining him are young up and coming piper and flute player, Patrick Armstrong, who is a student at Fordham University, and Conor Hearn on guitar, and perhaps some other guest artists who may turn up on the night Two sets starting at 9 p READ MORE

Around NYC: the Irish traditional music seisiún and céilí events (IrishCentral)

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:55:23 PST

The Irish live in a much wider area than just Manhattan in the lár (urban center) Traditional Irish music events such as the seisiún and the céilí pop up all over the region at various times This is an incomplete list, but a good place to get started The list below works well with Maureen Donnachie's Ceol agus Rince calendar, which can be found here, and compiles gatherings happening among the musicians, listeners and dancers around town that create the unique seisiún and céilí culture of New York City READ MORE