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Reclaiming Charlotte Bronte For Ireland - “Bronte: a portrait of Charlotte” Off Broadway


Not everyone knows that the Brontes, England’s most accomplished literary family, were actually half Irish. Anne, Emily and Charlotte were raised by Patrick Bronte, a strict father who was born in Co. Down on St. Patrick’s Day, 17 ...

April 28, 2012 by CAHIR O'DOHERTY 7
Portrait of the author of "Dracula", Bram Stoker, by Aidan Hickey

Dublin pays tribute to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” with portrait for the centenary of his death


The centenary of Dublin writer Bram Stoker’s death was celebrated with the handing over a new portrait, by Aidan Hickey, to the Irish Writer’s Center, in Parnell Square. ...

April 12, 2012 by CATHY HAYES 1

Kate Middleton will present a royal portrait of herself to Prince William for his 30th birthday


The Duchess of Cambridge posed for the £25,000 canvas artwork – which was painted by royal artist Nicky Philipps, who has also painted William and Prince Harry – on four separate occasions while her husband was away on a six-week ...

April 08, 2012 by Amy Andrews 0
Director Gabriel Byrne and writer and performer Gerard Mannix Flynn (in association with Liam Neeson) have brought James X to New York.

A searing portrait of abuse - Mannix Flynn’s one man show ‘James X’ in NYC


The Irish reflex of looking the other way when you’re not directly implicated may be a consequence of colonialism, or it might be universal human nature. ...

December 15, 2011 by CAHIR O'DOHERTY 2

Patti Smith, Ireland and the Catholic Church


Patti Smith is a rocker, poet and memoirist and, having read her memoir "Just Kids," I can also tell you she is Irish -- in ancestry at least. She grew up in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and her family was poor; she tells how as a ch ...

November 01, 2011 by Frieda Klotz 1

Smithsonian should have kept "ant-covered Jesus"


The National Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., recently opened a new exhibition called "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," featuring the work of many homosexual ... ...

November 01, 2011 by Megan Finnegan 12

A Portrait of Bravery and Baseball


Jimmy BreslinDespite a long spell of winter weather that seems more appropriate for skiing, baseball season opens up across America next week.  It is shaping up to be another barnburner of a year, certainly in the American League ...

August 24, 2011 by Tom Deignan 1

Portrait of an Irish Artist: Louis le Brocquy


After seven decades of painting, Louis le Brocquy has clearly established himself as one of the 20th century’s masters. In an interview with George Morgan in 1995, Morgan asked le Brocquy to comment on whether he had achieve ...

May 13, 2011 by MARK AXELROD 0

Review of Books


Click Here to purchase these books at Kenny's Books   Recommended The Empty Family I did everything I could to not finish Colm Tóibín’s latest collection of short stories, The Empty Family. I stared out o ...

March 10, 2011 by Sheila Langan, Katie McFadden and Kristin Romano 0

Portraits of the Irish Leaving Home


“It is my wish to photograph people of all nationalities, who have made the decision to move from Ireland for economic reasons[:] in and around the city, juxtaposed with landscapes that are significant to their pasts. If tha ...

March 10, 2011 by Sheila Langan 0
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