In stories I’ve written and in videos I’ve produced I’ve commented on my famine-Irish immigrant ancestors. They were the sandhogs who dug New York City’s tunnels, the bartenders who worked the saloons that lined the Bowery and the street sweepers who cleaned the city. What were they like, the earlier generations that wandered the streets, slept …
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Tuesday, March 12, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, 97 Warren St. NYC. Jeanine Cummins (The Crooked Branch) and Mary Beth Keane (Fever) will be reading and discussing their books. JEANINE CUMMINS AND MARY BETH KEANE AT BARNES & NOBLE Wednesday, March 13, 7PM, Mary O’s, St. Paddy’s Party at Mary O’s, 32 Avenue A, …
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Who is Maria Deasy? Maria is an actress, singer, sometimes a writer, and always a lady. She’s performed Off-Broadway, on TV, and in award-winning independent film shorts around the world. She’s been a swing dancer for Woody Allen, a Vietnam War widow for Barry Levinson, a stunt double for …
Sunday 10AM, March 10, Charles R. Hale joins Professor Cherie Ann Turpin for a one hour radio broadcast: “At the Edge: An Afrofuturist Salon,” 10AM (Call in on 347-215-7908 if you’d like to chat or you can go to the site and listen. AT THE EDGE: AN AFROFUTURIST SALON Sunday, 4PM, March 10, at MIST …
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Thursday, March 7, 7:30PM, Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick St., NYC. Peter Quinn in “Men at Lunch.” Tickets $20, which, according to the sponsors, includes film and party (Heineken and Tullamore Dew, 9-11) MEN AT LUNCH/TICKETS Wednesday, March 13, 7PM, Mary O’s, St. Paddy’s Party at Mary O’s, 32 Avenue A, between 2nd …
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Who are Owen and Moley O Suilleabhain? Owen and Moley are brothers from County Limerick and singers of varying styles, from Irish Rap to Gregorian Chant to Irish Sean Nos song. Owen and Moley’s original songs have garnered much attention from some stellar performers. Among them are English violinist Nigel Kennedy, who …
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Will the real Jim Rodgers please step forward. Is that a zucchetto you’re wearing, Jim… or a yarmulke?
The evening was kicked off by Kathleen Hill, whose beautifully written and highly acclaimed novel, Who Occupies This House, tells the story of one Irish-American family, read from a piece she’d recently completed, “My Apple Tree, My Brightness.” It’s an elegy for her father, a man haunted by his own grandfather, John Ryan, who left County Clare …
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Cat Dwyer’s photos taken at the Artists Without Walls’ Showcase, The Cell Theatre, 2/26/12. The names of those pictured appear below the photo.
Thursday, February 28, 12:30 PM, Lehman College, Black Box Theatre, Bronx, NY. “Listening for Distant Voices with Charles R. Hale.” Free event. LEHMAN COLLEGE/CHARLES R. HALE Friday, March 1, 9:30PM, Metropolitan Room, 34 W. 22nd St. “Sarah Fearon in ‘Comedy Night.’” Tickets $12 METROPOLITAN ROOM/TICKETS Sunday, March 3, 1PM, Swifts Hibernian Lounge, …
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