Village Voice - Alan Rickman talks about John Gabriel Borkman
ArtsEmerson in Boston announces Irish programme; includes Druid and Abbey
Spoleto Festival Announces Programme; Druid Theatre a highlight
New York Times - Emma Donoghue and William Trevor in the ten best books of 2010.
New York Times -Druid’s ‘Penelope’ makes theater critic Ben Brantley’s Top 10 of 2010
First Details of New Irish Arts Festival in U.S. Are Unveiled
Irish government spending $5.2 million to bring 400 arts events to US in 2011
Irish Government to Present 400 Irish Arts Events in US
The Irish Times - Ambitious display of talent asks US to imagine a better Ireland
New York Times - Imagine Ireland launches in the US
Boston Globe - Druid’s director Garry Hynes talks about ‘Cripple of Inishmaan’
The Chieftains kick off a 21-date, 20 city tour on February 17th
The Irish Times - Druid ‘Inishmaan’ highlight of cultural season
The Irish Times - Lara Marlowe enjoys Druid’s ‘Inishmaan’ in Washington
Sunday Independent - Irish prose through a cracked lookingglass - Frieda Klotz goes to Princeton
Ireland of the Welcomes - Imagine Ireland hits the US
Connect Magazine - The best of Irish arts comes to the US
Irish America Magazine - current issue has feature on Imagine Ireland
Video - Hugo Hamilton reading at Arts Emerson Irish Festival
Video - Peter Murphy reading at Arts Emerson Irish Festival
Duke Chronicle - DP hosts Irish Abbey Theatre
Abbey Theatre of Ireland’s first-ever performance in North Carolina
Los Angeles Times - 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists announced
Irish authors Stuart Neville and Tana French among finalists. Click here to read more
Irish Emigrant - Abbey’s Terminus worth the wait for Boston theatre fans
Interview with writer Mark O’Rowe
Broadwayworld.com - Cinemagic Presents 2nd Annual Los Angeles Film & Television Festival
Joseph O’Connor & Frank Delaney are in conversation at the Free Library of Philadelphia on Feb 22
Ingrid Nachstern performs ‘Who am I?’, contemporary dance exploring loss of identity, Feb 23, NY
US debut - Fidelio Trio in five performances this week - New York, NY, Cambridge, MA and Urbana, IL
Aspen Writers Foundation presents Emma Donoghue, author of ‘Room’, on Feb 23
LA programme announcement includes premiere of Gerald Barry opera
Read the LA Times on Imagine Ireland LA Launch
Irish American News - Imagine Ireland in Chicago
Andrew Duggan’s installation and ball park event ‘Court’ inspired by the traditional handball alley
Brock McGuire Band perform in ten cities in March throughout TX, TN, AL, NJ and CT
‘Mimic’ by Raymond Scannell, directed by Tom Creed, opens at Irish Arts Center, NY on March 2nd
The Chicago Tribune - ‘Terminus’ at MCA Chicago: Dublin fever dreaming in Abbey Theatre’s riveting
The New York Times - St Patrick’s Day Events in New York City
Cineuropa - New York finds Hidden Ireland
The Irish Emigrant - ‘Imagine Ireland’ launched in Los Angeles
New York Public Library - Announcement of multimedia exhibition Ireland America: The Ties That Bind
Southtown Star - Irish Film Festival at Beverly Arts Center
Julie Feeney “The Emerald Isle’s Original” (Washington Post) in Cambridge, MA & New York this week
New York’s The CRAIC Irish Film and Music Festival runs from March 9th - 12th
The Abbey Theatre brings ‘Terminus’ to Columbus, OH on March 9th and Middlebury, VT on March 12th
Read the Chicago Tribune review
The New York Times on St Patrick’s Day Events in NYC
The Irish Times - ‘Fall and Recover’, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Slideshow
Objects of Devotion and Desire: Noel Brennan at Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, NY until Apr 30th
New Ireland: The Enda Walsh Festival - plays, discussion and more, Studio Theater, DC from Mar 15th
View full details on venue site
Irish Book Day: giving thousands of books away free in many cities to celebrate St Patrick’s Day
Read about Irish Book Day in DC
Keynote speech and performance by Bob Geldof on Mar 17th plus 17 Irish music acts at SXSW Festival
Find out more about the SXSW festival here
Taoiseach welcomes Imagine Ireland artists at Washington DC reception
Read the Press Release for details of the March 16th event
RTÉ - Irish Arts in the US
Irish Emigrant - New Taoiseach welcomes Imagine Ireland to Washington, D.C.
Chicago Sun Times - Druid’s ‘Inishmaan’ a triumph at Chicago Shakespeare
Irish Central - The Ties That Bind
Click here to read this feature
The Seasons: rare archive film screening with live Irish music at the NYPL on Mar 19th
RTÉ on Irish arts in the US - Richard Downes speaks with Aidan Connolly, Garry Hynes & Colm Tóibín
Virginia Festival of the Book presents Irish writers on Mar 19th
With Colm Tóibín, Kathleen Hill, Anne Enright & Kevin Holohan. Details here
The Washington Post - Interview with Playwright Enda Walsh
Irish Independent - Druid’s Dearbhla Molloy logs her experience with ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, transformer of traditional Irish music, performs in DC on Mar 24th
The College Tribune - Irish bands at SXSW Festival
Wall Street Journal - Visa delays for FALL AND RECOVER Dancers
Poet Richard Tillinghast explores homeland and cultural transplantation from Mar 24th in 8 cities
With Good Reason Radio - Highlights of Virginia Festival of the Book including Imagine Ireland
Hear Kevin Holohan reading at 17:40. Click here to listen
Virginia Festival of the Book - Audio Slideshow of Imagine Ireland event on March 19th
With Colm Tóibín, Kathleen Hill, Anne Enright & Kevin Holohan. Click here to watch
Jackie Daly & Matt Cranitch, interpreters of Sliabh Luachra, play 8 cities in 7 states from Mar 26th
WYNC Radio - FALL AND RECOVER - Choreographer John Scott and performers Kiribu and Nina Oiple
Click here to listen to this interview
Infinite Body - FALL AND RECOVER Review
The New Jersey Star Ledger - FALL AND RECOVER Review
Sebastian Barry’s ‘The Pride of Parnell Street’ runs until Apr 17th in Philadelphia
Elizabeth Cope: Retrospective on exhibition at The National Arts Club, NY until Apr 9th
LA Times - Review of Gerald Barry’s new opera ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’
Druid bring Martin McDonagh’s ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ to Center Theatre Group, Culver City, CA
From Apr 5 to May 1. Details here
“The world now has something rare ...” The LA Times reviews Gerald Barry’s new opera
New York Times - FALL AND RECOVER Photo Slideshow
The Village Voice - FALL AND RECOVER reviewed by Deborah Jowitt
New York Irish Arts Blog - FALL AND RECOVER Review
Solomon Says - FALL AND RECOVER Review
LA Times - Review of Druid’s ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’
Click here to read the ‘Culture Monster’ review
Stage and Cinema - Review of Druid’s ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’
LA Splash Magazine - Review of Druid’s ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’
The Daily Bruin - Review of Druid’s ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’
LA Weekly - Review of Druid’s ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’
Masters in Collaboration V: Joanie Madden Meets Seamus Begley at New York’s Irish Arts Center
From Apr 13th to 17th. Details here
3 Irish and 3 American poets explore the relationship between the Irish & American poetic landscape
New York Apr 18th. Read more here
TG4 - ‘Imeall’ features Imagine Ireland including interview with Culture Ireland CEO Eugene Downes
Click here to watch. You may then need to refresh to initiate video play
Two poetry showcases in NY this week: Lincoln Center on Apr 18 & Nuyorican Poets Café on Apr 20
Read details of both events here
Alphabet Series from Cork Printmakers: 26 prints from 26 artists from April 11 to June 24, NY
Legitimate Bodies Dance Company perform at Purdue Theatre, West Lafayette, IN, Apr 18-21
Gabriel Byrne hosts the Archaeological Institute of America’s Annual Gala on Apr 26
With Irish poetry, dance and a Gaelic feast. Details here
Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg present ‘Saints & Tzadiks’ in LA, Berkeley & Napa, Apr 27 to May 1
A vibrant collaboration of Irish and Yiddish song. Full details here
Ronnie Hughes presents a solo exhibition at NEXT, Chicago, IL, from Apr 29 to May 2
Erin Quinn: Surveillance, part of Group show at A Gallery, NY from May 5
Work from winners of Armadillo Fine Art Publishing New York Juried Art competition. Details here
Martin McDonagh’s ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ travels to Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley, CA
Read more here about Druid’s production of this comic masterpiece
‘Dublin by Lamplight’ plays as part of the Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival until May 14
Click here to view more details of the extensive programme
Jackie Nickerson & Anthony Haughey: 2 leading photographic artists at the New York Photo Festival
From May 11 to 15. Read more here
Among The Deepening Shades: American Poets and Yeats, at NYPL on May 14
Timothy Donnelly, Philip Levine and Rosanna Warren with Eamon Grennan. Details here
‘See Saw’ by Ciotóg, a dance show for and with families with young children
Pittsburgh, PA, May 12 to 15. Click here for details
Artist Damien Flood exhibits at New York’s THEODORE:Art until June 19 as part of exhibition ‘Three’
Click here to read more
Curated by Gabriel Byrne, ‘Revisiting the Quiet Man: Ireland on Film’ opens on May 20 at MoMA
Click here for further details
DC Theatre Scene - Review of ‘Swampoodle’
Read the review here.
Fighting Words, a creative writing centre established by Roddy Doyle & Sean Love, comes to NYPL
On May 24 and 25. Details here
Artist Sarah Pierce in ‘I Am Searching for Field Character’; performance, installation, and more
Bureau for Open Culture at MASS MoCA from May 26. Details here
‘Swampoodle’ continues until May 28 at the Washington Coliseum Arena; tailor-made for the Uline
Read a review from DC Theatre Scene here
The Hill Is Home - Reviving Many Lives at the Uline | Swampoodle
Read the preview here
Charleston City Paper - Druid Theatre’s Cripple is fecking funny
Click here to read
The Irish Times - Gabriel Byrne launches Imagine Ireland’s new cultural programme
Read this feature here
The Post and Courier - Capturing the Irish spirit | The Cripple of Inishmaan
Click here to read
Irish Central - Gabriel Byrne launches new Imagine Ireland outreach in US
Click here to read
Free Times Columbia News & Arts - The View from Spoleto | The Cripple of Inishmaan
Read more here
Colm Tóibín in conversation at the 27th Annual Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest, June 4-5
Click here for details
Artist Fiona Hallinan engages in a site responsive installation of both material and sound, in DC
Presented by Solas Nua from June 6. Read more here
‘The Texas Zydeco’ exhibition features 40 black and white photographs by Sligo-based James Fraher
At Houston, TX from June 3. View details here
The Irish Emigrant - Chicago exhibition “Invite or Reject” showcases Irish visual art
Click here to read
RTÉ Radio 1: Arena - Dylan Haskins reports from NY on Imagine Ireland and speaks to Gabriel Byrne
Click here to listen
RTÉ Radio 1: Arena - Dylan Haskins reports from NY on Revisiting The Quiet Man: Ireland on Film
Click here to listen
Charleston scene - Spoleto on Stage | The Cripple of Inishmaan
Read it here
Charlotte Observer - Spoleto’s gems: ‘Red Shoes’ and Black Irish
Read it here
Charleston City Paper - CP’s picks for the second week of Spoleto
Click here to read
Creative Loafing Atlanta - Spoleto Update: Festival gears up for second weekend | The Cripple ...
Click here to read
The Irish Times - Arminta Wallace reports on Imagine Ireland
Read this feature here
The Western Front - Verses from the Emerald Isle: Irish poet travels United States on bicycle
Read about Stephen Murray’s journey here
Eilin O’Dea in ‘Hello Molly’: a dramatisation of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy from James Joyce’s Ulysses
Symphony Space Theatre, NY, June 9. Read more here
Currents 2011: Composer/artist Paul O’Donoghue’s audio-visual projection mapped installation
Santa Fe International New Media Festival from June 10. Details here
The Irish Times - Letter about Imagine Ireland from Ingrid Nachstern, Night Star Dance Company
Click here to read it
RTÉ Radio 1: Arena - Dylan Haskins reports on Imagine Ireland
Click here to listen
Theater Mania - Culture Ireland and Irish Arts Center to Offer June 16 Bloomsday Breakfast
Read more here
Galway Advertiser - Druid brings The Cripple of Inishmaan Back
Read the feature here
New York Times - Bloomsday Events Preview
Click here to read
Danbury News Times - Galway Druid Theatre kicks off Arts & Ideas fest
Read more here
New Haven Advocate - Arts and Ideas: Martin McDonagh’s ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ Zigzags the Truth
Click here to read the article
The Times and Democrat - 35th Spoleto Festival doesn’t disappoint
Click here to read more
Bryant Park Bloomsday Breakfast from 8-10am: Enjoy an Edwardian Irish garden party
Upper Terrace, Bryant Park, New York. Click here for details of this event
A Journey of the Imagination: Bloomsday, June 16
Click here to read about the journeys you can take
Win a copy of ‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce, signed by Cultural Ambassador Gabriel Byrne
Click here to enter the competition
Enjoy this video of our Bloomsday celebrations in New York’s Bryant Park
Click here to watch
Nick Miller’s TREE HOUSE 360˚ on 27 panels was created on a 25’ platform in the woods of Connecticut
At Concord, MA until Aug 18. Read more here
Irish writers including Colm Tóibín and Fintan O’Toole at the New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas
Opens June 11. For more information, click here
Barbara Novak is in conversation with Nick Miller on Landscape, Art and Thoreau on July 10
At Concord Art Association, MA. Click here for details
Jesse Jones exhibits at REDCAT throughout July & August
Includes new work following residency working with students from CalArts, LA. From July 1
Artists Joe Walker and Pat Walker curate a week of programming at video exhibition Super 8
Super 8 runs until Sept 3 in Santa Monica, CA. Read more here
Celebrate Brooklyn! in Prospect Park features performances from De Dannan, Liam Ó Maonlaí & McPeake
On July 14. Click here for further details
SUMMER SALON at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents Irish writers and musicians
On July 13, 20 and 27. View details here
Dermot Bolger’s ‘The Parting Glass’, a story of friendship, family & football, in NY until July 31
At the Barrow Street Theatre. Read more here
Group show ‘this little bag of dreams’ features work from 6 contemporary Irish artists
Until Aug 27 at the Catharine Clarke Gallery, SF. Click here for details
Students of Traditional Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, Goitse are widely lauded
Performing on July 28 at the Dublin Ohio Irish Fest. Further details here
This is the last week to catch BIORHYTHM: Music and the Body, at EYEBEAM, NY
Until Aug 6. Read more here
Beoga perform at the Dublin Irish Festival in Ohio on Aug 5, 6 & 7
Click here for further information
The inaugural Authentic Irish Festival celebrates Irish roots in Tennessee from Aug 5 to 7
Read more about the programme here
Irish Fair of Minnesota features step dancers, musicians incl. Altan & High Kings, sport & lots more
From Aug 12 to 14. Details here
Téada celebrate 10 years on the road with performances in Dublin, OH, Lansing, MI and more
For tour details, click here
Mark Garry presents a new sculptural installation at Cave, Detroit, until Sept 13
Read more here
The final week to catch ‘Invite or Reject’, a touring group exhibition curated by MART, now in LA
Until Aug 24. For details, click here
Altan, Fiach, Fidil, The Henry Girls & Alessandro Negrini are all featured at Milwaukee Irish Fest
Plus many more Irish artists, from Aug 18 to 21. Read more here
Dennis McNulty’s ‘Windshield’ is an evocation of Windshield House designed by Richard Neutra,1936-38
In the gardens of the Nightingale-Brown House, Rhode Island. Read more here
Traditional fiddle trio Fidil perform at Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago on Aug 27
Read more about Fidil by clicking here
This is the last week to catch visual artist Jesse Jones at REDCAT, LA until Aug 28
Including newly commissioned work developed after working with students from CalArts. Details here
Imagine Ireland is supporting four productions at 1st Irish Theatre Festival, Sept 05 to Oct 03, NY
For information, including venues and dates, click here
This is the last week to catch Super 8, a video exhibition featuring Joe Walker & Pat Walker
Until Sept 03 in Santa Monica. For more details, click here
‘BogBoy’ (Tall Tales) & ‘Noah and the Tower Flower’ (Fishamble) run from Sept 7-Oct 2
As part of 1st Irish Theatre Festival, NY. Read more about BogBoy and Noah and the Tower Flower
Brassneck’s ‘A Night With George’ runs from Sept 5-Oct 2
As part of 1st Irish Theatre Festival, NY. Read more here
The Cirque de Légume runs from Sept 6-Oct 2
As part of 1st Irish Theatre Festival, NY. Read more here
‘BogBoy’ (Tall Tales) & ‘Noah and the Tower Flower’ (Fishamble) run from Sept 7-Oct 2
As part of 1st Irish Theatre Festival, NY. Read more about BogBoy and Noah and the Tower Flower.
Celebrate Irish crime fiction writers; ‘Down These Green Streets’, Sept 24, NY
For details, click here
‘Isolation Room’, curated by Daniel John McGrath and Dana Turkovic, features artist Ross McDonnell
MO, from Sept 17. Read more
Gare St Lazare Players Ireland present Samuel Beckett’s ‘The End’, in four venues and three States
MN, NH & MA, from Sept 22. View details
Masters in Collaboration VI: Iarla Ó Lionáird meets Ivan Goff, in conversation and in concert
At New York’s Irish Arts Center, Sep 28-Oct 2. Details here
Beckett: A Conversation with Paul Auster and Barry McGovern, both of whom knew Beckett in Paris
At the Morgan Library and Museum, New York on Sep 30. View details
John O’Conor in a concert featuring the music of Haydn, Field, Beethoven and Schubert
Presented by the Washington Conservatory of Music on Oct 1. Click for full details
Dance Company Fitzgerald & Stapleton’s ‘The Smell of Want’ is graphically honest & deeply affecting
In New York from Oct 3-8. Read more here
Booker Prize winner Anne Enright reads in NY on Oct 3, joined by Michael Ondaatje, and OR on Oct 9
For details, click here (NY) and here (OR)
Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company presents ‘In My Body Are These Islands’ from Oct 7 in MN
View details here
‘Young Ireland: A Generation of Irish Writers at Litquake Festival’ features five young novelists
On Oct 11 in San Francisco. Read more here
Eamon O’Kane’s exhibition “There is another world, but it is in this one.” opens on Oct 13
At New York’s RARE Gallery. Click here for details
The National Chamber Choir of Ireland perform in 5 states, from Oct 13
For performance details in IN, OH, PA, NJ & IA, click here
Nevan Lahart: exhibition at Steve Turner Contemporary & installation at 18th Street Art Center, CA
For more details, click here
Katie Holten presents her work and participates in The Intersections Project, Oct 18 & 19
At Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, NC. Read more
The Chicago Tribune’s John von Rhein reviews the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Chicago performance.
‘Irish Chamber Orchestra makes up in fire and gusto what it lacks in size’ Read the review here.
Pan Pan’s ‘The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane’ - a multi award-winning audacious riff on Hamlet
Plays in Columbus, OH from Nov 17-20. Read more here
3-city tour of the Cork Literary Review Volume XIV showcases Irish and American poets
Final event this week on Nov 17 at New York’s Irish Art Centre. More details here
The LA Stage Times interviews performer-creator Pat Kinevane about ‘Forgotten’
‘‘Moby Dick’ plunges into the soul’ - Boston Globe reviews Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland
” ... Lovett delivers a performance that illustrates the power of storytelling” Click here to read the review
The Tufts Daily reviews Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland’s production of “Moby Dick”
“Conor Lovett truly dazzles as Ishmael.” Read review
Boston Arts Diary reviews Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland’s ‘Moby Dick’
“Lovett is a masterful storyteller and the rendering of this tale is riveting and forceful.” Click here to read more
Caroline McCarthy’s solo exhibition ‘Made-To-Measure’ utilises everyday objects such as plastic bags
Running until Dec 23 at Parker’s Box Gallery, New York. Click here for details
‘Irish Christmas in America’ visits 17 venues across 10 states from Nov 25 to Dec 18
Featuring spectacular vocal group ‘Lumiere’. Read more here
Visual Artist Katie Holten’s ‘Streams of Consciousness’ runs until Feb 19
Explore ‘The Histories, Mythologies, and Ecologies of Water’ at Salina Arts Center, KS. Details here
‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ by Samuel Beckett starring John Hurt opens on Nov 29
In DC from Nov 29-Dec 04 and NY from Dec 06-18
Capital Irish Film Festival (CIFF) produced by Solas Nua opens in DC on Dec 01
Visit irishfilmdc for full programme details
‘Misterman’ by Enda Walsh starring Cillian Murphy opens on Nov 30
At New York’s St Ann’s Warehouse until Dec 21. Details here
‘Brooklyn’s Master Tapeheads’ - New York Magazine reviews ‘Misterman’ and ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’
Click here to read review
Charles Isherwood of the New York Times names John Hurt as a ‘Solo Performer of the Year’
For his performance in ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’. Click here to read the article
Mother’s Tankstation at NADA Miami 2011 presents artists Ian Burns and Kevin Cosgrove
Until Dec 3rd. Read more here
On Monday, RTÉ Radio 1’s ‘Arts Tonight’ aired the first of two special features on Imagine Ireland
Click here to listen to the podcast of Nov 28
Andrew Duggan’s ‘Court_Pace_I’ is a public art installation in New York on Dec 07
View this new video work at 51st Street between 10th & 11th ave from 6-10pm
The New York Times reviews ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ starring John Hurt, at BAM from Dec 06-18
” ... achingly fine performance” Read the review here
Katie Holten’s solo exhibition ‘Streams of Consciousness’ continues throughout December
At Salina Art Center, Kansas. Click here for details
The New York Times reviews ‘Misterman’ by Enda Walsh starring Cillian Murphy at St Ann’s Warehouse
Until Dec 21. ” ... a seductive and terrifying portrait” Read review
Imagine Ireland Trailer
To watch an Imagine Ireland video tralier, click here.
Colin Farrell invites you to Imagine Ireland
Well-known actors from Ireland and the US evoked Ireland through poetry. Watch Colin Farrell’s video here. Visit our YouTube Channel to view all.
Masters of Tradition
Enjoy this Masters of Tradition performance, introduced by CEO of Culture Ireland, Eugene Downes. Click here to watch.
