“The most significant English language poet born since the second World War,” Paul Muldoon, will appear in the Aspen Writers’ Foundation’s 14th annual Winter Words…

Curated by Director, Paul Holdengräber, LIVE IS Cognitive Theater with a mission to provoke, engage, enlighten, instigate and agitate the mind,  LIVE IS: provocative conversations,…

In a two-day symposium organized by poet Paul Muldoon, novelists and critics John Banville, Emma Donoghue, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, R.F. Foster, Hugo Hamilton, Patrick…

As part of ArtsEmerson’s Irish Festival, which includes productions of The Cripple of Inishmaan (Druid Theatre Company) and Terminus (Abbey Theatre), ArtsEmerson will present a…

Irish writers Hugo Hamilton and Peter Murphy read at the Lincoln Center branch of Fordham University, invited by Fordham’s Institute of Irish Studies.  Audiences are…

As part of ArtsEmerson’s Irish Festival, which includes productions of The Cripple of Inishmaan (Druid Theatre Company) and Terminus (Abbey Theatre), ArtsEmerson presents a reading…

As part of ArtsEmerson’s Irish Festival, which includes productions of The Cripple of Inishmaan (Druid Theatre Company) and Terminus (Abbey Theatre), ArtsEmerson will presents Irish…

Irish writer Garrett Carr visits with a young audience at NYPL’s Seward Park branch to read from his fiction about the adventures of Andrew, May…

The HOward COunty POetry & LITerature SOciety will host Dublin novelist Colm Toibin at the 33rd Annual Evening of Irish Music & Literature. Twice shortlisted…

The Times (London) called Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light a “spellbinding read”. He will read from his new novel at the Free Library of Philadelphia, in…

Emma Donoghue, the fiction writer and literary historian whose 10th novel, ROOM, has stormed the Best Books lists, appears on February 23 (5.30pm, doors at…

The DC Irish Writers Festival is a five-day series of readings from creative and innovative Irish writers who break the mould. This eclectic mix of performance…

Leanne O’Sullivan and Leontia Flynn are two of the most exciting younger poets coming out of Ireland. For the first time, come and hear them…

In his West Coast premiere, Julian Gough, born in London, raised in Ireland, and living in Berlin, will read from his most recent book, Jude:…

New York Public Library brings the Irish novelist, essayist and poet Julian Gough to a Manhattan audience to read from his work and discuss the…

Paul Muldoon, specially commissioned by the Poetry Society of America, will write lyrics for material in the collections of the NYPL for Performing Arts. A…

In partnership with Speaker Christine Quinn and the New York City Council, Irish Arts Center will celebrate the inaugural Irish Arts Center Book Day on…

Every St. Patrick’s Day since 2006 we have sent our volunteers throughout the city of Washington, DC to give away thousands and thousands of books…

Celebrate Irish and Irish-American culture and literature With Colm Toibin (Brooklyn, The Empty Family: Stories), Kathleen Hill (Who Occupies This House), Anne Enright (Yesterday’s Weather:…

John Connolly, Irish crime writer, will read from and discuss his work.

New York Public Library Young Adult Programmes brings the Irish novelist Kevin Holohan to the High School of Art & Design, New York, to read…

As an American poet living in Ireland, Richard Tillinghast’s poetry explores questions of homeland and cultural transplantation in this series of readings…

As part of a program with Imagine Ireland, the 25th annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival is proud to present a panel of bestselling Irish…

Irish crime writer Gerard O’Donovan, the author of the acclaimed new Dublin thriller The Priest, will give his first reading to New York City audiences…

The third annual BRAINWAVE brought thinkers from multiple disciplines to sit down with scientists to wrap our minds around the things that matter. BRAINWAVE 2011…

Danis Rose, critically acclaimed textual scholar and co-editor of the new edition of Finnegans Wake, presents a talk entitled, ‘God is in the Details: a…

Irish poets Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Dennis O’Driscoll, and Greg Delanty, and American poets Galway Kinnell, Heather McHugh, and Jean Valentine explore the relationship between the…

A celebration of Irish culture through poetry, music and song, featuring the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon’s LET ME BE, a work…

The Glór Sessions, Dublin’s weekly music and spoken word night, presents an evening at New York’s premiere performance poetry venue, the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe.…

Cultural commentators Fintan O’Toole and Richard Kearney will be among the Irish authors taking part in the 2011 PEN World Voices festival, which celebrates the…

Writers Sara Berkeley, Peter Sirr (Sat 11am), Mary O’Donghue, Kevin Power (Sat 2.45pm), Thomas McCarthy, Joe Woods (Sun 11am), Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Kevin Power…

An event curated by noted Irish poet Eamon Grennan, who invites the American poets Timothy Donnelly, Philip Levine and Rosanna Warren to read and respond…

In this unique afternoon Joseph O’Connor talks to Philip King and explores the influence of Irish-American ballads in his recent fiction. Look forward to lots…

Book Expo America is the largest annual book fair in the United States and attracts exhibitors and attendees from all over the world. This three…

The inaugural Pen, Paper and Palate evening at the Half King will feature four leading Irish and Irish-American writers in Writing Lives, a panel which…

Fighting Words, the creative writing school based in Dublin, comes to New York Public Library to work with young adults and adult literacy students in…

The great Irish writer Edna O’Brien presents passionate tales of love, longing and family from her first new collection in 10 years. Performers include Cynthia…

Legendary writer Edna O’Brien and Gabriel Byrne, actor and cultural ambassador for Ireland, will read from Saints and Sinnersand discuss Edna’s work. Alice Munro says…

To promote his debut poetry collection ‘House of Bees’, Galway poet Stephen Murray will cycle 8,000km around the USA. He will read from his work…

The 27th annual Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest is the largest literary festival in the Midwest, and one of the largest book celebrations in…

Every Wednesday at the Rubin Museum this summer, writers and thinkers will explore questions of the sacred and the secular, of belief systems and pilgrimage.…

In Joyce’s Shadow: An Evening with Jamie O’Neill on Monday June 13 at 6pm.

Jamie O’Neill is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, At Swim,…

On Monday June 13 at 7pm at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens:  Irish writers Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, Sinead Morrissey

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Two generations of writers share their stories and discuss writing for the 21st century. With novelists Colm Toibin (Brooklyn) and Belinda McKeon (Solace).

To celebrate the release of the Ulysses Seen “Calypso” episode and coinciding with the run of “Gibraltar” at Plays and Players Theatre, Mr. Fitzgerald…

Difference Engine is an evening of readings in the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center to complement the visual art exhibition which is part…

James Joyce did not just give us one of the greatest works of world literature.  He also gave us a landmark ruling in U.S. First…

Join Fintan O’Toole, Ireland’s foremost cultural commentator, for a discussion about the country’s robust cultural landscape, which continue to flourish amidst tough economic times. What…

Mark Patrick Hederman will take part in an evening conversation series exploring the nature of faith and pilgrimage between two people from different walks of…

In a collaboration between the National Library of Ireland and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in Lincoln Center, writers and musicians…

A reading from “The Journey Home,” followed by a discussion.

The three contemporary Irish authors, Kevin Barry, Philip O Ceallaigh, and Julian Gough, will read from their work at this public event on August 27…

In an event celebrating Dublin’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature, Dublin novelists Chris Binchy, Kevin Holohan and Claire Kilroy read from their fiction…

Jessie will conduct a series of poetry readings in the US to launch her new work,  ‘Walking Here’ ; ‘Mad for Meat’ by Kevin Simmonds…

The New York Times bestselling author of Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer, visits the Brooklyn Book Festival, one of the top book festivals in the US.…

The poets will be introduced by author Joseph Hassett. One will read, following the other for approximately 20-25 minutes. After the reading, Mr. Hassett will…

Crime Wave!

Join us as we celebrate the remarkable achievements of Irish crime fiction writers in a day of talks and readings featuring…

In a very special evening to open the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s 2011-2012 season, Ireland’s Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney reads from his poetry. …

As young men in Paris, Irish actor Barry McGovern and Brooklyn-based novelist Paul Auster both knew Samuel Beckett. In advance of the Gate Theatre Dublin’s…

Irish novelist Anne Enright is joined by her fellow Booker Prize-winning author, the Canadian novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje for a reading and conversation at…

To mark the US publication of her superb new novel The Forgotten Waltz, Anne Enright, winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, reads from and…

A reading and conversation with five young Irish novelists. Chris Binchy, John Butler, Lucy Caldwell, Claire Kilroy and Belinda McKeon will read from their work…

Wake Forest University Press will present an American reading tour by some of Ireland’s leading poets, featuring Eiléan Ní Chuilleanain, Caitríona O’Reilly, Rita Ann Higgins…

Three events on three consecutive nights to celebrate a special New York-themed issue of The Stinging Fly.

Oct 25 – 7pm: Writing…

Irish Arts Center’s third annual showcase of the best of Irish poetry from around the world features readings from poets Sara Berkeley, Nick Laird, Michael…

Emma Donoghue will read from her fiction with the US writer Chris Adrian, as part of the PEN/Faulkner Reading Series.

Autumn 2011 sees the launch of Cork Literary Review Volume XIV in the United States, showcasing poetry from writers on both sides of the Atlantic.…

Readings and conversation with the Northern Irish poet and novelist, Nick Laird, and the Limerick born novelist, Kevin Barry.

Children’s writer Siobhán Parkinson is Ireland’s first Laureate na nÓg, or Children’s Literature Laureate. The author of some 20 novels for children, young people and…

An Irish Holiday Festival at Bowers.org as part of the Bowers Museum Arts and Culture events. As part of the Festival there will be a…