Internationally renowned Beckett actor Conor Lovett, directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, presents one of Samuel Beckett’s early prose pieces The End.  “Supremely funny…a prepared actor…

Part of this year’s world renowned Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, the Abbey’s production of John Gabriel Borkman was a huge success with many sold-out…

A unique evening of Irish traditional music featuring Martin Hayes, Iarla Ó Lionaird, Dennis Cahill, Máirtín O’Connor, Cathal Hayden, Seamie O’Dowd and David Power. This…

Fitzgerald & Stapleton’s work uses movement, vocalizing, film and pre-recorded sound to create a series of events which challenge the individual to question the narrative…

Award-winning singer, composer, orchestrator and producer of critically acclaimed ‘13 songs’ and ‘pages’ Julie Feeney is a true artist with immense vision. She embarks on…

Inspired by naturally occurring lines and their relationship to one another, Ormond creates networks of lines that might resemble delicate systems of order and balance. …

Court is a visual art project in NYC, hosted by The Irish Arts Centre with visual artist Andrew Duggan. It uses the cast concrete Irish…

The musical performance will include the premiere of Breathing Spaces for solo piano, performed by Isabelle O’Connell and Only Gestures Remain… for cello and piano,…

Curated by Dr Cynthia Hahn with the collaboration of Barbara Boehm, Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition revisits and analyses the psychological…

The World Premiere of the story of Oscar Wilde’s lover, Lord Alfred Douglas struggling to reclaim his own identity.  Forever linked to Wilde and the…

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,…

Trio Festivale Recital tour of the US, spanning five concerts in Texas, Florida and New York, including works by Gaubert, Weber, Martinu and a world…

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…

For her third solo show in New York, Alice Maher will present four animated films with sound by Trevor Knight, plus two new sculptural works. …

Cinemagic USA is a film festival for young people taking place in New York, Boston, San Francisco, LA, and includes film screenings and film and…

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…

At its heart of Project Brand New is the ambition to provide a platform for innovation and experimentation, and work that strives towards the new.…

Six-time Grammy winners and the world’s most popular Irish traditional music group, The Chieftains’  U.S. tour will feature an array of surprise guests and local…

Internationally recognised as one of the most exciting piano trios with diverse and arresting programming, this tour showcases the Fidelio Trio, ambassadors of Irish contemporary…

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…

A solo dance piece dealing with loss of identity through marriage and motherhood. Dance Europe: “Nachstern’s Watch..es, a quirky quartet that cleverly built on geometric…

Crossings,  a partnership between Mayo County Council’s Jackie Clarke Collection and archive of the American Irish Historical Society, is being shown in the AIHS landmark…

Written by Raymond Scannell, performed by him at a grand piano, and winner of the Best Male Performance award at Dublin Fringe Festival 2008, this…

DVD ‘Message to Salinas’ is shown at Artprojx as part of the Armory and Volta art fairs. The DVD is being played on 2nd and…

VOLTA NY is an invitational show of solo artist’s projects. it is the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005.…

The Armory Show is America’s leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its eleven years,…

“The Irish band to see” (The Irish Voice) has won special acclaim for incorporating the sound of the 1920s and 1930s, and such bands from…

Barry Douglas and Camerata Ireland, guest soloist Celine Byrne (Soprano). This concert tour will include arias by Mozart along with performances of well-known traditional Irish…

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 cooperation with the Austrian Film Museum and in conjunction with the visual exhibition Alpine Desire, which runs until May 8, the Austrian Cultural Forum…

The CRAIC festival is the only festival of its kind in North America. It combines the best of Irish contemporary music and film over a…

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…

Musically ambitious and eccentric, Duke Special is blissfully at home in his own alluring genre of bruised romanticism, vaudeville and addictive melodies. A piano-based songwriter…

New York premiere of internationally renowned Irish composer, Frank Corcoran´s new SONGS OF TERROR AND LOVE (2010) for Basso Drammatico and Ensemble, to be performed…

Ireland’s cultural influence in the United States has been greater than other small western European nations.  Irish songs, tunes, dances, plays, and dramatic roles have…

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…

Hidden Ireland is a major programme of documentary film at NYPL, which offers insights into contemporary Irish life and into the past that has shaped…

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…

Musical sensation Duke Special will debut all-new songs in a performance presented by Spectrum at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this concert conceived specifically…

Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis. As…

Fall and Recover emerged from John Scott’s workshops with clients of Centre For Care For Survivors Of Torture in Dublin, Ireland, mixing two professional dancers with…

Songs and history of the Irish in the American Civil War presented by historian/musician David Kincaid.

Fluffy Mc Cloud is a mix of animation and film making disiplines, including stop-motion animation, hand-drawn and live action as well as computer animation. It…

Sandra Gibson, in Circa Magazine (Feb 2009) said, ‘Somehow Cope manages to combine with this gallows humour - this sense of desolate inevitability - a…

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…

From Shore To Shore examines both the continuity and the changes that affected Irish traditional music in the twentieth century. Using New York City as…

New York University’s Professor of Music and Irish Studies, Mick Moloney, presents an engrossing, entertaining, and insightful examination of a time when vaudeville and Tin…

This exhibition consists of 26 prints by 26 artists, each work taking a letter of the alphabet as a starting point.

Cork Printmakers,…

The ISSUE Project Room Emerging Artist commission is awarded annually to support the development of new works of extraordinary innovation and creativity. This performance will…

Our fifth installment of the acclaimed Masters in Collaboration series pairs Grammy-winning whistle and flute player and leader of Cherish the Ladies Joanie Madden with…

Musician/folklorist/musicologist Mick Moloney’s tribute to Harrigan through story and song, salutes Harrigan’s importance in the growth of American musical and theatrical culture.

An evening of poetry, music and readings featuring the world premiere of a commissioned work by poet/composer Paul Muldoon, presented in collaboration with the Poetry…

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…

Five Irish films are being screened at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival: THE GUARD directed by John Michael McDonagh, LOTUS EATERS directed by Alexandra Guinness,…

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.…

Tribeca Film Festival is one of the world’s leading film festival attracting the leading producers, distributors, and sales agents to New York for one of…

This Gallery Exhibition will consist of a series of recent drawings and site-specific installations

World premiere of Galway Film Centre / RTE funded short film “Switch”.  Directed by Thomas Hefferon, the film receives multiple screenings during this year’s Tribeca…

Performance by members of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus.

Two policemen get more than they bargained for on a house call. Frank is young and heartbroken. Con is middle-aged and weary. When they find…

Pentecost has been officially selected to screen at the Tribeca Film Festival 2011 in New York. Tribeca Film Festival is well known for being a…

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…

Irish actor and Cultural Ambassador to Ireland, Gabriel Byrne, will host the Archaeological Institute of America’s (AIA) Annual Gala.  Together with Tourism Ireland and Culture…

Commissioned to mark the poet’s 70th birthday in 2009, Seamus Heaney Out of the Marvelous is a vivid portrait of one of the most important…

A concert tour of the east coast of the US, Therese will perform four recitals, featuring a repertoire of piano music from the Irish contemporary…

Group show featuring work from 5 winners of the Armadillo Fine Art Publishing New York Juried Art competition, including Irish artist Erin Quinn.  Winners include…

Showcase exhibition of work by two of Ireland’s leading photographic artists at the New York Photo Festival.

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…

This show brings together three artists whose work inhabits a delicate grey area between factual imagery, subjective recall, and painterly interaction. We all see what…

This film programme, curated by Gabriel Byrne and presented by The Musuem of Modern Art and the Irish Film Institute takes The Quiet Man, John…

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…

‘Invite or Reject’ is an ambitious new exhibition curated by MART’s Ciara Scanlan and Matthew Nevin. The show consists of 13 selected Irish artists -…

What makes you dance? Why does a minor chord sound sad? Is there a formula for the perfect hit? BIORHYTHM, an interactive exhibition produced by…

The Outside Track will perform Irish, Scottish and Cape Breton music, with their distinctive cross-cultural style.  Their concerts, performed on fiddle, tin whistle, flute, harp,…

Molly Says No! is a dramatic recital with music by classical composers as well as folk songs, and a text by Michael O’Loughlin, which is…

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.…

One woman, 90-minute theatrical dramatisation of the Molly Bloom soliliquy that closes out James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses.

Irish Times “O’Dea is every inch…

Difference Engine: MANIFESTATION III exhibits a tendency to fictionalize, seemingly squinting at reality through a half-cocked eye. The works establish a gravitational system of sorts…

“Gibraltar” makes the convincing case that “Ulysses” is one of the most tender love stories ever written…simple, heartrending and extremely bawdy!’ - Backstage.

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

McPeake are conducting a sixteen venue tour across the United States

DemocraCity is a new video work that explores the possibility of a contemporary utopian society based on the philosophy of B.F. Skinner and Theodore John…

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…

The New York Electronic Art Festival was created to provide a responsive public context for the appreciation of cutting-edge electronic artwork through concerts, panels, workshops,…

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…

“A unique cultural experience for the listener, and a true and sincere representation of this traditional and specialised art.”
Ellen Cranitch
RTE Lyric…

An exhibition of works resulting from the convergence of Irish and American artists and writers in retreat at Cill Rialaig on the remote coast of…

Artists from Ireland: Charlie Harris, Maeve Donnelly, Geraldine & Eamonn Cotter, John Carty, Bernadette and Caitlin nic Gabhann,Matt Cranitch,Jesse Smith, Conal O’Grada, Mary Bergin, Ivan…

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…

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

Traditional Irish Ceili

Lively Irish Dance music for ceili, sets and old-time waltzes provided by Charlie Harris, Maeve Donnelly, Geraldine & Eamonn Cotter,…

Lively Irish Dance music for ceili, sets and old-time waltzes provided by Charlie Harris, Maeve Donnelly, Geraldine & Eamonn Cotter, Caitlin nic Gabhann & John…

Prospect Park swells with traditional sounds from the Emerald Isle. DE DANNAN, presided over by Frankie Gavin, the world’s fastest fiddler (says Guinness, that’s who),…

The Parting Glass is a hilarious, uplifting and life-affirming show set on the night that Thierry Henry’s left hand dashed Ireland’s World Cup dreams. It…

As part of The Road that Teaches, a conversation series to complement the exhibition Pilgrimage and Faith, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam every Wednesday at the…

Using all the resources of the theatre including live music and dance, this is an epic staging of one of Sean O’Casey’s great plays, directed…

One of Ireland’s top internationally-touring groups, Téada celebrates 10 years on the road with 2011 festival performances in the US, UK, Spain, Italy and Russia,…

Spanning the years from 1935 to 2011, the show tells a true story of poverty and almost unbearable loss, and the power of love and…

Not every woman gets to spend a night with George Clooney, but Bridie Murphy does! Let’s face it, Bridie’s life hasn’t been all parties and…

‘Be taken by surprise by the potential and boundless possibilities of Irish dance’

Choreographed and directed by Riverdance principal dancer Breandán de Gallaí, …

Enjoy fifty minutes of pure mayhem as two idiots put on the greatest vegetable circus on earth! Marvel at the Veget-animal! Gape at the magical…

Culture Ireland is proudly supporting four productions in the First Irish Theatre Festival 2011.

Bogboy is a moving, intriguing and funny new play by Deirdre Kinahan. It is a tale of deep friendship, violent murder and unforgivable deceit. Directed…

Noah and the Tower Flower is about two highly strung individuals, being tender to each other.  Natalie is looking forward to a bright new future.…

“There proceeds steadily from that place a stream of events which are a source of danger to me,” wrote the Irish born writer, Rebecca West…

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.…

Cinemagic will be delivering an exciting programme of Irish film screenings, studio tours, industry workshops and Q&A’s for young people in Boston and New York…

Crime Wave!

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

Two groups of three Irish architects each will travel to several U.S. cities. In each city, the architects will participate in symposia, briefly presenting key…

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. …

Masters in Collaboration VI pairs sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird with uilleann piper and flutist Ivan Goff. Grammy-nominee Ó Lionáird is widely respected for his…

A seamless show that re-imagines and re-defines conceptions of the singer’s role as interpreter. Drawing inspiration from jazz, contemporary, cabaret and folk performance cultures, Michelle…

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 Film NY (IFNY) is a new showcase of contemporary Irish cinema to screen at NYU’s Cantor Film Center in October. The series will be…

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…

Graphically honest, deeply-affecting and often darkly funny The Smell of Want draws strong and haunting connections between local and global stories and continues Fitzgerald and…

Two traditional musicians who have toured the US extensively in different formations are about to tour the US for the third time as a duo.

The exhibition “dubh – dialogues in black” looks at black as both a physical and an emotional starting point for a group of Irish and…

The backbone of this production is the music of twelfth century French master, Léonin, in particular his elegant and suave organa on the plainchant Viderunt…

Darren Lavene with leading industry players including Frank Zagottis, award winning writer, and Marc Baron of the NY SAG Board, established the NYC Filmmaker’s Festival.…

In his solo show Out of Time, Colin Dunne reframes traditional step dance. Collaborating with sound engineer Fionán de Barra, Dunne’s percussive footwork is digitally…

The exhibition is titled “There is another world, but it is in this one.” after a quote by W.B. Yeats. I have chosen to my…

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…

Programme
Haydn Symphony Nr. 96, D major (The Miracle)
Prokofiev Piano Concerto (Left Hand), Nr. 4, op.53

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

Oct 25 – 7pm: Writing…

Iarla O’Lionaird launches his new album Foxlight (Real World Records). For his third solo album, he delivers an impassioned and sublime set of personal songs,…

Other Voices NYC is presented by Imagine Ireland in association with The Burgundy Stain Sessions and will feature performances by Oscar winning Irish artist Glen…

Outdoor Projection - Hell’s Kitchen Ball Park

Hosted by The Irish Arts Centre ‘Court’ uses the cast concrete Irish handball alley and it’s…

In an encore presentation of one of IAC’s most exhilarating concert series, Grammy-winning Riverdance composer Bill Whelan and fiddler Athena Tergis return for four unforgettable…

The largest international art fair focused exclusively on the artistic medium of printmaking. It is noted for its historical depth, exhibiting works from the 16th…

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…

Dublin-based artist Gerard Byrne (b. 1969) works with photographic, video, and live art. Byrne is a recipient of a Performa Commission and will present a…

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.

A new body of sculptures and drawing by New York based Irish artist Clive Murphy.

There’s something strange in the neighbourhood of contemporary Denmark. Who are you going to call? That is the question. In this purgatorial presentation of Shakespeare’s…

Caroline McCarthy presents a solo exhibition of new work at Parker’s Box Gallery, New York.  Included amongst other works will be a site-specific installation constructed…

Ensemble Avalon will present three concerts in the US during their Autumn 2011 tour, visiting Washington Conservatory, Princeton University and the Irish Arts Center. The…

Berlin-based Irish artist Dennis McNulty begins with an analysis of the movements of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand’s eyes in a 1958 television interview. McNulty…

Dance Theatre of Ireland premiere Every Little Step a collaboration with Soul Steps (NYC) combining African-American Stepping, Irish and urban rhythms, modern dance and storytelling.…

Every year on his birthday Krapp sits down to record his memories from the past year. On his 69th birthday, while listening to his old…

Misterman reunites two of Ireland’s brightest stars—actor Cillian Murphy and writer/director Enda Walsh—for the first time since their collaboration on Disco Pigs fifteen years ago.…

U.S. National Concert Tour in December 2011; solo piano recitals and masterclasses.

“Superb intensity and passion” - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson and Culture Project present the United States premiere of JAMES X, written and performed by Gerard Mannix Flynn, and directed by…

Your entire family will enjoy our annual holiday tradition, featuring an eclectic mix of tunes and stories to warm the heart, hosted by the legendary…

This Public Art Event is an Outdoor Projection on 51st Street between 10th and 11th ave. in New York City, from 6pm - 10pm on…

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…

Jennifer Walshe will perform her new piece ‘All The Many Peopls’, for solo voice and electronics.

This project presents the international premiere of film composer Niall Byrne’s new orchestral score for Denis Johnston’s Guests of the Nation (1935). The film, based…