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Donal Donovan, former Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund, analyzes the past, present, and future of the Irish economy in light of recent developments.

Grammy-nominated and Oscar-winning singer, songwriter, and actor Glen Hansard comes to Glucksman Ireland House NYU to talk about music and songwriting.

Grammy-nominated and Oscar-winning singer, songwriter, and actor Glen Hansard comes to Glucksman Ireland House NYU to talk about music and songwriting.

Grammy-nominated and Oscar-winning singer, songwriter, and actor Glen Hansard comes to Glucksman Ireland House NYU to talk about music and songwriting.

Grammy-nominated and Oscar-winning singer, songwriter, and actor Glen Hansard comes to Glucksman Ireland House NYU to talk about music and songwriting.

Grammy-nominated and Oscar-winning singer, songwriter, and actor Glen Hansard comes to Glucksman Ireland House NYU to talk about music and songwriting.

Grammy-nominated and Oscar-winning singer, songwriter, and actor Glen Hansard comes to Glucksman Ireland House NYU to talk about music and songwriting.

Grammy-nominated and Oscar-winning singer, songwriter, and actor Glen Hansard comes to Glucksman Ireland House NYU to talk about music and songwriting.

President Michael D. Higgins participated in a seminar with academics & students at NYU Glucksman Ireland House, introduced by Loretta Brennan Glucksman and Professor Joe Lee.

Prof. Elliott J. Gorn of Loyola University Chicago discusses the life of labor leader Mary Harris, better known as Mother Jones, "the grandmother of all agitators," focusing on her Irish origins and influences, her life as an American labor organizer, and her recent repatriation back to Ireland.

Known as "the Father of the American Navy," John Barry's story is a saga of storms at sea, the smoke of battle, political intrigue, and family crises, taking place in Ireland under the draconian Penal Laws, exotic China, and the rough and tumble birth of the United States — with more than its share of humor thrown in.

What did Abraham Lincoln think about the American Irish and what did the American Irish think about him? Prof. Kevin Kenny of Boston College considers these questions in the context of immigration, military service, and slavery for the fourteenth annual Ernie O'Malley Lecture.

Prof. Alan Titley of University College Cork examines the way in which the Irish language has been largely ignored in the histories of Ireland and how our version of Ireland might be quite different if Irish-language sources were utilized fully.

Irish Voice and IrishCentral.com columnist Mike Farragher reads fromThis Is Your Brain on Shamrocks, his warm, witty, and irreverent collection of essays. Mike will not only read select essays from the book and discuss the creative writing process, he will also bring along Galway native and blues guitarist Seamus Kelleher to create an unforgettable evening of Irish songs and stories!

With his compelling, fast-paced account, John Kelly vividly captures one of the worst disasters to strike humankind in The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People.

Novelist, playwright, and poet Dermot Healy reads from his latest novel, Long Time, No See, which writer Roddy Doyle calls "Funny, sad, wild, tender, profound, brilliant... [by] Ireland's finest living novelist."

Author of Irish Travellers: Tinkers No More, renowned photographer Alen MacWeeney talks about his experience capturing a changing culture at a particular moment in history, illustrated with his photos and music recorded during his deep involvement with the Irish Traveller community from 1965 to 1971.

Dublin-based poet Nell Regan’s debut volume, Preparing for Spring, was shortlisted for Ireland’s Glen Dimplex New Writing Awards, Strong Awards, and Patrick Kavanagh Awards, and excerpts were read at the White House.

As part of the PEN World Voices Festival, highly acclaimed author Sebastian Barry reads from his new book, The Temporary Gentleman.

"The lights will rise on a farmhouse kitchen in rural Ireland. If things go well, my longtime traveling companions, the audience, will share with me something of my Uncle Tony, my Aunt Mary and my cousin Anthony. I’m glad." —John Patrick Shanley, The New York Times Spend an evening with Tony- and Oscar-winning playwright, screenwriter and director John Patrick Shanley (Doubt, Moonstruck) as he discusses his influences, his career, and his new production, Outside Mullingar, which opened Jan. 23 at Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Introduction by GIH faculty member Linda Dowling Almeida.

According to the website www.thegatheringireland.com, The Gathering 2013, launched by the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister for Tourism in May 2012 and supported by Fáilte Ireland (National Tourism Development Authority) and Tourism Ireland, is the biggest tourism initiative ever launched by Ireland. Its intent is to give an economic boost to the country which has staggered in recent years under the weight of failed banks and the burst real estate bubble. The programs and events planned for the year are designed to encourage an estimated 70 million people of Irish ancestry who live around the world to visit the country and reconnect with their families and their heritage. A total of 3,144,800 people visited Ireland between January and June of 2013, an increase of about 8% from 2,982,400 for the same period last year. The number of North American tourists from between April and June grew about 15%, from 305,700 to 350,800, compared to the same months in 2012. In 2009 about 36 million people in the United States claimed some Irish ancestry either as immigrants themselves or from some more distant relation. With that range of generational links the connections that Irish Americans feel to Ireland and family there varies widely. In the Oral History Program at Glucksman Ireland House one of our objectives is to learn how or if our participants connect to their ancestry. Do they identify as Irish American, how do they share their heritage with their children, what do they know of their family origins in Ireland, and how or do they stay in touch with Irish relatives? In this year of the Gathering we thought it fitting to share some of the recollections and stories we have heard over the past several years about visits home and how those trips helped to shape the individual’s sense of self, family, and heritage. Visiting Ireland is an emotional and illuminating experience for most whether the contact is made as a child or as an adult or whether it is organized by parents or self-initiated. Either way the experience is a personal one and the journey home begins long before the visitor steps foot on Irish soil. Production Staff: Producer, Writer, Narrator: Linda Dowling Almeida Producer, Engineer: Michael Stallmeyer Music: "My love is in America/ Lisdoonvarna," Strings Attached, Mick Moloney Photo: Irish and Irish-American passengers en route to Ireland on the S. S. Louis, circa 1935. Courtesy Archives of Irish America, New York University Voices: All of the interviews used in this podcast are drawn from the Archives of Irish America at New York University and have been recorded as part of the Glucksman Ireland House Oral History Project. Gabriel Byrne Mike Farragher, Jr. Thomas Lynch Jim Murphy Claire Grimes Jim Boucher Michael and Eileen Farragher John Patrick Shanley © 2013 Glucksman Ireland House, New York University This podcast is made possible in part with funding from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation.

According to the website www.thegatheringireland.com, The Gathering 2013, launched by the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister for Tourism in May 2012 and supported by Fáilte Ireland (National Tourism Development Authority) and Tourism Ireland, is the biggest tourism initiative ever launched by Ireland. Its intent is to give an economic boost to the country which has staggered in recent years under the weight of failed banks and the burst real estate bubble. The programs and events planned for the year are designed to encourage an estimated 70 million people of Irish ancestry who live around the world to visit the country and reconnect with their families and their heritage. A total of 3,144,800 people visited Ireland between January and June of 2013, an increase of about 8% from 2,982,400 for the same period last year. The number of North American tourists from between April and June grew about 15%, from 305,700 to 350,800, compared to the same months in 2012. In 2009 about 36 million people in the United States claimed some Irish ancestry either as immigrants themselves or from some more distant relation. With that range of generational links the connections that Irish Americans feel to Ireland and family there varies widely. In the Oral History Program at Glucksman Ireland House one of our objectives is to learn how or if our participants connect to their ancestry. Do they identify as Irish American, how do they share their heritage with their children, what do they know of their family origins in Ireland, and how or do they stay in touch with Irish relatives? In this year of the Gathering we thought it fitting to share some of the recollections and stories we have heard over the past several years about visits home and how those trips helped to shape the individual’s sense of self, family, and heritage. Visiting Ireland is an emotional and illuminating experience for most whether the contact is made as a child or as an adult or whether it is organized by parents or self-initiated. Either way the experience is a personal one and the journey home begins long before the visitor steps foot on Irish soil. Production Staff: Producer, Writer, Narrator: Linda Dowling Almeida Producer, Engineer: Michael Stallmeyer Music: "My love is in America/ Lisdoonvarna," Strings Attached, Mick Moloney Photo: Irish and Irish-American passengers en route to Ireland on the S. S. Louis, circa 1935. Courtesy Archives of Irish America, New York University Voices: All of the interviews used in this podcast are drawn from the Archives of Irish America at New York University and have been recorded as part of the Glucksman Ireland House Oral History Project. Gabriel Byrne Mike Farragher, Jr. Thomas Lynch Jim Murphy Claire Grimes Jim Boucher Michael and Eileen Farragher John Patrick Shanley © 2013 Glucksman Ireland House, New York University This podcast is made possible in part with funding from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation.

In May 1987 a group of Irish and Irish American activists gathered in Queens, New York City to discuss the documentation status and consequent problems of thousands of young Irish immigrants, known as the New Irish, and formed the Irish Immigrant Reform Movement. Twenty-five years after the seeds of the IIRM were sown, we have gathered the thoughts and reflections of some of the principal leaders of the group. Since their victory, Ireland and the United States have experienced continued social, economic, and political stress, and immigration continues to be a topic of great debate in both countries. As we enter the second decade of the 21st century it is important to look back at the singular focus and commitment of the IIRM at the end of the 20th century and consider their place in the continuum of Irish and American relations.

Hugh Carey (1919 ó 2010) led a remarkable 20th century life: child of the Depression, WWII war hero, United States Congressman, two term governor of New York, husband to his college sweetheart, father of fourteen children. It was a full productive life with a unique vantage point on the political pulse of New York at the grassroots level.

In 2005 Glucksman Ireland House at New York University embarked on a project to bring oral history formally into the classroom. Professors Linda Dowling Almeida and Marion Casey, and later, Miriam Nyhan developed a curriculum that introduced students to the discipline of oral history and gave them an opportunity to create a public history document to complement the interviews they conducted with selected members of the Irish American community in the New York City metropolitan area. Inspired by the success of incorporating oral history into their own research and recognizing that the postwar generation of Irish was aging or slipping away, the professors decided to accelerate their oral history collection. In addition to targeting the community for the classroom program, Professor Nyhan initiated a separate collection project to capture personal and neighborhood memories, particularly from those members of the community involved with the Irish counties associations. We have gathered students and faculty, along with excerpts from their interviews, to reflect on the program in this 20th anniversary year of teaching and programming at Glucksman Ireland House. Producer and Writer: Linda Dowling Almeida Producer and Engineer: Michael Stallmeyer Music composed and performed by Michael Stallmeyer Narrator: Maddie Youngberg Photo: Students from the first class Oral History Class (2005) listening to oral histories at Ellis Island. Photo taken by Marion Casey. Courtesy Marion Casey. Voices: Linda Dowling Almeida Marion Casey Brian McAllister Miriam Nyhan Patrick Motherway Margaret and Paul Reilly Leah Rocamora Larry Kirwan Rachel Whitbeck Dan Barry Tanner Tafelski Marion Quinn

Thomas Bartlett, Chair of Irish History at University of Aberdeen and author of Ireland: A History, discusses “A History of Ireland, 431AD–2010, in 45 Minutes: The Long and the Short of It.”

Irish Times Environment Editor and author Frank McDonald delivers the fifth annual Irish Institute of New York Lecture, “After the Celtic Tiger: Picking up the Pieces.”

Raised in Chicago and Wicklow, Nicholas Grene, Professor of Literature at Trinity College Dublin, launches his new memoir, Nothing Quite Like It: An American Irish Childhood.

Texas State University Associate Professor of History Angela Murphy delivers the thirteenth annual Ernie O’Malley Lecture on “‘Though Dead he yet Speaketh’: Abolitionist Memories of Daniel O’Connell in the United States.”

Every immigrant group that travels to a new country brings with it more than the clothes on their backs or the personal belongings in their suitcases. They bring with them the customs and culture of their race, community, and nation. The Irish are no different. Arriving to the North American continent and the Caribbean as early as the 1600s the Irish brought a lively culture that included their unique facility with words, the gift of story-telling, and a love for music and dance. Four hundred years and seven million migrants later, the influence of Irish culture is still felt in America. In particular, the popularity of Irish dance is stronger than ever among Irish-, and non-Irish, Americans alike. For generations, Irish dancing remained a local pursuit, enjoyed recreationally among the Irish and Irish- American communities that developed across America. With the Gaelic Revival in the late nineteenth century, dance instruction became more formalized and dance competitions emerged to promote and also preserve the integrity of the art form. Irish dance is perhaps alone among the cultural imports that remained closely tied to the home country because the dance masters in Ireland remained the final authority on steps, style, and choreography. To win a dance competition in Ireland was to be judged among the elite Irish dancers in the world. By the end of the twentieth century, young Irish-American dancers like Jean Butler and Michael Flatley were among the elite Irish dancers who were proficient in the art form, but also seasoned performers. When they appeared in the seven-minute Interval Act of the Eurovision talent contest on Ireland’s RTE television network in 1994 called Riverdance, they thrilled Irish and European viewers with their dynamic choreography and Bill Whelan’s fresh musical score. Riverdance became an international phenomenon and pushed what had been a parochial pastime to a level of popularity that broke ethnic barriers and created commercial and artistic opportunities for artists, teachers, choreographers, costumers, and producers alike. It was the perfect marriage of Irish art and American showmanship. On Sunday, June 17, 2012, at Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in Vienna, VA, the North American touring production of Riverdance will play its final performance sixteen years after it opened in New York in March 1996. The legacy of Riverdance is incalculable. Like the millions of immigrants who left the tiny island in the middle of the North Atlantic for the new world, it has carried Irish culture to new lands, bringing recognition back to the homeland and joy to performers and audiences.

In the 1950s Catholic nuns in the United States staffed parochial and secondary schools that enrolled 10 percent of the country’s school children. In the wake of Vatican II and the turbulent social upheaval of the 1960s, the population of nuns dropped precipitously in the US as opportunities for women improved and fewer families chose Catholic school education for their sons and daughters. Despite the drop in numbers the legacy of these women, the lives they touched, and the impact they made on education and the life of parish communities for decades is significant. Drawing on interviews collected as part of our Oral History Project and housed in our Archives of Irish America at New York University, Glucksman Ireland House presents the recollections of some of the nuns we have interviewed as well as lay people who recall the sisters who taught them or crossed their path. These stories just scratch the surface of the service performed by religious sisters.

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In this podcast we feature the 2011 program presentations of GIH, NYU Irish and Irish-American Studies faculty members Professors Linda Dowling Almeida, Marion Casey, and Miriam Nyhan who discuss the GIH/ NYU Oral History Project and what is revealed about the Irish and Irish American family in the interviews they have collected. Themes of home, separation, identity, privacy, dislocation, and memory emerge from immigrants and first and second generation members of the community. The day-long event included speakers such as writers Colm Toibin, Pete Hamill and Peter Quinn, actress Fionnula Flanagan and her husband Dr. Garrett O’Connor, President of the Betty Ford Institute, who gave the keynote address. The 2010 program theme was “Ireland and Irish America.”

The 38 minute audio piece includes excerpts from interviews conducted as part of the GIH Oral History Project linked with readings from Thomas Flynn’s poem Bikeman, read by the author. The voices recall the wild emotion and strange stillness of that day and offer listeners a chance to reflect on the events of 9/11 and where we are ten years later.

Part of Ireland America: The Ties That Bind an exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts from March 14th to August 13th, 2011. This exhibition is part of Imagine Ireland: a year-long season of Irish Arts in the United States in 2011, an initiative of Culture Ireland.