LITERATURE

Writing & Storytelling Workshop with Honor Molloy

Sunday, May 20 | 1 pm – 5 pm

“I have seen many perform their written work over the last forty years, but it is easy to say that Honor Molloy, on the page or in person, is one of the very best I have ever experienced.” 

–Stanley Crouch, critic, columnist, novelist

Enjoy a day discussing your fiction, connecting with fellow writers and learning strategies to address how to face open mics.

Honor Molloy will lead a writing and storytelling workshop for fiction writers. In this class, writers will explore several aspects of the short story in a craft discussion and get their creative juices flowing with writing exercises and prompts. This workshop will also be focused on reading your writing in public, which can bring awareness to the tone, pacing and word choice of your story. Participants should come to the workshop with a completed story, ready to be shared with the group. Honor Molloy will offer writers tips and give each person a chance to rehearse with an audience of fellow writers to gain concentration and confidence.

For new and practicing writers. Limited to 15 students.

Fee: $50 non-member / $45 member, senior or student under 16

 
or 866-811-4111

Honor Molloy holds an MFA from Brown University and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Born in Dublin, Honor Molloy lives in Brooklyn.

31st Annual Marathon Celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses

MUSIC IN BLOOM!

Hosted and Staged by Isaiah Sheffer

Symphony Space in partnership with the Irish Arts Center

Saturday, June 16
7pm until after midnight

There’s no better way to greet summer than with Symphony Space’s 31st annual BLOOMSDAY ON BROADWAY, celebrating the life, love, and language in James Joyce's ULYSSES.  This year we pay tribute to the music and songs throughout Ulysses with “Music in Bloom.”  For the first time in Bloomsday on Broadway history, listen to a reading of the entire “Sirens” episode with full performances of the music central to the drama.  Broadway star DAVID MARGULIES performs the role of Mr. Bloom and director-host ISAIAH SHEFFER narrates.  And, of course, no Bloomsday on Broadway would be complete without FIONNULA FLANAGAN bringing down the house with the final “yes” of the entire uncensored Molly Bloom monologue. 

Many special guests will be added!  Tickets on sale now!

Tickets:  $25; Members $20; UNDER 30 (with ID) only $15
$20 tickets with code: BLOOM

Visit  www.symphonoyspace.org for the most up-to-date performance information! 

PAST EVENTS

Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage
An Audio Book Launch with Music, Song and Storytelling

In association with Irish American Writers and Artists

Tuesday, May 15 | 7:30 pm

A magical evening of music and story that conjures a vanished Dublin.

Author Honor Molloy joins forces with actor Aedin Moloney (Dancing at Lughansa), author Kevin Holohan (The Brothers’ Lot) and Grammy Award-winner Susan McKeown to celebrate the publication of Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage. Molloy’s autobiographical novel is a tender, irresistible and raucous portrait of 1960sDublin, as seen through the eyes of a precocious little girl with a fierce imagination. Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage will come alive with readings by Moloney, Holohan and Molloy, and music sung by McKeown (Simon & Schuster Audio).

“I have seen many perform their written work over the last forty years, but it is easy to say that Honor Molloy, on the page or in person, is one of the very best I have ever experienced.”  –Stanley Crouch, critic, columnist, novelist

Honor Molloy holds an MFA from Brown University and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Born in Dublin, Honor Molloy lives in Brooklyn.

Honor Molly discusses her SMARTY GIRL audiobook 

Admission: FREE

If you need assistance placing your order, call 866-811-4111.

Pen, Paper, Palate Literary Salon

Tuesday, May 8th | 6.30 pm-9.30 pm

La Petite Maison, 13-15 West 54th Street | New York, NY

Author Frank Delaney presents an evening to tantalize the senses as a panel of American, French and Irish personalities celebrate food and writing at the third Pen, Paper and Palate Salon, curated by Ruda Beresford Dauphin. With a special menu for audience members who wish to linger, and time for discussion and book signings, Pen, Paper and Palate promises to stimulate the culinary creativity of every person in attendance.

Including live music from the internationally acclaimed Irish violinist Gregory Harrington and French-Canadian cabaret performer Jean Brassard 

Panel Discussion

“Food and Pleasure”

Led by Author, BBC presenter, Booker Prize Judge Frank Delaney

• Executive Pastry Chef at the White House and Harvard lecturer Bill Yosses, author of The Perfect Finish and Desserts For Dummies
• New York City restaurateur Drew Nieporent whose Myriad Restaurant Group operates venues such as the Tribeca Grill and the two Michelin starred Nobu, co-owned by Robert De Niro
• French Michelin star-winning chef Gabriel  Kreuther of The Modern in the Museum of Modern Art who won Best Chef of New York from the James Beard Foundation
• Nationally renowned food writer and columnist for The New York Times  Florence Fabricant

Tickets: $20
 
 or 866-811-4111

For more information: Ruda Dauphin T: +1 212 737 5040 

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Bill Yosses, Executive Pastry Chef at the White House, author of “The Perfect Finish,” a collection of recipes from his vast personal repertoire, and a visiting lecturer on Food and Science at Harvard University

Drew Nieporent, one of America’s most respected and celebrated restaurateurs, and founder of Myriad Restaurant Group which operates Tribeca Grill with partner Robert DeNiro and the global phenomenon Nobu

Gabriel Kreuther, the Alsatian-born head chef of the Michelin-rated restaurant The Modern at the famed Museum of Modern Art and 2009 winner of the Best Chef of New York from the James Beard Foundation

Florence Fabricant, a nationally renowned food writer and columnist for The New York Timesdining section and author of 11 cookbooks including, most recently, a book written with The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Pen, Paper and Palate is presented in partnership with the Irish Arts Center and with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

An Evening with Kathleen Hill
in conversation with Mary Gordon

Tuesday, May 1 | 7:30 pm

“A memorable portrait of a family’s identity.” —Publishers Weekly

“If you love Howard’s End, To The Lighthouse, Joyce’s Dubliners…this is the book for you.” — Mary Gordon

A 2010 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Kathleen Hill’s finely wrought novel Who Occupies This House tells the story of four generations of an Irish American family, faced with the imminent sale of the family home they have lived in for almost a century. Join us for an evening with Kathleen Hill in conversation with Mary Gordon, professor at Barnard and author of several bestselling novels, including Final Payments and The Company of Women.

Kathleen Hill teaches in the M.F.A. program at Sarah Lawrence College. Her first novel Still Waters in Niger was named a notable book by The New York Times,Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and was nominated for the Dublin IMPAC Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize XXV, and The Pushcart Book of Short Stories.

Admission: FREE

If you need assistance placing your order, call 866-811-4111

An Evening with Meghan O’Rourke
in conversation with Belinda McKeon

Tuesday, April 3 | 7:30 pm

“a beautiful memoir about her loss of a truly irreplaceable mother—yes, it is sad, it is in fact heartrending, but it is many things more: courageous, inspiring, wonderfully intelligent and informed, and an intimate portrait of an American family” —Joyce Carol Oates

Join us for an evening with celebrated poet and critic Meghan O’Rourke, for the paperback launch of her recent memoir The Long Goodbye. O’Rourke will be joined in conversation by Belinda McKeon(Solace, IAC PoetryFest and Imagine Ireland literary curator).

The Long Goodbye chronicles the author’s path through grief after the loss of her mother to cancer at age fifty-five. Recording the endeavor ultimately bloomed into a profound look at the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life and  the way memory and love prevails after even the most devastating loss.

Meghan O’Rourke began her career as one of the youngest editors in the history of The New Yorker. She has served as an editor for Slate and The Paris Review, and her essays, criticism, and poems have appeared in The New Yorker,  The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Vogue, and more. O’Rourke is also the author of the poetry collections Once (2011) and Halflife (2007).

Admission: FREE

If you need assistance placing your order, call 866-811-4111.

An Evening with Peter Behrens

in association with
Consulate General of Canada
and
Glucksman Ireland House – New York University

Tuesday, March 6 | 7:30 pm

"Behrens is a natural storyteller and his scope is vast." —VANCOUVER SUN

“epic, a piece of rough beauty itself” –PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Illuminating…an epic along the lines of Middlesex in the way it follows a family through time and examines the results of their actions…A brooding novel, engrossing in its scope and detail, The O'Briens keeps sight of the family's personal stories amid the larger history of much of the twentieth century." —BOOKLIST

An unforgettable saga of love, loss, and exhilaratingchange spanning half a century in the lives of a restless family.

The O'Briens is a tale that pours straight from the heart of a splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. Picking up a generation later from Behrens’ award-winningThe Law of Dreams—a harrowing tale of potato famine Ireland and immigration—we now meet Joe O’Brien, a fiercely compelling character who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a share in the dazzling possibilities and consuming sorrows of the twentieth century. When Joe meets Iseult Wilkins we begin the story of a marriage and a family moving through history—from the first flying machines, through two world wars, and the election of JFK—told with epic precision and wondrous imagination.

Peter Behrens is the author of The Law of Dreams and Night Driving, a collection of short stories. His short stories and essays have appeared in many publications, including The Atlantic and Tin House. He has received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, among other honors. 

Admission: FREE

If you need assistance placing your order, call 866-811-4111.

NYPL at Nite: European Book Club at NYPL - THE SEA by John Banville

in partnership with Irish Arts Center

Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Mid-Manhattan Library

The European Book Club Comes to NYPL

With the Participation of the Irish Arts Center

John Banville's The Sea

Max Morden, a widowed Irish art historian, is returning to a seaside boarding-house he once knew as a child on the cusp of adolescence. He has arrived there in order to deal with, in some roundabout way, the death of his wife. There, he remembers the Graces, the well-heeled family that introduced him to a world of feelings, experienced through the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. Interwoven with this story are Morden's luminous, powerful and unpredictable memories of his wife, Anna--of their life together, of her death. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel — among the finest we have had from this masterful writer. Winner of the Man Booker Award

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. The author of thirteen previous novels, he has been the recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the GuardianFiction Prize, and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. He lives in Dublin.

Register at: bit.ly/thesea-europeanbook

This event will take place on the First Floor Corner Room 

Irish Arts Center Book Day 2012

in association with
New York City Council,
Culture Ireland

Friday, March 16 | Early morning until the books run out!

Irish Arts Center will kick off the Friday of St. Patrick’s Day weekend with the second annual Irish Arts Center Book Day! Keep an eye out for Book Day volunteers handing out 10,000 works by Irish and Irish American authors, free, at subway stops and transportation hubs across all five boroughs. Be in the know on Book Day locations and other Book Day buzz by following our up-to-the-minute Twitter (#IACBookDay) and Facebook updates.

Chinese translations will be available!

Thank you for the generous support of our publishing sponsors:

Daedulus Books
Dedalus Press
Eight Cousins
Forge
Hachette Ireland
Harper Perennial
Ireland Literature Exchange
Irish Echo
Knopf
Little, Brown and Company
The Munster Literature Centre
New York Review of Books
Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College Dublin
Pantheon Books, a division of Random House
Penguin
Penguin Classic
Poetry Ireland
Quinnipiac University Press
Random House
Riverhead Books, A Division of Penguin Group
Scribner
Stinging Fly Press & Magazine
Summer Palace Press
Syracuse University Press
The Overlook Press
Wake Forest University Press
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Donate your books to Irish Arts Center Book Day in New York City!

On March 16th, kicking-off St. Patrick’s Day weekend, Irish Arts Center will set up teams of volunteers at subway locations across all 5 boroughs to hand out books by Irish and Irish American authors to New Yorkers, for FREE. Help us promote literacy by dropping off your books by Irish and Irish American authors at any of the following locations from now until March 14, 2012:

Glucksman Ireland House New York University, 1 Washington Mews on 5th Avenue
Hours: M-Thur, 9:30 am to 6 pm, plus public events in the evenings
(212) 998-3950

Irish Arts Center, 553 West 51st Street between 10th and 11th Avenues
Hours: M-F, 10am to 6pm, plus public events in the evenings and weekends
(212) 757-3318 x 209

New York Irish Center. 10-40 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
Hours: M-F, 10am to 5pm
718-482-0909

Books should be in decent condition. Thank you for supporting Irish Arts Center Book Day! For further information or to learn how you can also volunteer for Book Day, contact 212-757-3318 ext 209 or volunteer@irishartscenter.org.

Thank you to Glucksman Ireland House – New York University and the New York Irish Center for helping make Book Day 2012 a success.

Special Thanks to our Sponsors and Partners

Culture Ireland
Deborah and Brian Henry
Matthew and Pam Sutherland
Martin Whelan
New York State American Irish Legislators Society
Eight Cousins Bookstore
Ireland Literature Exchange
Solas Nua
Glucksman Ireland House - New York University
New York Irish Center
52nd Street Project
Sweeney and Harkin
Commodore Construction Corp
Ellen McCourt

Brad Lander (Brooklyn)
Diana Reyna (Brooklyn)
Margaret Chin (Manhattan)
Gale Brewer (Manhattan)
Vincent Ignizio (Staten Island)
Deborah Rose (Staten Island)
Daniel Dromm (Queens) 
Jimmy Van Bramer (Queens)

Irish Arts Center Book Day is inspired by a similar event run by Solas Nua in Washington D.C. since 2006.

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