Details
$40 general / $32 membersDate(s)
Tue, Apr 2, 2019
8:00pm
Contact
Box Office
888-616-0274
boxoffice@irishartscenter.org
Phone hours:
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday
In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days
Location
Irish Arts Center
553 West 51st Street
New York, NY 10019
Overview
This is event is sold out, but some seats may be released closer to the event date. Please join our wait list to be notified if tickets become available.
The three-time Man Booker finalist and celebrated author of Brooklyn discusses his new non-fiction work with Cullman Center Fellow Vona Groarke. Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know is an illuminating study of Irish culture, history, and literature told through the lives and work of three men—William Wilde, John Butler Yeats, and John Stanislaus Joyce—and the complicated, influential relationships they had with their equally complicated sons.
“An evocative, engaging portrait not only of ‘three prodigal fathers’…but of Dublin in the 19th and early 20th centuries."
—Gregory Cowles, New York Times Book Review
“A short but entertaining, thoroughly engaging study on the agony of filial influence.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Juicy, wry and compelling.”
—Maureen Corrigan, Wall Street Journal
Funding for this program is also provided by the Charles Lawrence Keith & Clara Miller Foundation and Irish Institute.
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Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours; M&T Bank; the Dead Rabbit; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.
