Muldoon's Picnic (March)

The Lost Brothers are an Irish musical duo consisting of Oisin Leech and Mark McCausland. They have played at SXSW, Glastonbury, Electric Picnic, and BBC Electric Prom, and were featured on Roy Orbison’s 75th anniversary album. Their latest album, Halfway Towards a Healing, was produced by Howe Gelb and Gabriel Sullivan and is out now.

“With emotionally wrenching and confessional songwriting they have the remarkable ability of making a large room feel very intimate indeed. With a masterful blend of careful songwriting and tuneful harmonies the Lost Brothers make a lasting impact.”—The Huffington Post 

“Lost Brothers are the go to band for an injection of quality. As smooth as aged old whiskey.”—The Irish Times

Lucy McDiarmid is a scholar and writer whose academic interest in cultural politics, especially  quirky, colorful, suggestive episodes, is exemplified by The Irish Art of Controversy (2005) and Poets and the Peacock Dinner: The Literary History of a Meal (2014). She is a former fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and is currently Marie Frazee Baldassarre Professor of English at Montclair State University. Her most recent book is At Home in the Revolution: What Women Said and Did in 1916; at the moment she is completing a book on contemporary Irish poetry. Her dating memoir will be published soon, but not too soon.

Fintan O’Toole, widely viewed as Ireland’s leading public intellectual, is a columnist for the Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg ’53 visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. He also contributes to the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, Granta, the Guardian, the Observer, and other international publications. 

The award-winning Irish artist Pierce Turner has worked on numerous occasions with Philip Glass, performed in 2015 at Carnegie Hall with headliner Iggy Pop and Patty Smith, and has had his songs covered by Christy Moore. He splits his time between Ireland and Manhattan. 

“Easily one of the most important Irish Artists of the last twenty years.”—The Irish Times

“New York’s hidden Gem.”—New York magazine   
 
“Pierce Turner is a storyteller, soul man, poet, heartbreaker, with the voice of a choirboy high on rocket fuel.”—Joseph O’Connor
 
"For many a strange moon, Pierce Turner has been creating some of the most indescribably odd and luminous and beautiful music anywhere. For the Old Weird Ireland, he is something close to a national treasure."—Kevin Barry

Monica Youn grew up in Houston, Texas. She received a BA from Princeton University, a JD from Yale Law School, and an MPhil from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

Youn is the author of Blackacre (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award in poetry; Ignatz (Four Way Books, 2010), a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award; and Barter (Graywolf Press, 2003). Youn has received poetry fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Stanford University. She is also known for her work as a lawyer specializing in election law. She has previously taught at Bennington College, Columbia University, and Warren Wilson College, among others. She currently teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City.