LITERATURE & CONVERSATION
Movements: A Conversation with Senator George Mitchell
Moderated by Belinda McKeon
Wednesday, January 25 | 7:30 PM
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Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Lisa Dwan, Bill Flanagan, Damsel, and So¯ Percussion
Monday, February 13 | 7:30 PM
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On Obsession: Belinda McKeon and Lisa Carey
Presented by Center for Fiction in partnership with Irish Arts Center
Wednesday, March 1 | 7 PM
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Ryan Tubridy and P.J. Lynch Patrick and the President
Sunday, March 5 | 3 PM
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Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Marie Howe, Peter Quinn, and Colm Mac Con Iomaire
Monday, March 13 | 7:30 PM
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7th Annual Irish Arts Center Book Day
Presented by Irish Arts Center in association with the New York City Council
Friday, March 17 | 7 AM until the books run out
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Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Jean Hanff Korelitz, Brenda Shaughnessy, and The Knights
Monday, April 10 | 7:30 PM
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Debut Voices: Kathleen Donohoe
Tuesday, April 18 | 7:30 PM
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Irish Language Day Book Club
The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille
Sunday, April 23
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Alan Titley
The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille
Sunday, April 23 | 5:30 PM
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Debut Voices: Lisa McInerney
Tuesday, May 9 | 7:30 PM
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IAC Book Club: Ashes of Fiery Weather by Kathleen Donohoe
Wednesday, May 17 | 6:30 PM
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IAC Book Club: The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerny
Wednesday, June 7 | 6:30 PM
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Bloomsday on Broadway XXXVI
Co-produced by Symphony Space and Irish Arts Center
Friday, June 16 | 7 PM
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Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Jean Butler, Nick Laird, Joseph O'Connor, and Iarla Ó Lionáird
Tuesday, June 27 | 7:30 PM
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FALL 2016
Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Rosanne Cash, Peter Fallon, Janna Levin, Warren Malone, and Loudon Wainwright III
Monday, September 12 | 7:30 PM
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Understanding The Hunger
Co-presented by BAM and Irish Arts Center
Saturday, October 1 | 4:30 pm
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Rí Rá Children's Festival of Literature
Presented by Irish Arts Center and Children's Books Ireland
Sunday, October 2 | 11 AM - 4:15 PM
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Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Len Graham Alice McDermott, Michael Robbins, Sean Wilentz, and Warren Zanes
Monday, October 10 | 7:30 PM
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Emma Donoghue
in conversation with Sheri Holman
Wednesday, October 12 | 7:30 PM
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PoetryFest
Curated by Nick Laird
Presented in association with Literary Hub, Glucksman Ireland House NYU, and Poetry Ireland
November 4 - 6
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Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Nicholson Baker, The Lost Brothers, Mick Moloney, and Eileen Myles
Monday, November 14 | 7:30 PM
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Roger Rosenblatt
in conversation with Alice McDermott
Wednesday, November 30 | 7:30 PM
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Voices Carry - A Celebration of Irish Women Writing
Selected and arranged by Honor Molloy
Tuesday, December 6 | 7:30 PM
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The Letters of Samuel Beckett
with Colum McCann, Annabel Davis-Goff, Belinda McKeon, Colm Tóibín, and the Tesla Quartet
Presented in association with 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center
Monday, December 12 | 8:15 PM
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SPRING 2016
Helen Vendler on Seamus Heaney
Thursday, January 28 | 6 pm - 9 pm
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Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Glenn Patterson, Salman Rushdie, and Miracles of Modern Science
Monday, February 8 | 7:30 pm
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Belinda McKeon
Tuesday, February 16 | 7:30 pm
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Debut Voices with Sara Baume
Tuesday, March 8 | 7:30 pm
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Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Laurie Anderson, Timothy Donnelly, Mark Mulcahy, and Cait O'Riordan
Monday, March 14 | 7:30 pm
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The Quartet: Stories, Poetry, and Dreams
March 15 & 16 | 7:30 pm
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6th Annual Irish Arts Center Book Day
Presented in association with New York City Council
Thurs, March 17 | 7 am until the books run out
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Twinsome Minds: Recovering 1916 in Images and Stories
Tuesday, March 22 | 7:30 pm
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Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Anne Enright, AM Homes, and Yusef Komunyakaa
Monday, April 11 | 7:30 pm
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Michael Cunningham
As part of Pen, Paper and Palate
Monday, April 18 | 7:30 pm
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Ireland Rising
A Special Benefit Performance for Irish Arts Center
Friday, April 22 | 8 pm
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Granta: New Irish Writing
Wednesday, May 4 | 7 pm
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Louise Erdrich and Anne Enright
Presented by 92Y and Irish Arts Center
Thursday, May 12 | 8 pm
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Pen, Paper, and Palate
Eating for Health, Love, Sex, and Death
Moderated by Bill Yosses
Tuesday, May 31 | 7 pm
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William Doyle
Tuesday, June 7 | 7:30 pm
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Bloomsday on Broadway XXXV
Thursday, June 16 | 7 pm
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A Tribute to Frank McCourt
Sunday, June 26 | 7 pm
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FALL 2015
Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Peter Carey, Maureen N. McLane. and Bill Payne
Monday, September 14 | 7:30 pm
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Rachel Moran
Tuesday, September 22 | 7:30 pm
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T.J. English
Tuesday, September 29 | 7:30 pm
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Jane Urquhart
Presented by Irish Arts Center in association with Consulate General of Canada in New York
Thursday, October 1 | 7:30 pm
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Rí Rá Children's Festival of Literature
Presented by Irish Arts Center and Children's Books Ireland
Sunday, October 4 | 11 am - 4 pm
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Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Colum McCann, Michael Dickman, Dan Trueman, Damsel, Iarla Ó Lionáird, and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
Monday, October 12 | 7:30 pm
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Imagined Biographies
Gavin McCrea and Therese Anne Fowler in conversation, moderated by Julie Buntin
Presented by Irish Arts Center and Center for Fiction
Tuesday, October 20 | 7 pm
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PoetryFest
Curated by Belinda McKeon and Aengus Woods
Presented in association with Literary Hub
and Glucksman Ireland House - NYU
November 6 - 8
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Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Nick Flynn, Colson Whitehead, Phil Robson, and Christine Tobin
Monday, November 9 | 7:30 pm
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Pen, Paper and Palate
France
Yesterday and Today
Tuesday, November 10 | 7 pm
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Kevin Barry
Monday, November 16 | 7:30 pm
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Joseph O'Neill
Wednesday, December 2 | 7:30 pm
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SPRING 2015
Muldoon's Picnic
with special guests Aoife O'Donovan, Robert Sullivan, Sam and Louise Sullivan, and Colm Tóibín
Monday, February 9 | 7:30 pm
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Richard Ford & Lorrie Moore
Presented in association with 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center
Thursday, February 12 | 8 pm
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Muldoon's Picnic
with Special Guests Kevin Barry, Michael Cerveris, Major Jackson, Asher Muldoon and Sammy Grob
Monday, March 9 | 7:30 pm
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5th Annual Irish Arts Center Book Day
Presented in association with New York City Council
Tuesday, March 17 | 7 am until the books run out
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Debut Voices with Colin Barrett
Presented by Irish Arts Center and Grove Atlantic in association with A Public Space and Stinging Fly
Tuesday, March 31 | 7:30 pm
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Francine Prose
As part of Pen, Paper and Palate
Tuesday, April 7 | 7:30 pm
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Muldoon's Picnic
with Special Guests Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Mary Karr, and Larry Kirwan
Monday, April 13 | 7:30 pm
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Norah Vincent's Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf
Wednesday, April 15 | 7:30 pm
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On Elizabeth Bishop with Colm Tóibín
Presented in association with 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center
Sunday, April 19 | 11 am
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Pen, Paper and Palate: International Spies
with BBC host and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney
Tuesday, April 21 | 7 pm
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Debut Voices with Mary Costello
Presented by Irish Arts Center and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in association with Stinging Fly
Wednesday, May 6 | 7:30 pm
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Anne Enright
Tuesday, May 12 | 7:30 pm
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Helen Vendler on Seamus Heaney
Presented in association with 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center
Wednesday, May 13 | 6 pm
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Robert Kelly & Sinéad Morrissey
Presented in association with 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center
Thursday, May 14 | 8:15 pm
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Dick Cavett
As part of Pen, Paper and Palate
Tuesday, June 2 | 7:30 pm
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Bloomsday on Broadway XXXIV
Tuesday, June 16
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DruidShakespeare Symposium at Fordham
Thursday, July 9 | 1 pm - 5 pm
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FALL 2014
Muldoon's Picnic
with Special Guests Zadie Smith, Nick Laird, & Aoife
Monday, September 8 | 7:30 pm
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Annie Mok
On Drawing Joyce
Tuesday, September 30 | 7:30 pm
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Mary Gordon
Thursday, October 2 | 7:30 pm
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Muldoon's Picnic
with Special Guests Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Pinsky, and Martin Hayes
Monday, October 13 | 7:30 pm
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Debut Voices
with Darragh McKeon
Tuesday, October 21 | 7:30 pm
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Debut Voices
with Eimear McBride
Thursday, October 30 | 7:30 pm
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PoetryFest
A three-day festival of contemporary poetry from both sides of the Atlantic
November 7-9
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Muldoon's Picnic
with Special Guest Rick Moody, Meghan O'Rourke, and Fay La Foe
Monday, November 10 | 7:30 pm
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Emma Donoghue and Ruth Rendell
Monday, November 17 | 8 pm
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Pen, Paper and Palate: Military Histories
with BBC host and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney
Wednesday, November 19 | 7 pm
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Muldoon's Picnic
with Special Guests Tracy K. Smith, Stephen Rea, Neil Martin, Mark Mulcahy, and Patrick McCabe
Monday, December 8 | 7:30 pm
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SPRING 2014
Roddy Doyle
Wednesday, February 5 | 7 pm
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Irish Arts Center Political Cabaret 3.0
March 11-12 | 7:30 pm
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Irish Arts Center Book Day 2014
Monday, March 17 | 7 am until the books run out!
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Terry Golway
Tammany, Progressivism & the New York Irish
Tuesday, March 18 | 7:30 pm
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Pen, Paper and Palate: The Dish on Gossip
with BBC host and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney
Wednesday, April 9 | 7 pm
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Johanna Lane
Tuesday, May 20 | 7:30 pm
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Edna O'Brien and Edward St. Aubyn
Thursday, May 29 | 8 pm
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Richard Ford
As part of Pen, Paper and Palate
Tuesday, June 3 | 7:30 pm
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Bloomsday on Broadway XXXIII
Monday, June 16 | 7 pm
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Dubliners: A Quartet
Saturday, June 28 | 7 pm
Sunday, June 29 | 4:30 pm
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FALL 2013
Playworks
Reading Series of New Plays
Wednesday, September 11 | 6 pm & 8 pm
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An Irish Arts Center Political Cabaret
September 30 and October 1 | 7:30 pm
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James Salter
with BBC host and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney
Thursday, October 3 | 7:30 pm
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Kevin Barry
in conversation with Vanity Fair's Elissa Schappell
Wednesday, October 9 | 7:30 pm
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The "Walk" of the Town
Follow in the footsteps of The New Yorker writer Maeve Brenann
Extended Through October 27th!
October 26 & 27 | 2pm
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America's Most Wanted Gangster: Whitey Bulger
Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy in conversation with The New York Times' Dan Barry
Tuesday, October 29 | 7:30 pm
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Pen, Paper and Palate: Biographies of Note
with BBC host and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney
Wednesday, November 6 | 7 pm
Doors Open at 6:30 pm
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Favorite Poems: In Tribute to Seamus Heaney
The welcome return of this intimate and special evening where IAC’s friends and special guests read a selection of well-known and personally-chosen best-loved poems.
Friday, November 15 | 8pm
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PoetryFest
A three-day festival of contemporary poetry from both sides of the Atlantic
Curated by Belinda McKeon and Aengus Woods
Presented in association with Poetry Ireland and Poetry Society of America
November 15 - 17
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Peter Quinn
HISTORY AND MYSTERY: THE MAKING of the FINTAN DUNNE TRILOGY
Tuesday, November 19 | 7:30 pm
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IAC Book Club as part of European Book Club
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
This event has been postponed to Wednesday, December 18 at 7 pm due to inclement weather
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SPRING 2013
Vona Groarke
The Middle Kingdom
Thursday, February 28 | 7:30 pm
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An Irish Arts Center Political Cabaret
Featuring David McWilliams
with Paddy Cullivan and Special Guests
March 5-6 | 7:30 pm
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Black and White and Green: St. Patrick’s Day in Harlem
Tuesday, March 12 | 7 pm
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Irish Arts Center Book Day 2013
Friday, March 15 | Early morning until the books run out!
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An Evening in Celebration of William Kennedy
Thursday, April 11 | 7:30pm
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Pen, Paper and Palate
A Panel Discussion: Crime Writing and Outlaw Stories
Tuesday, May 14 | Doors Open 6:30 pm | Panel begins 7 pm
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Adapting the Novel: the Graphic Canon
Presented by Irish Arts Center and Seven Stories Press
Tuesday, June 4 | 7:30 pm
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Bloomsday on Broadway XXXII
Sunday, June 16 | 7 pm
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FALL 2012
An Evening with Christine Dwyer Hickey
Tuesday, September 25 | 7:30 pm
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PoetryFest
in association with
Poetry Society of America
and Poetry Ireland
November 2-4
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Two Roads Diverged
A dialogue on Irish and Black contributions to American Culture
Open Dialogue with Lenwood O. Sloan and Dr. Mick Moloney
September 18, October 24, November 7 | 7 pm
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An Evening with Molly McCloskey
Tuesday, November 13 | 7:30 pm
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Pen, Paper & Palate
A Celebration of Irish and American Culture
December 4 | 6:30 pm
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Contemporary Voices on Immigration
An Evening with Yvonne Cassidy and Reyna Grande
Tuesday, December 11 | 7:30 pm
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Talks & Readings
Enjoy live readings and conversations with leading figured in the arts, literature, politics, business and media and engage with the artists afterwards in the gallery for a reception and book signing.
Our seventh annual Book Day in 2017 was a huge success thanks to the NYC Council and volunteers across the city.
Interested in participating in 2018? For book donation and sponsorship opportunities promoting this day of literacy and Irish culture, contact rachael@irishartscenter.org.
For volunteer opportunities, contact kestrel@irishartscenter.org
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