The Closing Ceremony of Origin 1st Irish Festival 2023 Celebrates Contemporary Performing Arts Celtic Style
February 13, 2023 No Responses

The Closing Ceremony of Origin 1st Irish Festival 2023 Celebrates Contemporary Performing Arts Celtic Style

On Monday January 30, at 7 pm, the Closing Ceremony of  Origin 1st Irish Festival 2023 was held at the Irish Arts Center ( 726 11th Avenue at 51st Street), the site of the Festival's three-day finale. A total of 12 Festival events took place through Tuesday when Ireland’s patroness Saint Brigid, was celebrated  at the NY Irish Center on the...
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The Irish Business Organization’s President Paul Finnegan on Leading It Through Difficult Times, Transforming it Along the Way
February 8, 2023 No Responses

The Irish Business Organization’s President Paul Finnegan on Leading It Through Difficult Times, Transforming it Along the Way

Galway native Paul Finnegan, current Irish Business Organization president, has presided during the tumultuous re-opening of a seemingly post-pandemic New York. After two years of adapting to a virtual format, the organization has awakened out of its Zoom li...
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Martin Mcdonagh’s Latest Ode to Peculiar People, “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Wins Awards And Endless Accolades
January 12, 2023 No Responses

Martin Mcdonagh’s Latest Ode to Peculiar People, “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Wins Awards And Endless Accolades

When producer and Blueprint Pictures co-founder Graham Broadbent received Martin McDonagh’s script for “The Banshees of Inisherin,” he knew he had his next McDonagh movie. Broadbent and the Irish playwright previously made “In Bruges”...
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Experience Marriage, Monsters & More On Stage at the Origin 1st Irish Festival 2023
January 11, 2023 No Responses

Experience Marriage, Monsters & More On Stage at the Origin 1st Irish Festival 2023

Preview by Brad Balfour Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish FestivalJanuary 9 – 31, 2023Various Venues Throughout New York Now in its 15th installment — and returning to being fully in-person for the first time since the pandemic’s start — the...
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A Unique Streaming Service Helps Alleviate Suffering of Those Who Have Lost Loved Ones During the Pandemic and Beyond
July 31, 2021 No Responses

A Unique Streaming Service Helps Alleviate Suffering of Those Who Have Lost Loved Ones During the Pandemic and Beyond

Feature by Brad Balfour During the pandemic lockdown, various technologies came to the rescue. Many felt they couldn’t survive without their devices, phones or laptops. Streaming services reigned supreme and Amazon provided every product possible. So Christo...
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An Unresolved Murder In West Cork Still Keeps Audiences Intrigued 25 Years Later
July 7, 2021 No Responses

An Unresolved Murder In West Cork Still Keeps Audiences Intrigued 25 Years Later

  Story by Brad Balfour When Sophie Toscan du Plantier was found murdered on December 23rd, 1996, near her holiday home in Drinane, near Schull, County Cork, Ireland, it shocked not only the county but the country. It had been...
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Drank The Gold Offers The Nourishment of Irish Traditional Music to Upstate New York and More
June 17, 2021 No Responses

Drank The Gold Offers The Nourishment of Irish Traditional Music to Upstate New York and More

Q&A by Brad Balfour By now, it’s a familiar story. Due to the pandemic lockdown, bands and performers found themselves frozen out of live venues and were in danger of being driven out of the business entirely. For upstaters Oona...
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Cork Born-and-Bred Actor/Singer Cillian Murphy Goes from Strength to Strength In His Many Performances
June 4, 2021 No Responses

Cork Born-and-Bred Actor/Singer Cillian Murphy Goes from Strength to Strength In His Many Performances

An Appreciation by Paddy McCarthy Actor/singer Cillian Murphy seems to go from strength to strength with his acting and other activities. Currently, the 45-year-old appears as Emmett in the sci-fi horror shocker A Quiet Place Part II (see related interview...
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Actor Cillian Murphy Talks About The Sound and Vision In The Film “A Quiet Place Part II”
June 2, 2021 No Responses

Actor Cillian Murphy Talks About The Sound and Vision In The Film “A Quiet Place Part II”

Feature by Brad Balfour A Quiet Place Part II Cast: John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Cillian Murphy, Djimon Hounsou In 2018’s hit sci-fi thriller, A Quiet Place, the Abbots find ways to survive in a post-apocalyptic world...
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With His Novel “Rockaway Blue” Out, Former Wexfordian Larry Kirwan Keeps His Multi-Hyphented Status Alive
May 5, 2021 No Responses

With His Novel “Rockaway Blue” Out, Former Wexfordian Larry Kirwan Keeps His Multi-Hyphented Status Alive

Q&A by Brad Balfour Rockaway Blue Larry Kirwan
 Three Hills/Cornell University Press To most who know him, Larry Kirwan has been thought of as the leader of Black 47, a New York-based Irish rock band with clearly left-of-center political leanings....
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