The awards will be presented at an event on Monday November 19th at Tuttle’s from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm and we just got some great news, which is that the one and only Donie Carroll will be entertaining… now we will have some night.
I was invited to the 2019 Eugene O’Neill Awards presented by the Irish American writers and artists. This year’s honoree was none other than the amazing Joanie Madden. The event was held at the Manhattan Club, upstairs at Rosie O’Grady’s (800 7th Avenue) last Monday from 6 pm to 9 pm.
Joanie is one of the most talented Irish musicians at this side of the Atlantic and was already inducted in to the Irish American Musicians Hall of Fame and also the youngest.
Well all I can say is good on yea Joanie and well deserved and congratulations from all of us here at The Irish Examiner.
Talking of musicians, the great Andy Cooney will be on tour of Ireland starting from November 23 in Cashel, Tipperary and on his return he will be doing his Christmas concert at Carnegie Hall on Monday December 10th.
This man never stops and we are all so lucky for that too because we can see him more often as he performs.
This was a nice touch from Adrian Flannelly’s Irish Radio: he had Senator Billy Lawless on the show who immigrated to Chicago from Galway over 20 years ago and is a prominent entrepreneur and the Irish Government representative for the Irish Diaspora.
This week, a bill was introduced to US Congress that could possibly see a new US Visa available to Irish citizens that would allow them to live and work in the US.
The two-year, renewable E3 work visas would come from the unused portion of the 10,500 E3 visas currently allotted to Australia.
Lawless and the Irish Government with the support of AOH Centers and Irish immigrant lobbyists are working with Democrats and Republicans to ensure that there is bi-partisan support for the initiative.
Unfortunately, this bill does not address the issue of Irish undocumented currently living in the US.
The Irish Business Organization will be having an event on Tuesday, November 20 – a Business Breakfast with Kevin Tuohy founding partner of “A Shine & Co.”
The event begins at 7.30 am at the Fitzpatrick Manhattan Hotel (689 Lexington Avenue). For more information call (212) 750-8118 or email info@ibonewyork.org.
Don’t miss out on The Irish Rep’s ‘The Dead’, based on the novella by James Joyce adapted by Paul Muldoon and Jean Hanff Korelitz and directed by Ciarán O’Reilly.
Running from November 17 to January 13 this show features Melissa Gilbert, Heather Martin Bixler, Kimberly Doreen Burns, Ciarán Byrne, Rufus Collins, Peter Cormican, Terry Donnelly, Meg Hennessy, Patricia Kilgarriff, Robert Mack, Aedín Moloney, and Patti Perkins.
The show is performed at The American Irish Historical Society (991 Fifth Avenue, directly across Fifth Avenue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
James Joyce’s novella, “The Dead,” describes a holiday gathering on January 6, 1904, the Feast of the Epiphany, in the Dublin home of two elderly sisters, Kate and Julia Morkan, and their niece, Mary Jane.
At the party are students, friends, a celebrated tenor, a lost alcoholic, and the couple, Gabriel and Gretta Conroy.
Over the course of an evening, there are conversations, music, dancing, and dining. There are speeches and disagreements – polite and impolite – and when it is all over Gabriel learns something about his wife that changes his sense of who she is and who they are to each other, of what it actually means to be alive, and to be dead.
This exquisite recreation of James Joyce’s haunting story was the most sought-after theatrical event of New York’s 2016 and 2017 holiday seasons.
Take my advice, do not miss this as I know you will love it. You can buy tickets now by calling (212) 727-2737 or visiting www.irishrep.org.
See you all again next week when I am Out&About.