Past Events
Past Events 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2012
6:00 PM
The Juilliard Concert Series
of the
American Irish Historical Society
presents
Attacca String Quartet
*This event is open to Sponsors, Benefactors, and Patrons Only. RSVP Required. *
Attacca String Quartet has previously appeared at the American Irish Historical Society with our Juilliard Concert Series, and makes a triumphant return this January having recently been signed with Columbia Artists Management, Inc. Their concert at the Society this winter will feature a program of Schubert and Haydn and is sure to be an enjoyable evening.
First Prize winners of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, top prizewinners and Listeners’ Choice Award recipients in the 2011 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and winners of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize at the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America's premier young performing ensembles. Praised by Strad for possessing "maturity beyond its members’ years,” the Attacca Quartet is comprised of violinists Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga, violist Luke Fleming and cellist Andrew Yee, and was formed at The Juilliard School in 2003. They made their professional debut in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall and have appeared there on numerous occasions since. The Attacca Quartet performed John Adams' recently composed String Quartet (2008) in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in December 2009; having worked closely on the quartet with Mr. Adams, he has enthusiastically supported their performances of it. They have recently completed a recording project of the complete works for string quartet by John Adams, which will be released on Azica Records in January 2013. 2010 marked the beginning of "The 68," an ambitious project in which the Attacca Quartet will perform all sixty-eight Haydn string quartets on a special series they created in New York. The Attacca Quartet currently serves as the Juilliard Graduate Resident String Quartet.
For more information on the Attacca Quartet please visit their website.
This concert is part of the Juilliard Concert Series of the AIHS and is open to Sponsors, Benefactors, and Patrons only. RSVP is required. To check your membership status, please call 212-288-2263.
January 26, 2013
9:00 AM
Irish American Heritage & Culture Committee | Department of Education, City of New York | and the
American Irish Historical Society
present
The 2012 Neil Shanahan Educators Seminar
The Irish American Heritage & Culture Committee, NYC Department of Education, in conjunction with the American Irish Historical Society, will hold the Neil Shanahan Educators Seminar on Saturday, January 26, 2013. The seminar for educators and non-educators will take place at the American Irish Historical Society, 991 Fifth Ave., NYC starting at 10 A.M. Registration begins at 9 A.M.
The topic is PRESIDENTIAL VISITS TO IRELAND: SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY/POLITICS, JFK & OTHERS
Speakers include Ireland’s Ambassador Consul General, Noel Kilkenny; Professor Terry Golway, Kean University; Ray O’Hanlon, Editor of the Irish Echo and Professor Joe Lee, Director, Ireland House, NYU.
The pre-registration donation is $15.00 or $20 at the door. Light refreshments are included.
To register contact (516) 466-9194 or,
amgarvey1@aol.com.
The IAHCC is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization.
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Past Events 2012
Wednesday, March 7th
6:30pm
“Weaving a Celtic Past”
The Society welcomes Edel Bhreathnach and musicians Moya Brennan and Cormac de Barra to its headquarters for their presentation “Weaving a Celtic Past.” Through song, history, music and images of books and manuscripts protected by Irish Franciscans, Brennan, de Barra and Bhreathnach weave a vivid portrait of Celtic history. Edel Bhreathnach is a historian of medieval Irish history and literature, and is deputy director of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the Study of Irish History and Civilisation at University College Dublin. Moya Brennan is the lead singer for Grammy award winning Irish band Clannad and Cormac de Barra is a traditional harpist. The program is a narrative lecture, interspersed with songs and music performed by Brennan and de Barra. Bhreathnach says the presentation is “the story of preserving and reviving the memory of Irish identity.”
Thursday, March 22nd
7:00pm
Eilin O’Dea- Madame Cassandra
Last year, Irish actress Eilin O’Dea tackled James Joyce’s Molly Bloom and made her fragmented soliloquy in Ulysses remarkably accessible in her one-woman show Molly Bloom.
“Madame Cassandra” a dramatization of the short story from Edna O’Brien’s latest collection, Saints and Sinners, will be presented by Eilin at the Society on Thursday, March 22nd. Eilin will play Millie, a tragic woman who is haunted by the loss of her children and by suspicions that her husband is unfaithful.
O’Dea has a gift for depicting complex women. Her portrayal of Millie at Symphony Space was deemed “mesmerizing” by novelist Andrea Gabor, and “staggering” by theater critic Belinda McKeown.
The Juilliard Concert Series of the American Irish Historical Society presents Leonhard Bartussek, baroque cello and Fernando Aguado, harpsichord
Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 6:00 PM
Both students in Juilliard’s Historical Performance program, Austrian baroque cellist Leonhard Bartussek and Spanish baroque harpsichordist Fernando Aguado bring their significant experience in Europe’s early-music scene to the United States with a program that reveals how early music can be a home for unexpectedly edgy and dramatic music-making.
This event is open to Sustaining Members, Sponsors, Benefactors, and Patrons of the Society.
The American Irish Historical Society
presents
Thérèse Fahy
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
6:30 PM
Following her highly successful 2011 US tour, dynamic Dublin pianist Therese Fahy, with the support of Culture Ireland, has been invited to return to perform a recital at the American Irish Historical Society on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Impressionist composer, Claude Debussy, she will play the beautifully evocative Preludes, written in 1910-1913. With lively introductions to the music by the pianist, an acclaimed specialist in French repertoire, this promises to be a magical journey through the stunningly visual music of this truly great composer.
This event is open to the public; Non-Members $15.00 fee.
The Juilliard Concert Series of the American Irish Historical Society
presents
Hui Wu, pianist
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
6:00 PM
Hailed as “a national rising star" by the China Musical Weekly, 24-year-old pianist Hui Wu is praised by renowned music critic David Dubal as “a pianist of true distinction, meaning everything she plays has a form of originality and imagination—really, you must hear her!” A native of China, Ms. Wu has won numerous competitions including first prizes at the Kosciusko Chopin Competition in New York, the 65th Steinway International Piano Competition and the 10th XingHai Cup National Piano Competition in China. Among her other awards, Ms. Wu is also a top-prize winner of the Murray Dranoff International Artists Two Pianos Competition in Miami, the Corpus Christi International Competition, the Ettlingen International Competition in Germany, the National Youth Piano Competition of GulangYu International Piano Art Festival and the Golden Bell Piano Competition in China. Ms. Wu’s wide-ranging musical interests encompass repertoire from Bach to Lindberg. An avid chamber musician, a dynamic composer and a champion of new music, Ms. Wu has been invited to prestigious festivals such as Taos, Yellow Barn, Goslar, PianoTexas, Beijing International Music Festival and Academy among others. Recently, Ms. Wu premiered Paul Chihara’s 12 Bagatelles and Elliott Schwartz’s Concerto III with the New Juilliard Ensemble and Conductor Joel Sachs and has been reviewed by The New York Times as “sparkling” and Harry Rolnick described as “incredible”. Ms. Wu has also appeared with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Xia'men Symphony Orchestra. Her performances have been broadcast live on WQXR 93.6 FM. Ms. Wu is an active member of the contemporary ensemble AXIOM and NJE at The Juilliard School. She is currently studying at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Philip Lasser, Matti Raekallio and Jerome Lowenthal with full scholarship. Her other teachers have included the former professor emeritus Jing Yang in Central Conservatory in Beijing and Galina Popova, JingSong Xian, the former Daoer Xiong in GuangZhou XingHai Conservatory in China.
This event is open to Sustaining Members, Contributing Members, Sponsors, Benefactors, and Patrons Only.
RSVP to agavin@aihs.org
Radharc
Contemporary Irish Painting
May 4th - June 29th
Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm
Presented by Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, Radharc - Contemporary Irish Painting presents the work by 6 painters who currently live and work in the island of Ireland. Representing different genres - landscape, figurative, and abstract - each bring, through their individual painterly skills, sensibilities, and concerns, their own perspective and sense of place. For Hughie O’Donoghue, the stark Irish scenery of north-west Mayo, from where his mother emigrated in 1937, has found expression in his work; Katherine Boucher Beug brings the ‘outsider’ eye of one who was not born in Ireland to her observations; Keith Wilson draws on his immediate surroundings to create images which are highly specific yet universal; Colin Davidson’s recent work focus’ on large-scale portraits but there is still a landscape quality to these paintings; Donald Teskey has explored both the urban landscape and more recently the rugged landscape of the western seabord of Ireland in his work; and Stephen Lawlor, who started off in printmaking before subsequently coming in to painting, has painstakingly harnessed this medium to give us work that is often mythical, sometimes mystical, but always human.
Each of these 6 painters is established, acclaimed and widely exhibited in Ireland, the UK and Europe; however, this show is an opportunity to now present their work to US audiences in the splendid surroundings of the AIHS who, in turn, are proud to showcase, yet again, the best of Irish contemporary visual culture- this time in the form of Ireland’s leading painters. Radharc - Contemporary Irish painting takes place from May 4th to June 29th at the American Irish Historical Society, 991 Fifth Avenue, New York.
For additional information on Radharc, check out our info packet: Background Document - Radharc .pdf
Island: Drawing Conclusions Mapping the Irish
An Exhibition
in collaboration with Mayo County Council’s Jackie Clarke Collection: Ireland’s Memory | Linen Hall Library | The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library
Supported by Culture Ireland
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
June 13 – July 12
Monday – Friday 10-5.
Opening Night Reception
Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 6 pm - 8 pm
All AIHS MEMBERS are invited to attend the opening night reception from 6-8pm on Tuesday, June 12th as part of the New York New Belfast Conference. RSVP to AIHS@AIHS.ORG
Island: Drawing Conclusions Mapping the Irish is an exploration of the history of Ireland through a series of maps, atlases, postcards, cartoons, and pamphlet spanning from the 2nd century to the 21st century. A collaboration between four outstanding collections, Island is poised to be a fascinating look at the political and cultural history of Ireland.
As Vincent Virga of the Jackie Clarke Collection explains, “The subject of maps is fourfold: people, society, culture, and history. Each map is a set of visual clues revealing why it was made and how it was used. Each map expresses a social and political interest, of which there are many. Thus maps are acts of discernment. Because they organize knowledge visually, maps are rooted in our visual culture. As cartographic historical Christian Jacob explains, 'They share a set of codes – geometric, chromatic, figurative, aesthetic- with painting and drawing, book illustration, calligraphy and architecture.' Being works of art, they are uniquely human and reveal the collective values of a community. And as a primary source in the history of the imagination, a singular dimension of history. Yet these cultural landscapes have always been expendable; discarded for newer ones, shattered and burned in wars, destroyed for reasons of national security, decimated by time. This makes mapping civilizations an ongoing journey of discovery involved many diverse disciples.”
THE AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
in association with
ORIGIN THEATRE COMPANY’s 1st IRISH FESTIVAL
presents
SETANTA MURPHY
By GARRETT KEOGH
Tuesday, September 11th
7 PM
Setanta Murphy is a young man with a lot of time on his hands. Paddy is his Grand Uncle, a cantankerous old 90 year old man with a razor sharp tongue, who spends his days around town and his nights at the dog track. When Paddy gets sick, they are thrown into the messy world of public hospitals until Paddy finds himself in a nursing home, plotting his escape.
This is a touching and funny story of a relationship between an old man and his nephew as they attempt to navigate their way through the ups and downs of the Irish Health System.
The American Irish Historical Society is proud to be part of 1st Irish 2012, New York’s annual festival of Irish theatre. The festival runs from September 3 to October 1 at venues across New York. For a full list of events visit www.1stirish.org.
“The Cold Eye of Heaven”
A Reading with CHRISTINE DWYER HICKEY
September 26, 2012
7 PM
Christine Dwyer Hickey, award winning Irish novelist, will present a reading of her sixth novel, “The Cold Eye of Heaven,” which won the Book of the Year prize at this year’s Listowel Writers Week at the American Irish Historical Society. She is the author of the Dublin Trilogy, The Dancer, The Gambler and the Gatemaker (1995-2000), which spans three generations of a Dublin Family from 1913-1956. Her bestselling novel Tatty was chosen as one of the 50 Irish Books of the Decade, longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award. Her novel Last Train from Liguria was also a bestseller (Atlantic Books UK) and was nominated for the Prix L’Européen de Littérature. Her latest novel The Cold Eye of Heaven (Atlantic Books UK) has already received wide critical acclaim. She was shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Book of the Year, 2011 and won the Irish Kerry Group Book of the Year in June 2012 (http://www.lisarichards.ie/writers/christine-dwyer-hickey-writer.)
For more information on Christine, please visit:
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/christines-italian-job-1756576.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/18/cold-eye-heaven-christine-dwyer-hickey-review
These photographs are from the outstanding MATERIALpoetry exhibit that ran from October 8 through November 18, 2010. The exhibit showcased contemporary art and design from Ireland.
The exhibit was facilitated by STUDIO practice. Visit their website here.
Download a review of MATERIALpoetry here: MATERIALpoetry Review.pdf
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