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“Her Exiled Children”: Poetry in America and the 1916 Easter Rising

Thursday, February 4, 2016 @ 7:00 pm9:00 pm

From the Glucksman Ireland House website:

Colum McCann hosts a night of poems by Irish and Irish-American poets read by fellow writers Alice McDermott, Anne Enright, and Matthew Thomas, as well as actress Geraldine Hughes, providing powerful reflections on Irish nationalism in America at the time of the Rising.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Paul Muldoon debuts a new poem, commissioned by Glucksman Ireland House NYU for the occasion.

Directed by George C. Heslin.

Part of an event series on the 1916 Easter Rising.

Details

Date:
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Time:
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Event Category:
Website:
http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/object/ne.poetryinamerica

Venue

Sheen Center
16 Bleecker Street
New York City, NY 10012 United States
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Phone
212-925-2812
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Organizer

Glucksman Ireland House (NYU)
Phone
212.998.3950
Email
ireland.house@nyu.edu
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