Michael Cunningham 
in conversation with BBC host 
and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney

As part of Pen, Paper and Palate presented 
in association with Ruda Beresford Dauphin 

Monday, April 18 | 7:30 PM

$12 general / $10 members
Free for Young Patrons ($125) members and higher
Buy tickets online or by calling 866-811-4111

"Michael Cunningham writes some of the most beautiful prose in contemporary American fiction."
- The Daily Beast 

Widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his time, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham joins Frank Delaney in what will be an insightful and lively discussion about his celebrated writing career. 

Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, the PEN/Faulkner and Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Hours (adapted into the major motion picture), The Snow Queen, Specimen Days, and By Nightfall, as well as the non-fiction book, Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown. His new book is A Wild Swan and Other Tales (illustrated by Yuko Shimizu) transforms the fairy tales of our childhoods into stories of sublime revelation.

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IAC | Visual Arts

P R O C L A M A T I O N
A Group Exhibition, led by artist Andrew Duggan

Artist Talk and Reception 
TONIGHT, March 23 | 6:30 PM

with Jazmín Chiodi, Alexandre Iseli, Andrew Duggan, Siobhán Dempsey, Anthony Haughey, Frances Hegarty, Andrew Stones, Nigel Rolfe, John Scott, and Jason Akira Somma

Visual artist Andrew Duggan's project, P R O C L A M A T I O N, showcases new lens-based and moving-image works by leading figures in Irish visual art, dance, and performance, engaging with the Centenary of the 1916 Rising.


IAC | Theatre

Irish Arts Center presents 
Ten42 Productions in association with 
Meath County Council Arts Office
Wild Sky

March 29 - April 2

Written by Deirdre Kinahan 
Directed by Jo Mangan 
Performed by Caitriona Ennis and Ian Toner 
With music adapted by Susan McKeown, performed live by Mary Murray

Writer of the award-winning These Halcyon Days (IAC 2013), Moment , and Bogbo y (IAC 2011), Deirdre Kinahan returns to Irish Arts Center with a new play that pays tribute to the rural communities impacted by the events leading up to Easter 1916.


IAC | Literature & Music

Muldoon's Picnic

Monday, April 11 | 7:30 PM

Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet, New Yorker  Poetry Editor, and pop music lyricist  Paul Muldoon  re turns for his fourth season of monthly words-and-music jamborees, joined by his house band Rogue Oliphant. Featuring Anne Enright, A.M. Homes, Yusef Komunyakaa.


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The Irish Repertory Theatre presents
Julian Sands returns to Irish Rep for a limited 3-week run!

Now through April 3rd
at DR2 Theatre 103 East 15th St.

With personal anecdotes and reflections drawn from their work together, this brilliant collaboration is a fascinating solo show directed by John Malkovich. A Celebration of Harold Pinter delivers an evening with an extraordinary actor exploring Pinter's lesser-known poems and prose. It gets to the soul of the man- poet, playwright, political activist, mortal.

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(Offer valid through 4/3) | Regularly $70 

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Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government partners including the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; the Northern Ireland Bureau; British Council Northern Ireland; and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. 

Additional support for the IAC16 season has been provided by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme; The American Ireland Fund; the McCann Family Foundation; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; Bloomberg Philanthropies; and thousands of generous donors like you.