BLACK 47/CELTIC CRUSH Newsletter  
In February Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch...
Hi:

Happy belated Valentine's Day. Big news - after 17 years we finally have a Celtic Crush t-shirt for you (see below) and if you're in the Philadelphia area on Feb. 24th I'll be receiving an Uachtarán (President's) Award from the Irish Ambassador courtesy of the Irish American Business Chamber at The Union League. For information and tickets www.iabcn.org

IRELAND TOUR 2023 runs October 6th. through 13th.
For more details scroll down, call 888-796-6982 or visit
https://www.hammondtours.com/product/larry-kirwan/


Absolutely & Completely, "the great lost classic of the 1970's" by Turner & Kirwan of Wexford, is available now.

My novel, ROCKAWAY BLUE is available on all online platforms and at your favorite bookstore. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-28478739dd946de807a188af252e9b27

Scroll down for recommended Irish books & movies.

CELTIC CRUSH is hosted by Larry Kirwan on SiriusXM The Loft,
Ch. 710 Sun 9am, Tues. 9pm, and Wed Midnight ET. Two full shows always available on the SiriusXM App. 

Check out Christopher Carrol's Fans of Celtic Crush www.facebook.com/groups/98160297580 

Larry


CELTIC CRUSH T-SHIRT
Get yours now in sizes, M, L, XL or 2XL - the flags of the 8 Celtic Nations combined in one eye-catching design

https://www.theconnextion.com/black47/black47_cat.cfm?CatID=204&fbclid=IwAR3-S9J3joFIiItSHCLNH7DauQLv2DE6-Bj_4D9QCTI9QG-_CNJf_sHGfeY
IRELAND TOUR 2023
IRELAND TOUR will be for 6 nights October 6-13 and will concentrate on Belfast, Dublin, and the Medieval South-East with visits to Wexford and Kilkenny. Get off the beaten track on this historical, political, and musical tour.
See Belfast, one of the most interesting cities in the world. Once very segregated it is now open and we'll be escorted and re-live the history through the eyes of ex-combatants from both sides. We'll visit the Belfast Gaeltacht where Irish is spoken in the heart of this city. The picture above is of a pilgrim signing Belfast's Peace Wall. Then off to the beautiful and dramatic Glens of Antrim to experience the legendary Giant's Causeway and see just why Game of Thrones was filmed in the North of Ireland, a land of magic and fantasy.

This year we'll be introducing travelers to a mini-tour of Medieval South East Ireland. This will center on two ancient locations, Wexford, founded by The Vikings and fortified by the Normans. The narrow streets and laneways echo with history, Larry Kirwan will perform a concert at the Arts Center. This will be our first time visiting the city of Kilkenny and its storied castle. It's like stepping back in time, and on our way back to Wexford we'll visit stormy Hook Head and the oldest working lighthouse in the world.

We'll do two nights in Dublin, the city of William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde, James Connolly, Brendan Behan, poets, patriots, and revolutionaries. It's modern and bustling now as befits a place where U2 was formed, but down every laneway there's a story that has inspired such songs as Raglan Road and The Foggy Dew. We'll stay in the city center, walking distance to lovely parks, pubs, theaters, museums & music venues on streets that ring out with history.

Call Joe or Sue at 888-796-6982 or download a Tour PDF at
https://www.hammondtours.com/product/larry-kirwan/


ABSOLUTELY & COMPLETELY
TURNER & KIRWAN of WEXFORD
A perfect holiday gift
For a unique view of the 1970's. The first band to play CBGB and house band of The Bells of Hell. They did it their way and were admired by Pete Seeger, Norman Mailer, David Bowie, Lester Bangs, Frank McCourt,.. The much praised LP can now be had in CD form.
For more info:
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Rockaway Blue by Larry Kirwan
"Larry Kirwan has written a ballsy Post 9/11 novel like only a New Yorker could" Jeanine Cummins, author of American Dirt.

Available on Amazon, B&N, all online outlets& book stores

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 BLACK 47 MEMBERS NEWS
GEOFFREY BLYTHE is composing a string quartet inspired by WB Yeats' Crazy Jane.

FRED PARCELLS plays with Big Mamou, Tues. Feb. 21st at 8:30pm 11th St. Bar, NYC

THOMAS HAMLIN played drums at a workshop of Larry Kirwan's new musical, IRAQI ROSE, at Irish Arts Center, NYC. Jan. 27th

BEARCLAW'S ACADEMY, New Milford, CT is open for enrollment in person & virtually https://bearclawsacademyofmusic.com
Bearclaw has a new project, Soul Saver, Listen & look here https://americansongwriter.com/house-arrest-soul-saver-song-interview/
5 OF LARRY KIRWAN'S BOOKS

GREEN SUEDE SHOES - An Irish Odyssey
ROCKAWAY BLUE
LIVERPOOL FANTASY
ROCKIN' THE BRONX
A HISTORY OF IRISH MUSIC
are available on Kindle, Nook, & all digital outlets
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RECOMMENDED IRISH BOOKS & POETRY
Trespass - Louise Kennedy

Factory Girls - Michelle Gallen

Woodstock Goes To Hollywood - Colin Broderick

Music + Revolution (Greenwich Village in the 1960's - Richard Barone

Cross Bronx - A Writing Life by Peter Quinn

Paddy's Day in Trump Town - Stephen Corbett

All The Things I Know - Zebadiah Keneally

Sean O'Casey's I Knock At The Door & the other 5 volumes of his autobiography

Haven - Emma Donoghue

The Queen of Dirt Island - Donal Ryan

April in Spain by John Banville

Worlds by John Kearns

We Don't Know Ourselves - Fintan O'Toole

Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan

Sailing Ships of Wexford 1840's -1940's - Brian Cleere & Jack O'Leary

Seán Ó'Riada by Tomás Ó'Cannain

We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It - Tom Phelan

The Writing Irish of New York - Colin Broderick (Reissued)

The Magician by Colm Toibín

Did You Hear That Mammy Died - Seamus O'Reilly

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghriofa

Shadow Play by Joseph O'Connor

The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

The Searcher and The Witch Elm by Tana French

Snow. The Book of Evidence by John Banville

Days Without End. On Canaan's Side and The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty - Sebastian Barry

The Abstainer by Ian McGuire

The Cold Millions by Jess Walter

Real Irish New York by Dermot McEvoy

Ask Again, Yes: A Novel by Mary Beth Keane

American Dirt or The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins

Heartbreak Ridge & other poems by Bill Nevins

Milkman - Anna Burns

The Mirror & The Light, Wolf Hall or Bringing Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Normal People and Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney

The Unstoppable Irish - Dan Milner

The Spinning Heart - Donal Ryan

The Green Road, The Gathering - Anne Enright

Orchid and the Wasp - Caoilinn Hughes

Death Need Not Be Fatal, A Monk Swimming - Malachy McCourt

Samuel Beckett Is Closed - Michael Coffey

Pull Me Up, The Bottom of the 33rd, This Land, or anything by Dan Barry

Ashes of Fiery Weather - Kathleen Donohue

Ten Men Dead - The Story of the 1981 Hunger Strike - David Beresford. 

City of Bohane, Night Boat to Tangier - Kevin Barry 

The Immortal Irishman - Timothy Egan

Collected Stories or any book by William Trevor

The Wonder, Astray, or The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue

Call of the Lark - Maura Mulligan

Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats

Horse Latitudes or any collection of poems by Paul Muldoon

Michael Collins : a biography, The IRA, by Tim Pat Coogan

Little Chapel on the River - Wendy Bounds

The Testament of Mary or Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Tender or Solace by Belinda McKeon

Youngblood - Matt Gallagher

The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto - Pat McCabe

Country Girl Trilogy - Edna O'Brien

The Merry Hearted Boys - Ron Leonard

Mink River - Brian Doyle

The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers

Irish Above All, Galway Bay - Mary Pat Kelly

Dancer, Thirteen Ways of Looking - Colum McCann 

Havana Nocturne, The Westies, Dangerous Rhythms - TJ English

Ironweed, Legs (Diamond) - William Kennedy

Angela's Ashes, 'Tis - Frank McCourt

Banished Children of Eve - Peter Quinn

A Second Life - Dermot Bolger

The Bogman - Walter Macken

The Last of the High Kings - Ferdia Mac Anna

Paradise Alley - Kevin Baker

Where Have You Been , Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor

The Great Hunger - Cecil Woodham-Smith 

The Orange and the Green - GA Henty. 

A Drinking Life - Pete Hamill

Vibrations: Adventures & Musical Times by David Amram

Against The Tide - Dr. Noel Browne

Lost Boys of the Bronx, The Oral History of the Ducky Boys Gang - James Hannon

Troubles - JG Farrell

South Lawn Plot - Ray O'Hanlon 

Thy Tears Might Cease - Michael Farrell

Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan

Donnelly Trilogy of plays, by James Reaney concerning the Irish-Canadian experience.

Tarry Flynn or The Green Fool - Patrick Kavanagh 

This is Your Brain on Shamrocks by Mike Farragher (Want to plumb the depths of your Irish psyche? Mike's your man!)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or Dubliners - James Joyce. Two excellent and slim books that will give you a feel for Sunny Jim's work before you tackle Ulysses. Don't despair if you find yourself bogged down in Ulysses; just have a drink, pop open any page and read aloud. But don't miss Molly Bloom's closing soliloquy - one of the wonders of literature.

Astrakhan Cloak - Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill an earthy, yet spiritual, glance into the soul of a powerful Irish woman.

Collected Stories - Frank O'Connor.  

Five Points - Tyler Anbinder. A history of the Irish and other immigrants who lived in New York City's most notorious 19th Century slum.

The Captains and the Kings - Jennifer Johnston

Station Island or any collection of poems by Seamus Heaney

Good Behaviour and Time After Time by Molly Keane

Amongst Women or The Dark - John McGahern

Year of the French - Thomas Flanagan

At Swim Two Birds or The Poor Mouth - Flann O'Brien

Strumpet City - James Plunkett

A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Fintan O'Toole

Poetry My Arse - Brendan Kennelly

All Souls: A Family Story From Southie, and Easter Rising - Michael Patrick MacDonald

Green Suede Shoes - Larry Kirwan Will give you a sense of Wexford and NY, along with with a dry-eyed glance at a life in the music business.. and Rockin' The Bronx - for a glimpse into some of the glory years of the Irish in the Bronx during the 1970's and 80's.

RECOMMENDED MOVIES
The Banshees of Inisherin
Nothing Compares
A Bend in the River (featuring John Duddy)
The Closer You Get
Siege of Jadotville
Secret Scripture - Jim Sheridan
The Drummer and the Keeper - Nick Kelly
Calvary or The Guard - John Michael McDonagh with Brendan Gleeson
Young Plato
Bloom
Rosie
Arracht
Song of Granite
Little Women
This Is My Father
The Nightingale
Shalom Ireland by Valerie Lapin Ganley
Emerald City
Black '47
Angel
Borstal Boy
The Magdalene Sisters
Bloody Sunday
The Crying Game
Bad Day For The Cut
Cal
Good Vibrations
The Secret Scripture
The Drummer & the Keeper
In the Name of the Father
Hunger
Celtic Soul
Rosie
The Brylcream Boys
Sing Street
Some Mother's Son
Broken Harvest
Brooklyn
The Secret of Roan Inish
Room
Calvary
Adam & Paul
A Man of No Importance
Angel
Local Hero
Hotel Rwanda
'71
Grabbers
Hunger
The Guard
The Boys From County Clare
Breakfast on Pluto
The Magdalene Sisters
Veronica Guerin
The Last of the High Kings
In America
The General
Once
Into The West
Ryan's Daughter
In Bruges
My Left Foot
The Butcher Boy
Bloody Sunday
Hear My Song
The Quiet Man
Michael Collins
Odd Man Out
An Everlasting Piece
The Field
The Commitments
The Van
The Snapper
Man of Aran
The Informer
Shake Hands with the Devil
Trojan Eddie
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Waking Ned Devine
This is the Sea
Omagh
Odd Man Out
Jimmy's Hall

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