“...supported by her exiled children in America” THE 1916 PROCLAMATION 2016 COMMEMORATIVE PROGRAM GREATER NEW YORK REGION 2016 COMMEMORATIVE PROGRAM GREATER NEW YORK REGION “...supported by her exiled children in America” THE 1916 PROCLAMATION Irish American organizations in the greater New York area have come together to collaborate, to plan and to support a series of special events to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin on April 24, 1916. We are taking the occasion to identify, to document and to recognize the role of Irish New York and Irish New Yorkers in supporting the nationalist movement that led up to the Rising. We invite readers to attend the events organized by the community, and we especially urge you to attend our 2016 Easter Week events. We are grateful to the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland and to its Consul General Barbara Jones and her staff in New York for the mini-grants that have supported centenary events in the New York tristate area, for the cost of printing this Program and for the support of the electronic version of the Program that we will continue to update through 2016. The Greater New York 2016 Commemorative Committee SEPTEMBER 17, 2015 7:00 PM TICKETED EVENT OCTOBER 31, 2015 2:00 PM Sep An Evening of Traditional Music celebrating the Easter Rising Oct The New York Carmelites & Irish Independence Glucksman Ireland House, NYU, 1 Washington Mews. Glucksman Ireland House, NYU, 1 Washington Mews. http://Irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu Co-sponsored by the New York Irish History Roundtable and Glucksman Ireland House, NYU. SEPTEMBER 21, 2015 1:00 - 2:30 PM 1916 PANEL Irish Women Writers Symposium: “Women of 1916 Panel” Kelly Sullivan, Ide Carroll, Lauren Arrington speak about four featured NOVEMBER 7, 2015 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM writers in a program sponsored by the Institute for Irish Studies, Nov Annual Conference of the American Irish Teachers Fordham University, South Lounge, Lowenstein, Fordham Lincoln Association: Dr. Lucy McDiarmid, Andy McGowan (Yeats film), Maureen Murphy and Kevin Westley Center campus, 113 W. 60th Street, New York, NY American Irish Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Liederkranz [email protected] Club, 6 E. 87th Street, New York, NY [email protected] SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 11:30 AM ADMISSION $10.00 Hudson Valley Irish Fest NOVEMBER 12, 2015 6:00 PM Hudson Valley Irish Center, Peekskill Riverfront Green Park, Screening of Mise Eire. Introduction by Maureen Murphy. Peekskill, (Park is next to MTA Metro North Hudson Line’s Peekskill Hofstra University, 246 Axinn Library Station and Hudson St. exit of NYS Route 9.) Featuring Word Tent with 3 AOH National Historians taking about 1916. [email protected]; www.hudsonvalleyirishfest.com NOVEMBER 18, 2015 7:00 PM TICKETED EVENT “Her Exiled Children”: Voices in America and the 1916 Easter Rising. Directed by George C. Heslin. The Sheen Center for OCTOBER 15, 2015 7:00 PM TICKETED EVENT Thought and Culture. 18 Bleecker Street, Sponsored by Glucksman Oct Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, John Devoy and the Road to Ireland House, NYU. http://Irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu the Rising: The launches of Shane Kenna’sJeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. Unrepentant Fenian and the new edition of Terry Golway’s NOVEMBER 22, 2015 3:30 - 4:30 PM John Devoy and America’s Fight for Irish Freedom. 200th Anniversary. Old St. Patrick’s Basilica, corner of Mott and Visit the AIHS exhibition of Devoy and Rossa materials. American Prince Streets. Vespers celebrated by Cardinal Dolan, followed by Irish Historical Society, 991 Fifth Avenue. Co-sponsored by the the unveiling of the Memorial of Archbishop John Hughes by Rowan American Irish Historical Society and Glucksman Ireland House, Gillespie and remarks by William Duggan (Memorial Chair) in the NYU. [email protected] cathedral courtyard. Visits to the restored catacombs and reception in the Youth Center at 268 Mulberry Street and an historic OCTOBER 18, 2015 2:00 - 6:00 PM ADMISSION $20.00 re-enactment of the AOH Defense of the Cathedral wall from an 1916 Easter Rising Memorial Fundraiser attack by the Know Nothings. www.oldcathedral.org; Irish American Society of Nassau, Suffolk and Queens, 297 Willis [email protected]; [email protected] Avenue, Mineola. Admission includes food and live music. NOVEMBER 22, 2015 - JANUARY 4, 2016 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM DAILY OCTOBER 29, 2015 7:00 PM “How the Nuns of New York Tamed the Gangs of New York.” Ernie O’Malley Lecture: Professor Francis M. Carroll, “The United Irish League of America, 1910-1918: The Nov The early history of the Sisters of Charity in New York and their role Center Did Not Hold,” in creating the health and social service institutions that served a city Glucksman Ireland House, NYU, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place. -Jan in transition. A Turlough McConnell Communications production. http://Irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, 18 Bleecker Street, corner of Elizabeth Street. [email protected] DECEMBER 10, 2015 6:00 PM FEBRUARY 5, 2016 8:00 PM DONATION Dec Historical Lecture Series at the Consulate of Ireland: Prof. Feb Dr. Terry Byrne, “Strumpet City and the Media Mainstreaming Richard Aldous, “The Proclamation and Irish Independence.” of Irish Social Realism.” Columbia Irish Studies Seminar. Presented with the support of the New York GAA and the New York Columbia Faculty House, 400 W. 117th Street. AOH. Irish Consulate, 345 Park Avenue, 17th floor. [email protected] [email protected] FEBRUARY 6, 2016 8:00 PM TICKETED EVENT Parade Installation Dance St. Patrick’s Parish Hall, Bay Ridge. FEBRUARY 19-20, 2016 Symposium: Irish Language Literature and the History of Ireland (Bilingual format), Music Building, Lehman College, 2016 Institute for Irish American Studies, CUNY. [email protected] Jan JANUARY 4, 2016 8:00 PM DONATION Dr. Lucy McDiarmaid, “Sexuality and Flirtation in 1916.” FEBRUARY 27, 2016 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM Columbia Irish Studies Seminar, Columbia Faculty House, 400 W. Irish Film Series. Screening of a six film retrospective of the Easter 117th Street. [email protected] Rising and its aftermath. Studio Theatre, Music Building, Lehman College. [email protected] JANUARY 20, 2016 7:00 PM FREE / RSVP Centenary Commemoration of the Death of Captain Edward O’Meagher Condon, Fenian American and Irish Hero. MARCH 3, 2016 6:30 PM TICKETED EVENT Talk about the Condon biography by Bob O’Brien. Commemoration Mar Reading of the Proclamation and Guest Speaker, St. Patrick’s and reception. American Irish Historical Society, 991 Fifth Avenue. Society of Brooklyn, Bay Ridge Manor, 476-76th Street, Brooklyn, NY. www.eomcondon.com; [email protected] [email protected]; Twitter @StPatSocBklyn RSVP at 212-288-2263 MARCH 4, 2016 8:00 PM DONATION JANUARY 23, 2016 9 AM REGISTRATION, 10 AM LECTURES Dr. Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel, “Elements of Socialism in the Annual Neil Shanahan Educators Seminar. Irish American 1916 Rising.” Columbia University Irish Studies Seminar, Heritage and Culture Committee of the NYC Department of Columbia Faculty House, 400 W. 117th Street, New York, NY Education, American Irish Historical Society, 991 Fifth Avenue. [email protected] [email protected] MARCH 5, 2016 ALL DAY RSVP FEBRUARY 4, 2016 7:00 PM TICKETED EVENT Casadhan an tSúgáin-Irish-Ireland, Education and Politics: Athbeochan na Gaeilge agus Éirí Amach na Cásca. Feb “Her Exiled Children”: Poetry in America and the 1916 Easter Rising Featuring a new poem by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Panel discussion with keynote by the President of Conradh na Gaeilge, Paul Muldoon. Kimmel Center for University Life, Room 914, Cóilín Ó Cearrbhail followed by the annual Barra Ó Donnabháin 60 Washington Square South. Sponsored by Glucksman Ireland Lecture. Exhibition by Connradh na Gaeilge. Glucksman Ireland House, NYU. http://Irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu House, NYU, 1 Washington Mews. http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu MARCH 16, 2016 APRIL 1, 2016 2:00 PM Mar 1916. A Landmark Documentary. Apr Wreath-laying at Captain Edward O’Meagher Condon’s The series initiated by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies gravesite. Calvary Cemetery, Third cemetery, 37, R2, Plot cc, at Notre Dame begins on PBS. Check your local station for details. Grave 8. Queen’s Blvd and 52nd Street, Woodside. [email protected] Edward O’Meagher Condon Commemorative Committee. www.eomcondon.com; [email protected] MARCH 17, 2016 St Patrick’s Day Parade www.nycstpatricksparade.org APRIL 1, 2016 8:00 PM DONATION Dr. Justin Stover, “The Environmental Impact of the war on the MARCH 19, 2016 2:00 PM Irish city and landscape.” Columbia Irish Studies Seminar, Tree Planting Ceremony with Stone Dedication and Reading Columbia Faculty House, 400 W. 117th Street, New York, NY of the 1916 Proclamation. Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY [email protected] Linda Gallagher, [email protected]; www.bayridgestpatricksday.com; Twitter @BayRidgeParade APRIL 6-7, 2016 6th: 2 PM & 8 PM / 7th: 8 PM Mac Pearse I bPictúir-Pearse in Pictures, a collaboration MARCH 20, 2016 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM with bi-lingual theatre company Fibín., New York Irish Center, Bay Ridge St. Patrick’s Day Parade: Mass at St. Patrick’s Church 1040 Jackson Avenue #3, Long Island City. [email protected] 9:30 AM at 95th Street and 4th Ave. Parade steps off at 1:00 PM with 1916 History Float. Bay Ridge St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee. APRIL 10, 2016 2:00 PM Linda Gallagher, [email protected]; The Irish in New York Walking Tour. http://www.bayridgestpatricksday.com; Twitter @BayRidgeParade A tour of the New York sites associated with the 1916 led by the historian of Irish New York John T.