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IAC | Literature and Music
Muldoon's Picnic (April 2015)
with Special Guests Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Mary Karr and Larry Kirwan
Monday, April 13, 2015 at 7:30PM
Donaghy Theatre
Irish Arts Center 553 West 51st Street
New York,
NY
10019
(Between 10th and 11th Avenues)
Take the C or E train to 50th St (8th Ave); the 1 train to 50th St (Broadway); or the N, R, or Q train to 49th St (7th Ave). Walk west towards 11th Ave. It is roughly a 10 minute walk. A parking garage is located on W. 51st between 10th and 11th Ave.
An omnium-gatherum of words and music
Hosted by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon
With music by Wayside Shrines
After a successful debut season, we proudly present the second installment of this captivating series of words and music led by Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet, pop lyricist, and New Yorker Poetry Editor Paul Muldoon. Performing with his Princeton-based music collective, Wayside Shrines, Muldoon will be joined each night by different special literary and musical guests dropping in Irish Arts Center on the second Monday of the month.
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill is one of the most prominent poets writing in the Irish Gaelic language today. Her poetry has been translated into English by a number of well-known Irish poets, including Seamus Heaney, Medbh McGuckian, and Paul Muldoon.
Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist of several critically acclaimed books of poetry, including Abacus, The Devil’s Tour, Viper Rum, and Sinners Welcome, and she is also the author of a trilogy of memoirs: The Liar’s Club, Cherry, and Lit.
Larry Kirwan was the leader of Black 47 for 25 years. He is a playwright and novelist, an Irish Echocolumnist and host/ producer of Celtic Crush on SiriusXM. For more information www.black47.com. His new book A History of Irish Music will be published in April 2015.
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