GreenLight: Embassy of Ireland, USA Region, April 2024
GreenLight: Embassy of Ireland, USA Region
As featured in the DFA/Culture Ireland GreenLight Bulletin, find below a selection of Irish cultural events taking place in Washington DC and the states of: Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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Apr 8: Fiction Book Group - The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories by Louise Kennedy
Join Solas Nua for their Fiction Book Group reading of “The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories by Louise Kennedy”.
Apr 11 – May 19: Distillation by Luke Casserly in partnership with Eaton House
Distillation is a response to the recent cessation of the peat harvesting industry in Ireland. Over the past year, Luke Casserly has collaborated with renowned perfume maker Joan Woods to create a unique distillation of the Midlands bog – the place where he grew up – as the starting point for an olfactory encounter which looks at our human relationship to place.
Use the code SNPARTNER to receive 20% off tickets!
Apr 15: Poetry Book Group - Jamais Vu by Paul Perry
Join Solas Nua for their Poetry Book Group reading Jamais Vu by Paul Perry.
Jamais Vu is a hall of mirrors. In these marvelous and haunted new poems, Perry observes a life that may be his or may be ours. Nothing and everything matters. Yet all is exactly as it should be, glimpsed and unanswerable. A startling, disorientating, and tender book of poems.
Apr 16: Imirce–Launch of Kerby Miller Emigrant Letters Project
Pulitzer-nominated historian Kerby A. Miller began compiling an archive of Irish emigrant letters in the 1970s. The letters, which number in the thousands, date from the later seventeenth century to the middle of the twentieth century.
In this in-conversation event, he discusses the archive, and the unique online database created at the University of Galway to showcase the material. Themes in the collection range from descriptions of major events in US and Irish history to longings for home and the economic fortunes of emigrants who made their way across the American continent.
Apr 17: Caoilinn Hughes & Megan Nolan, in conversation with Angie Kim
Authors Caoilinn Hughes and Megan Nolan will join Solas Nua in Washington D.C. at Politics and Prose bookstore for an in-person conversation covering their two respective novels, The Alternatives and Ordinary Human Failings. Moderating the discussion will be author Angie Kim.
Apr 18: IN-DC Monthly Social
The April IN-DC Monthly Social will at the Irish Channel Restaurant and Pub.
The monthly socials are a great opportunity to socialize and network with the IN-DC community in a fun, relaxed environment.
Apr 22: The Classics Book Group - Amongst Women by John McGahern
Join Solas Nua for their Classics Book Group reading Amongst Women by John McGahern.
Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his two sons and three daughters. Adrift from the structure and security of the military, he keeps control by binding his family close to him. But as his children grow older and seek independence, and as the passing years bring with them bewildering change, Moran struggles to find a balance between love and tyranny.
Apr 24: Black, Brown and Green Voices: An interview with Leon Diop and Briana Fitzsimons
African American Irish Diaspora Network, in partnership with John Brademas Center, present an online public interview with Leon Diop and Briana Fitzsimons, the authors of the award-winning new book, Black & Irish: Legends, Trailblazers, & Everyday Heroes (Little Island, 2023).
Apr 26 - May 31: Paul Muldoon: The Joseph M. Hassett Collection at Georgetown Library
A new exhibition of rare and first edition Paul Muldoon books is available for viewing until May 31 on the fifth floor of Lauinger Library, adjacent to the Booth Family Center for Special Collections. The exhibition of books and other items, donated by neighbor and friend Joseph M. Hassett, covers Muldoon's earliest works all the way to his most recent. It offers a visually stunning odyssey through 50 years of the Pulitzer-prize-winning (and current Ireland Professor of Poetry) poet's work. The exhibition is curated by recent graduate Chris Kenny, who began this pursuit while working on his master's in the English Department at Georgetown.
May 16: IN-DC Monthly Social
The May IN-DC Monthly Social will be returning to Ireland’s Four Courts, located in Arlington, VA, just over the DC border.
The monthly socials are a great opportunity to socialize and network with the IN-DC community in a fun, relaxed environment.