U2 concert pix

Here are some pictures from this Wednesday’s U2 concert at the new Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, delayed by one year due to Bono’s back surgery. Even with the balmy weather, it was a brilliant show. That expensive claw device that they designed to give their stadium show audiences a 360 degree experience was well […]

Jig & the Global Appeal of Irish Dancing

To make this documentary, Jig, Scottish director Sue Bourne was able to do what no one else had done before. She approached An Commissiun – the governing body of the annual World Irish Dancing Championships – to request, and ultimately be granted, access to the 2010 “Worlds” (as the competitors and their retinues of parents […]

Gabriel Byrne, Jim Sheridan, Enda Walsh

Just a few pix from yesterday’s post-film Q&As of Gabriel Byrne with director and writer Jim Sheridan (after a screening of their In the Name of the Father) and afterward, with writer Enda Walsh (after a screening of Hunger, for which he wrote the screenplay).  This is all part of the film festival at MoMA […]

Irish film festival opens at MoMA

  Starting tonight and continuing through June 3rd, the Museum of Modern Art here in aamchi NY is launching Revisiting The Quiet Man: Ireland on Film, a festival curated by Ireland’s cultural ambassador and fellow New Yorker Gabriel Byrne, with the intention of examining how Irish identity has been presented on film.  (If you caught […]

Pete Hamill Reading Tabloid City

Pete Hamill ventured out from his beloved downtown Manhattan earlier this week, crossing the Hudson, on to the wilds of New Jersey to read from his latest novel, Tabloid City, at Bookends in Ridgewood.   (On the way there, somewhere around Secaucus I passed a wall that said “Osama/Obama – one down, one to go” which really took me […]

CraicFest returns to NYC this week

Finally, the website for this weekend’s Irish film festival in NYC, the CraicFest 2011, is up for all to see.   There are also musical performances in the evenings after the films have been screened. The Tribeca Cinemas again are home to the events. The big opener   – White Irish Drinkers – which stars […]