A Portrait of George Moore and Modern Ireland
March 4, 2024
The “Manet/Degas” exhibition brilliantly showcases the groundbreaking work that significantly influenced the trajectory of modernist painting in France. It is fascinating to note that one of Manet and Degas’ mutual acquaintances was County Mayo-born George Moore (1852–1933).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently opened a remarkable exhibition titled “Manet/Degas,” which will be on display until January 2024. Among the portraits of the exhibition is Édouard Manet’s portrait of Irish writer George Moore.
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Sean McNeill Award 2022
March 27, 2023On March 28th, 2023 the Irish Business Organization awarded the Sean McNeill Award to Turlough McConnell in recognition of his excellent contributions to the Irish community in New York.
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May 8, 2021
Great Famine Voices 2021 continues with William Henry Lane “Master Juba” – the Father of Tap Dance who visited Ireland in 1849, when the country was slowly emerging from a devastating famine. Join us this Sunday and hear how this orphan from the Five Points electrified dance.
See short film HERE anytime and get Zoom details for live discussion on Sunday, May 9, 2PM EST (7PM Ireland.)
Then next Friday, May 14 at 1PM EST (6PM IRELAND) join the online launch of ‘Fredrick Douglass Way in Dublin’ hosted by The Consulate of Ireland New York. See Story HERE
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May 8, 2021
An online Salute to 260 Years of the New York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade.
NARRATED BY ORLAGH CASSIDY
DIRECTED BY GEORGE C. HESLIN
WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY TURLOUGH MCCONNELL
With Historians
Patrick Fitzgerald | Christine Kinealy | Harold Holzer | Maureen Murphy |
Terry Golway | Maurice Fitzpatrick | Robert Schmuhl | Bonnie Weir
To watch click here.
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March 24, 2021Turlough McConnell Communications is delighted to announce that the online series on the life and work of Oscar Wilde is now available to view on YouTube. FREE.
Thanks to curator Professor Christine Kinealy and co-curator Matthew Skwiat for inviting us to direct and produce the series.
What a privilege to work with Oscar’s great story with the help of a supporting cast of terrific actors and brilliant special guests.
The online program celebrates the exhibition of the life and work of Wilde, presented by Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University.
Curators Professor Kinealy, and scholar Skwiat join special guests to discuss Wilde from a variety of perspectives; through the lens of Ireland’s story, his family, his remarkable literary and artistic accomplishments, and his concerns with religion and social justice.
View anytime. Enjoy curators and guests as they explore the life, works and legacy of the brilliant Oscar in conversations, interviews and Q&A sessions. Link Here
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January 18, 2021
The New York Irish Center presented “Home Away From Home This Christmas,” a celebration of Ireland’s greatest writers from Ireland’s from W. B. Yeats to Frank McCourt. The program was directed by George C. Heslin and produced by Turlough McConnell.
The program features Phil Coulter, Judy Collins, Seána Davey, Phelim Drew, Adrian Dunbar, Fionnula Flanagan, Kwaku Fortune, Gregory Harrington, Geraldine Hughes, Christine Kinealy, Colum McCann, Malachy McCourt, Cathy Maguire and Sarah Binchey.
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October 29, 2020Irish American Writers & Artists
presents an Online Production of
Eugene O’Neill: An Irish American Boyhood
by Turlough McConnell
featuring
Ciaran Byrne, Maria Deasy and Colin Ryan
Eugene O’Neill is the only American playwright to have won four Pulitzer prizes and the Nobel Prize for literature. The genius of O’Neill as a dramatist derives from his Catholic upbringing and education, which were the product of his Irish-American family background and the social-historical forces of immigration of the time.
Eugene O’Neill: An Irish-American Boyhood
The Wars of Dagger John
Dramatic readings based on the play, The Wars of Dagger John, commissioned by and presented at the Sheen Center in New York City. The work explores themes of racism and moral ambiguity in the context of the Civil War as they affected New York’s Irish community.
Dagger John
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Great Famine Voices Roadshow 2020
As the world responded to the outbreak of Covid-19 we worked quickly and effectively with the organizers of Great Famine Voices Roadshow 2020 to transfer publicity plans from live events to a series of online gatherings.
To learn more click here.
Maynooth Celebration
April 2, 2020
Today, as we patiently wait in quarantine and lockdown, we do well to remember that our forebears emerged triumphant after enduring calamity. We have prevailed before, and we will do so again.
In February, just before Covid-19 changed our world, I enjoyed a short trip to County Kildare. Thanks to an assignment from Irish America magazine I was in Ireland to research and write a feature celebrating the 225th anniversary of the founding of Saint Patrick’s College Maynooth. That long history spans the period of Ireland’s Great Hunger, a tragedy that took at least one million lives and changed the fate of several million others. Here’s Maynooth’s story.
Click here to read more about Maynooth
Kilcar, My Donegal Playground | Irish America Magazine
July 6, 2019
Turlough McConnell recounted his wild and mysterious summers in Kilcar, County Donegal in Irish America magazine. Read the article here.
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