A Living Legacy: Irish Art from the Collection of Brian Burns
June 20, 2019
A special supplement to Irish America by Turlough McConnell delving into the genesis of Brian Burns’ collection of Irish art and the subsequent sale of his collection at the world-renowned London auction house, Sotheby’s in November 2018. Click here to read more.
The Mission Continues: Who Is My Neighbor?
June 20, 2019
For over 200 years, the Sisters of Charity have advocated for those most in need of our love and support. Today the Sisters continue to serve our neighbor through their sponsored ministries. See the short film here.
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Great Famine Voices Roadshow | Strokestown Park
March 30, 2018
Turlough McConnell is pleased to participate in an innovative new project, Great Famine Voices developed by Strokestown Park House’s Famine Archive that seeks to grow an online community who together will learn more about the Great Famine in Ireland. They will be sharing unique documents for the online community to transcribe, asking users to begin to research and to share the fruits of their labor via their website.
To read more about the project click here
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March 9, 2018
Turlough McConnell speaks to his own personal story leading up to his latest project which is a celebration of the history of Catholic Education and Immigration at the Sheen Center Theater, NYC on February 28 How the Nuns of New York Tamed the Gangs of New York.
Listen to the show here
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January 20, 2018
Ulster at Play
Saturday, January 27th, 11am — 5pm
The American Irish Historical Society, 991 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Free admission
A presentation on the prolific and turbulent history of theater in Northern Ireland. Taking place as part of the symposium, Transformation Through Creativity organized by the 1st Irish Theatre Festival.
For more information please visit the page for the event: Transformation Through Creativity, 2018
Dear Mr. Beckett
Monday, January 29th, 1pm
The Irish Consulate, 345 Park Avenue, New York, NY
RSVP, Free admission
Turlough McConnell’s stage adaptation of Dear Mr. Beckett: Letters from the Publisher a book of correspondence between the author, Samuel Beckett and his publisher, Barney Rossett.
For more information please visit the page for the event: Dear Mr. Beckett
Posted in featurednews, news | Comments Off on Ulster at Play and Dear Mr. Beckett | Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival 2018The Wars of Dagger John | Irish Central
November 29, 2017“The play, commissioned by the Sheen Center, explores themes of race and moral ambiguity in the context of the Civil War as it affected New York’s Irish community. New York’s first archbishop, ‘Dagger’ John Hughes, must exert leadership during a difficult period of urban unrest.”
On stage at The Wars of Dagger John: Connie Wookey, Chris Russell, Aidan Redmond, Colin Ryan, Colin Lane, Richard Waddingham, Greg Mullavey, Orlagh Cassidy, Connor Delves. Photo by Paul McConnell.
On Thursday night, November 16, the Sheen Center hosted a stage reading of The Wars of Dagger John, a new play written by Turlough McConnell and directed by George Heslin, which will be developed for production in 2018.
Irish Central’s Eugene O’Driscoll reviews the performance in “Learning from Turlough McConnell’s Dagger John at the Sheen Center” published November 28, 2017.
Click here to read the full article.
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How the Nuns Tamed the Gangs of New York | Irish America Magazine
October 2, 2017
The cast during the curtain call for the Origin Theatre Company’s staging of How the Nuns of New York Tamed the Gangs of New York at the Sheen Center on June 3. (Photo courtesy of Mary Pat Kelly)
Mary Pat Kelly , “How the Nuns Tamed the Gangs of New York,” Irish America Magazine, August-September, 2017.
“I was able to sniff back tears during most of the moving presentation of the 200 years history of the Sisters of Charity [of New York]… but I couldn’t stop myself from sobbing when a group of children dressed in 19th century costumes sang ‘Where is Love’ from the movie Oliver.”
Click here to read the full article.
Posted in news | Comments Off on How the Nuns Tamed the Gangs of New York | Irish America MagazineThe Shores of Amerikay | Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum
June 14, 2017
Opening celebrations at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Fifth Avenue, 1879. Leslie’s Illustrated New York.
Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University to host The Shores of Amerikay: How Archbishop John J. Hughes and the Sisters of Charity of New York met the needs of Ireland’s Famine Refugees, a presentation by Turlough McConnell on Wednesday, June 21 at 3:00pm.
Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum
3011 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required by calling 203-582-6500.
America’s Irish Famine immigrants were more likely than previous arrivals to be malnourished, unhealthy and members of broken family groups, children often ended the voyage alone. Irish children needed to be housed, fed and educated.
In response, New York’s Archbishop Hughes and the Sisters of Charity of New York created institutions for these unfortunates. An attempt in the early 1840s to secure public funding for New York City’s Catholic schools resulted in furor and the creation of New York’s non-sectarian Board of Education. Working in tandem with Hughes, the Sisters of Charity opened, staffed and grew schools, orphanages and St. Vincent’s Hospital.
Informed by primary sources from the archives of the SCNY, the Archdiocese of New York and the collections of Columbia University, McConnell’s presentation focuses on the critical days when refugees from Ireland’s Great Hunger flowed into the United States.
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SCNY 200: Rebuilding Lives
May 19, 2017
A short documentary exploring the legacy of the Sisters of Charity produced by Turlough McConnell Communications on the bicentennial of their arrival to New York City (1817-2017).
The film received the 2017 Lumen Award for Donor Relationship Enhancement.
Thanks to our great team especially Gregory Kennedy for his outstanding direction and editing.
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May 19, 2017
Mary McAleese, Burns Scholar 2013, served as the eighth President of Ireland from 1997-2011. Photographed at the Library of Trinity College Dublin by Kim Haughton for the exhibition “Portrait of a Century”
Since 1991, the Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies program at Boston College has invited various academics and experts in Irish Studies to live on campus, where they teach, confer, and conduct research for their own projects. Every year, the scholars credit the program as beneficial and crucial in the development of their work. As the program turns 25 this October, we asked a number of the Scholars to tell us what the experience meant to them.
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