Crossroads Concerts: Irish & Puerto Rican Plena Fusion
Thursday, October 24, 2024
7:00 PM 9:00 PM
PAST EVENTS
Please click here for video of a recent event hosted by Colin Harte, exporing intersections between Irish and Indian music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCZMveMRIVs
Featuring renowned musicians Sameer Gupta (tabla), Jay Gandhi (bansuri), Arun Ramamurthy (violin), Jerry O’Sullivan (Uilleann pipes), and ethnomusicologist Colin Harte (keyboard/bodhrán/voice).
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The Irish Studies program at Queens College is deeply grateful to Eric Patterson for generously donating his impressive collection of Ireland-related books to our program.
These books are treasures of Irish history and culture, and we plan to incorporate them into our dedicated Irish Studies Library, available for check-out by students and researchers, and soon to be located in Rosenthal Library.
Call for oral historians!
Are you interested in gaining training and skills in doing oral history?
Would you like to join an exciting ongoing project funded by the Irish government?
Are you interested in interviewing immigrants of all ages born in Ireland? (being Irish not required!)
Please email sarah.covington@qc.cuny.edu or eileen.sprague@qc.cuny.edu
The Oral History of the Irish in New York is funded by the generous support of the Irish government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and is part of the Queens College Irish Studies program.
Please contact Sarah Covington with any questions: sarah.covington@qc.cuny.edu
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The Irish Studies Program presents:
The Irish in New York Covid-19 Podcast
In the spring of this year, the Irish in New York Oral History project, part of the Irish Studies program, embarked on an undertaking to capture the experiences of Irish men and women whose lives changed in the early weeks of Covid-19. Most stayed in New York, including Queens—the worst-hit borough at the time—while others returned to Ireland. Some lost jobs or witnessed their businesses fall into crisis, while others experienced isolation or were forced to reinvent their lives overnight. We appreciate how willing and generous these men and women were in sharing their stories with us by phone and during a moment when the first wave of the virus was still at its height. Thanks to them, to our interviewers Eileen Colleran Sprague and Liza Engesser, and to our editor and producer Claire Butler, we are grateful to have this historical record of resilience and hope at a unique moment in the lives of the Irish in New York.
Please click below for an excerpt of our interviews:
For an interview with Colm Ó Mongáin of RTÉ radio’s Pandemic series about the QC Irish Studies Covid-19 oral history project, please click on this link:
https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0827/1161740-podcast-ep-56-making-covid-history/
If you are interested in volunteering as an interviewer or interviewee for our Irish in New York Oral History Project, please email Eileen Sprague at woodsidehistory@gmail.com or sarah.covington@qc.cuny.edu
We wish to thank Dr. Maureen Murphy, Professor Emerita at Hofstra University, for her generous donation of Ireland-related books. We are honored to have so many great works from the collection of one of the most eminent scholars of Ireland. We will be launching our Irish Studies library and study space later in the year.
Click here for an article by Carmel McMahon for the Irish Times, covering our oral history project:
