@ Guild Hall, Derry 3pm Sat 16 May Michael Kennedy, Pauline Mitchell, Joe O’Loughlin, Emmet O’Connor

@ Ulster Museum, Belfast, 7pm Thur 26 March Roisin Higgins, Guy Beiner, Dominic Bryan, Tom Hartley, Jason Burke.

@ National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. 7pm Fri 12 June Yeats 150 Roy Foster, Catriona Crowe, P.J. Mathews & with readings by Theo Dorgan

As part of the RTÉ ‘The Road to the Rising’ Event, Gresham Hotel, 3.30pm Monday 6 April 2015 History Ireland Hedge School —Was the Easter Rising justified? Panellists: Ronan Fanning, Felix Larkin,  John Borgonovo, Padraig Yeates with Tommy Graham in the chair.

@ National Library, Kildare Street. 7pm Tues 14 April. Tommy Graham with John Horne, Lar Joye, Myles Dungan

Atlantic Aparthotel, Bundoran, Co. Donegal Sat 17 Jan @ 3pm From Ulster Presbyterian emigration in the eighteenth century to the Appalachians and the Ozarks—and the subsequent evolution of country and bluegrass—to Irish Catholic emigration in the nineteenth century to Boston, Chicago and New York, waves of Irish emigrants have had a huge effect on the … Continue reading The Emigrant’s Song: the impact of Irish music on American culture →

National Library of Ireland 25 Nov