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The Irish-American Society of New Mexico, based in Albuquerque, NM, wishes you a hundred thousand welcomes to our site!
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Next Monthly Meeting and Program:
Friday, September 13, 2024
7 PM
Ramada Plaza
(Atrium Ballroom)
2020 Menaul N.E.
The Music of Modern Irish Poetry, From Yeats to Lankum
By Poet and Irish Scholar
Bill Nevins!
At our first get-together after the summer break, Bill Nevins, MA, will take a look at some of the Irish poets who’ve given the world a century of wild, weird, and wonderful lyrics, epics, and songs. He will touch upon works by Seamus Heaney, Sinead McClure, Thomas Kinsella, Radie Peat, Eavan Boland, Christy Moore, Shane MacGowan, and maybe even those “Belfast bad-boyz” Kneecap, in a light-hearted introductory trip through contemporary “Celtic” verse in the new Eire.
Bill is a New Mexico poet and journalist who has enjoyed Irish poetry and songs ever since he first heard his Tipperary-born great-grandmother singing “Molly Malone.” Bill graduated from Iona College, did graduate work in literature at the University of Connecticut and UC Berkeley, and worked as a magazine reporter visiting Ireland during the “Troubles” and in more recent, happier times. Along the way, he’s enjoyed concerts by and spoken with The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, The Pogues, Christy Moore, Sinead O’Connor, Terence Winch, and Paul Muldoon, among many others. He’s taught at UNM and other schools, and he’s always known that Irish/Celtic poetry and music are joyously ever-intertwined.
This event is free and open to the public,
so invite your friends!
Coffee and tea will be provided;
there is a cash bar adjacent.
We ask that you bring a sweet or salty snack to share.