Jun10Fri

New York New Belfast Conference Materials

NYNB16-Logo-smallFollow up materials available

The seventh annual New York-New Belfast conference took place at the prestigious Fordham University – Lincoln Center.

The conference highlighted the bridges of progress and prosperity being built between the citizens of the two great cities of New York and Belfast, looking optimistically to the future while celebrating our shared past. Belfast’s delegation of community, cultural and business leaders will meet with their New York counterparts to discuss investment, embedding the peace, tourism, the arts and how they can work together to the mutual benefit of their communities.

Front and center in our discussions was the digital rise of Belfast, with a special focus on matchmaking between our partners, allowing Irish American organizations, businesses and institutions to showcase their offering to our Belfast delegation.

To view a webcast and materials from the conference, including “How can startup companies and ambitious entrepreneurs build transatlantic tech bridges?”, please click HERE. (simply sign in with email address, no need to create user name and password)

IABCN members, KPMG, Invest Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Bureau, and Tourism Ireland were headline sponsors for this event.

Apr28Thu

“The Plough and the Stars” at Irish Heritage Theatre

The Plough and the Stars
concludes The Irish Heritage Theatre’s O’Casey famed “Trilogy”
co-produced by Plays and Players Theatre

Starting May 26th

After highly successful productions of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come, A Night with Lady G (three short plays by Lady Augusta Gregory), The Shadow of a Gunman, and Juno and the Paycock, The Irish Heritage Theatre (in another collaboration with Plays and Players Theatre), is turning its attention to Sean O’Casey’s third and final play in his Dublin Trilogy, The Plough and the Stars. The Irish Heritage Theatre is Philadelphia’s only professional company dedicated to preserving and acquainting new audiences with the poetry and power of classic Irish theatre and its rich legacy in America, and O’Casey is hands down one of Ireland’s, and the world’s, greatest 20th century playwrights. So it seemed like a natural choice for the Irish Heritage Theatre to produce three of O’Casey’s greatest works, and this, his third in the trio, is perhaps his greatest achievement. It is also his most controversial political masterpiece, one that when it was first produced in 1926, sent shockwaves through the Irish community, causing riots in the streets.

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