On Friday, August 30, at the Kennedy Summer School in New Ross, the super fans of Bruce Springsteen will take to the stage with Lise Hand as moderator to delve into the Irish heritage of one of America’s most iconic musicians, Bruce Springsteen.
Geologist Fiona Fitzsimons is the co-founder of Eneclann and the Irish Family History Centre at EPIC, the emigration museum.
She has, according to a relese, led the Eneclann research team and established their work as a benchmark in family history in Ireland and internationally. Clients include the Obama and Biden administrations.
Those taking part are author and a journalist with RTÉ David McCullagh first saw Bruce Springsteen play in Slane in 1985 and has seen him more than 40 times since, as well as interviewing him twice.
Ralph Riegel is the southern correspondent for The Irish Independent, Evening Herald, Sunday Independent and other MediaHuis titles. A Springsteen fan since 1982, he attended his first concert aged 17 years at Slane Castle in 1985, just days before his Leaving Cert – and has since been privileged to attend over a half-century of Boss concerts in Ireland, US, UK, Italy, Spain, Norway, Germany, Sweden and Canada
Kirk Curnutt joined the faculty of Troy University’s Montgomery campus in 1993 and was for the first stretch of his career the youngest tenured professor in the system. He is the author of several works of fiction and criticism of popular music. He teaches both online and on the Troy campus, focusing on creative writing, American literature, senior seminar, and—finally, after many years of begging the music department to let him—the history of rock ‘n’ roll.
The release is promising "a captivating panel discussion with insights from esteemed guest speakers exploring the intriguing connections between Springsteen’s music and his Irish roots, offering a unique perspective on how his ancestry has influenced his legendary career."
More at www.kennedysummerschool.ie.
