Opinion
KIRWAN: Swept Apart But Dancing Together
About 20 minutes into the musical "Paradise Square" a piece of unscripted magic occurs on the dance floor of a bar in New York City’s Five Points. ...
March 24, 2022
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: NYC is Open, Broadway is Humming
Do you feel like the sun has begun to shine again – that after a long winter the dawns now arrive earlier and seem more hopeful? What a change in a...
March 09, 2022
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: The Glorification of Vapid Notoriety
Neil Young had the biggest head of any musician I’d ever met. I’m talking literally, of course, not figuratively. He came to see Black 47 in Paddy ...
February 23, 2022
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: A Force To Be Reckoned With
Once a person of consequence, the priest’s housekeeper appears to have slipped quietly into the past. She was mostly a rural Irish phenomenon, for ...
February 10, 2022
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: The Reason I am Writing This
What do you think of that whole D.C. Jan. 6th affair? Was it an insurrection or just a bunch of feisty tourists dropping by the People's House to p...
January 27, 2022
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Joy and Sadness of the Emigrant's Christmas
Christmas! The very sound of the word can set the heart thumping, and yet there’s a vague unease associated with the word too, especially for the e...
December 16, 2021
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Oliver Cromwell's Unintended Gift
Isn’t it a terrible thing to open the New York Times and read the obituary of a friend, especially one you haven’t thought about in donkey’s years?...
December 02, 2021
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Chicago Irish Cling To Cherished Heritage
In the City of Chicago As the evening shadows fall There are people dreaming Of the hills of Donegal …. Luka Bloom It’s a rare piece of real estate...
November 18, 2021
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Eyeing Irish America From Bustling Chicago
I’ve been in Chicago for four weeks now rehearsing the musical "Paradise Square" for an opening at the legendary Nederlander Theater on November 2....
October 21, 2021
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
LARRY KIRWAN: Emigration was a Big Step in a Misjudged Decade
Emigration is a big step and yet many of us took it with little thought of the consequences. In my own case I was having a whale of a time leading ...
October 11, 2021
by Larry Kirwan
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KIRWAN: Remember the Lost, Commemorate the Survivors
I was checking the Mets box score when the plane thundered overhead. I slammed my forehead onto the table, certain my building would be hit. Moment...
September 08, 2021
by Larry Kirwan
LARRY KIRWAN: History and the 'What If' Factor
I’ve always been interested in political history, particularly when an interesting or controversial character is involved. Michael Collins and Dr. ...
August 26, 2021
by Larry Kirwan