Irish literature

Frank McCourt on Longing

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Before a live audience at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York, Kurt Andersen and writer Frank McCourt talk about the art of longing. McCourt won the Pulitzer Prize for Angela’s Ashes, about his impoverished childhood in Ireland. He taught high school English for over forty years in the New York City public […]

Luxuriating in Language

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Remembering Seamus Heaney, an Irish Poet ‘Bigger than Rock Stars’

Lifestyle & Belief

Translating the Untranslatable: ‘Finnegans Wake’ in Chinese

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