About this Event
Join us for a live recording of Person, Place, Thing with Randy Cohen featuring curators of Risings: The Irish Literary Revival and the Making of a Nation, Alan Klein & Alexander Neubauer.
https://personplacething.org/
About Randy Cohen:
Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s "TV Nation." He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.
About the Exhibition
Risings explores the formation of Irish identity through the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the parallel political quest for Irish nationhood. Presented in collaboration with The New York Public Library and featuring newly discovered material from their collection, Risings: The Irish Literary Revival and the Making of a Nation is on view in The Grolier Club’s ground floor gallery from April 29 through July 25, 2026.
Curated by Alexander Neubauer and Alan Klein from their collections, Risings features approximately 150 objects, with more than 30 items drawn from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection at The New York Public Library. The exhibition features rare books, manuscripts, letters, theatre pamphlets, political propaganda, and photographs that situate a prolific period of literary production in the broader context of political unrest. An accompanying catalogue, published by The Grolier Club, will be available in spring 2026, and the Club will present a Risings festival of related programming, including lectures, readings, and performances
Registration
If you are a Grolier Club member, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite.
Support
We appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 130 years we have offered our exhibitions and lectures to the public, free of charge. If you have enjoyed these offerings, and would like to support that tradition, and help ensure that it continues, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club.
Accessibility
An ADA-compliant lift from street level to the lobby is available to anyone with mobility issues. All desk staff should be ready and able to assist you in operating the lift, with or without advance notice.
A “T-Coil” assisted listening system is available to anyone attending a lecture in the Exhibition Hall. Visitors with hearing aids should turn their devices to the “T” setting in order to access the system; visitors without hearing aids may request a “loop receiver” with earphones.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, United States
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