About this Event
It’s 1885, and London is under attack. Teams of Irish Americans armed with dynamite are blowing up bridges, trains, and even Scotland Yard. But when Her Majesty’s government sends Sherlock Holmes to New York City, where the conspiracy is being hatched in newspaper offices, pubs, and possibly City Hall, the Irish American agenda for establishing home rule meets its match. As Holmes works with skeptical New York detectives, two British diplomats are murdered in Central Park. A trail of verse and violence leads Holmes into the heart of New York’s Irish underworld and toward a woman as dangerous as she is gifted with words. As the great detective closes in, powerful forces within New York’s Irish community move to protect their own—turning the city into a battlefield of wit, loyalty, and hidden allegiances.
Terry Golway is a veteran journalist and historian known in the US and Ireland as an expert in Irish American history and American politics. He is the author of more than a dozen nonfiction books, most of which deal with some aspect of Irish American or American political history. He has written thousands of articles for publications including The New York Times, The New York Observer, Politico, The Irish Echo, and Irish America Magazine. He has appeared on national television and radio numerous times over the last twenty-five years, including several documentaries on both sides of the Atlantic. He has mentored journalists who now work for national newspapers, networks, and news sites. He holds a PhD in US history from Rutgers University and is a member of the board of advisers at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University.
Peter Quinn joined Time Inc. as the chief speechwriter in 1985 and retired as corporate editorial director for Time Warner at the end of 2007. He received a B.A. from Manhattan College in 1969, an M.A. in history from Fordham University in 1974 and completed all the requirements for a doctorate except the dissertation. He was awarded a Ph.D., honoris causa, by Manhattan College in 2002. His 1994 novel "Banished Children of Eve" (Viking/Penguin) won a 1995 American Book Award. His second novel, "Hour of the Cat" (Overlook) was published in June 2005. "Looking for Jimmy: In Search of Irish America" (Overlook), a collection of non-fiction pieces, was published in February 2007. His third novel, The Man Who Never Returned, was published in 2010. Quinn co-wrote the script for the 1987 television documentary “McSorley’s New York,” which was awarded a New York-area Emmy for “Outstanding Historical Programming.” He has participated as a guest commentator in several PBS documentaries, including “The Irish in America;” “New York: A Documentary Film;” “The Life and Times of Stephen Foster,” as well as the Academy Award-nominated film, “The Passion of Sister Rose.” He was an advisor on Martin Scorcese’s film “Gangs of New York.” He helped conceive and script the six-part documentary “The Road to the White House,” which aired on TG4, in Ireland, in 2009. Along with his book writing, Quinn was the editor of The Recorder: The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society from 1986 to 1993. He has published articles and reviews in The New York Times, Commonweal, America, American Heritage, The Catholic Historical Review, The Philadelphia Enquirer, The L.A. Times, Eiré-Ireland, and in numerous other newspapers and journals. At present, Quinn is on the advisory boards of the American Irish Historical Society, NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House, the Tenement Museum and the New York City Landmark Conservancy. He is president and co-founder of Irish American Writers & Artists.
Event venue & nearby stays
Glucksman Ireland House NYU, 1 Washington Mews, New York, United States
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