NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House will honor Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and entrepreneur Carl Shanahan at their 2018 gala. The annual event will be held Tuesday, February 27 at the Kimmel Center for University Life.
NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House will honor Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and entrepreneur Carl Shanahan at their 2018 gala. The annual event will be held Tuesday, February 27 at the Kimmel Center for University Life.
The evening will feature a cocktail reception with toasts to the honorees followed by a seated dinner. The Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters will be presented to Muldoon by Marie Heaney, writer and the wife of late poet Seamus Heaney. Shanahan will be presented with the Lewis L. Glucksman Award for Leadership.
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951 and now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty years. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry including Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, as well as Selected Poems 1968-2014 (2016). Roger Rosenblatt, writing recently in The New York Times Book Review, described Paul Muldoon as "one of the great poets of the past hundred years, who can be everything in his poems - word-playful, lyrical, hilarious, melancholy. And angry. Only Yeats before him could write with such measured fury." Seamus Heaney described him as "one of the era's true originals."
Born in Bruff, County Limerick, Carl Shanahan immigrated to the United States in 1958. Among his many business awards include the prestigious, SACIA Businessmen of the Year, Irish America's Top 100 Irish in America, and Top 100 Irish Americans in Business. Shanahan is not only recognized for his business accomplishments, but also for his longstanding and steadfast commitment to the Irish Diaspora. In 1980, he co-founded the Wild Geese, a Connecticut-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the richness of the Irish experience. Shanahan is an active board member at New York University's Glucksman Ireland House and the Irish U.S. Council and served on the board of the Irish American Cultural Institute.
The Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters is awarded in memory of the late Nobel Laureate who was an honored guest at the 2013 Glucksman Ireland House Gala and a great champion of its dynamic program of activities. The Lewis L. Glucksman Award for Leadership is awarded in memory of the co-founder of Glucksman Ireland House NYU, whose career in finance, philanthropy, and vision is relived constantly through the teaching, learning and research fostered at Glucksman Ireland House NYU.
Glucksman Ireland House is celebrating their 25th anniversary with programming focusing on Irish-Jewish themes. This theme pays tribute to Loretta Brennan Glucksman and the late Lewis L. Glucksman, who believed in the universality of the ethnic and immigrant experience and creating dialogue between immigrants of different backgrounds.
Tickets begin at $1000.00 per person. For more information and to purchase a seat please email ireland.gala@nyu.edu.
About Glucksman Ireland House
Glucksman Ireland House is NYU’s Center for Irish and Irish-American Studies and one of the top-ranked academic Irish Studies programs in the United States. Through innovative undergraduate and graduate academic curricula and extensive public programming, it provides access to the best in Irish and Irish-American culture.