Celebrating Edna O’Brien!

March 10 Update Thanks to Cercle Littéraire Irlandais, here is the video of the ceremony! Gabriel’s tribute begins at the 36:00 minute mark. You should watch the whole thing, though. Edna is brilliant, and so is everyone else. We are lucky to have writers and and actors and artists in […]

Our Favorite Ambassador

Wherein Stella muses on the peripatetic, soon-to-be Ex Ambassador. [Under the menu heading “Gabriel” at the top of this page is the subheading “Cultural Ambassador.” Click it and the list of postings about his work as Cultural Ambassador for Ireland will pop up. Then you will see just how darned […]

Saints and Sinners: A Reading by Edna O’Brien

As noted by the Wall Street Journal, the reading date was changed, but not the venue or the participants, thank the gods! Author Edna O’Brien and Gabriel Byrne appeared at the McNally Jackson bookstore in New York City on May 30th. In a blog posting/intimate account, Catherine Kustanczy tells us […]

The Byrne-ing News, May 2011 Edition

Updated May 3: Edna O’Brien: Saints and Sinners Gabriel Byrne and others will read from Ms. O’Brien’s work on May 25 at Symphony Space in New York City. Learn more about Ms. O’Brien in this interview from February. She has been, as the novelist Colum McCann puts it, “the advance […]

The Byrne-ing News, March 2011 Edition

Spring has sprung in some parts of the world and it is definitely Spring at Byrneholics. We’ve got plans up our sleeves and news to share! Here is the latest on our peripatetic Irishman! New pics from I, Anna New pictures provided by Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein  on their Facebook page […]