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IRISH EXAMINER | November 13th, 2019
Out & About

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I want to congratulate the Veterans Day
Parade organizers in New York City for putting
on one of the finest parades and celebrating their
100 year anniversary.
The weather could not have been better for the
day as the sun was shining for all the veterans that
were marching up Fifth Avenue and for every-
body, from all the families to the volunteers who
turned out to honor them, we thank you all here
at The Irish Examiner USA.
I was Out&About last week and I went to the
very well run fundraiser for the HOPE
Foundation that is headed by the one and only
Mary Reed. It was held at a very lovely lady’s
house on 66th Street in Manhattan and her name
is Gloria Kins. I have to tell you that Gloria has
been a strong supporter of everything Irish and I
am so proud of her because she never asks for
anything in return; so we all thank you so much
Gloria.
I want to tell you also that Gloria Starr Kins is
Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the Society &
Diplomatic Review and a UN Correspondent.
Talking about Out&About I will have be
attending the Ireland US Council’s 57th Annual
Dinner this Wednesday at the Metropolitan
Club on 60th Street in Manhattan who are honor- Don’t leave it too late to get your tickets for The Irish Tenors at NYCB Theatre at Westbury
ing the very worthy Denis O’Brien. For tickets, and I know they will be gone fast, call Northern Ireland, barely north of the border,
Friends of Dublin Football (NY) is hosting a (800) 854-2196. You also have a chance of winning Pumpgirl gets few customers beyond lecherous
five-in-a-row victory celebration with the Dublin a free pair of tickets by using the form on page 10 men and cruel women who remark on her
GAA Football Team this Friday (November 15) of this issue of the newspaper of applying online at tomboyish appearance. Otherwise guarded, she
at Tito Murphy’s (346 West 46th Street) from irishexaminerusa.com. has struck up a friendship with “no helmet
8pm. The Irish Repertory Theatre, in association Hammy” – an amateur stock-car racer who
Their Guests of Honor are Jim Gavin, the with the Wexford Arts Centre, will be presenting prefers to spend time with his unsavory buddies
“Sam Maguire” and the Dublin GAA Football the US premiere of The Scourge, written & per- over his wife and children.
Team and the Honorees are Austin Welsh, Vince formed by Michelle Dooley Mahon (The Eff As Hammy’s wife, Sinead, stays home alone,
Tyer and Eamonn Cullen. Tickets are $120 and Word), and directed by Ben Barnes (Madama she simmers with rage over her isolated, disap-
include dinner, a 4-hr open bar and live music, Butterfly). pointing existence. On Hammy’s birthday, their
now where would yea get all that and the Cup The Scourge begins performances in the W. lives become perilously intertwined, leaving them
too. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre (132 West 22nd face-to-face with a desperate future.
I have to tell that one of the biggest concerts to Street) on January 22, 2020, with opening night set Irish Repertory Theatre is presenting this
happen before Christmas is happening at the for January 23, for a limited run through February heartwrenching original story of rural life in
NYCB Theatre at Westbury (960 Brush Hollow 2, 2020. The Scourge is an official selection of the Northern Ireland by Abbie Spallen, a multi-award
Rd in Westbury) and that is The Irish Tenors fea- 2020 Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival. Tickets winning Irish playwright making her Irish Rep
turing Ronan Tynan, Anthony Kearns and are available now from irishrep.org. debut.
Declan Kelly on Saturday, December 14. Now here is another theater experience that is Originally presented by the Bush
What a line up! The cream of Irish talent which also happening at The Irish Rep, called PUMP- Theatre, Pumpgirl premiered in 2006 at the
is not to be missed, so much so that I will be there, GIRL and it all starts like this: In a gas station in Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and made its New
York debut at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2007.
It won the 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the
Follow Us On... Stewart Parker Trust Award, and was nominated
for the Irish Times Best New Play.
I love telling you about shows that I know you
will like so go out and buy your tickets now.
I will end on a sad note though, as I have to
report the passing of one of Ireland great talented
actors, Niall Toibin, who has died after a long ill-
irishexaminerusa ness. Niall was born on the southside of Cork city
in Friars’ Walk. He was raised with Irish and has
used the language in his professional career,
notably in the film Poitín. His siblings include
irishexaminerus Siobhán, Tomás (a poet), Deaglán, Filmin,
Góbnait and Colm Tóibín. Rest in peace.
See you all again next week when I am
Out&About once more. C