Come for the panels and/or the Meeting on Friday, May 22nd from 5:30-6:15 and meet a few board members and hear about this growing Irish American Arts organization. Irish American Author & Chicagoan Mary Pat Kelly (one of the founders of IAW&A) will be on hand to welcome .
Maybe formalize a Chicago Chapter.
Friday, May 22, 2026
11:30 am – 12:50 pm
Session 10-J Crossroads, Critics, and Conferences: Legacies and Impact (Marshfield)
Organized by Irish American Writers and Artists
Chair: Lori Cassels, Independent Scholar
1. “Crosbhóthar - Irish for Crossroads- Explores the legacy of Malachy McCourt and the artistic and
cultural crossroads where Black American experience meets the long tradition of Irish storytelling,” Myss UneeK,
Independent Scholar
2. “A Close Encounter of the Most Impactful Kind- Irish Women Writers Come to New York 1990. The
influence on Irish women writers at introduction to America at the Fourth International Interdisciplinary Congress
on Women,” Mary Pat Kelly, Independent Scholar
3. “The Legacy and Impact of Theater Critic Joseph Hurley on Irish America's Cultural Landscape in New York
City,” Kate Shea Kennon, Fordham University
36Session 10-K: Louisa May Alcott’s Short Stories: A Roundtable (Salon 5)
Friday, May 22, 2026
5:30 – 6:15 pm
Session 15-A: Business Meeting: Irish American Writers and Artists (Indiana)
***Panelist Jonathan Goldman will be reading on new release: Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York at the Madison Street Book Store at 7:30pm
Saturday, May 23, 2026
4:00 – 5:20 pm
Session 21-I Irish Writers Transatlantic Impact. From James Joyce to Alice McDermott (Madison)
Organized by Irish American Writers and Artists
Chair: Lori Cassels, Independent Scholar
1. “The Transatlantic Irish: from James Joyce to Colm Tóibín and from Elizabeth Cullinan to Alice
McDermott,” Aušra Paulauskienė, LCC International University, Lithuania
2. "New York's James Joyce: Multiculturalism and the Irish Cultural Diaspora," Jonathan Ezra Goldman,
Irish Am. Writers & Artists at Am. Literature Assoc. Conference in Chicago
