Gatsby: Death of an Irishman

President Michael D Higgins with author Patrick O'Sullivan Greene, with a copy of 'Crowdfunding the Revolution'.

For the week that's in it, we're getting fiercely nostalgic about our President. Here is a photo of President Higgins with our author Patrick O'Sullivan Greene in the Áras and a copy of his book, 'Crowdfunding the Revolution.'

Great Irish Voices - Dublin Book Festival Join us to explore two books illuminating great voices from Irish American history. Gratefully and Affectionately: Mary Lavin and the New Yorker (New Island) by Gráinne Hurley gives fascinating insigh...

Great opportunity to understand America literary connectivity.

Delighted to see former @irishstewpodcast.com guest @posg1.bsky.social featured. Patrick has written an exceptional book on #ScottFitzgerald and his conflicted Irish identity

#Dublin #SpéirGhorm

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Great Irish Voices - Dublin Book Festival Join us to explore two books illuminating great voices from Irish American history. Gratefully and Affectionately: Mary Lavin and the New Yorker (New Island) by Gráinne Hurley gives fascinating insigh...

Dublin Book Festival!

Sunday, November 9, 1pm.

Gráinne Hurley and Patrick O'Sullivan Greene in conversation with Irish Times journalist and author Ronan McGreevy.

Great voices from Irish American history: Mary Lavin and F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Reading Books Made a Man Out of Me Shiloh Brooks explains why he’s launching ‘Old School,’ a new podcast about great books and how they can make us better men.

“… Blaine goes to Princeton from a small town in the Midwest. Beneath the spires and gargoyles he finds lyric poetry and erudite friends. The novel instilled in me a romantic but earnest longing to get an old-school education.”

- Shilo Brooks

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Patrick O’Sullivan Greene explores Fitzgerald’s identity Patrick O'Sullivan Greene shares insights from his study of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Irish roots behind "The Great Gatsby."

[The] work blends history, biography and literary analysis, offering what he calls “a story of American identity as much as the American Dream.”

Chrsity Hinko, Long Island Press.

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#thegreatgatsby #fscottfitzgerald

See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | 100 Years Later, ‘Gatsby’ Still Reveals Lasting Lessons – KC STUDIO Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, years before their complicated friendship began in Paris, spent months in the Kansas City area at the very same time.

Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | 100 Years Later, ‘Gatsby’ Still Reveals Lasting Lessons.

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There’s No Better International Venue for the Steelers Than Croke Park When Pittsburgh faces the Vikings in the NFL’s first regular-season game in Ireland, it’ll do so in a historic venue that the Rooney family helped renovate.

Easily my favorite story I've ever written. On Croke Park in Dublin, its place in Irish culture and history, the wonderful sport of hurling—and oh yeah, the NFL being played there this weekend. www.si.com/nfl/steelers...

“Life was a damned muddle... a football game with every one off-side and the referee gotten rid of—every one claiming the referee would have been on his side....”

This Side of Paradise, 1920

Fitzgerald wrote about football all his life. At the young age of 44, he was sitting in his armchair after lunch, eating a chocolate bar and making notes on the football team in the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Suddenly, he stood up, grabbed the mantelpiece and fell to the floor.

... falling behind the Groton goal with two men on his legs, in the only touchdown of the game.”

... crashing bodies and aching limbs. For those minutes courage flowed like wine out of the November dusk, and he was the eternal hero, … finally bruised and weary, but still elusive, circling an end, twisting, changing pace, straight-arming...

“Amory at quarter-back, exhorting in wild despair, making impossible tackles, calling signals in a voice that had diminished to a hoarse, furious whisper, yet found time to revel in the blood-stained bandage around his head, and the straining, glorious heroism of plunging, ...

In This Side of Paradise, written during the summer of 1919 in Saint Paul, Fitzgerald writes about football with the understanding of a player, albeit a poor one. He embellishes the autobiographical Amory Blaine with the skill and courage of a star player!

“I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.”

The Great Gatsby

“[Tom] had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savours of anticlimax.”

The Great Gatsby

Writing The Great Gatsby in the South of France in 1924, he wrote to his editor Max Perkins to send newspaper accounts of the Harvard-Princeton and Yale-Princeton football games.

“I reveled in football [but] I grew very tall and thin, and when at Princeton ... I looked anxiously over the freshman candidates and saw the polite disregard with which they looked back at me, I realized that that particular dream was over.”

The Bowel

F. Scott Fitzgerald, football picture, Newman School, 1912

During the centennial of The Great Gatsby, it is fitting that the Minnesota Vikings and the Pittsburgh Steelers clash in Croke Park in Week 4 of the NFL.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born in Saint Paul, MN, was a football fanatic.

A 🧵 on Fitzgerald's love of American Football.

#Steelers #Vikings

BBC Four - Remembers..., Sarah Churchwell Remembers... The Great Gatsby Sarah Churchwell looks at the origins and inspiration behind F Scott Fitzgerald's novel.

BBC 4 link to 'Sarah Churchwell Remembers... The Great Gatsby'

Sarah Churchwell looks at the origins of The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald's evocative novel of the Roaring Twenties, and the inspiration behind its plot and characters.

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An F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby evening on BBC 4 from 21.30.

A sandwich of interesting documentaries and a dodgy TV film from 2000 featuring Paul Rudd as Nick Carraway.

Preceded by the classic 'Brief Encounter' film.

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cover of vol. 22 (published fall 2025) F. Scott Fitzgerald Review with title of article on Fitzgerald's 18th-century Irish immigrant ancestor in America

My new article uncovers Fitzgerald's overlooked colonial-era Irish immigrant ancestor

Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The Great Gatsby at Meadowridge Library this Fall MADISON, WI – The Great Gatsby by F.

An impressive lineup of events to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The Great Gatsby at Meadowridge Library, MADISON, WI.

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The 11 Best Celebrity-Narrated Audiobooks, From Tom Hardy Doing ‘1984’ to Jake Gyllenhaal's ‘The Great Gatsby’ Yes actors really can read (and quite well, it turns out)

Jake Gyllenhaal reading ‘The Great Gatsby' is revelatory, in particular his ability to bring out the desperate heat of the summer.

“Hot!” said the conductor to familiar faces. “Some weather!… Hot!… Hot!… Hot!… Is it hot enough for you? Is it hot? Is it… ?”

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Blades and Fades – Frank McNally on New York’s ‘Lads of Kilkenny’ and a Joycean Fenian in Paris Washington Irving was a native New Yorker who had no known connection with Kilkenny

Blades and Fades – Frank McNally on New York’s ‘Lads of Kilkenny’ and a Joycean Fenian in Paris

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Podcast playlist for F. Scott Fitzgerald fans.

59 hours of audio that I used writing Gatsby: Death of an Irishman.

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Joe Kennedy III: Politics, Peace & Public Service - Belfast, Boston & Beyond In something of an epilogue to our “Lost in Belfast” series, former U.S. Congressman and U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland Joseph Kennedy III joins Irish Stew …

📣 New Episode - Hear Joe Kennedy III on Irish Stew!

Learn about Northern Ireland's inspiring leadership, lessons for #USPolitics, and the Kennedy legacy in community service. 🎙️

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#IrishPodcast #Podcast #USPol #SpéirGhorm @joekennedyiii.bsky.social

Culture That Made Me: Fergal Keane of the BBC on Cork, Keats, and Vietnam In advance of his visit to UCC, Fergal Keane reveals some of his touchstone influences

'... if you love poetry, the language of [The Great] Gatsby is captivating. I still read the book every couple of years for the beauty of the language. It’s sublime. I’ve read everything he wrote, losing myself in his romantic, bittersweet dreamland.'

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De Valera’s time in America between June 1919 and December 1920 was marked by strategic mistakes and tactical errors in the conduct of the bond and recognition campaigns, as well as an unnecessary divisiveness, and an unnecessary and costly split.

Myths: Much of the traditional narrative of de Valera’s time in America does not stand up to contemporary evidence, and viewed from the perspective of the leaders of the Irish Race in America, and framed within post-war domestic American politics and geopolitical turmoil.

John Devoy: Much more than an 'old Fenian'. He merited greater respect for his achievements; not to be harassed to the point of regretting that he had not gone over for Easter Week to be shot with his friends.