Peter Quinn receives 2015 Seamus Heaney Award

On Feb. 24th, the Gluckman Ireland House of New York Universityhonored the lasting achievements of two of its most esteemed members: Author Peter Quinn and Global Head of Marketing, Communications and Government Affairs at McGraw Hill Financial Ted Smyth with the Seamus Heaney Award and the Lew L. Glucksman Award respectively.

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Mario Cuomo Toasts Writer

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Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo saluted his former speech­writer Peter Quinn and his newest novel “Dry Bones,” the third offering in his Detective Fintan Dunne history-mystery trilogy.

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The History-Mystery Man

Irish America magazine

The author Peter Quinn, whose third and final installment of the Detective Fintan Dunne trilogy was released in October, talks to Tom Deignan.

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Dry Bones in stores now

"Peter Quinn is a poet and an historian and one of our finest storytellers. He sits at the fireside of the American imagination. He can carve mystery out of mystery. The work is generous and agile and profound." - Colum McCann

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Character-Driven: 'Peter's faithand lack thereofhelps guide my writing and my life.'

America magazine

“A novelist and a Catholic, I practice my faith and my novel writing in separate spheres. I make no attempt in my books to explain or defend Catholic teaching. For its part, the church has enough problems without bearing responsibility for my ineptitude as a writer. Yet distinct as they are, the two are not sealed off from each other: The convictions that infuse and inform my writing are grounded in my Catholicism.”

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Is there an Irish New York Accent?

Irish Central

“Peter Quinn is a Bronx-born and raised Irish American. He was a speechwriter for New York governors Mario Cuomo and Hugh Carey and, in recent years, has become a well-known essayist and novelist. He even has a new novel out, entitled The Man Who Never Returned, about the legendarily vanished New York judge Joseph Crater.”

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Interview: Judge Crater and the Ever-Vanishing City

The Wall Street Journal

“Peter Quinn's two previous historical novels are in some sense about vanishing New York, but his latest tackles the theme directly. In "The Man Who Never Returned," out this month, Mr. Quinn revisits the case of Joseph Force Crater, the real-life New York State Supreme Court judge who mysteriously disappeared in 1930.”

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The 20 Books Every Irish American Should Read

New York Public Library

Tom Deignan, writer of the weekly Sidewalks column in the Irish Voice and author of Irish Americans, spoke at the Mid-ManhattanWest New Brighton, and Riverdale libraries last month. The occasion was Immigrant Heritage Week — celebrated yearly in New York City — a great time to remember and honor our immigrant forebears. He has quite an encyclopedic knowledge on the topic of Irish America, and this time he chose to present 20 books that he considers to be required reading for Irish Americans.

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