Ciarán O’Reilly
Ciarán O’Reilly was born and raised in County Cavan, Ireland, before immigrating to New York City. He met Charlotte Moore when they were in an off-Broadway play called Summer by Irish playwright Hugh Leonard. The two decided to get into producing, and so in 1988 they rented a small theater on West 18th Street in Manhattan and put together a production of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough in the...
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James P. O’Neill
The 43rd NYPD Commissioner James P. O’Neill joined the Transit Police in 1983, which merged with the NYPD in 1995, and since then he has held almost every rank in the department to eventually become commissioner. O’Neill was born and raised in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, to two first-generation Irish Americans. His mother’s parents emigrated from County Longford, and his...
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Arturo O’Farrill
Four-time Grammy Award-winning musician Arturo O’Farrill was born in Mexico City, Mexico, to Cuban jazz musician, arranger and bandleader Chico O’Farrill and his wife, singer Lupe Valero. Unsure of the future when the Catholic King James II was deposed, O’Farrill’s ancestor left County Longford, Ireland, to start a new life in Cuba as Don Ricardo O’Farrill y O’Daly. The...
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Charlotte Moore
Tony-nominated actress Charlotte Moore is the artistic director and co-founder with Ciarán O’Reilly of the Irish Repertory Theatre, a theater company in New York City devoted to showcasing Irish and Irish-American works and performers. The granddaughter of Irish emigrants from County Wexford, Moore grew up in Southern Illinois in a rural farming community. After earning her master’s degree...
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Terry George
Growing up in Belfast during the Troubles, Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter Terry George learned first hand about oppression. It’s the thread that that links all of his projects, which focus on world conflicts. George briefly attended Queens University Belfast before he, his wife Rita, and their infant daughter Oorlagh moved to New York City in 1981. Once there, they had a...
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