The Tara Gift Shoppe and Dog Ear’s Bookstore present author Mary Pat Kelly.
As
an author and filmmaker, Mary Pat Kelly has told various stories
connected to Ireland. Her award-winning PBS documentaries and
accompanying books include To Live for Ireland, a portrait of Nobel
Peace Prize winner John Hume and the political party he led; Home Away
from Home: The Yanks in Ireland, a history of U.S. forces in Northern
Ireland during World War II; and Proudly We Served: The Men of the USS
Mason, a portrayal of the only African-American sailors to take a World
War II warship into combat, whose first foreign port was Belfast. She
wrote and directed the dramatic feature film Proud, starring Ossie
Davis and Stephen Rea, based on the USS Mason story.
She’s
written Martin Scorsese: The First Decade and Martin Scorsese: A
Journey; Good to Go: The Rescue of Scott O’Grady from Bosnia; and a
novel, Special Intentions. She is a frequent contributor to Irish
America Magazine.
Mary Pat Kelly worked in Hollywood as a
screenwriter for Paramount and Columbia Pictures and in New York City
as an associate producer with Good Morning America and Saturday Night
Live, and wrote the book and lyrics for the musical Abby’s Song. She
received her PhD from the City University of New York.
Born and
raised in Chicago, she lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side with her
husband, Web designer Martin Sheerin from County Tyrone.
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