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Trailblazers Past & Present

“The Irish in Boston, as elsewhere, have an ability to see opportunity where there was none, and if none came, to look for it, to look for opportunity.”          …

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40 Years | 1985 – 2025

Looking back at Irish America’s premier issue we see that it set the tone for what was to come: a thorough investigation into what it means to be Irish American. 40 years later,…

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Waking the Dead

I had never really been all that comfortable with my Irish heritage. I’ve always been…

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Honored by the Comptroller of the City of New York were (back row from left to right): James P. Murphy, Patricia Harty, Kathy E. Ryan, and police officer and Emerald Pipe Band member Andy McEnvoy. Front row left to right: Father Sean McManus, Comptroller William C. Thompson and Mary Nolan.
New York City Celebrates Irish Heritage Day

The Comptroller of the City of New York William C. Thompson, Jr. honored prominent New…

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September 8, 1994

A Roundabout Theater Company revival of Brian Friel’s famous 1964 play “Philadelphia Here I Come!” opens at the Criterion Center in New York. The production starred Robert Sean Leonard as Gareth O’Donnell as well as a supporting cast of notable Irish character actors, including Milo O’Shea, Pauline Flanagan, Leo Leyden and Jarlath Conroy. “This 1964 work established the Irish playwright as one of international stature,” the New York Times wrote in its review, “30 years later, it seems no less fresh and vital.”

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