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IN THIS ISSUE

‘From that Small Island’ 

Wins Outstanding International Documentary Award at Newport Beach Film Festival An Irish documentary, From that Small Island: The Story of the Irish, won a  major prestigious award at the Newport Beach International Film Festival,…

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Dispatches from Massachusetts  

By Michael Quinlan Revolutionary Irish Trail With America 250 celebrations underway in 2026, Boston is creating a Revolutionary Irish Trail to chronicle Irish and Scots-Irish heroics in the American Revolution. The Boston Irish…

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Arturo Gatti & Micky Ward.
Micky Ward’s Last Fight

Irish Mickey goes one more round. ℘℘℘ Micky Ward fought a great fight against his…

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Why Famine Came To Ireland

Thomas Cahill writes on the great catastrophe that became known as the Famine. The mass…

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February 26, 1916

On this day in 1916, comedian and actor Jackie Gleason was born in Brooklyn, NY to Mae and Herb Gleason, Irish immigrants from Farranree, Co. Cork. After a rough start, with his father abandoning the family when Gleason was 9 and his mother’s death when he was 19, Gleason found early success, going from occasional MC, to comedian, to paid actor by age 24. He is best remembered for his role as Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners, much of which was inspired by his own Brooklyn upbringing. In addition, he starred in the films The Hustler, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Skidoo, and the Smokey and the Bandit series, and had the lead role in the hit musical Take Me Along. Gleason died in 1987.

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