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IN THIS ISSUE

The Flax Trust NYC Luncheon

“The Flax Trust succeeds in what I strive to do — which is: To Listen. Listen to what others are saying. “There is an enormous difference – a huge chasm, really – between…

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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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IRISH AMERICA ARCHIVES

Bríd Brennan, Adrian Dunbar, and Neil Martin at “In New Light; An Occasion To Mark What Would Have Been Seamus Heaney’s 80th Birthday.”
Seamus Heaney’s 80th Birthday Celebration

World-renowned artists gathered in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland, on Saturday, April 13, for “In New Light:…

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The Voice of the Dispossessed

February 2, 2002 marked the centenary of John Steinbeck’s birth. Jim Dwyer writes about the…

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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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