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Winter 2025 Review of Books

Reviews by Darina Molloy She Died Young: A Life in Fragments  / By Brenda Fricker Brenda Fricker had a tough life, there’s no doubt about it. Maybe that’s why she chose the approach…

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From Japan to Philly, a Global Gaelic Revival

Michael von Siegel and Naoise Ó Cairealláin don’t have much in common. Von Siegel grew up in Landsdowne, outside of Philadelphia, while Ó Cairealláin was born across the Atlantic in Belfast. Both, however,…

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Grandpa’s Shoes

I find it hard to believe that it has been 24 years since I wrote…

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Celebrating Irish America’s Business 100

New York: Honorees Joseph Sargent, chairman & CEO, The Guardian Life Insurance Co.; and Tom Moran, President & CEO, Mutual of America.
San Francisco: Kingsley Aikins, director, The American Ireland Fund; Tom McEnery, former mayor of San Jose; and Irish America publisher, Niall O'Dowd.
San Francisco: Kingsley Aikins, director, The American Ireland Fund; Tom McEnery, former mayor of San Jose; and Irish America publisher, Niall O’Dowd.
New York: Honorees William Flynn, Chairman, Mutual of America, and Denis Kelleher (right), founder of Wall Street Access, are pictured with editor Patricia Harty and Ethel Kennedy.
New York speaker Susan Kelliher-Ungaro being introduced by Tom Coughlan, President and CEO of Wal-Mart.
San Francisco: Joan Gallagher; Patricia Daly, Irish America Advertising Director; and Patrick Gallagher, President, Giants Enterprises, who received special recognition in the form of an “Irish Spirit” award.
New York: Honorees Barbara Corcoran, founder of The Corcoran Group; Darlene Daggett, President, U.S. Commerce for QVC; and guest Lyn Reisig
New York: Honorees Barbara Corcoran, founder of The Corcoran Group; Darlene Daggett, President, U.S. Commerce for QVC; and guest Lyn Reisig
Irish America held two receptions honoring the Business 100, 2002. The…
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February 28, 1929

Irish poet John Montague was born on this day in 1929 in Brooklyn, New York. During the Depression years, Montague was sent back to Ireland and was raised in Tyrone by his two aunts. He went on to study at University College Dublin in 1946, where he was first inspired to write poetry by a post-war atmosphere in Dublin. Several of his poems were published in literary magazines. In 1953, Montague won the Fullbright Fellowship and went to study at Yale University. There, he was mentored by writer Robert Penn Warren. Montague spent some time in Paris, but eventually returned to Ireland in the 60s. He completed his long sequence of poems called “The Rough Field” and then went on to teach at the University of College Cork.

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