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Dispatches from Massachusetts  

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

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Quote Unquote

“Everything I’ve ever tried to say on screen comes from that small island and its people. To be honored by The Irish Post – a paper that has followed the Irish story in Britain for…

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IRISH AMERICA ARCHIVES

Brothers Paul and Conor Murphy who continue tradition of a family business.
A Family Tradition

The Murphy family business, which originated in 1939 with Margaret Murphy of Ballybofey, Co. Donegal,…

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Collier Willmer: Heart
and Soles of Gold

For nine-year-old Collier Willmer of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as for so many children in America,…

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May 19, 1994

Jacqueline “Jackie” Kennedy Onassis, died in New York. She was born Jacqueline Bouvier in Southampton, New York (her mother’s family were of Irish descent from Co. Cork) to a socially prominent family. She worked as a photographer before marrying John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1953. As First Lady, 1961-63, she oversaw the restoration of the White House and had it declared by Congress a national museum. After the assassination of her husband, Jackie returned to private life. In 1968, she married shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Following Aristotle’s death in 1975, she worked as an editor at Doubleday until her death in 1994 following a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. She is remembered for her style and grace. She also helped restore New York’s Grand Central station.

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