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Elvis Presley performing with Scotty Moore and Bill Black in 1956.

“That’s All Right”

On the 70th anniversary of Elvis’ “That’s All Right” recording, Noel Shine looks back with nostalgia on the song that changed the world. The seventieth anniversary of the recording of Elvis’ first record,…

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Sean Reidy, co-founder with Patricia Harty of the Irish America Hall of Fame; Sean Connick, CEO of the Dunbrody Famine Ship Experience, in New Ross, Co. Wexford, where the Irish America Hall of Fame is housed; and Hall of Fame member Kevin M. White.

“The Good Sport”

In this excerpt from his memoir The Good Sport, Kevin White takes us on his journey as an Irish Catholic kid growing up in “blue-collar” Amityville on Long Island while scrambling to help…

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IRISH AMERICA ARCHIVES

Books: Roscoe

Roscoe – the latest book from Albany author William Kennedy – is a splendid novel:…

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Breslin on Breslin

On June 10, at 8:30 p.m. (EST) readers in the tri-state area will be treated…

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June 18, 1901

Denis Johnston, Irish playwright and protege of W.B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, was born on this day in 1901. Johnston’s first play, “The Old Lady Says No!” helped establish his career as a playwright. “The Moon in the Yellow River” (1931) is perhaps his most well known play.

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