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Irish America

By James Ring Adams June 1991

The Irish in Country: Putting the Celtic Fringe on the Music Charts

By James Ring Adams

June 1991

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Just hours before winning a Grammy, country singer Kathy Mattea reminisced about her first meeting two years earlier with her current musical hero. "We went to the show and we were doing the whole bit about trying to get backstage. It was such a role reversal." she said. "I felt like a groupic." Ms. Mattea, one of the hottest names in Nashville, wasn't trying to crash the … [Read more...] about The Irish in Country: Putting the Celtic Fringe on the Music Charts

Video Review: James Joyce’s Ulysses

By Frank Shouldice

May 1991

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When you think of James Joyce, you think of the printed word. However, film adaptations were made of two of his works —Ulysses (1967) and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977)—and both are now available from the innovative Mystic Fire Video Company of S. Burlington, Vermont. New York film director Joseph Strick was the driving force behind both projects. Now based in … [Read more...] about Video Review: James Joyce’s Ulysses

Looking Back at the Hunger Strike

By Patrick Farrelly

May 1991

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He has chosen death: Refusing to eat or drink, that he may bring Disgrace upon me; for there is a custom, An old and foolish custom, that it a man Be wronged, or think that he is wronged, and starve Upon another's threshold till he die, The Common People, for all time to come, Will raise a heavy cry against that threshold, Even though it be the King's. From The King's Threshold … [Read more...] about Looking Back at the Hunger Strike

Business Profile: A Mutual Friend

By Niall O’Dowd, Founding Publisher
May 1991

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Last August, William Flynn, chief executive of Mutual of America, made the trip most Irish Americans dream about-back to Ireland for a family reunion. In the remote town of Kiltimagh, in County Mayo where his mother's family have their home, some eighty people of the Connor clan had gathered to celebrate. Discovering his roots Flynn felt an emotional tug that he describes as … [Read more...] about Business Profile: A Mutual Friend

25 Years After 9/11: World Trade Center Remembrances

By Keith J. Kelly

IA Newsletter, September 12 2026

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For a while, we thought Sept. 10 might be our last happy day ever. “That’s going to be a good one,” said the photographer “The World Trade Center is in the background!” There was no way of knowing then that the photo Glen Davis was shooting would be among the very last ever taken of the World Trade Center at night. I was standing on the aft deck of the Forbes yacht, The … [Read more...] about 25 Years After 9/11: World Trade Center Remembrances