It was, as one reporter put it, a home game for the Irish. The Italians made up just a small portion of the almost seventy-six thousand attendees, making it obvious that the connection between the American Irish and the "Old Country" is as strong as ever. In the sweltering heat, the team (made up of many English players of Irish ancestry) took the lead early with the only goal … [Read more...] about Soccer Victory Marred by Killings
Ireland House
By Michael Scanlon
September/October 1994
Michael Scanlon talks to the team behind The Glucksman Ireland House –New York University's elegant building on Fifth Avenue. For over a year now, the very best of Ireland's writers, poets, journalists, playwrights, historians, and filmmakers, have come together in a beautiful brownstone in Manhattan, close to New York University's Campus and Washington Square Park, to take … [Read more...] about Ireland House
Out of Ireland: The Story Of Irish Emigration To America
From the book 'Out of Ireland' with permission from Elliott & Clark
July/August 1994
Out of Ireland, a documentary film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Wagner, had its first public showing at the New York Lincoln Center Irish Film Festival in June, and will air on PBS television stations sometime this fall or next spring. Using as its primary source the remarkable memoirs and letters written by and to Irish immigrants in America, from Kerby Miller's … [Read more...] about Out of Ireland: The Story Of Irish Emigration To America
Revisionists And The Writing Of Irish History
By Kelly and Kerry Candaele
July/August 1994
The great famine, the legacy of Wolfe Tone and the nature of the 1798 rebellion, Patrick Pearse's psychological stability, and whether the gallant fight for freedom provides a thematic unity to Irish history: These and many other questions have been thrown open by "Revisionists" who regard "traditional" Irish history as a jumble of silly sentiments, wishful thinking, and … [Read more...] about Revisionists And The Writing Of Irish History
In The Name of Justice
After 20 years, Paul Hill wins the fight to clear his name. Close to four million Americans have seen In the Name of the Father, the movie which chronicles the events of 20 years ago in which Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson were convicted of the pub bombings in Guildford and Woolwich that killed seven people. The only evidence against them was … [Read more...] about In The Name of Justice